The official Twitter account for Kadokawa’s Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint revealed on Friday that Nio Nakatani’s Bloom Into You (Yagate Kimi ni Naru) manga will get a side story novel centered on the character Sayaka Saeki titled Yagate Kimi ni Naru – Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite (Bloom Into You – On Sayaka Saeki).
Hitoma Iruma (Adachi to Shimamura, Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl, Arata-naru Sekai) will write the novel, with original illustrations by Nakatani.
The manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation by Makoto Katō (Beautiful Bones -Sakurako’s Investigation-) and TROYCA that will premiere in October.
Kadokawa published the manga’s fifth compiled book volume on January 26, and will ship the sixth volume on September 26.