Yesterday wo Utatte

Uff. I really had my hopes in this one as my new favorite anime. At first, we have some very good written characters that can develop a lot while times pass. Rikuo was forced to grow up even that he wasn't prepared, he had a complex and secret personality, he used to run away from pain and never face up the things. And that is for me an interesting main character to a slice of life, romance, drama like this one. Then we have Haru who is mature but childish at the same time, similar to Rikuo, she runs away but also hates doing it "maybe I don't have any other places to run" (at least in Spanish she said something like that). Shinako was different in some ways, she tried to move and become a teacher as she wanted, but had a big problem in the past that stopped her from a lot of things like loving someone. Finally, Rou who was... more childish with his emotions and actions but it's ok, I don't blame him.. he has some troubles in the past and even present. They were very careful in their presentation, wanting to share a good impression so they used to hide a lot of their problems and not being honest with themselves either but trying to do it as a process would be in real life (maybe with some therapy) Not the best explanation of the character but it's something. They had a lot of potentials that in my opinion wasn't really exploded, I´m assuming that it´s because it's 12 episodes long but even then... The whole plot its that four or three characters and how they grow up, entering the adult life and loving if you can´t show us that properly maybe you should wait a bit longer. Please don´t get me wrong, I actually liked it, but my expectations were so high up that I expected something a lot better because this anime could give us that. I don´t wanna spoil anything but THE END WAS SO GODDAMN FAST... That's it. thx for reading. Ps: I'm gonna read the manga hoping to read a better ending and development; also for good fanservice

Love is subjective, a senseless emotion. A person can sacrifice everything and work at 500% for the love of someone, but that doesn't mean its gonna get it. The person he/she is looking for might end up falling in love with someone that just discovered or rediscovered, even if its love is not reciprocated. Still, the person that works for it has more opportunities and that's what life and love is about, to use your opportunities. Story: 5 Just like every other story with the same genres, It's about characters with some kind of emotional problems because of the past. Rikuo is a person that hasn't found his place in life. Disappointed and lacking of ambitions, he just waits for the future to come with whatever it wants (I bet most of people feels identified with him). This changes when a girl comes to his life for the first time and an old crush comes back to awake remaining feelings. What do we get? an usual love triangle. Yes, the story is cliché, but it always work with this kind of genres because of something that must never fail: Characters. The climax is to sudden and lacks of development, like if it has rushed half the story of the manga. It's the worst way to end a story, but even if I believe it was poorly developed, the idea is a good way to end this story. I would have done the same thing as Rikuo if I was there instead, falling in love with Shinako just to find out she's not ready for a relationship and because of this losing interest over her, ending up falling in love with Haru, someone that has been waiting for me no matter how hard it was. Characters: 5 The only one I think is bad is Shinako, not because of Haru or other emotional things, but because her character development was a useless waste of screentime. Rikuo and Haru are fine, even if they are kinda cliché. - Rikuo: An alive person that lives like a dead person. His personality fits with the average person that likes anime, someone disappointed with life, it's realistic. He gets character development by deciding to find out the meaning of his life thanks to Shinako's indirect support (rejection). In the end he finds out what is bet for him - Haru: The "weirdo-perfect waifu" of the story, someone that fans will blindly attack for to anyone who "hurt" her, even fictional characters (Shinako). An introvert girl that became assertive for the love of someone she just discovered all of a sudden. Yes, love is a senseless emotion, but I feel forced the way she fell in love with Rikuo, I'm the kind of person that wants good reasons. Even if she's a cliché character at this type of stories, it's impossible not to fall in love with her, that's why she was created for. - Shinako: Someone living in the past, someone that thinks impossible to live a future without overcoming the past. Maybe some fans wrongly think she's a bad person for "toying" with Rou and Rikou by not explaining thinks clearly and giving them chances, she's not. Most anime fans are used to think all female characters must be perfect, no important problems allowed, that's why when they see one with emotional problems, they don't understand it and if she somehow gets in the way of their waifu (Haru), they will hate her to death. She stays negligent with her decisions in the climax, something I disliked. I remember Haru saying that Shinako has the advantage over her because she has known Rikuo for a longer time than her and had more opportunities, but that's not true. Even if Shinako has the "time" advantage, she never used her opportunities with Rikuo until near the end of the anime because she was trapped in the past. That's why Haru won, because she worked hard for Rikuo's love for longer and used all her chances, unlike Shinako. Sound: 5 Ok for me, background music does its job, but I found negative the lack of opening tbh. Character design, scenarios, animation: 4 | 8 | 6 = 6 - Character design: Kinda mediocre, but good enough when needed. - Scenarios: Good, beautifully made and better than the average. - Animation: Ok, but could have been better. Not too smooth, but not bad. Enjoyment: 6 Enjoyed untill I reached the climax, then I wanted to drop it. Overall: 5.4 = 5 I've been a fan of Romance/Slice of Life/Drama stories for a long time because they are the most realistic and human ones, even if they are fictional stories. Yesterday wo Uttate does a decent job expressing what this kind of stories want to be, but not at the level of other stories of its kind like Anohana, Kokoro Connect or Nagi no Asukara. I would rate it 6 or even 7 if it wasn't because of that forced climax, even if I believe that the love triangle ended logically and subjectively correct. Most average of Romance/Slice of Life/ Drama stories usually get bad near the end, Yesterday wo Uttate is another example, just like Glasslip or True Tears.

