2 compilation episodes will air on June 8 and 15 instead of episodes 9 and 10.
Image via Whisper Me a Love Song anime website
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The official website for the television anime Whisper Me a Love Song (Sasayaku) by Eku Takeshima manga yō ni Koi wo Utau) announced on Sunday that the remaining episodes have been delayed by at least two weeks due to production problems. . The anime will air two special compilation episodes—“Prelude” covering the first two episodes and “Interlude” covering episodes 3 through 6—on June 8 and June 15. The first new episodes, 9 and episode 10, will air on June 22 and 29.
Additionally, HIDIVE announced on Saturday that the streaming of episode 8 has been delayed until 10:30 p.m. later in the day. EDT.
The anime's website will announce the broadcast schedule for episodes 11 and 12 once decided.
The anime premiered on April 13 in TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block after a previous delay.
Anime stars:
As previously announced, Akira Mano (Ghost Hunt) replaced Xin Ya Cai (episode director of Arte, assistant director on The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt) as the anime director. Yokohama Animation Lab is currently credited as an animation producer on Cloud Hearts. Previously, Cloud Hearts alone was tasked with animation production with “animation production supervision” from Yokohama Animation Lab. Hiroki Uchida (Requiem of the Rose King, The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest) is supervising the script and Minami Yoshida (Mysteria Friends) is designing the characters. Hiroshi Sasaki and Wataru Maeguchi are composing the music. Hana Shimano performed the ending theme song “Gifty”.
HIDIVE is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the manga digitally and in print in English, and it describes the first volume:
Himari, an energetic, bubbly first-year high school student, falls in love with her senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori that she only loves her, and to Himari's surprise, Yori says that she loves Himari too! But when Himari realizes that she and her senpai have 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.
Update: TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block has scheduled another anime, How to Become Ordinary (Shōshimin Series), to premiere in July.
Source: Whisper Me a Love Song anime website, HIDIVE's X/Twitter account
