Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite 2

Author: Hitoma Iruma

Illustrator: Nio Nakatani

Label: Dengaki Bunko

Release Date: 10 May 2019

My Score: 5/5

English Release: This series has been released in English as Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka.

This second entry in the Saeki Sayaka spin-off focuses on her relationship with Touko. We start off with a chapter that kind of summarises the events of the manga, adding in some additional scenes with Sayaka and Koito. The chapter ends with Sayaka's confession to Touko and then we have a chapter that jumps back in time to Sayaka and Touko as first years. This is where most of the volume takes place, as Sayaka learns more about Touko and about herself.

While I still rated this volume 5/5 due to the character writing, atmosphere, and immense readability, I didn't like this volume quite as much as the first one. Most of this is down to it exploring ground that feels like it was already covered well enough in the manga. While we didn't see much of the beginning of Sayaka's and Touko's relationship in the manga, I feel like we saw enough of it to understand the relationship and how it formed. While it was nice to see their relationship explored more, it didn't feel like it really added much. But, I must admit that I did reread the manga so recently that their relationship is fresh in my mind. I might feel differently if I was reading it without that context. I also feel like it is necessary to explore that relationship in a trilogy about Sayaka. This is an important relationship for Sayaka and her character development. It's an important part of Sayaka's life. Without this relationship, Sayaka's story would be incomplete. So, even though I did not find this volume quite as interesting as the first one, I still really enjoyed it and I think it's a necessary volume in the trilogy.

I am very excited to read volume 3 which will have an entirely new story, only briefly alluded to in the main series. I really want to know what kind of person Sayaka ends up dating.

ꕥ SAEKI SAYAKA ꕥ

▷ Yagate Kimi ni Naru | Bloom into You ◦ Manga

↳ It wasn't understanding, or resignation, just acceptance. Of myself, and of fact that he could only love other girls . (Saeki Sayaka Ni Tsuite)

So I’ve been finally reading the Sayaka LNs...and had to make this. This poor girl. Hope she finally gets her happy end in vol.3.

saeki sayaka ni tsuite

Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka Vol.3 light novel (end)

Bloom into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka (novel)

by Hitoma Iruma and Nakatani Nio

Saeki Sayaka has always been an old soul–serious and reserved, preferring to focus on her studies rather than make friends. Until, that is, a romantic confession from another girl in middle school turns her carefully ordered world upside down. Though none of her classes have prepared her for this, Saeki must now come to terms with her sexuality in this gentle, coming-of-age novel about grappling with first love, growing up, and relating to other people

Creators of ‘Bloom Into You’ and ‘Adachi and Shimamura’ Team Up in Lesbian Short Story Collection

End Blue ( エンドブルー), a new Yuri light novel by Adachi and Shimamura creator Hitoma Iruma, is scheduled for Japanese release by Dengeki Bunko on December 10, 2020. The light novel is illustrated by Bloom Into You author Nakatani Nio. End Blue is a collection of short stories by Iruma.

Dengeki Bunko describes End Blue as “A collection of works that play with striking emotions.” Some of the stories included feature a young women working on pottery in the mountains who receives a visit from a woman she met a year ago and a woman taking over a teahouse after the passing of her parents.

Nakatani Nio and Hitoma Iruma collaborated previously on Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka (Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite), the light novel spinoff of Bloom Into You. Three volumes of the series were released in Japanese by Dengeki Bunko. Seven Seas will releases the third and final volume in English on December 22.

End Blue launches in Japanese on December 10, 2020.

I swear to gods you are psychic. I *just* got my copy of Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite V3 and you post a pic of it. What is this sorcery??!

my lesbianism gives me abilities both strange and powerful

Seven upcoming YagaKimi-related projects announced!

...But no season 2. We live in hope. 😩

1. Final volume 8 released 27th Nov in Japan.

2. Nio Nakatani Sensei's art book.

3. Short stories book by Nio Nakatani Sensei (all YagaKimi short stories? Possibly since the context is all upcoming YagaKimi releases).

4. Release of Yagate Kimi ni Naru Anthology vol 2 (looking forward to this ^^)

5. Saeki Sayaka Ni Tsuite vol.3 will be released (and this too).

6. LINE sticker of the comic illustration.

7. The encore stage play will be performed fall 2020.

Source: YURI TIMES on Twitter

Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite 1

Author: Hitoma Iruma

Illustrator: Nio Nakatani

Label: Dengaki Bunko

Release Date: 10 November 2018

My Score: 5/5

English Release: This series has been released in English as Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka.

I decided to reread the YagaKimi manga this year and really enjoyed myself. It made me remember that I never got around to reading the Saeki Sayaka spin-off, so I decided to go ahead and purchase the trilogy at last. I'm glad I did because it was just as amazing as I had heard it was.

The first volume tells the stories of two events in Sayaka's life, leading up to her meeting Nanami. The first story takes place when Sayaka is in primary school. She meets a girl in her swimming lessons and they form a somewhat intimate relationship. The second story chronicles Sayaka's middle school life and her relationship with the senpai who would be her first girlfriend. While the first story was plenty intriguing, it's shorter than the second and I feel like the second is where the story really gets good. While we had flashbacks to Sayaka's relationship with her senpai in the manga, the volume expands on it a lot. We see how their relationship begins and how Sayaka finds herself slowing falling in love. Even though I knew how things would end from the manga, I still couldn't help but hope for things to turn out differently while I was reading it, even as it became increasingly clear that the senpai did not see her relationship with Sayaka in the same way that Sayaka saw it.

Hitoma Iruma's prose was incredible in this volume. They managed to convey Nio Nakatani's storytelling style so well that I could imagine the scenes as manga panels while I was reading it. It was so readable that I ended up staying up to read more than I had intended to and finished the volume before I realised it.

I'm really glad that I decided to finally read this series as it is definitely worth the hype. I'm interested to see how the second volume goes. I wonder how they'll keep things fresh since it seems like it will cover the events of the manga. Although, now that I think about it, we haven't seen much of Sayaka's and Nanami's relationship from the two years before the start of the manga, so it may cover that time in more depth. Regardless, I'm excited to read it.

Whos haru chan

Sayaka’s off-screen girlfriend post-timeskip in the last chaper of yagakimi. 

As we know from Saeki Sayaka ni tsuite 2 that Sayaka meets a junior of hers during university, the running theory is that Haru-chan and the character dubbed “crying girl” (because she’s upset when Sayaka first meets her) are one and the same.

You get to know people, but you have to say goodbye to them someday.

Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite

from twitter

1st page is from the Sayaka spin-off light novel, Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite

2nd page is from Chapter 37 of the Yagate Kimi ni Naru manga