Audience reviews
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bryzgonaut
With the caveat that I've never read the manga, and am watching it well after it aired so I don't have to deal with all the production delays, I thought it was pretty good, which for this genre is shockingly rare.
The animation was wildly inconsistent, with some episodes looking more like a power point presentation, but the voice acting was solid and it was refreshing to finish a show that's only based on part of a larger manga that still felt like it had a satisfying ending. The fact that so much of the second half of the season focuses on two secondary characters instead of the protagonists felt strange, but at least it was done in a way that brought the protagonists together, which was a nice change of pace after just finishing Citrus and being bombarded with side characters who are o…
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I wasn't aware of the production flaws per other user review but I have my own take on this anime.
I think this anime is pretty straight forward with what to expect from a romance anime with a band theme.
I was pleasantly surprised that the supporting cast gets as much time as the main characters and I was drawn in to the main drama of the show.
I think it ended on a sweet note and I felt a air of completion to what the story was trying to portray- what love really is and how it motivates people.
I do wish we got more exposure to the music but I understand we are given only so much time.
It left me with a sweet feeling and I would watch this anime again.
I had no characters I disliked and the shy budding love from the two main characters was fun to watch blossom.
Read at the sourcePrincess_Narii
Started this when the show was still running.
Realised quickly that this was a show I needed to wait for to binge.
The show is technically 2 different stories.
One about the first couple which spans around the first 5 episode.
And then it slowly rotates in another story.
Tho it is done very well, genuinely really enjoyed the series im very happy i kept this on my list forcing me to eventually come back to this. I knew i really enjoyed it when i tried it. But I couldnt get myself to watch every week.
For 1 big reason they show doesnt really cliffhanger you besides the once, which is really nice cuss cliffhangers suck.
But I will also acknowledge that they do work. And im less likely to come back the next week.
It also didnt help that the show faced some delays and stuff
Eitherway a goo…
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At first, I didn't really appreciate the principal character, (I find that kind of character with that extroverted personnality too off sometimes compared to how extroverted people are in the real life, considering this is a story based and inspire by our real world.) but it gets better after a few episodes, and we discover a protagonist smarter than we could think off, and able to think, ask and listen the other characters and act in consequences, a good point that sometimes is missing in that kind of show.
Overall it was a pretty good anime who also have good songs, it was an important point since the plot turn around music groups.
The main story is a bit already seen, but it was still great to watch, the side story are really cool, it almost make me shed a tear in the lasts episodes, ha…
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The first 6 episodes of this are kind of just a "nothing special but nothing wrong with it either" type of story. It's a cute yuri but not much goes on. Once you get past episode 6 though, the whole focus shifts and it becomes amazing. I wish there were more of those latter 6 episodes — it makes you so emotional, you will cry or at least get a cryball. There are unexpected reveals, and they hit hard.
This series feels like it deserves a higher rating from me, because I really did like it, but it's just missing that special something to bring it from a 7 to an 8, and it got knocked down from a 7 to a 6 because of the pretty average first six episodes.
The music from this is also fire. It's been a while since I've seen this and I keep listening to the music, and one of the songs is reaaall…
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This anime is so close to being an 8/10 or maybe even a 9/10 but it falls just short. The story is extremely compelling, the characters are deep and realistic, the music is great, the messages that the anime conveys are extremely heartfelt (I cried 3 times watching this) and the entire thing has a lot of soul put into it, you can feel how much they cared during the last episode and it is poignant.
However, it suffers from pacing issues (particularly around the middle), the animation is not great and can be downright bad at certain times and the characters can be more dense than a rock so if that kind of thing pushes you off of an anime then you might not enjoy this one.
I still think you should give it a go if any of the following interest you:
-GL anime.
-Anime with good music. (Look up…
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If I'm writing a review it's because I just watched one of the best or one of the worst anime I've ever seen and 'Whisper Me a Love Song' meets that criteria:
Pure dogshit.
My God-given calling in life is to sift through the wastelands of tasteless yuri anime so that YOU don't have to, and I truly cannot believe that I had the psychological capacity to slog through this entire series. These were some of the longest 12 episodes of my life.
The first half of this series is a mirror-image knockoff of Bloom Into You (a yuri series that's actually worth your time) and the second half is an anticlimactic romance arc about background characters that no one could possible bring themselves to care about.
There were some pretty cute moments in this show but they were far outweighed by over-the-to…
Read at the sourcePandaRoomster
Being a big fan of the manga, I was really excited for the anime debut of Whisper Me a Love Song. Unfortunately, my experience with it was pretty mixed.
Production:
Let’s get the obvious out of the way—yes, like most people, I was disappointed by the production quality. I’m not usually someone who needs top-tier animation to enjoy a show, but the issues here were hard to ignore. The art often felt raw and unfinished, like I was watching some kind of fan edit. It’s a shame, because the manga is one of the prettiest series I’ve ever read. The long delays in production didn’t help either—understandable, sure, but still frustrating.
