As a yuri-con, I absolutely watch Sasameki Koto. Comments said that the first episode was kind of deceptive, the subsequent chapters were lighthearted and comical. So I got to resd the manga, learning Japanese by the way.
It seems like the author Ikeda-san changed the story setting after chapter 1. It becomes quite funny. So watching episode 2 made me feel – is it a bit too blue?
Here goes some comparisons…
The scene Sumika is reading pictures of cute girls in a magazine, which are her crush – Ushio’ s type. Sumika’s expression in anime looks a bit sad, while in manga she sighs, with a quite kawaii expression, maybe just have no confident to be so cute like that girls.
The scene Sumika is imagining her 175cm-height body in cute dress. Chibi Sumika is cute in both anime and manga! And it also obviously shows that the hue in anime is a bit too gray. Since the original manga is a comical yuri series, isn’t it using bright colors more fitting?
Here comes the climax. Ushio says lots of Sumika’ s goodness, which makes Sumika detemines to confess to her. The moment Sumika is opening her mouth, Ushio says “although you’re not my type”… Why is the anime not showing us Sumika’ s action of sending flowers? Nor is Sumika’ s face showed.
The anime also omits Sumika’ s tender eyes seeing Ushio falls down. It is the eyes show that though Sumika is rejected, she will help Ushio find her love – so she chases the Reader Model…
Though it is a blue scene, the manga makes it funny by showing Sumika’ s running posture and expression. But the anime omits the latter.
Here is another different expression. The anime version is a bit onee, while the manga version is quite amusing. Personally I prefer the latter one.
Last but not least, how are the flowers? In manga Sumika keeps hiding them and drops them after being rejected, while in anime, the flowers are seen and threw to Ushio, but she just doesn’t say or ask anything about this?!