"Director Fujiwara Yoshiyuki has too much confidence that he can match the weighty issues here with the struggles story. He can't. Or at least he can't with this cast." - YESTORAKS, GeeKon Magazines The typical Fujiwara Yoshiyuki anime (Vanguarg G, GJ BU) can be classified by a few words: contrived, insipid, and predictable. Yesterday wo uttate ,while not the worst work Fujiwara Yoshiyuki has done, is a limp misfire. There are moments during the course of the anime when it looks like it might be headed in an interesting direction, but those hopes go up in smoke during the last act as everything aligns itself for the tearful, feel-good ending. The central problem with the anime isn't that it deals with several hot-button topics, but that it addresses them with a shocking lack of emotional honesty. This is the synopsis make me want to facepalm: Rikuo Uozumi has all but resigned himself to a bleak future, aimlessly working at a convenience store in Tokyo after graduating from college. His monotonous life is interrupted when the peculiar Haru Nonaka makes a lively appearance, frequently dropping by his workplace to befriend him. When Rikuo learns that an old college friend and crush, Shinako Morinome, has moved back into town, he reaches out to further their relationship. Unbeknownst to Rikuo however, Shinako is carrying painful memories from her past that were holding her back from accepting his feelings. Meanwhile, as Haru continually opens up to Rikuo, he discovers that she, much like him, is living by herself and wants to step out of her comfort zone into an uncertain future. The prickly interaction between Rikuo and other character that will be conflict is predictable. Rikuo brings with her the winds of trouble. That ambiguity is what makes parts of Fujiwara Rule interesting at times. When one considers how poisonous the accusation is, and that it might be issued as a means of revenge, it gives the anime a bit of an edge. Unfortunately, "edgy" is not one of the three nouns I used above to describe a Yoshiyuki endeavor. Eventually, things are resolved definitively and in a manner that's far too pat for a movie with this many deeply troubled characters. At a minimum, Rikuo is in desperate need of counseling, but in a Fujiwara movie, all that's needed to set her right are a hug and a tearful apology. If it was this easy to reconcile dysfunctional families, we would all be living happily ever after. Fujiwara is a crafter of fairy tales and trusting him with material that demands a darker tone and a defter hand is a mistake. Not that Tanaka Jin script is well-written. The dialogue is mostly awful, a subplot featuring a bunch of cheap girl conflict is painful, and the ending is unacceptable. But Fukiwara's involvement does nothing to improve upon the screenplay.Yesterday wo uttate will most likely be recalled as the movie that resulted in Morgan Creek CEO James G. Robinson rebuking Lohan for her poor work ethic. There's certainly nothing else about the production worth remembering.

This is the first anime I've watched that I can consider to be tearjerker bait. I say this because it had the makings of being a great show, with a good OST and somewhat unique art style but the show itself is just so mediocre with a hollow story. I've seen worse shows than this but at least they brought something new to the table. I kept waiting for the story to develop into something better since I thought it was 18 episodes but to my surprise there's actually only 12 and I would say it was a huge waste of time. Barely anything of importance happens except poor character and relationship development. It also didn't help that the ending felt rushed. This is my first review on here and I had to write one because this show was such a drag and so pointless that it made me a little mad. Go watch a better anime and don't bother with this one.

