Audience reviews
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woopwopp
It's unfortunate because this is a manga adaptation that had a lot of potential, but I think there was quite a few things holding it back. Especially because of the unsatisfying ending. Thats not a spoiler though, because this was intended to be 26 episodes and ended because of poor reception (AKA homophobia.)
I liked the manga mainly because it was actually substantial on its statements about queerness and self identity, but the anime ended up being inconclusive and unfinished. And even then, some of the characters here are either half-baked or extremely irritating/ trope-y. Especially Sayaka, as much as the fandom for this likes her, on a rewatch I found her mindset towards her friend unrealistic and frustrating. And Yuu for some reason never even fully admits to liking Touko in the sho…
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Bloom Into You is not a romance. Rather, it is a love story about self-realization.
The series follows the titular late bloomer, Yuu Koito, a girl who has never felt love before. Since she was young, she dreamed of falling in love, romanticizing the day when it would happen. Expecting to be swept off her feet, eventually. But that day has never come. Even when someone confesses to her, she feels nothing. This has kept her from fully connecting to her friends and peers. They are far more understanding of what they want romantically. She was alone until she met Tokou Nanami. A girl who had also never experienced love until she met Yuu.
To Yuu’s surprise, Touko suddenly confesses to her. While she does not reciprocate due to her inability to love, she allows Touko to be in love with her. Th…
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A yuri series custom-made to appeal to homophobes and perpetuate homophobic/misogynistic stereotypes.
Hunter x Hunter is a long-running Weekly Shonen Jump manga famous for its endless hiatuses. It has a reputation of being a “smart” battle shounen. And the reason it allegedly is smart is that it over-explains in excruciating detail every. Single. Damn. Pointless. Minute. Thing. Which, of course, makes it the exact opposite of smart. Smart stories treat their audience as capable of understanding subtext, implications, and visual storytelling without the need to be spoon-fed everything. But at least HxH can be excused for spoonfeeding the workings of a complicated shounen magic system.
What HxH does with magic, YagaKimi does with basic human social interactions, and the result is pure, una…
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Do not watch this as romance.
Do not watch this as yuri.
This is a very deep psychological essay about universal questions.
What we love when we love? Will the love change when the loved one changes?
What defines us, our decisions? Is there such a thing as free will?
This is a story about two persons with their issues forming a dysfunctional relationship but somehow (and this part is not in this season, it is meant for season 2) finding joy, through joy finding love, and moving (partially) to the light.
If you are into psychology, if you can read classics like Dickens, Dostoevsky and Chekhov without frowning, then you will thoroughly enjoy this story.
This anime is not a complete story, it completes half of the manga. The characters just starting to realize how deep they have their he…
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I had really high hopes for this one for two reasons, 1. good ratings, and 2. most importantly, Gay. There is a shortage of good gay romances, and I wanted this to actually be one. Not only did it end up not, and not only was it bad, it was insulting.
Story:
2 girls start a relationship, despite the main character having doubts about it. The other one becomes really creepy and takes advantage of her. She pulls away, and starts to realize how unhealthy her relationship was, and tries to get the other one to change for the better while she'. Instead of both of them working through their problems, she goes back and decides to love the other girl despite the fact that she's insanely creepy and manipulative and tried to rape her on occasions. The ending effectively undid the character develo…
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I wish I had dropped this show.
My boyfriend and I recently slogged through Bloom Into You hoping to find a cute light yuri to watch that had a somewhat realistic depiction of a human relationship. Every episode was a disappointment watching someone who's finally realized who they are fawning over someone who's desperately falling behind on their emotional intelligence.
To top it off, there's an extremely non-consensual vibe throughout the entirety of Yu and Touko's "romantic" interactions that are VERY unsettling to watch. This show literally made my skin crawl with the unwarranted sexual advances (however light they may have been), and the weird perceived inability to say "no" that Yu is admittedly struggling with, but selectively.
I couldn't give it a one because it is a lovely show…
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This is the first Yuri anime genre I've seen, not gonna lie, it was a gem. Every scene gave me a fascinating impression of what will occur on the next episode, which made me truly advertised and couldn't hold myself to continue watching. This anime truly changed a ton of my anime aspects and it opened me up to a progressively huge region of new Yuri series.
