Audience reviews
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No-Life-101
Sasameki Koto (Whispered Words) is a short anime with only 13 episodes but it’s very wholesome and kind of relatable at times. The storyline shows the main characters have unrequited crushes and how they learn to deal with their feelings, but these crushes do change a bit throughout the anime which is relatable because “young love” is always changing. Also, as the story progresses the main characters slowly become friends with the other girls and they form a little group as well as a Girls Club. During their time together, they go on chaotic adventures and have fun times with one another. Also, the ending is very wholesome!
Other details:
- Simple art style and colours which suit this anime
- The opening and ending credits have lovely songs and relaxing animation
- Overall music in the an…
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Sasameki Koto definitely was a hell of a slog to finish. The show was so slowly and poorly paced, and it's not hard to see why. A mere chapter was adapted per episode, and when you compare the manga to the anime, you can see various embellishments and utter useless scenes being put in the anime to have a frustratingly slow paced show whose sole purpose of being slow paced was to make sure the animators needed to animate as little as possible.
Unfortunately, Sasameki Koto suffers more than just poor pacing. I actually kind of enjoy the main cast of characters in the Girls club. Tomoe, Kiyori, and Tamae are fun additions to the story, but the other side characters are superfluous and fail to make an impact on the story other than pitiful attempts of drama and comic relief.
I assume that Sasa…
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Sourpatch!
Sweet sour candy!!
Sour candy!!!
Refreshing...
Now Whispered words is everything. Plot: Good story.
This is an unrequited love story and one I could deeply relate with. I saw sasameki Koto sometimes last year and I loved it so much, i distinguished it with Aoi Hana and found that I choose it over the latter.
Shoujo-Ai is my second favourite tag, held the top spot for years but I grew older and crazy he he. But this, when I saw this it melted my heart.
I rarely watch anime at a go, when I started I couldn't stop till my battery ran dry, yeah I watched it on phone.
The progression of the story is an ordinary everyday life sequence in school, plenty you might have seen if you've watched many anime like this. it hurts so much you know? I mean I just think back to school, hi…
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Extremely boring, uneventful and slow paced. I nearly fell asleep. I'm surprised I finished it. If you're looking for random school activities with subtle Yuri hints, this is the one for you. The main characters don't do or say anything interesting, physical or otherwise. Everything else is extremely censored and just with vague hints. I this doesn't even qualify as Yuri anime apart from the protagonist' unrequited feelings. Might only be interesting if you're 13-14 and there's something relatable in the content for you at how difficult it is to process things.
The characters are themselves pretty dull and with nothing extraordinary. I assume this is the whole point of "slice of life" but I've never watched a slice of life show that was so sleep inducing, especially under the Yuri tag.
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I didn’t understand why this was rated so low at first, and then I discovered it was because people were mad at the sudden ending. Then I read the manga, and was much more satisfied after that.
Sasameki Koto is one of those yuri shows that I feel like deserves more attention. Nice art style, good music (although, a bit lacking at times,) and the comedy is great. As a girl who like girls myself, I can safely say I enjoyed it thoroughly.
This is one of those rare yuri anime that caught my interest more quickly than the others, because the plot isn’t just “new shy and meek transfer student girl has a crush on the strong and powerful school star girl.”
Sumika Murasame is portrayed as strong due to her karate skills, but she’s also portrayed as a total dork trying to get Ushio’s attention…
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If you’re a girl looking to good sapphic representation- please look elsewhere. Like Citrus and NTR: Trap, it’s very obvious that Sasameki Koto was written with men who like to watch girls kissing in mind other than actual sapphic women. This anime features a large breasted (and often objectified for that reason) airhead that has a crush on a girl solely for her looks and is coveted by her socially awkward and somewhat perverted best friend. Most of the side characters are uninteresting or disturbing like the only boy in the series who has a crush on Sumika but was forced into cross dressing by his little sister. There is a scene in a restaurant where he and Sumika go out to eat while he is still dressed like a girl and it’s very difficult to watch. He goes to open a packet of creamer and…
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The Sasameki Koto manga is one of the best romances under the theme of conquering image insecurities and rejection anxiety to be with the person you love. But the anime adaptation only tells a quarter of that story and falls well short of a point in the narrative when Kazama, the primary love interest, begins to receive thorough characterization that explains her previously selfish actions.
