Manga Thoughts: Bloom into You 4

First drawn in by a perhaps unusual interpretation but finding it intriguing myself, "Bloom into You" is one of the manga series I'm most interested to see new releases of. As I bought its fourth volume, I did wonder if this would be the instalment at last that would have its protagonist Yuu "bloom" to the point of not just accepting the desire of Touko but returning it. At that point, the story might either end or become just a more conventional "girls' love" series. Starting to read it, though, I was hit most of all by the feeling the three volumes before perhaps hadn't planted themselves as deep in my memory as I might have thought they had. I did start thinking of how I'd taken a few chances in recent months I don't often take and started watching the anime adaptations of manga series I'd already read; getting over "the artwork might not look as distinctive when many hands draw it over and over" and not being hit too hard by "things getting toned down for TV broadcast," I did find myself thinking that seeing an episode every week, I was noticing things I seemed to have forgotten after getting one fair-sized burst of story every few months, just as I've thought at times I'd like to go back to an anime series I've watched at an episode-a-week pace and take the development of things in a bit faster (if not "binging," though).
( What I seemed to have forgotten )