Story : 10/10
Yuu, a teenager female that enjoys reading shoujo manga. She awaits the day that she will get a love confession that sends her heart aflutter. However, when a junior high classmate confesses to her, she feels nothing. Later on, she enters high school still unsure how to respond to her classmate's confession. Until she met a beautiful student council named Nanami. Yuu asked her for help, but then turns out Nanami confess…
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I wouldn't even call this thing shoujou ai, more like shoujou sekuhara if you ask me. I'd probably say this should be rated 18+ because it portraits sick fantasies as cute romance but I cannot stress this enough - if someone did anything even close to these "cute" things in real life they'd be in prison.
** Minor spoilers from here on **
Basically we have a second year high school girl who happens to be the student council president falling in love with a first year more or less asexual girl, Yuu, who ends up also being in the Student Council. Throughout the show Nanami keeps not only harassing Yuu but even sexually assaulting here multiple times (mainly force-kissing her), in some cases also taking advantage of being her superior in the council. Eventually Yuu stops resisting and tel…
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Before I start digging about this amazing anime, this is my first time writting a review and you may notice some imperfections and some grammatical errors (mainly on my english reviews) but I'll do my best.
Without further ado, here's my review:
Story (8/10)
Yagate Kimi ni Naru, or Bloom Into You, is a story aimed to all ages, without "dark" themes or something that can cause some unease to people (if u don't have any prejudice with Shoujo Ai). Never tries to show us something that wasn't its main goal, it has a simple writing but at the same time it give us depth with relatively "clichê" themes, as romance or personal development.
Being honest, I don't like Shoujo Ai at all, and until now there was never one that caught my attention, well, not until Yagate, which I'm grateful for…
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Love is completely overexposed and misrepresented in media. For an anime, being a piece of media itself, to make that a plot point, they need to address love as realistically as possible. Bloom into you, pulls that off with a beautiful honesty.
Yuu is struggling with the fact that she's never experienced love. Her only understanding of love is what she gleans from romance manga. She then meets the student counsel president, Touko, who immediately falls for Yuu. Because this was nothing like the romance manga, Yuu doesn't really know how to handle this, and eventually agrees to go along with it, more or less because why not? Mind you, Yuu is very upfront on the status of her feelings for Touko throughout the anime.
In fact, the entire anime is very honest with the relationships they dep…
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As a fan of Yuri and all things girls love. Bloom Into You left me in a dark state of depression.
I dropped the manga a while ago trying to figure out why I never really got into it. But after finishing the anime, I finally figured it out. It's Boring!
Starting out with the positive.
The presentation is Second to none when it comes to Yuri anime adaptions. Animation is fluid and the attention to detail great. And the Opening has many undertones. But this is where my appreciation ends.
The rest of the show is just so boring to watch.
The characters are just not very likeable. So Yuu is your typical shoujo manga protagonist. Has never experienced love and wants to know what it is. Unfortunately that's where her development ends. She's still the same person with no romantic feelings at th…
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I'm absolutely perplexed and bewildered by the general consensus on this anime, so I would like to provide my two cents, because there's not a single review I can agree with.
Art/Sound:
Let's get the subjective criteria out of the way first. Art is good, character designs are pleasant to look at, and backgrounds are of high quality aswell. As for the soundtrack, the piano compositions that play at certain scenes are very nice, however I can't say the same about neither OP nor ED, I disliked them both, I'm not going to say that they are bad or anything such, it's just not the kind of music I enjoy.
Characters/Plot:
The juicy part. What unfolds in this show is a dysfunctional relationship between a person that's mentally disturbed (Touko) and a person that's flawed on the fundamental le…
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Bloom Into You is an embodiment of pleasantness, constructing a wholesome narrative about finding oneself and what lies ahead. This series is best described as a slice-of-life with romance as a primary narrative. While the setting is somewhat like Citrus in terms of character archetypes, Bloom Into You approaches storytelling much differently than most romance stories. The show is far less about dramatic tension between the characters, and instead focuses on evaluating their relationships with one another, whether it’s affection, ambivalence, admiration, or animosity. The story takes form as a series of conventional moments and activities in which characters interact with one another in a practical, level-headed manner. Bloom Into You has a notorious aptitude for presenting these character…
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Bloom into you isn't just an average shoujou ai anime, theres alot more to it
it was recommended to me a lot since id read citrus, and i put it off for quite a while until i finally decided to watch it around episode 8 and i can say without any hesitation that it was a good decision i made.