STORY IS NO GOOD- It's got a thin layer of realism, it's very, very thin. This psudo-realism is created by snow and by not being hyperactive, usually anime is for people with ADHD, even the slower Slice of Life series tend to be fast-paced in an unorthodox way, but this thing isn't fast, it's actually the opposite of fast, it's slow, but slow isn't really a bad thing, i'm a slow guy myself, big fan of being slow and slow-related things, the problem with the show isn't it's slowness, it's the fact that it's unrealistic, contrary to the usual ADHD anime, it has a serious and more (psudo)mature dialogue, it's a common trick by these so called mature shows, the characters in the screen talk about emotions and their real life problems, but this is just to trick the innocent viewer into thinking the person on the screen is literally them, it's easy to relate to words, but they're not literally you, they're not even nothing, they're not characters, they're just things made to say words which people commonly associate with. These so called characters don't have problems, but they pretend they have, the characters speak as if they had them but they don't, they're just words. VISUALLY ACCEPTABLE- Visually? not bad, might even go as far as saying it's quite good, and while the characters themselves look fine, the designs don't help their personality, after seeing them be absolutely moronic in a scene while they were making THAT face, every scene afterwards when they just happen to coincidentally make the same face, you'll remember how stupid they were being and you'll just get annoyed more. It's got a cold look though, which i greatly like, however, it's the same thing, a cold aesthetic will enhance a great thing but it will de-enhance it if it's bad since it's more of a betrayal to the coldness you (might) like, at least that's way it is for me, if you're gonna be shit then don't use themes and aesthetics i like. SOUND- I didin't notice it so it doesn't really matter. Everything else isn't very good either, the finale sucks dick, also the crow girl is just bad as kanahana's character. Did you know the title isn't in reference to the song by the beatles? by the way the reason i didin't really write about the other parts of the show is because i saw everyone also gave it a negative review, wasn't really expecting people to dislike it, no point in just another review with the same opinion.

When I first started watching this show I was excited. I was excited to see an Anime portray adult romance. It’s always a breath of fresh air to see a setting outside of middle school or high school. But I wouldn’t say a breath of fresh air is what I got. Instead I got the pleasure of meeting a cast of mostly supposed adults that act with the emotional intelligence of middle schoolers. Before getting into the nitty gritty the show is average. Do I recommend it? No, not really. The time watching this show never resulted in any great pay off. There’s no moment of real growth or raw emotion that really captured me, which I think is vital for drama or romance type shows. So try it if you’re just absolutely craving a romance Anime, but go in with tempered expectations. I hate to say it but you’re not finding a hidden gem but more like a safety pin in an earhole. First off I just don’t understand the characters and what the direction and the theme of the show was supposed to be. Are these characters supposed to be like real people who showcase their flaws and learn to change? Spoilers ahead: Rikuo and Shinkao are both college graduates so they’re likely at least in their early twenties. I understand still figuring out life in your twenties but goodness both of them are just terrible at expressing themselves and are hot messes as individuals and just don’t make for realistic people who are in their twenties. Honestly these two characters are such headaches and I don’t even want to discuss them. I see Rikuo as basically a typical bland self insert who does the typical unsure of himself then figures out what he wants and that’s it. Shinako on the other hand is just stuck unknowing of what she wants as she leads two guys on. I understand that maybe the show is trying to demonstrate that love isn’t easy and that real people in their twenties can have difficulties expressing themselves. But these two characters never feel real and really just seem like middle schoolers disguised as college graduates. Then we have Haru and Rou, what’s the lesson here with these two characters? Neither of them really truly change throughout the whole series. Both of them have this weird sense of entitlement to Rikuo and Shinako respectively. Haru’s initial meeting of Rikuo years prior to the show drives her to become pretty much a stalker for most of the series, but it’s ok because she’s cute. While Rou is extremely attached to Shinako and believes it’s his fate to be with her because his older brother was her crush who passed away years ago. Ah yes, because that’s how a normal person would view the girl who had a crush on their deceased brother. But honestly I feel bad for these two characters. At least they’re more adept at understanding their feelings compared to their older counterparts. Both of them at various points in the show also show they’re not ignorant to the fact they don’t have a good chance of getting the love they seek from their crushes.They know it’s probably better for them to move on so they can continue to grow. I feel bad that they never get that because just as they’re preparing to move on Rikuo and Shinako return into their lives. And supposedly that’s a happy ending. Now here’s the thing, say the message is that it’s actually not a happy ending and the show was supposed to showcase the flaws of humans with love. That’s a good enough message to build a show on but y’know what the show could’ve executed it way better. The animation is fine. I initially thought that having no OP was really good, they’d get to fit more content in but in the end it never really felt more content was fit in despite having an extra ninety seconds. Instead that extra time was devoted to awkward pauses and the longest four sentence conversations. My favorite part of the show was the show’s first ED song "Kago no Naka ni Tori (籠の中に鳥)" by yourness which belongs in all soft Anime music playlist but other than that I’m not taking much from this show. The characters aren’t great. The pacing is poor. The message they were selling just wasn’t hitting strong with me. And I’m leaving this show in the past because yesterday is where it belongs.

