Whisper Me a Love Song Yuri Anime's 1st Full Promo Video Announces New Director, More Staff, April Delay

The staff for the television anime of Eku Takeshima's Whisper Me a Love Song (Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau) manga debuted its first full promotional video on Friday. The video previews the SSGIRLS band's "Humming Love" song, and it also announces a new director, more staff members, and the anime's delay from January to April 2024.

Akira Mano (Ghost Hunt) is replacing Xin Ya Cai (episode director for Arte, assistant director for The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt) as the anime's director. Yokohama Animation Lab is now crediting with producing the animation with Cloud Hearts. (Previously, Cloud Hearts alone was credited with the animation production with "animation production supervision" by Yokohama Animation Lab.)

The newly announced staff members are:

• Sub-Character/Costume Design: Ryūnosuke Ōji
• Prop Design: Ayumi Nagaki, Misae Kawakubo
• Color Key Artist: Yuichi Furuichi
• Art Design: Risa Iraha
• Art Director: Sōshi Kuwashima
• CG Director: Keiichi Eda
• Compositing Director of Photography: Takahiro Kita
• Offline Editing: Yumi Jingūji
• Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go, Nozomi Nakatani
• Music: Hiroshi Sasaki, Wataru Maeguchi
• Artists: Kana Sasakura, Sui Mizukami (Yori Asanagi) (Shiho Izumi)

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The anime stars Hana Shimano as Himari Kino and Asami Seto as Yori Asanagi.

Other cast members include:

• Mikako Komatsu as Aki Mizuguchi
• Konomi Kohara as Mari Tsutsui
• Ai Kakuma as Kaori Tachibana
• Yuna Nemoto as Shiho Izumi

Hiroki Uchida (Requiem of the Rose King, The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest) is overseeing the series scripts, and Minami Yoshida (Mysteria Friends) is designing the characters.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga digitally and in print in English, and it describes the first volume:

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…

Takeshima launched the manga in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime magazine in 2019.

Source: Comic Natalie