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Apr 16, 2020 5:43 PM

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This is a masterpiece. The last time when I felt this was many years ago.

I really like how this chapter shows us their friends and (hopefully in the future) families are aware and supportive of their relationship. And here are all the pages I've noticed that both of them have rings on their finger - On page 378 when Touko is running towards Yuu; On page 381 when Touko hold Yuu's hand; On page 384 when both of them are clapping; On page 396 and 397 when Yuu's hand reach out for the stars and when she hold Touko's hand.

The last coloured page is beautiful. Thank you.
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Apr 21, 2020 8:53 PM

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What a fun ride, great art, enjoyable storyline with no heavy and unbearable conflict. Sayaka is there meant to be a love rival, but never really looks like it, well there isn't any annoying character which is.. good when you only aim for something fun/enjoyable to read. Too bad we didn't manage to see Yuu and Touko parents reaction about their relationship.

8/10.
Apr 25, 2020 8:08 AM

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Oh god I cried so hard, this whole series is an absolute masterpiece. I hope the second half of the story will get an anime adaptation although I don't know if my heart can take it.
May 10, 2020 2:49 AM
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I wish there was a few extra chapters so that it could be concluded better , not sure if this is the authors doing or she was forced to end it sooner rather then later

And also the 5 extra chapters that mal has it counted as seems to be extra chapters in between chapters
Jun 5, 2020 2:21 PM
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Such a great read. I am completely satisfied with this franchise. Ah, my heart is still fluttering.

9/10
"Life is too bitter, so coffee, at least should be sweet..." - Hikigaya Hachiman (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatte Iru)
Jun 10, 2020 11:13 AM

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Why do I feel uncomfortable?
Other times it had happened, but not as much as this one. The feeling it provoked in me as I red it, an uncomfortable feeling, while wanting more and more, I had never felt it.

Is such my eagerness to love? Or am I a depraved one who just sees yuri and gets horny? The second cannot be, because at no time have I thought of anything lax, but the opposite, that the moments when they kissed and when they have sex are key moments, moments of tenderness, when you see their evolution, the evolution of their love. Although some of the kisses (the first ones) I find them very selfish, the ones at the end I find them sweet, necessary. Even the sex scene in the last chapter is important for their development. From not knowing how to love or not wanting to be loved, to performing the act from the purest romantic desire to feel the one you love, to feel her warmth, to feel how she receives the pleasure you give her. It is the culmination of love, they are ready to take steps forward, this time by the will of both, not by selfish desire. I don’t know if this story as told with a straight couple would have been so catchy. Impossible, it is unique. It mixes tension, a lot of tenderness, with the realistic point of selfishness and the will to pleasure.

The fact that I feel this way, then, I will attribute to the fact that I have not fallen in love, that the only moments I have not been able to understand have been the moments when love is demonstrated. These moments have made me feel nervous, not out of a dirty mind, but out of anxiety to understand myself. My desire is to know how it feels to love, and to be loved in return. The only thing their history has done is raise those feelings again. I want to love, I know it can never be as pure as their's, but that's what I want.
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Jun 22, 2020 6:11 AM
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A bittersweet feeling that this is the last chapter. It's been a roller-coaster waiting for volumes 7 and 8 to appear since the heartbreak at the end of volume 6. Imagine following Yuu and Touko throughout that first year when they met, discovering each other and becoming so much more honest and spontaneous together, until they're both in the right place for their love. They've both been on a maturing odyssey, it's also why I think that beyond being a Yuri romance, "Bloom Into You" has the stuff of a classic coming-of-age novel. (even if this might be technically difficult, I think it would be good enough to be taught in schools on its storytelling merits as well as the lesson in tolerance and integrity that it carries).

Putting an end to such as series and getting it right is a trial for each author. One senses, in previous chapters, with the multiplication of scenes without dialogue that have you concentrate on the visual that not only was Nakatani sensei slowing down the narrative pace but also in a way trying to delay the conclusion. It's both a smart observation of reality, and it's emotionally very honest.

The skip forward and the reunion can seem a little classic, a lot of romantic fiction uses this as a flashback (if you're into classic movies, try "Tea and Sympathy") but it is also realistic. Everyone's been to a high school reunion some years afterwards with all the weirdness, awkwardness but also fun as seeing older selves. Yuu's new hair makes her definitely more adult yet still quite original. She used to dress cuter, while Touko, who hasn't changed style at all, also cuts a dash in her style of dress.

The two of them are an established couple. As some have said it would have been nice to get an impression of how it's going with their families, especially since Rei's been so perceptive and supportive all along.

But the chapter had a lot to fill in, the evolution of each supporting character: Koyomi getting published, and what a brilliant idea for Yuu to envision going herself into publishing! Akari and Doujima pairing up, Maki and Natsuki showing up too, and Sayaka, bless her, good for her! I'm also glad Riko and Miyako seem to have stuck together, for a while it seemed they were heading for a rough patch.

There's been much discussion about the rings but I've got to admit they're so discreet I didn't notice much until I read about it. The story does conclude open ended, we can hope they become bound (it's not yet legal in Japan as far as I know) but most of all that a love story that began in high school actually endures into adult years to become a settled, blissful partnership for both of them.

