I just wanna make it clear to everyone once and for all for all the misunderstanding this anime has brought and all the hate towards our mc, Naho. I feel like you guys are thinking way out of the box and forgotten that this anime is fundamentally a heavy shoujo-genre anime, not supernatural, fantasy nor scifi ( I will explain it later)
I wanna make something clear first, the fact that the letter could travel through time and the fact that the future Naho, Suwa (and possibly the other two girls) knew it could reach to the past is zero(0%). The main reason for this is because the author want to focus on the concept of "What if a letter could travel through time?". seriously anyone would believe 10 years after kakeru died they somehow able to create a time machine and use it to save kakeru? Why not just save his mother? It could be easier right? I'll repeat again, this is a shoujo anime, any plot device is just used for the convenience of the author and nothing else.
P1 "None of their future selves knew the letters gonna reach to the past, but why did they write it anyway?"
This is actually a better question we should ask our self, why would they write about how they could save kakeru at the past if none of them knew the letter could reach to the past at all? A possible theory I could make of is they are making another time capsule letter (just like in episode 1) but instead of writing something to their future self, they write something to their past-self in hope that they could remedy their regrets. And guess what? Shoujo stuff doing their shoujo things and the letter got send back in time.
P2 Now everyone keeps saying "uh, Naho write the letter to save Kakeru to save him cuz she loves Kakeru more than Suwa, her baby, and their marriage. She's the worst women ever"
Firstly, I agreed one the point you guys are saying which is [b]Naho loves Kakeru more than Suwa[b]. By now we all know that Naho is oblivious on the subject of love. Heck, even the future Naho din't knew that Kakeru loves her up until the point where Suwa told her in Episode 7 in the future. So yeah, she cried because it took her that long to understand Kakeru's feeling which I also think is a bit absurd (but this is a romance-drama-shoujo, so its acceptable [or not]). On the main point, I believe Naho din't write the letter so that he could save Kakeru and married with him even if it would work, you all keep forgetting that Naho is a shy-person (Future Naho and Future Naho's past) while Kakeru is a coward (indecisive and not a risk-taker + his depression/dilemma). On an imaginary diagram we could see it like this, Naho loves Kakeru but she can't tell him because she is a shy-person, Kakeru couldn't tell her because he's a coward and he knew Suwa loves her, Suwa also can't confess to her because he knew Naho loves Kakeru and Kakeru, his best friend is in love with Naho. It's obvious Suwa would get jealous and decide not to encourage both of them. But after Kakeru's death, he saw Naho became really sad and at that point he had his regret. The fact that their marriage could come true is probably because Suwa being the best bro he is and trying to comfort the heart-broken Naho back to normal. She overcome her sadness later, he confess, and they get married. So it is in fact, the one who got the ulterior motives to send that letter is actually Suwa and not Naho. Future Naho send her letter in hope Kakeru could live a happy life and no any other motives such as love, but the one that decide to love kakeru is the current Naho and current Naho alone. < This is where the confusion came from. If you wanna hate someone, hate Suwa (I doubt anyone would) because he's the one that hoping current Naho to be together with Kakeru because he thinks that Kakeru deserves Naho more that him because otherwise (like everyone else has said before), why would he send a letter to save Kakeru and get them together if he's already happy with his future life right?
Tl;dr
Naho is being straight-forward in her letter
Suwa has an ulterior motive in his letter
ps. its not my native language |