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Bloom into You Vol. 7

Bloom into You Vol. 7

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As always, the technical for this are fabulous, Jenny McKeon’s translation does something specific I don’t want to spoil, but that I really liked in the climactic moment between Touko and Sayaka. There’s a bit about the relationship between the teacher and the bar owner and how their relationship started. You can feel how badly this hurts (for both parties) and how a really bad miscommunication spirals out of control (I often get annoyed by ‘if we talked this would clear the air’ but this one is plausible and sold well, especially since Yuu doesn’t know there’s anything left to actually say). Nice melodramatic teenage angst, like: the very first person I said "I love you" to didn't love me back so now there is no chance of me ever having love in my life, you know, EVER, even over the next 60+ years.

In another part of the flashback, Miyako assumes that Hakozaki was only drunk and wasn't really interested in women and avoids her. But the author wrote the scene very well, I believe that this was one of the best scenes of rejection in a yuri manga that I have read.We then switch over to Sayaka for a while and get a pleasant (and needed) interlude between her and the cafe owner, followed by a welcome side story showing how the latter and Yuu’s teacher started dating. But I really think there's a continuum, a spectrum of sexual and romantic feelings, and so his comments feel dismissive. LGBTQ+ representation (0-5): 2 - I'm going to give this some extra loving because of the flashback with Hakozaki-sensei and Miyako that really feels like adult lesbians that exist in the real world and not just fantasy yuri decontextualized from society.

In the morning, when Hakozaki notices, Miyako says: "I didn't trust myself in the same bed with you. I'm so sad the final volume is fast approaching, but I have ADORED this series and am so curious to see how it ends. For anyone that’s looking for a good romance comic that defies expectations and is relatively chaste, Bloom Into You is a good choice. It’s almost like they needed this brief separation to see just how much they truly do need each other in their lives. I do think that there’s a fundamental difference in how Yuu and Sayaka love Touko, which is not necessarily stated (maybe a little in this volume) but has been present throughout the series.There's an adorable scene where Hakozaki-sensei is yelling at Miyako for hanging out with one of Hakozaki-sensei's students (it was Sayaka). Touko joins a local theater troupe to try and find something that is truly "her" and not just an attempt at recreating her dead sister. Y me ha encantado ese vistazo a la profe y su pareja, esa especie de homenaje a las personas mentoras que comparten su experiencia con quienes vienen después al sentirse identificadas por las dudas y las situaciones. I love how determined Sayaka was in confessing her feelings to Touko and didn’t react any differently to Touko after getting a response to her confession. The older members of the student council go on a trip, where Touko and Sayaka bond and Sayaka prepares to confess her feelings to Touko.

That whole section is also amazing and even as somebody who is only slightly a Sayaka fan (my main issue being she had her chance forever and never took it, which she manages to acknowledge), it plays out so well. And the movie resumes, with Yuu and Touko running across town to see each other and finally have their own moment. I think it may be one of the strongest volumes for that, probably the least cliche'd and more genuine. growth/change (0-5): 2 - Touko really shows how much she's changed since the play, actually showing vulnerability around her school mates.Also, since we've been talking about quality depictions of teenagers, I know that Touko has sexual desire for Yuu, that's been clear throughout the series. It's good to have a character like Maki for representation, someone who is so completely asexual/aromantic that there is no mistaking it. After Yuu's confession in the last volume, we see both Yuu and Touko struggling with the aftermath and their true feelings.



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