Review of Whisper Me a Love Song

?Contrary to the title and all the descriptions, this story is not about the love of two girls, not about a school group and not even about her conflict with her rivals. In fact, almost the entire plot consists of the problems of minor characters and incredible efforts of the main character to solve them to the detriment of the theme, which was still stated as the main one. So there's no love here? If Himari fell in love not with Yori but with her songs, and the last episode ended very stupidly, then the answer is obvious. It's all very naive, ridiculous and more likesome fanfic from an equally naive schoolgirl. As a result, there is only one full-fledged couple (and the authors nailed it to such an extent that not every viewer will notice these relationships at all, and the names are unlikely to remember), and all the others are either playing in the kindergarten, or busy with some bullshit and conflicts.

What else isn't there? That's right, music! A few songs at a couple concerts don't count, because the girls have other things to do. So if you want to see the formation of a band, the agony of creativity and the squabbles for leadership, then this is not the place for you, but any really musical anime, even if it's about aidols.

Is the manga better? Not a masterpiece, personally I was bored, but the anime is worse in any case, because some of the events in it were swapped, and a lot of important material about Himari and Yori was thrown out in order to save on complicated scenes and have time to finish all the minor lines. Of course, someone will say that your expectations are your problems, but what if the problem is not a bad adaptation or even a cliched title, but simply that such a story is not interesting in itself? Moreover, in the genres it is absolutely honestly written that this is a drama, not music and romance, so don't fall for cute girls, you won't see any cute things.

Aside from the plot, there are some really big problems with the graphics here. I honestly hoped that in the past six months since the release of the last series the authors would have enough time to at least draw the ending properly. The miracle was enough for half of the eleventh episode, when the visuals were not much to complain about. Now I'll write about the finale, but fundamentally everything is the same in the rest of the episodes.

So, then there was a slideshow about the school festival, close-up of faces (in order to draw less backgrounds and everything else) and static pictures that move on the screen, so that it didn't look shitty at all. In general, everything is just like in the previous episodes. And judging by the credits, it was drawn not even by Koreans, but by Chinese and Vietnamese for a bowl of grasshoppers, so the graphics in most scenes is very cheap. Yes, outright shoddiness was not always, but to match the budget here and directing — with primitive staging of scenes in shabby interiors of ordinary Japanese school. Considering all the plot problems of the manga, there's no joy in watching all this in the anime as well.

I've already written in the comments what would have been the best way to end it — a summer festival (which we were not shown at all, so as not to draw new locations, girls in yukatas and fireworks) with the consolidation of a full-fledged relationship between Himari and Yori. Then close the questions about the other girls, and that's it, happy ending, everyone is happy. But the result was a mess: these two episodes were spent on the completion of minor controversies, and Himari and Yori, in fact, only held hands — they (as a couple) were practically not on the screen.

Oh, and I remembered the kindergarten thing for a reason. What was that laughter at the very end of the last episode for? Do something serious and mature! No one will even draw hentai art for you. Neither by hand nor by neural net.

5/10.