Bloom into you episode 01 eng dubbed

by Serg · Published December 2, 2021 · Updated December 2, 2021

1st English-dubbed episode now available // HIDIVE debuted the first episode of the English dub for the television anime of Nio Nakatani’s Bloom Into You (Yagate…

Howdy, and welcome to another show from the new season! Today we’re watching a romantic anime, Bloom Into You. Relative newcomers Studio TROYCA are producing this one, which is a bit odd since they’ve almost exclusively worked on action shows thus far. This will be their first foray into the genre, so let’s find out if they knock it out of the park first try!

There’s some solid directing going on, and I like the simple art style. I don’t like how overall bright the show can be, but there’s usually a good contrast to each scene. The voice acting for the leads is pleasant, with Nanami’s VA being a standout. Music was fine, but it’s nothing to bump for years on end. My biggest gripe is how quickly the “romance” developed, but since she took it back at the end, I’m sure we’ll have 11 more episodes before she confesses for real. It’s an unfortunate trope in anime to focus on the buildup to a relationship, instead of exploring anything during one. Even the great anime, like Hyouka and A Silent Voice, fall into this trap. Maybe Studio TROYCA will prove me wrong in the coming weeks, we’ll see where we land next time.

*us watching the Bloom Into You English dub clip* 😍😍😍

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Based on a popular yuri manga, Bloom into You is unexpectedly one of the Fall/Winter Season’s contenders for best anime. While I’m not really a fan of Yuri and Yaoi anime, this series surprisingly won my heart and drew me back to it again and again with its beautiful visuals, in-depth characterizations, amazing music and stunning prose.

Then on the other hand, you have Touko Nanami who is also an intriguing character, but in a different way. Touko is someone who doesn’t long for love. She distances herself quite a bit from it because she hates herself and longs to be like her admired, but deceased older sister who was basically the perfect honor student and the family favorite in her eyes. The trauma stems from her childhood when her older sister who was in high school died just before performing in a play done by the then student council. After her sister’s death, Touko felt like she had to step into her older sister’s shoes and become just like her, discarding her old self in the process. She is so obsessed with her being like her older sister that she becomes stubborn about it and equally becomes obsessed with completing the one thing that her older sister was unable to do, which is completing the high school play. The crux of Touko’s characterization comes to a climax during the training camp arc where Touko has a conversation with one of her older sister’s former classmates and discovers that her older sister was nothing like what she had imagined. The shock of this revelation then makes her question about her true self and the futility of the goal which had been aiming for, for most of her life; which is the focus of the second half of the show.

Now, as mentioned above, the animation is of stunningly high quality. The architecture, character designs and even the lighting in all of the environments including the depictions of water which both symbolizes and depicts the chaos within the human heart are all equally detailed and consistently beautiful, so much so, that the viewer can tell that the animators put a lot of work went into it. Even the opening theme song animation’s most stunning trait is the twilight-lit classrooms filled with beautiful hyacinths, morning glories and other flowers. Likewise, the ending theme song is also bright and cheerful with colorful child like drawings that incorporate the use of paper cups. Casting-wise, I thought that both the sub and the English dub staff did a wonderful job in choosing its cast. Minako Kotobuki and Yuuki Takada were both lovely and wonderfully unique as the main protagonists, while Ai Kayano did a good job at displaying Sayaka’s darker side. With the English cast, Tia Ballad’s depiction of Yuu is both lively and energetic and at the same time does an incredible job of expressing Yuu’s lifelessness, while Luci Christian does an awesome job as Touko. However. Clint Blinkham’s Seiji Maki does a better job at showing how observant Maki really is.