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 the end of the show.
And Touko really started to annoy me half way through the show. and it's mostly because of their romance together.
I don't buy it. Their whole relationship together is built around one conversation they had with each other. And it's not a healthy one.
I see people praising it for these same reasons, but the idea is that they should develop past that.
They could have even fixed this if something ever happened in the show. The show is too slow, and what's worse is that the Play the show has been building up to never happens.
I feel like they could have cut a lot of moments out to make it happen.
I wanted to like Bloom Into You, I really did. But Bad pacing, a dull romance that goes nowhere, and an incomplete ending left me unsatisfied.