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Finished Bloom Into You. Absolutely fantastic show. I've been a fan of yuri for a while now, but this completely blows away any other yuri series I've watched, and most standard romance anime on top of that.

My one hope for this series is that nobody passes it up just because it's a yuri show. Well...if you dislike yuri on principle, then avoiding the show is probably a good idea. But, I say that because I think it avoids a lot of the issues that have been in other yuri series I've watched. It portrays a romantic relationship that is both tangible (ie. not undertones) and believable, while avoiding the soap opera melodrama and the fanservice-y elements you might find in a show like Citrus, for example. It is just a down-to-earth romantic drama about the interactions of believably flawed characters as they try to find fulfillment. The writing is consistently strong enough to make that type of story fun and engaging, and the music and directing in the series are top notch.

Not that I haven't said this before, but I really loved this show.

To say something about the ending point: Of course this is a reasonable but not ideal place to end the series, and I really hope the anime gets a season 2 someday. I wasn't really bothered by the lack of a real ending though, especially when the journey is as good as it is. I will say though that I've known for a while from reading Reddit threads that the show was never going to go through enough of the manga to even reach the cultural festival. So, I've been approaching this anime as part of a whole rather than as a self-contained story for the most part. People with different expectations may end up disappointed though
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Oh woops. Putting Advokaiser in my sig like this until I think of something more clever