A story of four painfully average "adults" who have communication difficulties and all of them are depressed. Yesterday wo Utatte seemed similar in spirit to one of my all time favourites, NHK ni Youkoso! , The art and especially the atmosphere felt soft and gloomy. Studio Doga Kobo did a great job animating this series, it will probably appear timeless in the future. The way that they handled sound was my favourite part of this anime, minimal use of music and long silent pauses really punctuated scenes adding to the serious mood. Unfortunately the praise stops there. There is a real lack of material here, that slow build up was reminiscent of Steins;Gate, but without the massive payoff. This story pulled back the slingshot until the elastic snapped. The ending felt forced, and rushed. This could have been a 9/10, but episode 12 ruined it. I'm not knocking the characters, or even the conclusion. I thought Rikuo's development was perfectly suited to his character flaws. And it was the right way for things to end, but it needed at least another couple episodes of pacing to properly work through those complicated emotions. I haven't read the source material, but i have a hard time believing that this is the entire story. It would get a lower rating if it didn't seem so lovingly crafted.

Full disclaimer that I wrote a previous review for this but decided to completely revamp and simplify it after concluding this anime. Yesterday wo Utatte is the first anime that I'll give a MAL review for; the reason I decided to break this silent streak is because holy hell, this is frustrating to watch. I was recommended this because of Welcome to the NHK!, and since I'm a big fan of NHK!, I'd give it a go. Saw it was completely drama/romance focused, so I was prepared for it to be slow if it were for the right reasons. It unfortunately wasn't. Apart from Haru "Crow Waifu" Nonaka, the characters are mostly unlikable, and paired with a trash story, makes this a grind to continue keeping interest in their love triangle. The main character, Rikuo, is so boring and uninteresting, I don't know why he has two girls swooning for him. Christmas Cake Shinako keeps pretending to be innocent when it comes to relationships, yet instigates all of them, making it hard to feel sorry for her, and Rou is just a childish loser. Also, why did Haru fall in love with Riuko? Because he passed by her everyday while she was in middle school? Do they really expect me to believe she'd be so faithful to him because of that? Unfortunately, they do. The quality of the anime is fine, and the first 6 episodes are pretty okay; they don't focus on the love triangle, and the side characters are actually pretty nice... but then you'll want more, and unfortunately, the next six are boring trash. The big question from here is if you want to even bother starting on the journey if you know the ending payoff is bad. I think the worst thing to come out of my experience watching this anime is that I've fallen in love with Haru Nonaka, and I'll probably never get closure with her unless I read the manga which I hear is also an infuriating process to go through. TL;DR you can try, but I wouldn't suggest it.