On the bright side, the voice acting was great. It all felt natural and fit the characters well, which is especially impressive considering some of the cast were…
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ok so my final thoughts on sasakoi , it's no secret that the production quality of this anime is really low , although they might have slightly put some more effort into the last 2 episodes , but more than that, I want to talk about the content , what sasakoi is as a story and what it shows and how , it's everything an average yuri is like, and it's what I expect a yuri to be at its status quo, in fact, sasakoi is so much of a vanilla yuri that it could be used as a ground 0 to compare with other yuri , and this is in no way a bad thing , it's good... but ... it's also a double edged sword, it's kinda basic , and it lacks unexpectedness imo , if I look at what reaction it got out of me , there wasn't that much that made me go "oh yeah THAT I'll remember it" , except maybe for the 2 last ep…
Read at the sourceGrumbleDango
So this ended up getting a lot of hate because of the struggles with the production quality. And that's fair. Good animation is important to me when I consume anime, so it hurts my soul when something that could be so beautiful becomes offensive to look at.
But I think a lot of peoples' attitude towards Sasakoi is frustration with it not living up to the highest standards of quality compounded with the 6 month delay to finish up the broadcast. After re-watching the whole show in 2 sittings before finishing the final 2 episodes, I felt a lot better about it than I did watching it weekly. The character designs and art are gorgeous, the voice acting is great, the story and drama are compelling, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tearing up at the end.
I'd say the animation only starts to…
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?Contrary to the title and all the descriptions, this story is not about the love of two girls, not about a school group and not even about her conflict with her rivals. In fact, almost the entire plot consists of the problems of minor characters and incredible efforts of the main character to solve them to the detriment of the theme, which was still stated as the main one.
So there's no love here? If Himari fell in love not with Yori but with her songs, and the last episode ended very stupidly, then the answer is obvious. It's all very naive, ridiculous and more like some fanfic from an equally naive schoolgirl. As a result, there is only one full-fledged couple (and the authors nailed it to such an extent that not every viewer will notice these relationships at all, and the names are un…
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Whisper Me a Love Song. THIS is the anime that I was probably most excited about at the beginning of 2024 aside from Solo Leveling. And I made that known in my MAL Blog Post. Bloom Into You was the closest comparable and that series is extremely near and dear to my heart - it's even on the same streaming platform - HiDive. But man, as everyone else has mentioned, the production issues this series had created so many issues for what probably should have been an easy 8 or 9/10.
Words cannot even begin to express how I feel about how this series was handled. Yokohama Animation Laboratory and Cloud Hearts couldn't have handled this project worse, outside of not finishing it at all (I've actually heard that they're essentially the same studio). People were worried about this series in the very…
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Whisper Me a Love Song: great music, not baiting, and half decent characters ruined a bit by production issues.
It's a common issue nowadays to see decent anime be run into the ground a bit by production, but this show definitely got the short end of the stick. I like the characters although they are a bit one dimensional. The music the bands play is great and I personally would add it to my playlist. I genuinely do like the romance of the main characters and like that we get to see them be together in the show as well. I think as far as yuri goes, this is more overt and better in story than a lot of others but it does tend to just stick with being cute and rely on that rather than achieve more character and story depth. The problems start in production.
From what I can tell, the working…
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The show has a slow start, and you might think it is full of yuri tropes and cookie-cutter characters. It seems many people watched 3-4 episodes and dropped the show because this is exactly how it feels. BUT! But it gets better. It gets significantly better. The plot thickens, the characters start showing deeper emotions, and finally characters' backgrounds begin to matter. The episodes 7 and onward are full of raw emotion, and the episode 10 left me in tears. Admittedly, the characters are still a bit 2D, but the story development is remarkable. The animation quality for the last episodes dips a bit, but not enough to spoil the ending.
Now, if this was a cis-het show, I'd give it a 7. In terms of production quality, it's a bit below Makeine, so sounds about right? But it is yuri, and thu…
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Whisper Me a Love Song - What was supposed to be a wonderful adaptation, got absolutely ripped to shreds by haphazard production.
You know the drill: hyped series tend to get the adaptations that were supposed to be expected from, and if there's anything to learn from the AniManga industry in the post-COVID era, is that the industry itself will NEVER learn from their mistakes trying to pump more quantity than quality just to satisate their audiences, on top of having to spend and lose revenue over what is commonly sighted as "production delays". Case in point, one of the highly revered Yuri a.k.a Girls' Love series of all time, mangaka Eku Takeshima's Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau a.k.a Whisper Me a Love Song, whose reputation in Japan, is said to be comparable towards mangaka Nio Nakatani'…
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