You see, before we begin to understand what makes Kazama tick she comes off as an obtuse annoying dumbass who opposes the aesthetic of Sumi almost entirely. Kazama loves girls who are short! Sumi is tall. Kazama loves girls who wear frilly feminine clothing! Sumi has no fashion sense. Kazama loves girls who flaunt their femininity! Sumi practices karate...that she later gives up to appease her unrequit…
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Sasameki Koto is a unique hidden gem in shoujo ai anime.
There are common tropes that most genres eventually fall into and cycle through beat for beat, but Sasameki Koto takes it's story into a unique direction and gives you a breath of fresh air.
There are tangible moments of heartache and longing that this series really makes you feel, and often they can come out of nowhere right after you were just grinning at how ridiculous the scene before it was. The set up is always pretty perfect to bring you up and then send you crashing back down. This made Sasameki Koto kind of an emotional rollercoaster at times.
The OP song is beautiful but gets overused in the show itself. The art sometimes has some weird CG and characters suffer a lot from same face syndrome but they handle the ugly cry sc…
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Hi! Welcome to Robert's Too Late Reviews! Today we’re going to be talking about Sasameki Koto (Whispered Words) but I have a feeling you may have already known that! This is a nice little series that fuses some fairly heavy dramatic elements with regular doses of comedy, which for the most part, makes for an enjoyable watch. A glance to the right at my overall score should indicate that I do recommend giving this anime a chance. If you wish to go in ‘blind’, please stop reading at this point as I cannot certify a 100% spoiler-free review. So let’s get to finding out just who makes the RTRL wall of yuri worship! (It’s kinda getting hard to think of new labels!)
Story: 7
The entire anime can be basically summed up in two words: unrequited love. That’s at the core of most of the characters’…
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Sasameki Koto is a rarity in the Yuri anime world, it isn't the uber-drama fair of the more highly regarded shows, but neither is it gimmicky and insincere like some on the other end of the spectrum. Instead it's somewhere in between, it's an anime which is gentle and light-hearted but at the same time it feels genuine and it's for this reason alone that it's my favourite Yuri/Shoujo-Ai anime.
Another thing that sets it apart is the lack of ambiguity when it comes to the girl's sexuality. The story doesn't exist in a vacuum where there aren't any boys and the suggestion is that the girls are just pretending until 'real' love comes along. Nor does is exist in a parallel universe where everyone is gay, making it unbelievable. Instead it's set in a co-ed high-school in an anime version of th…
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Mod Edit: This review may contain spoilers.
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The appeal of a yuri anime, to me, has never been about the multishipping possibilities or the epic romance across space and time. To me, it's been about the subtle interpersonal character drama based upon fear of social ostracisation or lack of mutual feelings, and it's about the quiet tempo of character growth and romance. I felt like Sasameki Koto got this, but didn't know what to do about it.
To start off, Sasameki Koto allures with the prickly thorns of unrequited love between our tall and boyish protagonist, Sumika, and her best friend, Kazama, a girl that likes cutesy femme girls. At the onset, Sumika is very, very easy character to relate to, trying her hardest not to ruin a friendship but knowingly unable to further it - it's the ki…
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Sasameki Koto is incomplete as an anime. I know there are manga chapters that wrap it up, but I'm not surprised this never received the second season it was obviously planning to use to wrap things up nicely.
Story. 5
S.K. is a Yuri romance, meaning, many of the characters and love displayed is lesbian in nature. Yuri has a very small representation in anime, and only a small amount of it is really anything worth watching.
The concept is a good one. Girl A is a lesbian, and she likes cute lesbians, as a matter of preference. Girl B is a lesbian, but only for Girl A. Girl A is oblivious, and goes out of her way to point out how ill-suited Girl B is for her, often in casual conversation.
The story revolves around Girl B trying to win the love of Girl A.
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At some poi…
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Similar to other anime adaptations of manga that has yet to be concluded, Sasameki Koto ends on a disappointingly limp note. With the manga ending in 2011 and the anime adaptation both airing and ending in 2009, its only natural for the show to end in such an unsatisfying fashion. The show overall isn't bad, but the ending leaves much to be desired with there being more questions than answers being presented at the show's conclusion.
Sasameki Koti is a romantic comedy focused around a group of girls that come together to form the "Girls Club", a club dedicated to "girl-lovers who had no choice but to enter a co-ed school". Sumika Murasame, our main protagonist, has fallen for her best friend, Ushio Kazama. Ushio, however, only falls in love with "cute girls" and Sumika goes unrequited in…
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Ahh, my very first Shoujou ai Anime... What I would give to remove the show in my brain and watch it again to get that "first time" feeling.
