This thread. I like it. I want to say thanks to contributors because now Im going to watch alot of the shows that Ive missed before such as Orange Road
Great. I am happy of I have encouraged you to watch one of my favorite shows. It has comedy, romance (it has one of the love triangeles defined the trope in anime), action, and endearing characters.
Personally I also recommend starting with the anime. In order to prevent possible confusions, the anime is 48-episodes long, and it was followed by several ovas and a movie concluded the story (Ano Hi Ni Kaeritai). Later it was produced another movie (Shin Kimagure Orange Road showed the characters several years after. There are also at least three novels, but that is another story...
The manga features a poorer art (although it greatly improves), but the characters are more fleshed out, and there are many stories were not adapted in anime. And IMO, the manga ending (which is very different of the anime ending) is way better. I was particularly impressed with Hikaru. Through the entire story she had seemed naive and inmature -even a bit kiddy-, but in the ending she showed she was way more mature and more forgiving than nobody -not even her best friends- had previously credited her...
The anime can be watched online here:
http://www.animeulti...-dubbed-online/
The Ovas:
http://www.animeseas...range-road-ova/
And the first movie here:
http://eyeonanime.co...hi-ni-kaeritai/
Shin Kimagure Orange Road here:
http://eyeonanime.co...su-no-hajimari/
And the manga:
http://mangafox.me/m...re_orange_road/