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ささめきこと [Sasameki Koto] #4-6
Whispered Words Volume 2
Sumika and Ushio are best friends. Athletic Sumika has a secret that she cannot confess--she's in love with Ushio, who only loves girly girls, or so it seems. Ushio and Sumika continue their lovesick woes in the second installment and many Whispered Words remain unspoken.
456 pages, Paperback
Published November 18, 2014
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April 30, 2022
I didn't enjoy this as much as volume 1; too much miscellaneous other stuff distracted from the main story. The dynamic between Sumika Murasame and Ushio Kazama is troubled in this volume which also makes it more uncomfortable.
One last gripe: there were two completely irrelevant side stories included at the end. Why!? They add nothing and are not particularly good. I've seen other manga series do this and it detracts from the quality of the production.
The final volume is next.
One last gripe: there were two completely irrelevant side stories included at the end. Why!? They add nothing and are not particularly good. I've seen other manga series do this and it detracts from the quality of the production.
The final volume is next.
January 13, 2016
I like this series (despite the grammar errors, which for some reason picked up as this volume got toward the end), but good gods do I want to shake the characters and tell them to just confess their feelings already. What is the deal with these stories where nobody is ever willing to be honest and express their love to the person they're pining after?
January 17, 2025
This is really enjoyable, a lot of very human emotions and action, it does a lot of fine details well. What the author has chosen to focus most of the volumes on is good, this slice-of-life setting with a pretty low amount of melodrama is their strong suit. I'd like to point out a chapter in the back half This work deals so heavily with presence and absence, and the details are great. People are physically present, or mentally present, they may be emotionally preoccupied, they may be avoiding other characters. The small variations each panel and chapter makes this feel like a deepening of feeling rather than a repetition.
As with the first volume, I felt a couple secondary characters made the larger work off-kilter. I liked both, they worked well with the cast, but they're either in a volume as almost a main character, or almost totally absent. I don't know if this is because of the original publishing format, certain things having very episodic presences. But this can feel like a coherent, smooth story that has an unlabeled one-shot in the middle. The romance and social chemistry is the biggest between the mains, but Akemiya I think has the best queer story. The disconnect make it less than what it has to work with as a queer/lesbian romance, a community or identity and then a genre.
As with the first volume, I felt a couple secondary characters made the larger work off-kilter. I liked both, they worked well with the cast, but they're either in a volume as almost a main character, or almost totally absent. I don't know if this is because of the original publishing format, certain things having very episodic presences. But this can feel like a coherent, smooth story that has an unlabeled one-shot in the middle. The romance and social chemistry is the biggest between the mains, but Akemiya I think has the best queer story. The disconnect make it less than what it has to work with as a queer/lesbian romance, a community or identity and then a genre.
August 4, 2023
While I feel like this installment suffered somewhat from pacing issues, I still enjoyed it a lot. This really is a cute, heartwarming little story about our two main characters falling in love and coming to terms with their feelings for one another, but it's a lot of fun besides that with an entire wild cast of other characters who keep things lively! Really enjoying this, and I can't wait to read the last omnibus soon!
May 28, 2019
Very cute! I really liked these characters and were completely engaged in their story. I know I’ve loved a story when I want more once I’ve finished. That being said, I was sorta thrown off by the ending, but after rereading the ending a few times I am satisfied.
Would love to see an anime or live action adaptation!
Would love to see an anime or live action adaptation!
September 15, 2017
I still love Lottie but there isn't much of her in this one. But still enjoying this story.
November 11, 2022
Cool sequel.
I like this Yuri comic series. Fun read with cool moments. Interesting and wacky characters. I love the karate training parts.
I like this Yuri comic series. Fun read with cool moments. Interesting and wacky characters. I love the karate training parts.
November 25, 2022
The one-shot was a very random addition, I think, but I actually really liked all the development that we found in this volume!!
April 28, 2024
Biggest takeaway: love can be such a turbulent experience 😅😅
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June 1, 2016
After finishing the first volume, I had to know if Sumika and Ushio would confess to each other! I don't normally torture myself with something this romantic, but now I'm invested in the story and have to know. With Sumika's words hanging over them, the pair alternates between happy friendship and anxious tension throughout the book. The pace continued to be easy and enjoyable in an everyday manner that moved the story well, until we got into another development that changed the paradigm for the pair again. I really should know better than to complain about a book titled "Whispered Words," with emphasis on those words being left unsaid to the concerning party, but seriously, the resolution could not have been set up more perfectly by the end. Ushio continues to annoy me, because really this book is more about her, as Volume 1 was about Sumika, and she really has the ball in her court the whole time to take action honestly, which she never does. I hope I can track down a copy of vol.3 soon, because otherwise the infuriating end to this volume with stick in the back of my head until then.
March 29, 2017
The second volume of this yuri manga really blew me away. While the first felt like it was all over the place, this one put so much focus on Murasame and Kazama's relationship that I could feel the tingles the two got, the anxiety, the misunderstandings, and the (temporary) relief of their feelings. Lots of feelings in this volume. Can't wait to finish in the next volume!
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January 13, 2016
4.5
Wish it hadn't just ended so abruptly but otherwise I really liked this one :)
Wish it hadn't just ended so abruptly but otherwise I really liked this one :)
January 12, 2015
Beautiful story! I can't wait to read the next installment!
October 24, 2015
So cute!! I really like how the two friends finally realized the other liked them back.
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January 6, 2016this is the most beautiful, softly developing yuri. I love it.
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