Manga 118625 Sasayaku You Ni Koi Wo Utau

Whispering You a Love Song is an extremely sweet and adorable yuri manga, out of all the yuri series I've seen this is among the cutest and best of them all. Everything you'd want in a good and wholesome yuri is in this title.

The story is quite unique and executed very well. The bubbly kouhai in the relationship, Himari, has never quite had any romantic experience until she had met her senpai, the cool, tall and tomboyish Yori. She falls in "love" with her at first sight and seemingly confesses to Yori right on the spot, but it isn't quite the "love" we'd expect ... in a romance manga like this. So with that their relationship develops as Himari attempts to understand these complex emotions, what are these feelings of hers? The differences between the different types of love, it's a refreshing take on romance and is nice to see, until finally after seeking advice from her mother and friends about these feelings does she truly realize what these feelings of love for her senpai are, and yes, they are romantic.

The characters are all lovable for the most part so far, there is some drama mixed in but it isn't irritating and overwhelming to read through unlike many other romance manga as it feels more realistic. Of course the main attraction is the main couple of Himari and Yori. Their relationship is adorably sweet, to the point where it feels intoxicatingly so, the author is merciless as extreme cuteness is constantly delivered every single chapter. The manga is self aware of this as Yori-senpai embodies this feeling from the reader as she is overwhelmed by how damn cute her girlfriend Himari is, she is even frequently illustrated having dog ears and a tail as a means of showing that Himari has behavior similar to a little puppy as she follows around her beloved Yori-senpai. My heart was going crazy the entire time I was reading this, I was caught off guard by the level of wholesomeness this manga delivers. Outside of the main couple, the side characters are great as well as they act as wing women that support their friends in their endeavor of sweet love, and even have some romance going on among themselves as well.

The art is beautiful, it has great detail and portrays the story it is telling perfectly as the art is as cute as its characters. Some panels even feel cinematic with how breathtaking they are to view, and there isn't a single panel of art that feels overtly rushed or lazily drawn as they all look stunning. This is easily one of the best looking manga I've read through.

Overall I rate this yuri masterpiece a 10 and highly recommend it, this is a must read for fans of yuri and romance.

Writing this as of Ch. 31 (WARNING: Spoilers).

Art - 9/10, the strongest part of this manga. Sometimes the noses and mouths can look a little strange, but overall it's really high quality.

Story - 6/10. Honestly, this manga started off REALLY strong, but as it goes on it gets tedious. Kino is a complete airhead, which is apparent from the beginning, but she gets worse in later chapters. Much worse. She ends up becoming the manager of her girlfriend's rival band because she sticks her nose into business that's not hers because 'she wants her senpai to get along', but doesn't even care enough ABOUT her ... girlfriend to think about how she'd feel about it. She even then comes and boasts about her managerial activities to Yori, which only serves to exacerbate her jealousy, and Kino STILL never even thinks for a second that she's doing something wrong. She's honestly the worst type of character. To make things even more infuriating, Shiho, the main antagonist, hates Yori for no discernable reason, and refuses to just talk about what her issues are, and for some reason all the members of SS Girls (the 'hero band group') all want to know and even support Kino ignoring Yori's feelings to keep sticking her nose in and be Laureley's (the 'antagonist band group') manager.

Enjoyment - 4/10. As I mentioned, the story was very enjoyable in the beginning, but the way the story is at the stage of chapter 31, it's unbearable. I'm not averse to bittersweet themes or drama - one of my favourite manga is Yagate Kimi ni Naru - but this? This is just shallow drama for no reason aside from artificially inflating the manga's length.

Overall - 6/10. Read it if you like cliché tropes and shallow melodrama, but for the love of GOD you should avoid this if you like well thought-out storylines and purposeful drama with actual meaning and depth behind it.

First review fellas, you know the drill.

Whispering You a Love Song is a pretty unoriginal romance. It steals story elements from Bloom into You and character design from Oregairu, but unoriginality isn't always a bad thing. But in this case, it is.

spoiler warning for bloom into you.

Story: the story is just copy and paste from Bloom into You but without the depth and underlying meaning that bloom into you has. It uses the lack of understanding of love in BIY as a plot convenience rather than to tell a story. The way I see it, the only positive quality the story has is that ... it's cute, but it feels very forced so it doesn't ''hit'' me that way.

Characters: The characters are pretty lackluster and relatively cliche and feel very anime-esque. They don't seem like real people in the slightest even when you consider that it's anime. In other words, it feels forced.

art: art is decent can't complain.

Enjoyment: I did not enjoy this manga for the reasons stated above. It feels like this manga is only here to cash-grab on ''cute girls like each other'' rather than to tell a good story or do anything original.