8.5 out of 10 stars!
OMG it's so cute and short (and gay), I need more!

Keywords: manga, romance, school life, LGBT (wlw/shoujo ai), teenage

REVIEW
Whisper Me a Love Song is a story about a girl named Yori who fallen in love with her fans after the said fans meet her. Will it only ends as singer - fans relationship, or there will be more?

The artstyle is like usual shoujo manga, pretty and all. The scenes are quite fluid too, it doesn't feel awkward. And I like the story, it's simple, fluffy, and fun. It use the usual "misunderstanding" manga trope but it still cute to read. Good for a light read. Plus the gay panic main character showed is adorable lol.

Thank you Netgalley and Kodansha Comics for giving me the arc of this book in an exchange of honest review. I really like it and will probably read the whole series too!

Himari is a freshman in high school on her first day she sees Yori an upperclassman play guitar. She develops a schoolgirl crush on her. This story is an exploration of their growing friendship and what that crush means for them. It’s a very sweet tale of a crush and friendship.

It’s been years since I’ve read any yuri manga but I was drawn by the lovely art in the cover and man, I was not disappointed at all. I mean, yes, it can be cheesy at a times but that’s what I wanted to read right now.

Whisper me a love song basically tells us the story of two girls who fall in love the moment they see each other. Himari sees Yori-senpai sing live and she instantly falls in love with her voice.

Blunt (and cute) as she is, she confesses to Yori, and fortunately she likes her back. We see how their friends tease them and how they deal with this sudden crush on each other. I’m sure you can find this story in any RomCom, but I found it quite entertaining if I’m being honest. The art style is really cute and I do want to see what happens in the next volume!

Btw, I loved that Yori-senpai is a cat-lover too!

I absolutely love this story! Two girls who fall in love with each other in different ways. The cliffhanger had me hooked. I need to know what happens next. Can’t wait for volume 2.

I used to read a lot of shoujo-ai and yuri (girls’ love) manga back during my undergrad days. Most of the manga took place in school settings, focusing on the romantic relationships between (usually) teenage girls. From what I can recall, a few of them contained elements of the fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural subgenres (i.e., Puella Magi Madoka Magica). Sometime during the mid 2010s, I grew weary of girls’ love manga plainly set in schools. So initially, I was worried that I’d dislike Whisper Me a Love Song by Eku Takeshima. I heard good things about it, and I immediately requested it once I spotted it on NetGalley. I ended up both surprised and impressed after reading this manga in one sitting.

Whisper Me a Love Song is a story about figuring out what love is. Himari and Yori, the two female leads, don’t struggle with coming out. Their friends already know. Instead, Himari and Yori both question their feelings for each other: is it a crush? Are they really in love? Are they interested in a long-term relationship, or will the flame go out soon? Personally, I’m taken back to my high school days, a time where I had yet to learn about my feelings of attraction and intimacy. The manga expresses those feelings and questions with careful subtlety.

After seeing the band singer Yori performing on stage, Himari falls in love at first sight. When she meets Yori in person, Himari professes her love. Of course, this leads to awkward moments and confusion. Himari’s simplistic and naive perspective of love is challenged, and she learns from her friends and Yori what it means to be in a romantic relationship.

This first volume is a gorgeous start to a promising series.

Thanks, NetGalley, for allowing me to read and review this title. Whisper Me a Love Song by Eku Takeshima is now available. The second volume comes out on December 22 (bookshop link not available.)

I read and received this book for free through the publisher and NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Whisper Me A Love Song is about a first-year high school student named Himari who is in awe from watching a third-year student named Yori perform in a band on her first day of high school. Striking up the courage, Himari addresses to Yori how she admires her and believes it to be love at "first sight". After hearing this, Yori’s response is the same. Or is it really? This manga explores how love can be defined differently between the two characters.

