The Loudest Whisper: Uwasa No Futari is the title of a yaoi

Yaoi

In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 by Temari Matsumoto

Temari Matsumoto

is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator from Nagano Prefecture.She illustrates yaoi light novels and manga. She chose Temari as her pen name since the town she is from, Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, is known for making temari....

. The manga is licensed in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 by BLU, the Boys Love branch of Tokyopop

Tokyopop

Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The existing German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, as well...

, and was released in Germany by Egmont Manga in 2007.

Plot

Aoyama, who is the student council president of Woods ka Hill High School, and Vice President Akabane are the best friends. Although they intend to be ordinary friends each other, for some reason those around them gossip that they are "well-matched couple." One day, Aoyama kisses Akabane on the pretext of an experiment...

Manga

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Reception

Carlo Santos, writing for Anime News Network

Anime News Network

Anime News Network is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, Japanese popular music and other otaku-related culture within North America, Australia and Japan. Additionally, it sometimes features similar happenings throughout the Anglosphere and elsewhere in the...

, disliked the 'recycling' of character designs between stories, and felt that the plots were also repetitive. Katja Bürk, writing for animePRO, described the tales as "typical shonen-ai stories". Leroy Douresseaux described the stories as "well done stereotypical seme/uke tales", finding them " oh-so-fun to read". Michelle Smith found the age differences in some stories "disturbing", but found other stories uninteresting.