Yuri Anime “Whisper Me A Love Song” Premiere Delayed Until April 2024

The official website for the “Whisper Me A Love Song” Yuri TV anime announced the delay of the premiere for the upcoming musical series. The romance anime premiere date was moved from January 2024 to April 2024.

In addition, the website released the first trailer and additional staff details for the Yuri anime. The promotional video previews the SSGIRLS band's "Humming Love" song.

According to the website, the anime was delayed “due to various circumstances” and the director was changed “due to health reasons”. Akira Mano is replacing Xin Ya Cai as the anime's director. Yokohama Animation Lab is now credited with production of the animation with Cloud Hearts. Hiroki Uchida is overseeing the series scripts, and Minami Yoshida is designing the characters. The art design is being handled by Risa Iraha with Sōshi Kuwashima as art director. The CG director is Keiichi Eda with Takahiro Kita as compositing director of photography. Sound direction is being handled by Fumiyuki Go and Nozomi Nakatani with music by Hiroshi Sasaki and Wataru Maeguchi.

Based on the manga by Eku Takeshima, “Whisper Me a Love Song” (Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau), the anime stars Hana Shimano as “Himari Kino” and Asami Seto as “Yori Asanagi”. In addition, the cast and characters include Mikako Komatsu as “Aki Mizuguchi”, Konomi Kohara as “Mari Tsutsui” Ai Kakuma as “Kaori Tachibana” and Yuna Nemoto as “Shiho Izumi”. The songs will be performed by artists Kana Sasakura (Yori Asanagi) and Sui Mizukami (Shiho Izumi).

Manga artist Eku Takeshima launched the manga in Ichijinsha's iconic Comic Yuri Hime magazine in 2019. The on-going series currently has 8 volumes. According to the publisher, the manga has 500,000 copies in circulation.

Kodansha USA is publishing the manga in English in print and digitally. There are currently 6 volumes released. Volume 7 is set to be released December 26, 2023.

Kodansha’s “Whisper Me A Love Song” Synopsis: Bubbly, energetic first-year high school student Himari falls head over heels for her senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori she just loves her, and, to Himari’s surprise, Yori says she loves Himari back! But when Himari realizes that she and her senpai are feeling two different kinds of love, she begins to ask herself what “love” really means…