This is an introduction for readers who are interested in Japanese manga, especially yuri which is GL (Girl Love). As this manga is adorable and has a wonderful art style / character design, I do not find myself re-reading it. The manga did not grab my attention as much as I thought it would for the first volume. I wasn’t too attached to the characters in particular. As the first volume is an introduction to the characters and the plot, I didn't really get a sense of who the characters were in terms of personalities and traits as I was reading it. If anything, I would’ve like more interactions, whether they be friendly or romantic, between the two characters to be developed rather than a confession to happen right away. The characters would be better defined in this case. Himari was definitely infatuated with Yori, which was understandable. But it was a little too much for me reading about how she spoke about Yori most of the time with her friends, leaving me with little interest to root for her. I was honestly interested in rooting for Yori developing her love for music. There have been awkward interactions between Himari and Yori and I wasn’t too engaged with what was happening. The interactions tended to drag the first volume a bit. Overall, this is a cute and cheesy high school romance that does have the potential to mature the characters in future volumes.

Whisper Me a Love Song was surprising, the ending of the first book has left me very much wanting to read what happens between Yori and Himari, yet when I started I will admit I was somewhat dismissive of this story.

Don’t misunderstand, this manga begins as a cute story and I very much wanted cute when I requested this for review (thank you Netgalley). I wasn’t expecting there to be a heartstring-tug though. Himari is the adorable first year who falls for Yori at opening day concert. She later sees Yori and tells her she “just loves her”.

From here we have Himari, full of adoration for Yori and Yori who is unsure, because she likes, maybe even loves Himari – but romantically not in the way Himari sees her. The first volume sets the characters and story up, leaving you with a last chapter that has you wanting the next book to find out how this continues.

Also, the artwork is adorable. :)

This tale of miscommunication and naivety is absolutely fantastic.
Giving me the same butterflies reading YA books, and watching romance animes in my youth did. I found myself giggling nervously as I took in this story.
I am incredibly intrigued to continue reading this manga as it goes forward. Also browsing the all so common ads at the end of a manga, I was given the realization that I am missing out on distinctly queer manga. So I have so much gratitude to Eku Takeshima for bringing me back to something I used to love pasionately.

I loved this manga so much! It had excellent pacing, and I loved the idea of a misunderstood “love at first sight” scenario! The art style was perfect, and the characters were very easy to love. I also found it interesting how the typical scenario of an underclassman hopelessly in love with a interested-in-a-different-way was reversed! I cannot wait for the next volume, I am absolutely hooked!

I’d like to take a moment to thank the publishers and netgalley for a free copy in exchange of an honest review!

Holy cow! This was adorable!
It’s really nice to see a manga about lgbt stories that isn’t hyper sexualised or rapey. The only problem I have with it is that it seems a little bit like queer baiting in some instances. I can’t tell if the other main character is just really oblivious or kinda mean?

I really like the development and how her friends didn’t question that she likes girls. A few throw away comments left me uncomfortable but I feel this may more be a reflection of attitudes in Japan about lgbt people versus trying to be nasty.

Overall a super cute manga with lovely artwork and nice development. I’d definitely pick up the next volume!

I really really enjoyed this manga. I couldn't get enough of these two girls. One of my favorite things about this manga is that it doesn't automatically assume that they are straight. The questioning being done in this book is whether they like each other, not whether they even like girls, if that makes sense.

I'm really excited to see where this manga is going to go and I just need the next volume in my hands TODAY!!!! I can't wait. This was just so cute and I need more.

So I want to start out by saying I am not usually manga as I tend to find a lot of it degrading to woman but I do love saphic romance so I decided yo give this manga a try. I am do happy I did! Both characters were so cute bumbling around each other. The art was also so cute! Plus being told multiple times by a cute girl that she is into and still wonder is so on brand for us lesbians! I really did just love this whole thing over all and I can't wait for the next one.

This was such a blast to read! The characters were so cute, so story was so cute, just all around cuteness and a really fun read! NEED to get my hands on vol 2

I read this manga volume in one sitting and I’m completely obsessed with it. I don’t have many coherent thoughts, but I’ll do my best. First of all, the art style is beautiful. I seriously took so many screenshots for me to look at lovingly every single day, that I don’t even know. It’s just so cute!

