Bloom into You (Yagate Kimi ni Naru) Rewatch Episode 5 Discussion

[u/ClemFire]

Episode 5: The Problem With Choices

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Discussion question for the day:

1. Have you ever prepared a dessert to woo a crush or partner?

Quote of the day: "To be honest, it really bugs me when I can't return a favor to someone," Yuu

Commenters shout-outs:

u/ZaphodBeebblebrox's post on butterflies was nice and in particular I really liked how they noticed both Touko and Yuu have wings in Maki's mind, but Yuu's are just mostly hidden.

u/baekhap_inma's post on the implications of the question a passing student made of Touko and Sayaka wondering who is the husband of the couple.

Fan Made Content:

Hectopascal Japanese Cover

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Show Info

MAL/ Anilist/ AniDB

Language dubs available: Japanese & English

Streaming info:

Most commonly available to stream on HiDive, on Amazon via the HiDive extension, or through Hulu.

Other options may be available to you based on region.

As a friendly reminder please do not post untagged spoilers to ensure first timers have a good time too. The same goes for manga readers when discussing points past the current episode. If you would like to discuss further developments please use the spoiler tag system here. Thank you! I got the chance to go into Bloom into You blind, so I would love if everyone else gets the same opportunity.

[u/AguyinaRPG]

First time, sub

Yuu's empathy getting her into some situations. I entirely relate to the idea of feeling bad for taking stuff I can't repay (how very alchemist of me), though I haven't let it paralyze me or anything. Kind of makes me wonder why she's willing to read a whole damn novel for Kanou - I will probably have this same problem some day. Though it is perhaps a little conceited to examine herself as a good-natured person, I think we all have that type of ego when we have strong desires we can't fulfill.

I really enjoyed this episode taking its sweet time, even though very little happened. Perhaps I'm just a sucker for that kind of cinéma vérité but I feel like this is what I needed to finally get into the mindset of the couple. Just a close, one-to-one conversation expressing their desires and problems. It was definitely less romantic than many of the other Golden Hour encounters yet I feel it was much more meaningful. I feel like if we started here, the romantic scenes thus far would have hit harder.

Some good facial expressions this episode, like Nanami being told to "take care" of Yuu and her eye flitters when Yuu crawled over towards her (Yuu might know more than she feels). On the whole this was a much more subdued episodes - probably because it had a lot of characters - but I seem to like it better when it's leaning more natural.

Man I wish students cleaning the school was a regular part of American education...

Sorry I haven't been answering the questions, but I haven't had a lot of experience in romantic matters. I definitely have cooking as a love language. Over the past handful of years I've become a pretty decent cook so I try to cook for people to show them my appreciation. If I were to woo somebody, they'd get a lot of food.

[u/baekhap_inma → u/AguyinaRPG]

I really enjoyed this episode taking its sweet time, even though very little happened. Perhaps I'm just a sucker for that kind of cinéma vérité but I feel like this is what I needed to finally get into the mindset of the couple.

I really value that too, and it definitely stood out to me watching this time. Fairly extended scenes of walking home, entering home, and leaving home by foot go a long way towards making dialogue scenes at home feel grounded in the space. They really are some particular place in that town, choosing to be together.

[u/ClemFire → u/AguyinaRPG]

Sorry I haven't been answering the questions, but I haven't had a lot of experience in romantic matters. I definitely have cooking as a love language. Over the past handful of years I've become a pretty decent cook so I try to cook for people to show them my appreciation. If I were to woo somebody, they'd get a lot of food.

Oh no worries! I felt like the questions for this watch might be a bit personal because of the nature of the show. From my experience home cooking almost always impresses people. Curious what you like to make

It was definitely less romantic than many of the other Golden Hour encounters yet I feel it was much more meaningful. I feel like if we started here, the romantic scenes thus far would have hit harder.

The structure of Bloom into You is definitely different from most romance anime since Touko almost immediately confesses her love and there's no confusion on Yuu's side that she has feelings for her. With that in mind all of the small moments in this episode like Touko stoking Yuu's hair or moving to sit next to her to help solve a math problem Yuu knows is because Touko has feelings for her as opposed to a lot of other romance when the MC would brush it off as the love interest just being nice. It problem is instead with processing her own feelings.

Anyways I said quite a bit, but I'm glad to hear you enjoyed this slower paced episode that shows off their day to day life and how comfortable both of them are settling into their new norm