Ending the chapter and the series with what Yuu and Touko did so often: walking home from the school, so revisiting the river crossing (too bad they didn't steal a kiss at the train crossing hehe). Looking up at the sky may seem a bit overly classic too but it really is symbolic for the both of them, and has to do with the open-end I was mentioning.

I'm of two feelings as to what comes next. I would so like to read a series about Yuu and Touko going on as young adults, trying to keep it together in the professional world... and I just love watching these girls (I must have a bit of Maki in me!). I think the series has tapped something in me deeply about understanding relationships, but also looking differently at same-sex relationships while being a straight guy. So yes I'd like to see more, and perhaps something like the Sayaka spinoff novels aim to do, learn about the others because Bloom Into You had such a lovely supporting cast.

On the other hand, I understand that Bloom Into You is very much a story of growing up, of Yuu and Touko moving past inhibitions or hang-ups they had as younger teens, finding their place in the world as well as in each other's love and life. So I guess I can understand the author's decision that this is where an ending takes place, and other stories must begin... where readers' imaginations will bloom instead of the author's (and I'm sure there's a lot of fan fiction developing). Still, I hope, maybe one day, Nakatani sensei herself will treat us to a glimpse of Yuu and Touko's happy, or not always, ever after life. I trust her sensitivity in having depicted one of the most beautiful high school loves, and a lesbian love at that, to be able to figure out whether it can be done, ought to be done, or if, well, we have to keep walking behind Yuu and Touko looking up at the sky and just dreaming the best for them.
Aug 31, 2020 4:34 PM

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I didn't want to say goodbye to these characters. I want more, more!
Jan 7, 2021 6:06 AM
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Fantastic just perfect. Very wholesome journey and ending. Now all we need is for the anime to get season 2
Jan 8, 2021 9:43 PM

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On chapter 4, Yuu ask herself that if she can reach the stars someday and now on the last chapter, she finally reach it and it's thanks to Nanami because she found what is the true meaning of falling in love with someone, god I cried a little when they confessed their feeling each other. I'm glad I found this when I have the time to read it otherwise I would regret it, such a beautiful journey that we had in only 45 chapters.
Jan 26, 2021 4:11 AM
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What an amazing journey this manga was. I absolutely loved the experience. Watching Yuu and Touko grow as people was just so beautiful. I'm also really happy Sayaka managed to move on. Overall, a beautiful story. I genuinely have 0 faults. 10/10. <3
Mar 13, 2021 10:17 PM

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beautiful story i really hope we get to see this ending in anime form
Apr 14, 2021 11:53 PM

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tears of happiness. really great Yuri manga or just romance manga in general. all these characters are greatly written and this manga is super enjoyable too

Apr 26, 2021 10:00 AM
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excellent manga. blew my expectations away completely. I even bought the physical volumes. Looking forward to more fantastic content from nakatani
May 27, 2021 11:33 PM
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Amazing timeskip that shows them still together after a few years, their lives together are just getting started
May 30, 2021 5:35 PM
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The end. I was a skeptic early on but once I came around to this manga I just started loving it more and more. The main two characters are really well developed and they have one of the best relationships in manga I've seen. If I'm being honest I think ending this on ch 44 would have been an absolutely perfect ending but I still loved this chapter.
Very close to a perfect 10 but I will rate this a 9/10. Just amazing throughout.
Jan 5, 2022 2:44 PM

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What an absolute masterpiece. I hadn't read this since years ago. It's astonishingly good, nothing like this going on right now.

I miss when all the yuris were red hot and there was just one fantastic piece after another, before COVID. Bloom Into You gives you a lots to think about.

It's a little hard to read about their lives post-high school in the last chapter. And perfect high school romances are bittersweet for people leading real lives that are so much more variable than a storybook.

I know it's supposed to be basically Japanese lesbian empowerment and awareness, the manga, but things end up a bit too perfect for the characters here. The cafe lady has a new floor and more customers (snore), Touko is an actress with constant auditions (everything worked out), Yuu is just on the cusp and getting job mail, must be great (free tentacle semi-porn and job offers are the best), the writer girl is getting her book published (snooooore) and Saeki's life is working out fine. It's a bit too "bright sunshine on the horizon" for me. Not realistic at all.

So, I think I kind of cringe at how unrealistic the ending is. It's also weird that Yuu won't move in with Touko because she's afraid to tell her mom. She wouldn't already know? Odd.

Like all Japanese manga, but especially here, the last chapter is heavily nostalgic and romantic. "We're as together (not married but kind of married?) as we can be", and everything is working out fine, and they visit their old high school, and everyone is doing great. It just doesn't feel like real life at all.

I get that this isn't the point of this manga, it's supposed to be about happy lesbians having a happy normal life like other regular people. After all, gay marriage isn't really legal in Japan because of the heavily senior population. But this last chapter, while beautiful, is highly cringey on the Japanese high-school romantic side.

Career? Great! Relationships? Great! Rent? Wonderful! Mental state? Perfect! It's just a bit, c'mon, ew. Bloom was always a bit of the 'too perfect for normal life manga'.