Second of all: Himari, I understand you. I am completely, utterly, wholeheartedly in love with Yori Asanagi. I have to say that, as someone who is a fan of Bang Dream! Girls Band Party, lesbians in a band is my jam, and this completely honors the trope. It’s all just so wholesome, and it’s just fun to read!

And, as a lesbian, their reactions and comments are just... so accurate and pure. Yori’s comments about how she suddenly understands what’s the sugar mommy hype is all about? I feel that. I’ve said things that are very similar to that. I’d spend hours rambling about it if I could (I’ve already spent approximately 45 minutes giggling to myself, minutes which may or may not be included in the time I spent reading the whole thing), but then again, it won’t be more coherent than loud screaming, keysmashes and emojis, so I’m going to consider this review done by now.

Just another detail that I felt fit more the end than another part of this review: I’m going crazy to read the rest of that. Hopefully, they’ll be available at Netgalley too, because I want to support the heck out of this author and this manga, so piracy is definitely a no! Soooo, since I’ll post this review there and on Goodreads, this will be my daily begging because I’m a broke lesbian who wants to get wholesome content. Please.

In absolutly lover thuis book. In couldn't stop smiling the whole time and i can't wait for the second book to come out in english.

Kino sees Yori sing with a band and immediately falls in love with her. As a fan though. She then confesses her feelings to Yori right away and to Kino's surprise Yori answers that she too has fallen in love with Kino at first sight. Romantically though. Will these two find their way to each other?
This was so cute I can't even! Nothing ground breaking or anything, but just perfect in its own right. The characters were adorable and it's so fun to root for them. The side characters were pretty great. I loved how Yori's friends were just so cool with the fact that Yori is in love with a girl, like that is never an issue at any point, everyone is so supportive. There were good moments of humor here and there that made me chuckle. The arstyle is nice and cute, no over the top fan service. I had such a good time reading this! Wish I had volume two right now.
Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was so cute and fun to read! I finished it so quickly. The friendships, misunderstandings and relationships were all good. An added advantage was that the secondary characters are equally amazing as the main characters.

Looking forward eagerly to know how the story progresses in Volume 2.

Thank You to NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for this ARC!

Quick Thoughts:

-This was adorable, complete fluff, and all-around feel-good.
-I believe that this is the first yuri manga that I have read and it was a great introduction to the genre.
-While this was really fun to read it never really caught my attention. This is usually the kind of book I breeze through in one or two sittings right after I got it but with this book, it took me longer to get through.
- There is nothing I have any serious criticisms about for this book but there was nothing that really grabbed me and make me want to pick up the next volume.
-I'm sure that there are others who will get more out of this than me and I think that they will love this book.

While reading Whisper Me a Love Song, I was immediately struck by the charming art-style. Each panel is detailed and there is no shortage of cuteness. The characters are exaggerated but well-proportioned, which is sometimes a rarity for manga. Overall each of the characters is distinctive and well-drawn which I appreciate. Himari is a high school girl. She is earnest, sweet, and enthusiastically supportive of Yori, who is a talented singer. I don’t particularly find Himari or her situation relatable, but she’s a fun character root for. Yori is edgy and cool. I definitely like her character as a foil to Himari.
While I’m not really familiar with the yuri genre, I will say that this story is exactly what I expected: endearing and has lots of fan service. I definitely think that if you are a fan of the genre or just romance generally then you will probably enjoy this story. My only gripe is that with any musical-themed manga, I wish I could hear the music, but I guess we all have to wait for the anime now. To paraphrase: this manga is going to “make you fall in love so hard. So you better brace yourself.”

This has so far been my favourite yuri manga I ever read. Okay, I think I read three, but this one is super cute. I enjoyed that it's such a slow burn and the girls are giving time to truly understand their feelings for each other. I also just always enjoy a music story and that part is very well done too.

I think this is a great read for everyone who already enjoys the genre but also people wanting to check it out, because it's so soft and lacks the sexual undertones that I often find very off-putting.