Bloom into You Vol. 7

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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.

But when the next person to confess to Yuu is the alluring Nanami herself, has Yuu's shoujo romance finally begun? This was a fucking emotional rollercoaster that was considerate enough to take breaks so I wouldn't die from the feels, but also punch me in the feels multiple times.While this Nanami thinks about how she has changed and how the people around her is changing, growing and evolving. 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). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

As a cherry on top, we also get Miyako and Riko's full backstory/meet-cute, which is even better than I was hoping it would be! And to be honest, I think that extra time processing both helped me to enjoy volume 7 more than I would have otherwise. But I really think there's a continuum, a spectrum of sexual and romantic feelings, and so his comments feel dismissive.I’ve never been terribly invested in Yuu and Touko as a couple, not because I don’t like them, or because they shouldn’t be together, but just because this story was always presented to us as a Yuri romance. BTW, I use both aromantic and asexual because they are not interchangeable but the characters don't use either term to identify themselves, so I shouldn't really be assuming anything). It's a tough thing, and we're nowhere near a final resolution in our lives, but I have to have faith. growth/change (0-5): 2 - Touko really shows how much she's changed since the play, actually showing vulnerability around her school mates.

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. Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and fantasizes about the day that she too will get a love confession that will send her heart a-flutter. Even with the eventual outcome more than likely being a happy ending, the characters (and reader) are put through the wringer and it might be the isolation talking but it really moved me.Sayaka and Miyako’s friendship is one of the best things about the series for me, just so much respect between them.

After Yuu's confession in the last volume, we see both Yuu and Touko struggling with the aftermath and their true feelings. It's a huge change for her, and ultimately it will be for the better (no, I am not speaking from personal experience here! I won't spoil the details of the confession, other than to say that Touko knew, for a long time, or at least highly suspected that Sayaka liked her. But things don't go as planned, since Nanami instead of accepting Yuu's feelings just says "I'm sorry. The initial parts of this instalment deal with the fall out from Yuu’s decision and Nanami’s reaction to it and it is an absolute masterclass in storytelling.the story and characters here are excellent, and while it may seem like your typical high-school yuri romance, I was surprised several times throughout. But with Yuu confessing to Touko in volume 6, there was a lot of hands thrown up, essentially saying: "Well there you go, she wasn't aromantic/asexual, she just hadn't finished developing her sexual awakening" or "it just took the right person" or "I knew it was too good to be true that we'd get aromantic/asexual representation. If Bloom Into You were a movie, this would be the part of the movie where, instead of hastening towards the climax, as American movies do, the characters would spend the next half hour moping, then run halfway across town to finally see each other, but Bloom Into You isn’t a movie, so while Touko and Yuu do exactly as described above, there is a different person for us to follow while they mope. 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.