It is kind of surprising how closely the characters, plot points and tropes of the two align. I've not read Whispering (yet?), but from the show so far they share tall black-haired senpai that falls in love, short redhead kouhai that does not fall in love but still wants to play along, and senpai has a classmate with a secret crush on her, and that classmate has a not-quite-friendly conversation about their rivalry with the kouhai. Though admittedly, Sayaka was a lot more dismissive of Yuu.
Then again, I guess a lot of those are common Yuri tropes that simply predate YagaKimi, and since that was kinda my entrance to the genre, that will obviously influence my perspective. I don't mind the use of tropes if they're well-implemented and fleshed-out enough. WYALS isn't as good as YagaKimi in that regard, but then again: what is...
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