I can say for sure... I was not expecting this... but this comic got me good... like, it is a romance manga, of course it is! So I expected it to go the usual route (cute and well done, but you know... the usual!).
Even last chapter I was thinking "what kind of melodrama are they gonna drop? whatchu mean it's not the same?" and then BAM! this chapter.
So many people have already commented on Bloom into you in this thread as well, but I cannot explain properly how giddy I feel. It's like... I really dunno about representation and stuff, I couldn't quite understand it before... and this is not gonna make me... pursue it? fight for it? but I'm just so happy to see this coming up more.
This is not the place to go in dept on it but, I still get plagued with thoughts of something being ...wrong with me at times, because although I enjoy romance as a genre, it's something I've yet to experience. Romance, attraction, these just have never happened, not that I don't want to see or feel it... it just...
But then getting to see characters asking the same questions and going around the same things I did and still do kinda makes me feel less alone on this x'D And getting them to see fall in love on their own terms (namely Bloom into you... I'm excited to see where this one goes) kinda gives me hope...
Anyways, those are my thoughts x'D and they are a mess, but I felt like sharing -v-