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[daily-yuri]

Whisper Me a Love Song by Takeshima Eku (translated by Kevin Steinbach)

[oratokyosaigunda]

Sasayaku You ni Koi o Utau promo art

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WYALS CH. 43 - OH MY FREAKING GOD PEOPLE?!?!?!

WE FREAKING WON!

WAKE UP NEW AKISHIHO JUST DROPPED

AM I STILL ALIVE? HOLY MOLY

[lilium-dragomir]

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SEASON 4 ROUND 3

NOTE: Whisper Me a Love Song contains suggestive scenes and depictions of unreciprocated incestuous feelings. The Princess of Sylph depicts mildly graphic violence and bloody injury, sexual assault, and disordered eating.

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Sasayaku youni Koi wo Utau Vol.10 (Special Edition)

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WHISPER ME A LOVE SONG VOLUME 1

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Watanare 5

Author: Teren Mikami

Illustrator: Eku Takeshima

Label:  Dash Ex Bunko

Release Date: 24 February 2023

My Score: 2/5

English Release: This series is currently being published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment under the the title of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless... so please pick it up if the series interests you.

At the end of last volume, Renako made a choice: she would date both Mai and Ajisai and make them both happy. The volume ended with a cliffhanger with Satsuki messaging Renako and asking to date her too. At the start of this volume, Satsuki confronts Renako who has been avoiding her. Satsuki tries to convince Renako to take on a third girlfriend but when Renako asks Satsuki if she’s seriously in love with her, Satsuki passes things off as a joke. Meanwhile, the new throuple is going strong with Mai and Ajisai satisfied with how things have ended up but Renako’s just not confident that she can make the two loves of her life happy. And the third plot of this volume begins when the Queentet (that is, Mai, Ajisai, Satsuki, Kaho, and Renako) are challenged by a group calling themselves the 5(Go)dèsse. The showdown will decide who are the popular girls in the school and will take place during the upcoming sports carnival.

First of all, let me say one thing: this volume is way too long. It clocks in at 488 pages. For comparison with some of my recent reads, Sword Oratoria 13 was 376 pages and YouZitsu 10 was 328 pages. The only volume I’ve read recently that surpasses this one in page length is Danmachi 18 which is 640 pages which is more excusable seeing as it’s a fantasy, the climax of an arc, and was written by an author with an excellent sense of pacing. Watanare has none of those excuses and this volume was such a slog to get through as a result. I would never feel like picking it up because I knew that the chapters would take me forever to get through. If the plot was more interesting, this wouldn’t have been as much of a problem, but so much of this volume was bogged down by subplots and random scenes. For example, there’s a subplot where Mai’s servant disapproves of Renako and believes her to be unworthy. This is an unnecessary subplot that becomes very annoying once there’s a random scene where the servant baths Renako and gives her an erotically charged massage to “prepare” her for her date with Mai. It was so uncomfortable and did not need to be here. The subplot does have some payoff as it’s referenced in the cliffhanger set up for volume 6 but that scene made me so uncomfortable and made me remember why I never really liked this series.

As for the main plots, Satsuki’s storyline doesn’t get a resolution here and didn’t get nearly as much focus as I thought it would. There were several times in the volume that I forgot that it was even a thing that was going on because she just didn’t appear much. It does seem like she will be a focus in volumes 6 & 7 but I was disappointed in her plotline here. Otherwise, so much of this volume is just Renako training for the sports carnival and scenes of her practicing basketball. The sports carnival subplot also introduces so many new characters at once and I could not keep track of all of their names. It was good to see Renako giving her all for the sake of her girls but it got real repetitive and boring. Her scenes with Mai and Ajisai were cute and I’m happy for polyamory representation but I couldn’t bring myself to really care about them. Also, we are 5 volumes into this series and Renako is dating two girls and she still insists that she’s not attracted to girls!!! This is so annoying!!! I’m guessing this might get addressed as some internalised homophobia in future volumes but it’s still super annoying in the mean time.

Overall, I was really disappointed in this volume. I remember really enjoying volume 4 and I think I just forgot about how boring and uncomfortable this series can be. I don’t think I’m going to read volume 6 as I was kinda satisfied with how this volume ended and I don’t feel like I want or need to read more.

