Aug 9, 2020
Without spoiling too much, Bloom Into You is a heartwarming story about two people learning how to love each other given difficult and unforgiving setbacks. While the show ends off only about half way into the entire manga, its ending is a good place for the animation to end in order to get the audience hooked enough. Yuu's inner strife with herself propels both her and Touko to change in a more positive direction for the two of them, while smoothing out the ridges in their relationship along the way. Unlike other yuri works, this particular piece does a great job of highlighting real aspects
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and challenges that the lesbian community, or the lgbt community as a whole seems to have with the evolving world; Yuu's father making a comment about having a girlfriend is evident of that in the early volumes. Although the love the two have for each other seems one sided at different points throughout the entire series, the authors do a fine job at having a believable and realistic way that the two come together for their own good.
In terms of side characters, the biggest factors to the enjoyment of this series is definitely Sayaka-san; her connection to Touko and imbalanced acquaintanceship with Yuu (at first) put a strain on the overarching relationship that Touko and Yuu, while giving the audience something to ponder as to what will happen if or when Sayaka decides to do something. In the end however, as much as she wants something to happen or take things into her own hands, Sayaka-san is at the mercy of the power of love between Touko and Yuu, the two proving overtime just how difficult it is to understand the concepts of love, trust, and understanding. Bloom Into You makes a claim on the overall idea of love in today's media and traditional romance works, where typically the audience can see where a relationship might be heading because the show or book sets it up like that in the beginning; however with this piece, there is not a clear "what happens next" moment while reading. Of course one can infer and make educated guesses as to what probably will happen next, but it is the way this story is written with the dynamic of how the characters act based upon interior motives that give the story ambiguity the whole time. At times, Yuu and Touko are wrapped in each others arms but other times are left lying in their beds to wonder what the other will say if she does X instead of Y.
Ultimately, the enjoyment comes from how willing the reader wants to continue to look into the lives of a realistic story of forbidden love; it is a good story depicting the challenges people who do not know what their partner or soulmate will be like, but rather learning how to love oneself and the people that love you. This series truly has changed my outlook on the yuri genre and broke the boundary of having a love story that is clear cut and easy to understand. I would recommend this not for the girl to girl love that this story pitches, but for the complications love can be in general and how one can glean information from just watching these two learn to accept and love each other fully.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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