By: Fernando RamosSeries Premiere: October 7, 2009Director: Eiji SuganumaAnimation Production: AICStory“Why can’t girls love each other?” innocently asks Ushio Kazama over some lunch. Unbeknownst to her however, her dear friend Sumika Murasame is deeply in love with her. The problem? Kazama only likes “Cute” girls and Murasame, with her athletic frame and lady-like air, just doesn’t qualify. Murasame, in her quiet despair, can only look on as Kazama keeps getting her heart broken by girl after hopeless girl. Can Murasama make Kazama come around to seeing what’s right in front of her?ImpressionsAsk yourself one question: “Do I like lesbian melodrama?” If the answer is yes, then Sasameki Koto (Whispered Words to you Anglophones) will be a godsend. Lacking any of the pussy-footing (no pun intended) of other yuri-fodder fare, Sasameki is boisterously here, queer and we better get used to it. Where most series play this sort of material for laughs or titillation, this insists on remaining a classy and low-key affair about its predominantly Sapphic cast.