Muchos de los paneles podían haberse ido a una elipsis o a ver qué hacen el resto de personajes mientras tanto. While in denial about what Maki implied, Yuu is asked by her classmate Koyomi Kanou to give her feedback on a novel that she is writing. For anyone that's looking for a good romance comic that defies expectations and is relatively chaste, Bloom Into You is a good choice. Nakatani did not want to focus the narrative's attention on the social challenges of girl-girl relationships, as she felt it would be too simple and was more interested in exploring the characters' personal flaws.

Her lover tells her she is affectionate and “needy” with her and she was the only one she could be her true self around. Chapter 34: Overflow - The student council meets and Touko mentions she is rehearsing with the acting troupe.At the end of the day, as Touko claims her reward, Yuu starts to become aware of her own feelings towards her. A side-story novel, Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka ( やがて君になる 佐伯沙弥香について, Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite), is written by Hitoma Iruma and published through Kadokawa's Dengeki Bunko imprint since November 10, 2018. Nakatani accounted for readers potentially expecting that Yuu or Touko would later end up in a heterosexual relationship, and thus introduced the male characters in ways which clearly precluded this possibility (such as them already having girlfriends). But Touko is struggling with the legacy of her deceased older sister and escaping her shadow (self imposed as it is) and Yuu is suddenly having feelings and sensations she's never had before.

Numerous English-language critics reviewing both the manga and the anime interpreted the character of Yuu Koito, and her expressed lack of attraction to Touko early in the story, as suggesting that she was asexual or aromantic (or some variation thereof). Had it happened any sooner, I really don’t think the development and growth would have packed as big of a punch as it did. i feel really sad that the anime ends at the 5th volume when the 6th volume actually depicts the actual play that was anticipated throughout the series. When drawing his cuts of the animation, he did not consult his own character design sheets, instead always referred to Nakatani's original drawings.

Sean Gaffney felt that Yuu's portrayal was a "nice reversal" and credited her character with the manga's popularity, but also praised the narrative and cast generally, saying he "was surprised several times throughout. Yuu subsequently learns that Touko's older sister Mio was the student council president at that time, and had been producing a play, but was killed in a traffic accident before its premiere. In writing the conclusion of her subplot, Nakatani wanted to avoid implying that her rejection meant she had "failed", saying that Touko could have never accepted her confession even if she had confessed earlier in the story. The manga is currently published in Japanese, English, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Thai, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Vietnamese.

While Bauman said it was "a valid and understandable argument" if based only off of the anime, she nonetheless denied this reading, citing the advertising of the work as a conventional love story and the explicit depiction of romantic and sexual attraction on both sides. For anyone that’s looking for a good romance comic that defies expectations and is relatively chaste, Bloom Into You is a good choice. However, I'm eager to see where the series goes from here having set up a new and important conflict between Yuu and Touko. Koyomi Kanou ( 叶 こよみ, Kanō Koyomi ) Voiced by: Konomi Kohara [17] (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English) [13] Koyomi is Yuu's classmate and friend from middle school. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is the alluring Nanami herself, has Yuu's shoujo romance finally begun?

In one interview, she said that yuri was difficult to define, but that "once the reader thinks it is yuri, then at that moment it becomes yuri. Later, while walking together, Touko thinks about how she never wants Yuu to change, because she fears if Yuu does then Touko wouldn't love her anymore and go back to being lonely. When the student council holds a study camp to practice for the play, actor Tomoyuki Ichigaya, a former classmate of Mio's, is brought in to help.

I absolutely adore the pacing of this series, and even though I dread finishing it, I am confident it will feel complete. He grew up surrounded by two older sisters and a younger sister, so he finds it easy to talk with girls. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the story went on for another 2 volumes, because volume 7 and 8 were easily the best of the series (I really liked the field trip with Sayaka trying to make her move, thinking she has a chance, and I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have the Sayaka novels if volume 7 and 8 never existed), but I always though Yuu's quick decision to just run away was a weird move. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story from creat .She approaches Touko and the two begin to bond, before Touko suddenly confesses feelings for Yuu, surprising her. Kato believed bringing his perspective as an outsider made the anime more interesting, as he imagined that someone more familiar with the genre would produce something with a more limited appeal. He said that as Nakatani was the original creator, he felt that his role in the novels' creation was "the one who contributed the text.