From the Bookshelf: Bloom Into You Regarding Saeki Sayaka

One early review of the manga Bloom Into You advancing a somehow intriguing interpretation of its lead character added something more to the complicated mixture of interests I take in “girls’ love manga.” I read the story with enough interest and attention to post something about every volume and then, after it had concluded (scotching that first interpretation others had been pushing back against ever since, but indeed engaging something altogether different in that “complicated mixture of interests” just mentioned, such that I thought “the next best thing indeed”), I went ahead and watched its anime adaptation. (I’d known the adaptation wouldn’t get to the end of the story, but as it turned out it didn’t even get to the point in the story its last episodes had been coming to anticipate...) Then, instead of finding time alongside reading “new manga” to go back through the series, I went so far as to order three translated novels about an important secondary character, the “third girl” Sayaka.
( One small sign of the story holding my attention )