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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: future letter, time travel, save a friend, change the future, regret, second chance, prevent tragedy, future self
Setting labels used: high school, eleventh grade, school life, Japan, Matsumoto, contemporary, alternate timeline, parallel universe, future and present
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A high school girl gets letters from her future self, warning her to change choices and save a friend’s life.
Why this is here
Premise labels: future letter · time-travel warning · prevent tragedy · save a friend · regret prevention · alternate timeline
Setting labels: high school · school life · present day · future timeline · parallel world · contemporary Japan
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.0584
A shy high school girl gets letters from her future self warning her to change events and save a classmate.
Why this is here
Premise labels: future self letters · change the future · regret avoidance · save a friend · prevent tragedy · second chance · time-altered future
Setting labels: Japanese high school · school life · adolescence · coming of age · spring · Matsumoto · Nagano Prefecture · contemporary Japan
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1022
A science-minded middle schooler gets a chance to redo the past and save a friendship before it all falls apart.
Why this is here
Premise labels: second chance · do-over · time slip · broken friendship · lost friendship · mistaken choices · alternate timeline · reset life · avoid the past · change the future
Setting labels: middle school · high school · seventh grade · senior year · school fair · contemporary setting · parallel reality · time travel world · school community
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1430
A young man whose life keeps rewriting itself chases the cause of his erased past and a risky future love.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · retroactive change · alternate timeline · butterfly effect · lost relationships · doomed love · future self · time paradox · personal stakes · memory of original timeline
Setting labels: future period · present-adjacent future · time travel universe · alternate reality · academic setting · laboratory setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1834
A schoolgirl discovers time-leaping abilities and, alongside a second story about fears, confronts memory, consequence, and change.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · accidental powers · mystery figure · teen protagonist · school life · psychological fear
Setting labels: high school · school science lab · 1960s · Japan · future society · everyday life · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1896
A grieving teen uses a once-only time trip to try to save her brother, risking the past, present, and her future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · save a loved one · prevent death · grief journey · second chances · family crisis · change the past · fate versus free will
Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel universe · suburban setting · contemporary setting · near-future setting · government-regulated time travel · within-lifespan travel
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1899
A teen falls for a girl, loses her, and gets repeated chances to rewind time—at a cost to everyone else he loves.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time loop · second chances · love and loss · preventing death · choices and consequences
Setting labels: high school · college transition · party setting · contemporary setting · present day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2029
An 11-year-old’s wish to stay young traps him in repeating fifth grade while everyone else keeps growing up.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time loop · stuck in time · birthday wish · wish backfires · age suspension · repeating school year · growing up fear · bully avoidance · world ages without protagonist · selfish wish consequences
Setting labels: middle school · fifth grade · elementary school · school year · birthday setting · contemporary setting · time loop reality · age-progressing world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2033
Past, present, and future X-Men collide in a time-travel crossover that threatens the timeline and their fragile alliances.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · future warning · team conflict · timeline crisis · alternate future · identity collision · mutant factions · status quo shakeup
Setting labels: present day · past/present/future · alternate timeline · Marvel Universe · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2062
Trapped in the future, a time-traveling teen must stop a deadly experiment and decide what he’s willing to lose.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · alternate timelines · future trapped · escape plan · final battle · family stakes · romantic conflict · survival
Setting labels: distant future · alternate timeline · multiple timelines · dystopian future · contained setting · science-fiction future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2070
A trapped teen must rewrite a ruined future by traveling into the past to stop the invention that caused it.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel mission · save the world · stop the machine · prevent apocalypse · kill the inventor · escape captivity · rewrite the future · past self confrontation · fated choice
Setting labels: secret military base · imprisonment · future dystopia · present-day timeline · past timeline · private school · cell · war-torn future · political state
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2122
A shy teacher stranded in the future must phone a work nemesis to save her past self—and maybe fall in love.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel romance · wormhole accident · future-to-present phone contact · forced cooperation · rivals to lovers · workplace romance
Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · high school · New York City · future timeline · present day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2124
