Bloom Into You

[Gallade0475]

Finally having finished this, I think I can finally be content with life.

 

[Atzerkins]

I had to check the last chapter again for someone's hand! This was really great, I haven't read a lot of gay romance but this is genuinely good and I really enjoyed it, unlike maybe 99% of hetero romance I've read. My memory is not that good but I can't remember any of those being good.

 

[Timeyy]

This melted my heart, one of the best romance manga I ever read.

 

[Tsukinotaku]

Yuri tags but no ecchi or anything similar... I really think people should start to learn how the tags work...

In the West, the term Shoujo-ai categorizes stories that focus on the emotional aspects of the relationships, while Yuri categorizes more of the sexual aspects and explicit content.

Seriously, we got definitions for each tag and no one read them...

 

[BorutosPapi]

Goddamn that was incredible

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Tfw you know you'll never find love like this

 

[softlessbean]

anime is brilliantly made and manga is also a masterpiece👌🏻

 

[diegoxt45]

really fucking good manga 9/10

 

[haicopper]

@Tsukinotaku
Honestly, here's a great essay about why Yuri is the greatest catch all term for any wlw/lesbian manga and why it doesn't just denote hentai and ecchi works

https://www.patreon.com/posts/yuri-essay-yuri-27400001

Even if you just read the last paragraph.

You are free to continue to use “shoujo-ai,” and “girls love” for that matter, however you want. I have no power to stop you and you are responsible for your own language. However, please recognize that the use of those terms is outdated, inaccurate, and harmful. People fought for “Yuri” and I implore you to use it, to celebrate it, to celebrate queerness, to celebrate the stories and genre that we love. Yuri is more than just pornography. Yuri is and will always be for everyone!

 

[Tsukinotaku]

@haicopper I honestly don't understand that fight you're talking about, Yuri was never about pornography too, it was about the sexual side of a relationship wich doesn't have to do with pornography, shojo-ai is just the pure, innocent, middle school love relation, yuri is just the high-school to adult, more mature, with an opening to sexual attraction, kind of romance.

For me, yuri is just what seinen is to shounen, a more mature alternative to a theme, more aimed at young adults that adolescents hence the theme of sexualization that comes with more mature relationships.

So like I said :

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shoujo-ai categorizes stories that focus on the emotional aspects of the relationships, while Yuri categorizes more of the sexual aspects and explicit content.

That explicit part can reach toward porn but it doesn't mean that it has to be porn. So many yuri out there have explicit sex scenes that have no pornographic quality.

To me :
Shoujo-ai : fluffy, emotional/drama, innocent relationship (i.e : Namori's works, like Yuruyuri, Hino-san no Baka, The Mute Girl and Her New Friend, etc.)
Yuri : mature, more prone to realism or illicit relationships, opening into sexual attraction along with romantic attraction, (i.e : Fusoroi no Renri, Citrus, Netsuzou Trap, Cheerful Amnesia, etc.)

For me, that's always how I saw the tags but you all want to make it look like GL and BL only have one form of relationships by mixing the tags into one... It's just a form of "target audience" for one who wants more mature relationships or more innocent ones.

In conclusion, why would I want to be recommended "Netzuzou trap" or "Fusoroi no Renri" when I want some fluffy thing like Namori's works or Hino-san no Baka...
It's like recommending me Otoyomegatari after reading Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, they both are good manga with straight relationships and really nice stories but the feeling and main themes of those stories couldn't be further apart...

 

[iyop]

This is unrelated to this manga but I'm just wondering if any of you readers ever saw this manhwa GL https://t.co/BooW4hyMJz?amp=1
If so please tell me where to read it. I can't read it,

 

[lumonyix]

lesbaiasn😌😌😌

 

[Yakson]

dont like yuri generally but damn this shit tops even normal romances

 

[MissYuna]

So I just read this again for the 6th times... please let me move on 💞

 

[Azalel]

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It would be so nice to see an epilogue where we see Sayaka's girlfriend and how they met, also Yuu and Nanami finally telling their parents about relationship they have.

 

[diegoxt45]

really want to give this a re-read bros

 

[Blue-Plum]

whoa... this series exist in here too, eh?? nice.. might as well re-read it here instead, (':

 

[Cornonthekopp]

@Azalel the spin off light novel trilogy has you covered, it’s called Regarding Sayaka Saeki

 

[Azalel]

@Cornonthekopp

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Thank you for that, didn't know it existed. I don't read light novels but i did find some videos and translated summaries of the volumes with parts of the light novel in it, i might give it a go because of that too. From what i saw Sayaka got herself almost a Yuu 2.0, especially in appearance from the cover art. 😄

 

[diegoxt45]

re-reading this one was a lot of fun.

 

[Asheron]

9/10. Great overall story and drawing. I did feel, however, that the "payoff" as far as the self-actualization the characters achieve from the main romance was a bit less than fully satisfying. This is probably because, while the characters are great, their attitude to the relationship and love generally throughout the story was a bit confusing at times. It's a happy ending manga but I didn't get that heavenly chorus vibe on culmination like from ReLife or some of the other top-rated romance manga.