Story 9/10
Sumika Murasame, a high school girl is secretly in love with her best friend Ushio Kazama. Unfortunately, Ushio only likes girls that are cute and small. Sumi is not cute, tall and very athletic. The anime follows exactly the plot of the manga version of the same name (Except episode 12). If this was a stand-alone anime then story rating would have been lower due to the ending of the show (the ending of the show was the ending of manga version volume 1). Since they were following the manga version's plot, it's getting a high rating. I've read the manga version until the end and it was wonderful.
Art 8/10
The show has a great animation w…
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So before I start I have to admit I am one of the people who read and completed the manga before I watched the anime so I am a bit biased. Sasameki Koto or Whispered Words in English is the Story of Sumika, a girl who is good at sports and has great grades but even though she has the shy girl with glasses look she is far from shy and Ushio her best friend who is a sweet girl who has a love of cute girls. The problem is Sumika is in love with Ushio but she herself doesn't fit the qualifications of cute and her feelings are unnoticed by Ushio.
Now I will go on record to say that Sumika IS cute, she is probably one of the cutest girls I have seen in a manga/anime. Anyway being a fan of the manga and story I have to say the anime is good for what it is but it lacks in a lot of ways. For one t…
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Sasameki Koto started as a yuri manga written by Ikeda Takashi. The anime adaptation only covers the first part of the manga's story. It was made in 2009 by AIC. Sadly, there has not been a second season yet. Now, I liked this anime when I saw it a couple years ago. Just let me re-watch it so I can properly articulate why. And then I'll tell you all about it.
The story is a relatively simple romance plot. A girl named Sumika is in love with her best friend, Kazama. There's just one problem, Kazama likes cute girls and Sumika is really tall and more cool than cute. As for the story itself, it does a really good job of showing a gradual relationship progression and it blends in some charming slice of life aspects and some well done comedy. That being said, I do have one complaint about the…
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First of all I'm a fan of the manga series,therefore my score is biased, I took the time to watch the series last year and just re-watched because I love the manga.Now I will go on with the review of the anime,the synopsis gives the main plot therefore I don't need to explain, the series basic premise is unacquainted love, and hey! chances are everyone can relate to this in a way.
What I love the most about the series are the characters from Sumika,the strong,tall girl who will protect Ushio till the end,even if it means hurting herself.I happen to dislike Ushio a little bit in the beggining of the anime series (she seemed oblivious to Sumika's feelings and I don't mean the romantic feelings), but in the last few episodes she shows she really cares.The supporting characters really add hila…
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I think we all know how painful it can be to love someone who doesn't love you back. I certainly do, and I don't think I've ever seen an anime series that depicted the loneliness--and very rarely the joy--of one-sided love as well as the shojou ai romcom Sasameki Koto did.
I began watching Sasameki Koto at the very beginning of the year, around the same time I started Junjou Romantica. I could not have picked a better first shojou ai series. Although it is basicly about the love between two girls, it is way lighter and more fun then some of the more dramatic shojou ai series out there, making it a perfect introduction to the genre.
Sumika Murasame is an intelegent, tough as nails highschooler with a big problem: she has fallen in love with another female, her best friend, Ushio Kazama. T…
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Firstly: I'm going to keep it to the point to save you sifting through miles of text :D
I was new to Shoujo-ai anime I thought that this well done.
It has all the things that are expected from Romantic Comedies, but it also has its own turn on the genre. It has a balanced set of characters, which are really well developed, and they all bring something to the fray, be it comedy, or a serious point of the storyline.
Although the anime was a little predictable in the storyline, it didn't matter, as it was enough to keep me watching and not dismiss it. Generally it focuses on the relationships of the protagonist and her struggles but it makes you wonder if they made it into strictly a romance or a comedy whether it could have been better.
However, despite this, as a result this anime is th…
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First of all i want to say that "Sasameki koto" was my first Shoujo-ai anime and because of that it kind of changed my view on Shoujo-ai series and all that girl+girl thing.
Story: "sasameki koto" tells us a story about love which seems strange to many of us and that love is between girls no that love which we call "friends" but real love , feelings and wanting to be with some one. The story revolves around few girls Kazama, Ushio and Murasame, Sumika also their many friends which they encounter. Murasame Sumika feel in love with her best Friend Kazama Ushio who falls in love with all the "cute" girls she see, for Murasame its the worst thing that can happen because she isn't the "cute" type if you think about it shes more like guy shes tall , strong and also knows karate ... well in othe…
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