I'm sorry, but this is going to be more of a rant than a review. This will mostly be about the last episode, and why I don't think it ruins the whole anime, as so many others do. This is actually aimed at the people who already watched the anime, and if you haven't, I think that you should go watch it and form an opinion of your own, untainted by what other people think you should think about it. Go and watch it with an open mind (if you like character dramas, and are okay with characters so realistic they even tend to be unlikable because they remind you of the stupid mistakes and you've made in your own life, and even call you out on your own self-sabotaging behaviors) and when you finish, come back here to read. Because, obviously HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD. Here I go: OKAYYY... So people are hating on the finale, and I can totally see why. But I wonder if... Mmm...Okey, let me break this down in parts because I just can't... First, I would want to know how easy people get their own opinions changed by "the general opinion". Last week I was super excited about this ending, and then heard people saying that this was going to be the last episode (I thought there were 18 as many others) and that that would mean this would cramp up an incredible amount of material into 24 min. So, YES, they did cramp up a LOT into this episode, and I did feel that. I came in totally expecting to hate this episode, and maybe it was because I'd lowered my expectation, but I also... just kind of liked it? Yes, it could've been better, but come on, people, learn to put your expectation on check when it comes to anime. You know how the industry is. Even for an episode that went through so much in so little time, I felt it did more than decent as an ending for this story. The story is about characters that are as human as I've seen them in an anime in a long time. And yes, this means that most of them aren't actually likable. I was in for the Shinako and Rikuo ship because they started out as people with a bunch of personal baggage, and they were doing some serious advances in changing as people (I didn't like any of them at the beginning), and then they break up. I get it, people, you're disappointed, and feel it was all for nothing, but to me, it's just two people that realized that they didn't have to change to be in a relationship at all. That they were forcing something that wasn't meant to be, just because they wanted to do it a long time ago. And all it took was for Rikuo to see Shinako chase after Rou. Yes, people. Emotions change like that. He realized he didn't do that for Haru, and that that might have meant that he still loved more Shinako than she loved him. So why keep fighting, when you're still the one putting more effort? when you're also hurting the one you're dating just by being with her? And when you realize that someone liked you since before you even started putting your life together? Rikuo even admits something in this episode that I had kept thinking the whole time: That they're too similar, and that they shouldn't be worrying about what the other is thinking. They're both introverted people, and yes, for a relationship, that can be pretty exhausting. I don't know, maybe people don't want to read between lines. Or maybe it is because they actually think Rikuo is an asshole for going straight to Haru after breaking up with Shinako. I mean, he says to Haru "Shinako dumped me", which makes him looks like a total asshole, but we know that's not true. He was the one that told Shinako that they shouldn't be together. But again, he was nervous and he said he didn't know how to explain. So he said Shinako dumped him. Maybe because he felt guilty? who knows. But he was doing what he thought was right. Was it rushed? Yes. And Haru herself was not very much explored in the anime, which makes it even less satisfying, but her being completely infatuated by him, I feel like both their actions made complete sense. We don't see what happens with Shinako and Rou. I don't think we're supposed to think they started dating. Just that they fixed their broken relationship. So on the whole, this finale does what it can to wrap up everything without leaving loose ends. What bothers me is that they accelerated the pacing this last few episodes when the ones in the beginning were so slow. Though they were still rushed if we think how many manga chapters they were adapting in the first place. I only read the first volume of the manga before the anime. I wanted to be an anime-only, so maybe that bothers some people too. Fans of a manga will defend it till death for it to have a Faithfull adaptation, for better or worse. And since I saw the first episode I knew it would get rushed, because the first episode IS THE FIRST VOLUME. So I also had my expectations in check, but I prefered to be an anime-only. So, as an anime-only, I say that I really enjoyed this finale, even if it had more of the flaws the series had since the very first episode. WOW. How dare you anime, ending with the same flaws you started with? Anyway, I'm reading the manga now. I enjoyed the anime, but I know the manga will probably be much better. Does that mean the anime is bad? Hell no. Does a rushed ending means the anime is bad? Well, if you think that, you probably didn't like it all along. Think about it. 8/10

Sing yesterday to me is a story about people who have stopped moving in life but start to rely on each other to start to move forward again. Story & writing: Rikuo Uozumi is stuck, the frustration of continually job hunting has led him to working in a convenience store until a mysterious girl decides to take interest in him for no apparent reason, while it is explained later on into the series Uozumi is so flat and boring as a character it makes you wonder if the characters are delusional for seeing anything in him. Uozumi has a crush on Shinako his old college classmate, he idolizes Shinako as she has managed to do something with her life, and she has always been pulling Uozumi through life. But Shinko is stuck and straight up rejects Uozumi at the beginning of the series as she has not got over her own personal hang-ups, she is still chained to the past. All this sounds great but the issue with sing yesterday to me is that the is all open to interpretation, meaning a lot of other viewers don’t think of the series like this. Sing yesterday to me only presents the skeleton of a romance story without building on to it while plodding along at an inconsistent pace, introducing characters and then removing them from the story the next episode or even the same episode while skipping certain parts to give screen time to things that frankly don’t matter. The show also puts arbitrary roadblocks such as misunderstandings to create drama. For a show that has adult characters everyone is surprisingly childish. Art: Sing yesterday to me employs a sort of rough pencil drew aesthetic which can be interesting to look at and flashback sequences prefer to show the characters through manga panels creating as clear distinction between flashback and present-day moments. Sound: There isn’t anything memorable to say about the sound department the voice acting is solid, and the OST matches the scenes. Although the show doesn’t have an opening theme, but this might not even be noticeable as the show flows so well. Sometimes. Enjoyment: Another is with sing yesterday to me is that it doesn’t have a core hook. The characters aren’t to interesting to watch and the drama is so forced and predictable you can see it coming from a mile away. Although it’s not too bad but some characters like the fourth ‘main’ character which I have deliberately avoided talking about are annoying to see on screen.

