Why doesn't anyone think the girl wearing glasses is Mashiro's rival? Look at the way she glared at Mashiro. And I think this character was added by the author with the aim of having an anime adaptation. The more dramas, the easier it is for manga to become popular, and the chances of having an anime also increase, right?
By the way, because of the first anime I watched, I didn't really like girls wearing glasses. Maybe I have to add one more character to my dislike list

They wouldn't even get this far with an anime adaption I don't think, they'd have to really rush it for a 12 episode season. I'm pretty sure the author is just looking for new ways to test the main couple

You mean old ways, but yeah I agree.

lol I just meant in terms of new chapters having another obstacle to overcome, but yeah we'll to see if the new girl has anything interesting to add...or if she'll only be a drag. I hope there's more to her than what's presented so far

Why doesn't anyone think the girl wearing glasses is Mashiro's rival? Look at the way she glared at Mashiro. And I think this character was added by the author with the aim of having an anime adaptation. The more dramas, the easier it is for manga to become popular, and the chances of having an anime also increase, right?
By the way, because of the first anime I watched, I didn't really like girls wearing glasses. Maybe I have to add one more character to my dislike list

They wouldn't even get this far with an anime adaption I don't think, they'd have to really rush it for a 12 episode season. I'm pretty sure the author is just looking for new ways to test the main couple

Unnamed Memory is stuffing 3 LNs worth of content into 12 episodes. Absolute madness.

But I think it's normal for an anime series to adapt 3-4 LN volumes in 12 eps, most series are like that.

I'm not sure about that, from what I saw people saying the adaption for Unnamed Memory cuts out a ton and ruins a lot of the build up, pacing, and so fourth. Where it's a genuinely bad adaption.

Also on that note I think Whispering's adaption even outside of the animation just doesn't handle the story well either.

I wonder why studios have to wait until the anime premieres to draw. For example, an anime that premieres in April is only drawn 2-3 eps in advance, then shows and draws the remaining eps at the same time. Why don't they draw it in advance from January, then just check it again, dub it, and show it in April?

Because with so many anime being made nowadays studios are booked years in advance and genuinely don't have enough time to finish animating the entire thing before episode 1 premieres. They are that busy.

Exceptions do exist though. My Next Life as a Villainess didn't get delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic because the studio managed to finish the entire season before it started airing.

Yeah there are certain anime that are completed in advance, but unfortunately I think time crunch is more common.

I don't know if it's on purpose or not, but I enjoy this for what it is. At this point, they'll go to the festival and somehow win a coupon for a weekend at a hot spring where they'll meet someone from a modeling agency who will be delighted by them and will rope them into a photoshoot that's accidentally themed around wedding or something.

I'm down for this, but we gotta get the Aquarium date in before the wedding photoshoot

sigh... so its really this type of arc, huh... sigh

No kidding. I thought the catalyst usually came when future couples were still on das fence.

Apparently, characters in these series aren't capable of learning something or progressing unless a new challenger suddenly pops out of a bush.

This style of drama would be so much better if everyone just had Duel Disks, and battled out their issues with card games

^lol yeah that's entirely possible

absolutely wild behavior, characters like her always break my suspension of disbelief because no real person would actually act like that, teenager or not (also why i cant get into "whispering you a love song")

I think Whispering's characters make sense when you have full context for them in the story, but fair enough and maybe that's just me. Major thing is the cast has various connections to each other in Whispering and more layers get revealed over time. So far this girl is just...a new character that nobody actually knows? She's just a stalker that popped up to harass the main couple.

I love to see the both of them happy <3

A quick stop before returning home, gotta have makeup sex before the night is over

^hands full of one girlfriend's titties, mouth full of the other girlfriend's tiddy, it's fine

yeah there´s been several animes with delays, quality issues, etc heck even the 2nd season of jujutsu kaisen had a lot of problems, but in all of my years watching anime i´ve never seen an adaptation crash and burn so bad, really sad that happened to sasakoi, considering how well the maho ako anime did despite the limited resources it had

Maho Ako was on my mind with this situation as well. Putting aside Maho Ako's low budget, differences between manga and anime, and so fourth, I saw people having fun with the anime adaption. I also saw people getting into the manga because they enjoyed the anime. So I'd consider that a success for the series overall. I haven't really seen much of that with Whispering's adaption, and it's unfortunate.

Yeah it's the goal to have people getting into the source material because of a good adaptation, but sometimes people will check the source material if an adaptation is downright awful.

