YMMV / Whispered Words

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Kiyori's anime-incarnation makes a big splash with her dry "wha-ha-ha" laugh.
• Fan Nickname: Hachi for Tomoe
• Moe: Sumika wonders how she could invoke this trope to appeal to Ushio.
  • Lotte out-moes them all. "German beauties are not to be trifled with!" Indeed, Sumika...
• The Scrappy: Poor Akemiya, who as the lone guy in a yuri show doesn't get much love from the fans.
• Special Effect Failure: The picture Noe-san uses in the anime when she likes to joke about how long she takes care of Sumika. She needs to know about Photoshop.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: A Ke Mi Ya Ma Sa Ki indeed sounds like the Nebelwerfer Hunt music of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Actually the aforementioned cauitously calm soundtrack fits into the mission quite well.
• The Woobie: You wouldn't think an Action Girl like Sumika could garner such a status, but it's hard not to feel sorry for her when Ushio blithely crushes her in the middle of their moments. Azusa and Akemiya both have moments where you feel really bad for them too, but that may not be to the strict letter of the trope.
  • Later Ushio becomes immensely woobie-fied herself, when it is revealed through flashbacks just why she keeps Sumika at bay.
  • Azusa gets one as well: "Was I...in the way?" She bounces back pretty quickly though.

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