Damn, this anime started off so well. I was in love with the sounds, the setting, the feeling. The voice actor for the main male MC was just phenomenal–it's the same one who voiced the wolf in Beastars. That voice is almost iconic now. For the first couple episodes, this anime was 10/10 all around. And then I'm just not sure what went wrong. Maybe it was the show trying to focus on the four main characters instead of the just the three in the first triangle? Maybe it was how even at the end, 2 of the 4 characters were just not redeemable in any way? I guess it's just hard to like an anime when the characters in it are just not nice, for the lack of a better term. Disappointing.

What are you getting yourself into if you choose to watch Yesterday wo Utatte? You'll be getting a slow paced, slice of life love drama, that attempts to be realistic. Long story short, we get a few characters' daily lives as they go through the complicated struggles of love. To start off with, one thing I really liked about this anime was the art style and the animation. Just looked a bit different to the stuff we're now used to seeing, so it was nice to look at. With the animation, I'm obviously not saying that you'll be seeing the most eye-catching things in the world, I just appreciated that the characters tended to actually move and change expressions as they talk. It was actually nice to watch the dialogue (which is quite important in a drama that revolves around people talking). Now let's go with the story. I personally enjoyed most of it. People have their everyday issues, and this story simply follows the way our main characters end up coming to terms with them (or generally, the ways in which they deal with them). It mostly revolves around the characters (romantic) feelings towards each other (since this is a love drama after all), as well as some exploration of our protagonist and what he wants to do with his life in general. There isn’t much else. And many may feel that this, on its own, is probably not enough for this to be successful. If you would agree with that, or if this generally does not sound interesting enough, then this anime will NOT be for you. The show doesn't really do anything too special, so it would be completely reasonable to not find this idea interesting. In general, it seems quite slow paced; not much progression is actually made in each episode (with the exception of the ending, which was very much rushed, and the main reason I couldn’t give this a higher score, despite my overall enjoyment). However, I personally enjoyed that aspect of the story. Something about just taking it slowly, and trying to slowly flesh out the characters and their web of feelings and interactions appealed to me. Overall, I felt the show was really good, with the exception of the ending, which was rushed (this would have benefited from having 6 more episodes, which is what many of us that watched it as it aired expected it to be in the first place) So, in the end, should you watch this anime? If a slow paced drama sounds appealing, then yes! If it doesn't, then there isn't anything special about this show, so this may be something to just skip.

I'm not the type of guy who watches anime focused on romance and these things, Yesterday wo Utatte is an anime that caught my attention for the beautiful art and the great emotions on the first episode The anime did a good job showing for the public the amount of emotions that the characters have to carry throughout the situations, both the voice action and the animation were in point with each of the sentimental scenes, i don't know if saying this will help someone to watch this anime but i personally had a lot of enjoyment watching this because i already passed for difficult love situations on the past, the anime made me remember them and i could identify with some of the characters. The anime production had to cut some parts of the manga but this certainly it's not a problem because they did it in a way that you will not even notice it if you're not a manga reader, so you can enjoy the anime to the fullest without bothering with the missing things Give it a try, you will surely love it.

The more I try to look at other genres , the more miserable I feel about my life and my choices I usually look for anime using the ''random anime'' feature on the website I use and it gave me this one. at first it seemed interesting to have an anime about trying to overcome past relationships and whatnot to go further in life the problem is that this anime was written by a bunch of guys who are still single. The anime is 12 episodes of people bitching and whining about everything. the characters are quite bland and for Pete's sake I can't anymore with this confession trope on the 12th episode. this anime is the prime definition of a bad quality romance for a bunch of miserable people. by watching it I am now part of this demographic and I will now go cry in the corner to question my choices in life