the story is about the two main characters yuu who is the kouhai and nanami who is the senpai, both of them struggle to understand the feeling of love until they meet each other. so, basically both of them have been looking for a strong feeling of love which they have never felt before.
the story progresses very slowly and beautifully as both the characters slowly develop their love for each other, if you came here looking for an anime with hardcore romance and a lot of drama this isn't that! i watch…
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Like a delicate flower, Bloom Into You acts upon its namesake, as the seed of the slept-on dark horse blossoms into one of the most charming shows to blindside me this year. I’m glad, for had I not stumbled upon the glowing reception for this treat, it may have never swept me off my feet. From its mostly charming depictions of lesbian love to its authentic showcasing of friendship, each interaction is filled to the brim with charm and care. Said charm and care also show in a majority of the revelations which make this surprisingly relatable and whimsical cast come to life even more than one could imagine. The revelation for Maki and subplot for Koyomi might be my personal favorites of the show, each bolstering integral portions of the show’s three overarching plotlines. Seeing them intertw…
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What exactly is love? Is it a feeling of trying to protect someone you treasure, or is it a feeling of gratitude for someone you deeply care about? There’s no exact answer for it, but everyone has their own ideal of how love is, and with this idea adding a sprinkle of yuri, may I introduce you, Yagate Kimi Ni Naru (Bloom Into You), a show focusing on our two female protagonist, Koito Yuu and Nanami Touko, and their journey onto finding what love, truly means.
Story / Character -9.5-
Within the first few minutes you get greeted by our first protagonist, Koito Yuu, whom is heavily obsessed in shoujo manga, and looks forward to having a heart pumping relationship, in which feels seemingly distant and unreachable for Yuu. Now being a high school student, Yuu was chosen to help out with the…
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The Shoujo Ai genre has seen it's fair share of ups and downs, and has been a letdown in recent times (We're looking at you Citrus), so when this show dropped in this season, I was very flawed at how I understood the taboo that is the Shoujo Ai aspect, but yet this show managed to do an outstanding justice to the genre, and (at this time) is one of (if not the best) shows due to its maturity and how it defines and breaks the convention that has been done before (e.g. moe-fied Yuru Yuri series) and teaches a whole new lesson altogether.
Yagate Kimi ni Naru, or Bloom Into You, tells the story of Yuu Koito and Touko Nanami, two individuals clasping for love in the most unusual way. Yuu, having grown up and loves reading shoujo manga, she feels the slightest (if not none) feeling of confessio…
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Love takes shape that the universe may never have a precise answer on. Can we all agree that human emotions can never be truly understood? What does it mean to be in love? Why do people fall for each other? In our world of imperfection, we will never know the truth to this question. Humans are imperfect and we were built that way in the eyes of our creator.
The art of anime adaptations is a fascinating subject that takes many forms. I’m very open minded with just about any genre although when it comes to yuri and shoujo-ai, I’m rather indifferent about it. Recent adaptations of the shoujo-ai genre hardly made an impression on me such as Citrus or Netsuzou Trap. Both of those shows let me down big time with their aggressive stance on relationships. I wanted to see a softer side of the shou…
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TL;DR at the bottom.
I'm not quite sure how to say exactly what YagaKimi is to me. There's so much to say about its portrayal of a unique relationship, how it explores the concept of love and what it makes me feel to watch it as it progresses. If I had to sum it into one word YagaKimi is 'interesting'.
Story - 10
The story of YagaKimi is about someone who has never fallen in love before, Yuu, having a 'more than friends, less than lovers' kind of relationship with her senpai, Nanami and how misconceptions about love shape that relationship. It is a rather slow burn and you could complain about nothing really happening but, that is one of the strengths of YagaKimi, after the first episode there is a gradual build-up of emotions that slowly but surely endear you to the characters, thorough…
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Yagate Kimi ni Naru is an anime that reminds us of the complexity of love. Several philosophers, artists, even you have tried to express that feeling to someone when you fall in love. A close person, a forgotten friend, call it what you want. Maybe someone declared us, and we did not know how to respond. Maybe we have failed, or we have managed to understand the meaning of love. No matter what happened in our life, those feelings are still present. This series uses that feeling, something that we cannot describe and creates a refreshing and pure plot that will fascinate you.
On the other hand, some viewers may consider this series boring, absurd and ridiculous. If you do not like romance combined with slice of life, you will agree with them and this anime won't be for you.
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