Sasameki Koto

Sasameki Koto (Whispered Words) is a short anime with only 13 episodes but it’s very wholesome and kind of relatable at times. The storyline shows the main characters have unrequited crushes and how they learn to deal with their feelings, but these crushes do change a bit throughout the anime which is relatable because “young love” is always changing. Also, as the story progresses the main characters slowly become friends with the other girls and they form a little group as well as a Girls Club. During their time together, they go on chaotic adventures and have fun times with one another. ... Also, the ending is very wholesome!

Other details:
- Simple art style and colours which suit this anime
- The opening and ending credits have lovely songs and relaxing animation
- Overall music in the anime is very relaxing to listen to
- The visuals throughout the anime are very nice, they could make for some nice backgrounds

Sasameki Koto definitely was a hell of a slog to finish. The show was so slowly and poorly paced, and it's not hard to see why. A mere chapter was adapted per episode, and when you compare the manga to the anime, you can see various embellishments and utter useless scenes being put in the anime to have a frustratingly slow paced show whose sole purpose of being slow paced was to make sure the animators needed to animate as little as possible.
Unfortunately, Sasameki Koto suffers more than just poor pacing. I actually kind of enjoy the main cast of characters in the Girls club. ... Tomoe, Kiyori, and Tamae are fun additions to the story, but the other side characters are superfluous and fail to make an impact on the story other than pitiful attempts of drama and comic relief.
I assume that Sasameki Koto is more of a romance and slice of life show than a slapstick comedy show, yet why is it that it borrows so much from the latter? For a show to be all about unrequited love with Sumika hopelessly in love with Ushio and the story making a big deal about it, why is it that Akemiya, who is in the same situation, being trivialized as comic relief for the show? Sumika and Akemiya are both in the same boat, yet the show does not really care about Akemiya at all other than for him to make a fool of himself as a crossdresser and being pushed around by Sumika, who also is uncaring and lacks empathy for his situation.
The same can be said about Aoi, who is a complete waste of space and time in the story. Her introduction into the story can be said to be unnecessary, and only brought it because it accelerates the plot and brings in a level of jealousy for Ushio. Her conflict is barely relevant to the plot, and you really wonder why she ever got introduced in the story to begin with.
As for Sumika herself, she too, acts like an idiot half the time. Remember what I said about slapstick comedies? Sometimes, Sumika acts like a lovestruck idiot that goes beyond being infatuated with Ushio for the sake of "comedy" but all it does is make me lose any interest in her as a character since the show tries to portray her unrequited love as a painful thing, yet also tries to create low-level humor out of it as well.
With all my complaints, I'm probably still going to read it later, just because I am a bit curious as to what happens. As for the quality of the show? Not great. I think that the yuri theme of the story fits a decent bit, but at the same time, there's not too much involvement with the seriousness of that particular theme, but the show doesn't tokenize the characters and doesn't try to milk the genre, so you got that going for it.

Extremely boring, uneventful and slow paced. I nearly fell asleep. I'm surprised I finished it. If you're looking for random school activities with subtle Yuri hints, this is the one for you. The main characters don't do or say anything interesting, physical or otherwise. Everything else is extremely censored and just with vague hints. I this doesn't even qualify as Yuri anime apart from the protagonist' unrequited feelings. Might only be interesting if you're 13-14 and there's something relatable in the content for you at how difficult it is to process things.

The characters are themselves pretty dull and with nothing extraordinary. I assume this is ... the whole point of "slice of life" but I've never watched a slice of life show that was so sleep inducing, especially under the Yuri tag.