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Lenni Reviews: "There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless..." Vol. 1, by Musshu, Mikami Teren & Eku Takeshima 

(Image Source) *This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review. After dealing with loneliness in middle school, Amaori Renako is ready to reinvent herself for high school. Hoping to be one of the cool kids, Renako has put herself under a ton of pressure and when she goes to the roof to destress, she meets popular girl Oduka Mai and they become friends. Renako enjoys their friendship…

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Primeiras impressões: Whisper Me a Love Song, o yuri que fará seu coração cantar

O que é o amor? Esteja de coração aberto para descobrir em 'Whisper Me a Love Song', onde amor e música se encontram:

Abril está trazendo mais e mais novidades! Uma delas é o mais novo e fofo yuri, Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau ou, em inglês, Whisper Me a Love Song. O anime é uma adaptação do mangá de Eku Takeshima e está sendo lançado desde o dia 13 deste mês, isto é, semanalmente aos sábados. Mas o que podemos esperar desse Girl’s Love (GL)? Vem que a gente te conta! Antes de nos aprofundar em mais detalhes do…

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Yuri Anime 'Whisper Me a Love Song' Announce April 13 Debut; HIDIVE to Simulcast

Last Friday, an announcement posted to the official website for the upcoming television anime adaptation of Eku Takeshima's Whisper Me a Love Song (Sasayaku You ni Koi o Utau) revealed that the series will premiere on April 13. Additionally, on Wednesday, Sentai Filmworks announced that it has licensed the anime and will stream the anime internationally on HIDIVE.

Whisper Me a Love Song follows first-year high school student Himari Kino, who, at a welcome ceremony, witnesses Yori Asanagi singing and instantly falls in "love." She immediately confesses her admiration to Yori, who misinterprets Himari's feelings as romantic. However, once she realizes her mistake, Yori swears that she will make Himari fall for her for real.

The release date announcement also included a new key visual (above) and information about the opening and ending themes. Whisper Me A Love Song's opening theme, "Follow your arrows," is performed by the fictional band SSGIRLS from the anime and sung by Kana Sasakura, who provides the singing voice for main character Yori Asanagi.

Sentai Filmworks will simulcast the anime exclusively on HIDIVE in North America, Australia, the the British Isles. The North American premiere will be screened at Anime Boston 2024 on March 29.

The anime, which was delayed from its initially announced January premiere, is directed by Akira Mano at Cloud Hearts and Yokohama Animation Laboratory. Mano replaced the initially announced director, Xin Ya Cai, due to "health reasons." Character designer Minami Yoshida and script supervisor Hiroki Uchida join Mano.

The anime stars Hana Shimano as Himari Kino and Asami Seto as Yori Asanagi. Additional cast includes:

Konomi Kohara as Mari Tsutsui

Mikako Komatsu as Aki Mizuguchi

Ai Kakuma as Kaori Tachibana

Yuna Nemoto as Shiho Izumi

Reina Ueda as Momoka Satomiya

Chika Anzai as Hajime Amasawa

Aoi Koga as Miki Mizuguchi

Ichijinsha serializes the original manga in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime. Kodansha USA publishes the manga in English and will release the eighth volume on March 26.

Sources: Official Anime Website, HIDIVE Press Release

[daily-yuri]

Whisper Me a Love Song by Takeshima Eku (translated by Kevin Steinbach)

[oratokyosaigunda]

Sasayaku You ni Koi o Utau promo art

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WYALS - Volume 8 (JP) and Chapter 43

AHH I KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO BE ON COVER😭😭 FINALLY

They look so good help🥹🥹 And they have the obi for the anime's first visual teaser☺️

We're eating good this month, a chapter plus volume release (which doesn't collide often) meaning we'll also get a bonus chapter (from the volume)😌

So excited for the continuation from chapter 42😳! GO GET UR GIRL AKI *feral fangirling

About the Cover

Girl what's that you holding? A white ribbon? Google told me it symbolizes peace; but they're also commonly associated with support for people who self-harm, Holocaust awareness, adoption, and victims of terrorism and other violence. . . Well, that's a lot.

But Shiho isn't holding onto the other end😭

Quite the callback to chapter 39 where Shiho finally gave up on the status quo between them and confessed the truth.

"To each their own feelings", indeed! Both sides are valid for feeling the way they are (albeit the process in between might have been a bit too much and unfair to Aki👀)

Dang, Shiho looks so heartless and empty while cutting the ribbon (as if she never realized just the next chapter that she still liked Aki lmao)

But I guess that's the point? Even as she still forced herself to "finally" move on and convince herself that she no longer has any feelings for Aki BUT SHE'S STILL THERE, INCHES AWAY, SO CLOSE YET SO FAR BECAUSE SHE STILL CAN'T GIVE HER FEELINGS UP

Aki's visibly overwhelmed, the only one evidently holding onto their relationship now—the only one still believing they can mend what they have left.

It's kinda a nice comparison to Volume 2 tho, and their themes as both shades of blue😳

Volume 2 had YoriHima's depiction of a troubled path to their blooming romance.

I guess Volume 8 will also have that tho AkiShiho's depiction will be more heavy (DID I MENTION THE AMOUNT OF ANGST WITH THESE TWO)

I hope Volume 9 will have them remain on the cover but this time on a happy note🥺

[lilium-dragomir]

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CHAMPIONS BRACKET ROUND 2: B1

Whisper Me a Love Song is about a girl telling a singer she loves her voice, causing a misunderstanding. The Princess of Sylph is a fantasy series following a nun who is the only one who recognises how troubled the nation's self-destructive princess is.