I keep rereading chapter 10 because Yuu's actions and what she says is very contradicting. Why would you chase after someone and comprise in what you believe in if you don't love them. Her motives for helping Nanami is that she is feeling lonely and that they are friends is very flimsy. You wouldn’t do that for someone who is just a friend you just have to look at how Yuu treats her other friends compared to Nanami and you can see that she goes above and beyond for Nanami by far.
^ That's the thing. Yuu already loves Nanami, she just doesn't realize it yet since there's no sparks or butterflies in her stomach like those romance novels she likes.
Hnng no that sounds really off to me
You know how cus of heteronormative norms, it's like people believe that two characters of opposite sex in fiction can't just be friends? They have to be love interests? The two leads have to sleep together at some point before the climatic finale?
I do believe that Yuu will one day feel something different for Nanami, but I'm not sure if I agree that currently, what she feels is "more than friendship".
I feel like, all these arguments that Yuu wouldn't be doing " all of this for Nanami if she didn't love her already" aren't particularly convincing to me either.
It could very well be the case, but I don't feel like it's for certain currently. Can a person not go out of their way for another without harboring romantic feelings for them?
Ofc I'm not hoping for some kind of "just friends" end, omg no that'd be shit, but I'm just saying that, for the eventual romantic ending, it's clear to me that although Yuu already holds Nanami to higher regards than she does others, it's gonna need way more for that to cross over to any possible zones of romantic feelings. I believe that somehow Nakatani will work it out and that it will be character development-wise complexe and wonderful, but that right now, the cliche'd line "she already loves her, she just doesn't realise it yet" really doesn't cut it out for me, and hopefully not this manga, because as a whole, Bloom Into You is already very out of the ordinary and sentimentally complex, the characters are all deeply fleshed out. I think that it deserves more than the simple "ah but it was there all along", to tie the final knot.
Yeah i completely agree with you, Yuu really need to differentiate between really caring for someone and deeply in love with someone, i think right now Yuu is only at the level of really caring for Nanami, maybe some people will say she goes way beyond for Nanami, but i think she did that for every one, when that person feeling involve her she just doesn't want to her hurt that person (her friend in middle school in a a fine example, it took her so many tried and failed to actually reject him)
and actually speaking of Nanami, i don't know why for me right now because of chapter 10 she come to be a selfish person, she know it herself how lonely to not be able to love someone and how wonderful it is to be able to love someone, but despite all that she didn't want Yuu to fall in love (not with her and she already asked Yuu to never fall in love with anyone else), right now really Nanami love come to be a selfish kind to me, a love to oneself not the other person, i feel the one she love right now is herself instead of Yuu