Yet another first review used on this show. Really incredible that they had me so seriously for almost the whole season (despite not developing like, the two critical secondaries and one of the protagonists), character regression and slow burn and all, and then completely ruin the ending. Honestly would’ve been a 7/10, maybe even 8/10, but the last two episodes made me want to pull my hair out. Outstanding. If you watch it, stop at the end of E10. You’ll be thankful. To be clear: I liked the main protagonist’s development, I guess; but why was everyone else in this stupid love zig-zag so stagnant? Every time I finally, *finally* thought they were changing, we went right back to zero. And I wouldn’t even mind the secondaries being flatter, I guess, since they’re romantic rivals (lol) whose infatuations with their muses were juvenile and needed to get shot down eventually. The characters felt pretty real! I laughed out loud a few times! And then everything got imploded, and now only the negatives are sitting in my head. This is a bad review, it’s just a rant. I’d have to revisit the first ten episodes already to remember the main good things about the show, and I literally just watched the whole thing. Christ.

i wasn't a romance fan before this, and i don't think i am after this let's start the positive, the animation, and art direction en general was nice, it had a good vibe, it was pretty to look at okay, now with the negatives i hated the 4 main characters, but one less than the others, let's star with my less hated character, and heart of the show: Haru: she's a 18 year old, school drop out, that has mega crush on rikuo for some reason (i know love it's complicated, but give me a believable reason, not that she just fell in love with him just because) even tho he's an asshole most of the time, because clearly he doesn't want her near him, but she's gonna do everything in her power to make him fall for her, even tho again, he doesn't want her, she's very naive and insistent to the point where she's kinda an stalker, waiting for him to late night hours, just to see him, you coul say that this is not weird, that she's just givin her best to see the love of her life just for a couple minutes, and you know what, if they were a couple, i would congratulate her, but they are not one, so this come off as just some creepy behavior, and i'm kinda worried about her, because she's so young, and rikuo it's her first love, but for most of the anime he's an asshole towars her, so i don't think rikuo being her first partner it's something good for her, moreso because it looks like that even tho rikuo it's older than her, he doesn't seem to know what he wants in his life. Rikuo: he's bland, i don't like how he doesn't have the courage to be honest with the rest, he had me scraching my head most of the time becuse of the stupid things he did on screen, like dude be honest, clearly haru it's annoying you, but you don't want to be rude (even tho he is, most of the time) so he let her stalk him freely, he told her a couple of times that she's not gonna get something good outta him, and you know what, i agree, at the beggining he's working at a mini market because he doesn't know what to do with his life, later on he gets a job at an art gallery, and you know what that's cool, he's working for his dreams, but he doesn't change as a person, he still let haru be arround him, because apparently he likes the attention, but he's so weak man, he treats her as a second option, in case things with the teacher doesn't work out, haru would still be arround him, because she's young and stupid and would forgive him easly (which she does at the end), so i don't like his lack of spine and courage, like i don't have nothing against shy and introvert characters, but rikuo its the kind i hate the most, the dude that lacks the ambition to change and grow as a person Shinako, what could i say about her, more that if it wasn't for rou, she would be my most hated character on here, if rikuo exaspated me because of his lack of spine, shinako it's worse than him, she's super shy, she like to keep things to her, rather thank talking them, she rejects rikuo at the beggining, because she's afraid of open her heart again, after the death of her last love, and you know what, this souns interesting, but then, they reveal that hear love died like what, ten or so more years ago, and they weren't even a couple, she loved her in secret because she's that inhibited, when they revealed this i was shocked, 10 years and she hasn't been able to move on? like, i know move on from the death of someone you love it's hard, and it requires a lot of work from you, but she doesn't seem to try at all, i hate how she brings the death brother to conversation everytime she's with rou, like lady, you're the main reeason rou it's as fucked up as he is, you never trying to move on, and comparing rou to the deceased one it's like the most toxic shit you could do, thanks to you, rou it's no himself, he tries waaaaaaaaaaaay to hard to be like his death brother, because you never tried to move on, and other thing, she doesn't know how to put boundaries, she's a teacher for fucks sake, what do you think could have happened if one of your students saw you being hugged by rou in the middle of the night? don't you think that would get you in troubles? put some boundaries my god, and you know what's the worst about her? that she was so scared to tell rou about her relationship with rikuo, because she didn't want to ruin the friendshipe with him, motherfucker, it's because of you and your lack of boundaries that rou thinks that he has a chane, i hate her like you would't believe, they're like "awww she's so shy, so adorable, she's been dating rikuo for three months and still hasn't kiss him she's so cute", i don't know if the final was implying that she loved rou or that she was trying to fix things with him, but i don't care, she's the most annoying character i had seen recently. and finally, the worst character of the show for me, Rou; rou it's the little brother of shinako's childhood crush, at the beggining of the show i kinda felt bad for him, because shinako couldn't stop compare him to the death one, so he's trying his best to fill the shoes of his death brother, don't you think how fucked up that is? he's not a character of his own, he's trying so hard to replace his brother in shinako's life, mind you, he's like what 17 at the begining? so i thought that this was just a silly cruh that he had on her, you know, like most of us have in some point of our life, but no, he's very serious about her, he loves her, why? i don't know, beause death brother, they never give you a legit reason he just loves her, because apparently his brother loved her too, i hate how toxic this mf is, asking questions that doesn't concern him, like when he found shinako and rikuo, he asks "what's the meaning of this?" like dude, you're a kid, what the adult does shouldn't matter to you in the slightest, go to sleep or something, isn't way past your bedtime? what could you offer her? realistically, also out of the for, he's the most inmature, he likes to make whims when things don't go his way, and he's to pushy and very phisical too, like a lot of times shinako looks kinda uncomfortable. so, as i said at the beggining, i'm not a romance fan, and i don't think i will anytime soon, if this is the best that the genre can offer

