Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and fantasizes about the day that, she, too, will get a love confession that will send her heart a-flutter.

Upcoming Manga Grand Prix" announcement: The commemorative illustrations by the top winners will also be released]. Volume 6 picks up with the play itself, a thinly veiled exploration of Touko's inability to be herself and living as if she is a replacement for her sister (something no one asked her to do). On the appointed day, Maki tells Yuu that he doesn't have romantic feelings towards anyone, preferring to watch other romances from a distance. However, I'm eager to see where the series goes from here having set up a new and important conflict between Yuu and Touko. Touko's decision to make Yuu her campaign manager doesn't settle well with her long-time friend Sayaka Saeki, but Sayaka decides to help Yuu nonetheless.

In devising the setting, Nakatani opted to set Bloom Into You in a co-ed school environment, as opposed to other yuri manga which often opted for all-girls school settings.

At one point Nakatani suggested an anime-original ending, but this was decided against to allow viewers to transition into the manga and leave the door open for a continuation. Prior to writing the scripts, he discussed his interpretation of the story with Nakatani, saying he read it as "a simple love story" between women with a minimized focus on homoeroticism, and that it was not concerned with avoiding the "associations with 'immorality'" often found in other yuri works. From there, Nakatani developed Yuu as the type of girl who she imagined would be able to help and eventually come to love Touko. Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and fantasizes about the day that, she, too, will get a love confession that will send her heart a flutter. This led her to be interested in producing a romance story featuring an unambiguous love between girls.First-year high school student Yuu Koito unexpectedly receives a confession from a middle school classmate. The opening theme is "Kimi ni Furete" ( 君にふれて, Touched By You) by Riko Azuna, [64] while the ending theme is "hectopascal" by Yuu Koito ( Yūki Takada) and Touko Nanami ( Minako Kotobuki). Gōda felt that while drawing Yuu was "straightforward", Touko's expressions were more challenging due to her being "two-faced". She also contributed new details not directly shown in the manga, such as the earlier draft of the Student Council play prior to Yuu's request that Koyomi revise it. When the student council holds a study camp to practice for the play, actor Tomoyuki Ichigaya, a former classmate of Mio's, is brought in to help.

In July 2022, the encore was rescheduled to be performed between November 25 and December 4, 2022, with the previous main cast slated to reprise their roles. From him, Touko learns that Mio was a very different person than who she is now, leaving her conflicted. He said that as Nakatani was the original creator, he felt that his role in the novels' creation was "the one who contributed the text.Kato believed bringing his perspective as an outsider made the anime more interesting, as he imagined that someone more familiar with the genre would produce something with a more limited appeal. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is the alluring Nanami herself, has Yuu's shoujo romance finally begun?