Also a bit unrealistic that Yuu scores basically a 20 on the hotness meter in girlfriend Touko. That's just kind of...a girl like that would probably find a wealthy husband in three seconds in modern Tokyo and be very happy likely, or have an arranged marriage through her family. She's too good of a catch. It seems unrealistic in modern Japanese terms.

It really does all seem like the perfection yuri manga, the attained dream, the rosy horizon waxing totally nostalgic, hazy red-pink-yellow sunsets of forgotten days.

It's ironic that people enjoy high school in Japanese manga when it's the worst time in anyone's life in my country. I just can't ever get over the way "everything perfect happens" in high-school in a Japanese manga. Just, ugh, you know? Haha. It makes you feel bad that you didn't have the perfect high school life for those four years. Japan makes it seem like Japanese high school is like ascending to heaven, and then the perfect working life, etc.

In modern wealth inequality it doesn't seem realistic, but they still punch out these hippy-drippy romantic endings over there. It seems to be an impulse they can't get away from, every story has this perfect end of the rainbow feel.

It kind of makes me want something a little more realistic, like Octave.

Like, don't get me wrong, this is a masterpiece of astonishing quality, well-drawn, well-written, with an incredible story, but it's lesbian wish fulfillment. It was always the most unrealistic yuri in existence. Yuu is a dumpy high school girl one day, getting hit on by basically a genius super model most popular top of their class girl in school the next and helping her fix her poor character through a high school play.

Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it's hella' unrealistic and the bittersweet nostalgia makes me want to puke a bit. I love it, it's one of the most well-drawn, written manga of all-time and especially recently, but damn, I find many other mangas WAY more realistic in how they portray human emotion, the real world, love, romance and everything else.

It's kind of the perfect lesbian high school tale, which we needed, but I kind of want to see the more true-to-life darker side of this fictional world now. And the lesbian always gets hooked up with the most attractive girl in class, sort of like Fragtime. It's the opposite of hetero male harems. Same attractive harem, just a different sex.

Citrus is like this, Mei is super attractive on the ten-scale, while Aoi Hana was way more realistic and Girlfriends was equal attractiveness. Whispered Words on the other hand is very realistic.

This is all kind of why you can't rank this series very high because it just doesn't feel like the real world, all while being a truly excellent piece of fiction. It doesn't totally ring true like it could happen in real life so I was always kind of blah about it.

IMO, while the ending tries to give you everything you ever wanted, I'm not sure the author really stuck the landing. They were kind of a note off here, sort of crude in short. An impressive series but things go so well that it seems like a romantic fantasy than a crucial real life story.

A masterpiece for character movement, intrigue etc. But short of being something anyone could relate to, take seriously or hope to achieve. It's just too much teen fantasy.

I still give it a ten regardless because it's Bloom Into You, but I don't know that I'd have it in the top ten yuris of all time for the simple reason it exists in a bubble universe. It's too pretty and too perfect in the end, I also could've used more development of Saeki-senpai and wonder what she's doing to this day.
Jan 24, 2022 10:30 AM

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I FUCKED UP. I READ IT WAY TOO FAST. IT'S OVER NOW.

smoge.


man what a ride. some of these chapters hit way too close to home man. I'm glad we got chapters of them being a coupld and I'm happy we got to see a bit of the future with that small timeskip.

time to sulk in emptiness now.
Apr 7, 2022 10:19 PM
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It was a wonderful experience to read this manga, I liked how we observed nanami's journey on finding her true self and yuu finding what love is,and the too characters interacting with each other, Im also glad how every character got some spotlight,and I loved how everything worked out in the end,and good thing that sakaya moved on and even got a girlfriend,I loved her character in the manga,so good for her, and I like yuu's new haircut,she looks more cute then before.This was totally a wonderful manga, 8/10.
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Really liked to see a bit of a time skip for the last chapter, that was heartwarming for sure, now let's hope they'll continue this way! Short but great manga for the character development and romance aspect! :)
Jan 20, 2023 5:10 AM

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This is the best Yuri I've seen without a doubt. It's not even close. Yuu and Touko's relationship was beautiful. 9/10

Jun 19, 2023 1:46 PM

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Such a good ending. Its so nice re-reading this after so long and re-watching the anime.

Its so weird though seeing timeskips and characters grow up after being with them during their early days. Especially so now cause when I first watched the anime and read the manga I was back in high school and now I'm working.
Yuritopia FTW!!!!!!!!! BANZAI TO YURI !!!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 22, 2023 2:10 PM
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Finished the series earlier today and I already miss their relationship. There was some great drama and character development. I loved the main 3. Definitely considering reading the Sayaka LN and I’m happy she found love. Fantastic read
Dec 11, 2023 11:43 AM
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This chapter marks the end of this journey. This was an amazing manga, hope to the rest of it animated in season2 if it ever comes out. Had mixing feeling feeing at the beginning but truly enjoy once story started taking shape all way to the end. Where we lie know. Also, glad to see where the rest of the side characters end up and how they went back to old highschool where everything start. Really goad ending to this series.
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