Oh, now I understand why it has so low score. This anime is slow. Slow as life after daigaku, or dropping from high school, trying to make something worthy in society that is so stratified that breaking the chain of middle school - high school - (daigaku) leads to suboptimal jobs and weird looks from society. Also, it is difficult to understand when you were not in that situation (same as Kuzu no Honkai has very wide range of ratings).It definitely isnt anime high schoolers or even many college attendees wil value much. It is in its heart as life you are trying to stitch together between working shifts in one or two works and pretend you do sort of well. Slow, full of problems and realization that now you are on your own.

I begin watching this show and i started to really like it! The characters are complicated with many different issues of thier own that they have to deal with on a daily biases. As the story progressed you really saw an attempt to grow each individual character and maybe become a better human from this experience. The most disappointing story i have watched so far was this anime... You find out that at the end of the show that the characters decides to not grow as a human and rather just stay exactly who they are and purposefully through out all the growth that they did have... This story really did feel like a big middle finger to the face... For me to enjoy a story, I need a solid character(s), and some kind of growth. This story had some good characters and then showed how they would grow and then throw it out the window in the last EP... The sad part of all this is that there was a chance that this show could have been a good one, the story had characters with trama, confidence and other issues that would have been great to tackle but the last EP just decided to throw it all out and just have a ending that just discounts most of the character development... I was so disappointed and I will not be recommending this show to anyone...

I'll keep it short. This show is extremely underrated. I guess you have to like such series, but I finished it in no time. The moments I wasn't watching I was probably as much in my head as the main characters. For anyone who likes a slow-paced romantic drama that depicts how confusing life and love can be for those who overthink, this is the show you want to watch. I honestly think this show is next to none in what it tries to achieve. Nonetheless, I do understand those critics that suggest that anime might perhaps not have been the best style for this script; yet since I love anime, I do not mind it in the least, and even prefer it (despite the few disadvantages).

Yesterday wo Utatte isn't a piece of media that everyone can apreciate since this isn't a story about romance or such but it is one about flawed people pulling themself out of their own mistakes and moving on. And I would highly recommend you to watch the Ex episodes after you finisehd the show since they will give you a clearer look of the show. LIGHT SPOILER AHEAD!!! The relationship between Rikuo, Shinoko and Haru is very toxic where she never comiited in their relationship but keep giving Rikuo the right amount of attention to keep him on the edge and only turn to him when she feel convenient. Haru, on the others hand, love Rikuo blindly without a reason other than it is love. However through this relationship we saw Rikuo slowly moving out of his comfort zone and finally make up his mind and do the right thing. He knew he like Haru but he kept denying it cause Haru represent everything he fear which is changes and freedom. Not until the last episode did he realized that everything he has done was just out of his fear of getting hurt and broke up with Shinoko and seek for Haru and propose. After that, he finally move on to better things to a future that may hurt him tremendously but it's a future where he chose. If you ever felt like you can't move on or stuck then this is the show for you. I was related to Rikuo so much since I, myself, also clinged and can't let thing go and seeing Rikuo went through the whole process of making mistake and fixing it really touch the deep corner in my heart. The characters aren't perfect and their relationship is toxic as hell but sometimes that is just the case IRL and you don't get what you want all the time but only through those hurtful moment did you grow up and complete yourself.