Yuri Anime “Whisper Me A Love Song” Releases New Key Visual

Aug 19

The official website for the “Whisper Me A Love Song” Yuri TV anime released a new key visual to tease the upcoming musical series. The romance anime is set to premiere in January 2024.

The anime stars Hana Shimano as “Himari Kino” and Asami Seto as “Yori Asanagi”. The promo video (below) previews the voice actresses as their characters.

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”. During the AnimeJapan 2023 panel, it was announced that Kana Sasakura will perform the singing scenes of "Yori Asanagi", and Sui Minakami will perform the singing scenes of "Shiho Izumi".

Based on the manga by Eku Takeshima, “Whisper Me a Love Song” (Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau) is being directed by Xin Ya Cai at studio Cloud Hearts with animation production supervision by Yokohama Animation Lab. This will be the studio’s second only project since it was formed. The series composition will be handled by Hiroki Uchida and character designs will be done by Minami Yoshida.

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…