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Manga Thoughts: Bloom into You 7
I’m still reading my manga-on-paper volumes at a pace that might amount to “rationing it out” (while managing to keep brushing by a certain quantity of digital manga I’ve already accumulated). That I settled on a way to have print volumes shipped to me is one thing, but I’m aware the larger problem could be becoming those print volumes getting to bookstores of whatever online capacity in the first place. Still, when I got to the seventh volume of the “girls’ love”-with-a-twist series Bloom Into You, I was pleased to have the chance to read it.
The shocking conclusion of the sixth volume (which I realised, on looking back, I’d read just over a year ago), where Yuu surmounts the general ambivalence that had got my attention in the first place and speaks the words “I love you” to Touko, was still stuck in my mind. What I might not have quite remembered was Touko drawing back at that with the awkward explanation she’d wanted to love someone who wouldn’t say those words back. Yuu goes straight back to wondering if she really understood what she’d said, and Touko goes off on a class trip with Saeki, the “third woman” of the story, who’s intent on making her own confession to Touko at the appropriate romantic moment.
I did find myself confronting and contemplating thoughts about just who would be left on the outside and what form of consolation they’d reach. As it turned out, though, Yuu wound up going to a batting centre with Maki, the genuinely contented “spectator of love” introduced earlier in the story, who gave her an “I understand you better than you do yourself” pep talk that seems to have set things in motion towards a resolution. The “next volume” preview mentions the conclusion is in sight, which is another ambiguous thing to contemplate for all that I know there are translated novels focusing on Saeki. The author’s endnote for this volume also provides some words of praise for the anime adaptation, which I didn’t have the streaming subscription to watch but do have the Blu-Ray set of already. However, when it comes to anime “running short of things to watch” isn’t my problem right now.
The shocking conclusion of the sixth volume (which I realised, on looking back, I’d read just over a year ago), where Yuu surmounts the general ambivalence that had got my attention in the first place and speaks the words “I love you” to Touko, was still stuck in my mind. What I might not have quite remembered was Touko drawing back at that with the awkward explanation she’d wanted to love someone who wouldn’t say those words back. Yuu goes straight back to wondering if she really understood what she’d said, and Touko goes off on a class trip with Saeki, the “third woman” of the story, who’s intent on making her own confession to Touko at the appropriate romantic moment.
I did find myself confronting and contemplating thoughts about just who would be left on the outside and what form of consolation they’d reach. As it turned out, though, Yuu wound up going to a batting centre with Maki, the genuinely contented “spectator of love” introduced earlier in the story, who gave her an “I understand you better than you do yourself” pep talk that seems to have set things in motion towards a resolution. The “next volume” preview mentions the conclusion is in sight, which is another ambiguous thing to contemplate for all that I know there are translated novels focusing on Saeki. The author’s endnote for this volume also provides some words of praise for the anime adaptation, which I didn’t have the streaming subscription to watch but do have the Blu-Ray set of already. However, when it comes to anime “running short of things to watch” isn’t my problem right now.