“…even though I was a kid, I didn’t want to feel like I was lagging behind. ” When we meet her, in Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka Volume 1, Sayaka is a very intelligent and privileged child, experiencing her own life at a remove. She does things because not doing them seems like more […]

When you watched the Bloom Into You anime, you saw it. Maybe you understood it. Probably if you were queer, you had lived it. You saw the way Sayaka held her coffee cup, the way her fingers tightened around it before she asked what was clearly one of the most difficult questions of her entire […]

At the beginning of 2019, the first volume of the Yagate Kimi Ni Naru side novel focusing on the character of Saeki Sayaka, Touko’s close friend and Student Council Vice President, surprised the heck out of me, with its grasp of the character’s voice and insight into this young lesbian’s development as a person. Yagate […]

Yagate Kimi ni Naru Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite (やがて君になる 佐伯沙弥香について) has radically changed my opinion of this whole series. For the better. But it was a radical change.  When we begin this book – presuming we have read the Yagate Kimi ni Naru / Bloom Into You manga or have seen the anime – we […]

Capping this weird, and horrible and amazing year off is the volume that I have been waiting for since April, when I raved about the Japanese edition. At last I can share with you, the joyousness of Bloom Into You Regarding Saeki Sayaka, Volume 3! Saeki Sayaka, a girl who tends overthink most things, is […]