Whispering You a Love Song has a bad adaptation but I've seen worse...even this season. Unnamed Memory is stuffing 3 LNs worth of content into 12 episodes. Absolute madness.
It's clear as day to everyone watching that the anime is just shitting the bed with adapting the story. But source material readers fill the discussion threads with "check out the LNs!" and I've been seeing a number of comments in the lightnovels subreddit saying they got into the LN because of the anime.
And it's very good story...for a het romance. Good enough to make people abandon the shit-show anime and switch over to the LN.

Unfortunately for Whispering You a Love Song, it's just a "normal" bad adaption and not truly awful. There's plenty of watchers that claim to not see issues with the anime.
So there's probably not too many new readers as a result. I recently reread the manga on Mangadex and there were almost zero recent comments for earlier chapters from new readers. Seems most new watchers won't be checking out the manga until after the anime finishes airing.

I've heard Unnamed Memory is very rushed with it's adaption of the story, but at least it's production doesn't seem to just be on fire. The previous Twitter link I posted says Whispering on June 8th and 15th will have recap episodes, so double recap back to back, and then we're getting episode 9 on the 22nd, episode 10 on the 29th, and then 11 and 12 are delayed until further notice. To me that's worse, but I don't think it needs to be a competition either as it's unfortunate for both series.

Adorable <3

Seems legit

yeah there´s been several animes with delays, quality issues, etc heck even the 2nd season of jujutsu kaisen had a lot of problems, but in all of my years watching anime i´ve never seen an adaptation crash and burn so bad, really sad that happened to sasakoi, considering how well the maho ako anime did despite the limited resources it had

Maho Ako was on my mind with this situation as well. Putting aside Maho Ako's low budget, differences between manga and anime, and so fourth, I saw people having fun with the anime adaption. I also saw people getting into the manga because they enjoyed the anime. So I'd consider that a success for the series overall. I haven't really seen much of that with Whispering's adaption, and it's unfortunate.

^It's fine Kiui can have two lmao

Wingman Mario here to help get the girls together

Warm & Soft

Kitty tasting

^Instead of resorting to evil she should kiss Kiui

I think this is supposed to be "next", due to the fluid trail.

That aside, looks like they both had fun, and both arts are very hot

Elf for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

I didn't think yuri anime could have that many issues/drama. I'm not really in the anime community but is this common in the industry?

The industry has various problems, last minute production schedules, crunch, and so fourth. The end of Zom 100 was delayed, the end of Wonder Egg Priority was delayed, with some others over the years of course. Another thing with series is sometimes we'll get maybe 1 recap episode to give a production a little more time. Of note though, Zom 100 at least early on was being talked about for various high quality animation scenes. Wonder Egg Priority despite it's story completely falling apart the animation was generally consistently good, and it had a small team from what I know. Both of those series pushed too hard with various ambitious elements. I think Whispering's adaption is one of the roughest I've seen in awhile, especially since it was never trying to be ambitious, and yet everything went wrong with it.

Here's a somewhat related question... is the manga industry also troublesome?

Honestly I don't think there's an industry that's free of issues, but yeah with manga there's various problems with crunch, sometimes editors not being the best fit for an author and their series, series getting cancelled, various other things. I think one of the biggest issues is the time schedule of weekly series, namely shonen manga, that get 20 pages a week, for years and with often very few breaks. Mangaka often have various health problems.

^Haha that's very possible

I wouldn’t call this a retread, Nagisa has long accepted her situation and found a relationship with Mashiro as a result of that, she’s secure and content with how things ended up accepted if. This is exploring Mashiro’s side this fine and dealing with old feelings of guilt that she never fully got over and will probably let her own thoughts and self doubt eat her up over time when dealing with random glasses girl

I thought they both dealt with this issue together, but maybe I'm remembering wrong. Regardless I think this could have been brought up in a better way in the story, as this new character feels ridiculous.

We already got a arc with Mashiro feeling guilty that Nagisa couldn't got to her choice of HS because of her, and Nagisa coming to terms with her current situation and now working towards a better Uni. Why even have this tangent?

This is ESPECIALLY the part that gets me, we already went through this and had story + character progression due to communication between them. The fact that there are new seeds of doubt planted about this by a random shitty person that approaches them on the street, it's genuinely baffling to me. I love this series, but I hope we move through this quickly because it's already an irritating direction for the story