Yesterday o Utatte

At first I was really enjoying this anime series. I liked how the characters were mature and believable, the way they were communicating their feelings and emotions with each other. Gradually, though, that changes and the ending is incredibly rushed, leaving out a lot of important developments, so the overall impression of certain decisions end up looking very different than they do in the manga series. I have read the manga series, and even though I did not like the length of time it took for the characters to really realize how they feel when it is so obvious to the reader, it all makes sense in the end. In this show, however, first of all they have left out two important characters, the development of the relationship between the main couple is missing, and at the same time is missing the growing coldness in another crucial relationship which then leads to the scene on the bench in the last episode where they are both finally honest with each other again, something they were not able to do for quite a while, and because of it, it does not really make sense. The manga is just a bit better because it explains and shows what matters in the relationships. In this show it all feels weird because it is missing context. So I am not very satisfied, because as an adaptation only the first half of the season makes sense, however, after that it is just a reductive and unspeakable version of the classic four-way romantic entanglement. 5.5/10. (21.06.2020)

The characters are well-crafted and plausible, there is a nice chemistry between them, the pacing is suitable, the drawing and animation are precise, the soundtrack is good, and it is mature for its genre, while relatively avoiding the most well-worn tropes. All this was put into Sing "Yesterday" for Me, but as time went on, the scum came to the surface, with which all the good around it gradually turned bitter - and that scum was the story that remained. This is a story that got tangled up and lost in itself, as if there was not even really a story there in the end. The initial exposition was good, excellent even, but what followed it was like trying to sober up after a night of heavy drinking. Slow, tiring and full of waiting for change that in the end never comes in the end. The characters check each other out a few times, a polygon is outlined, there are some hints at the characters’ having some conflict and inner dilemma, the molecules weakly bump into each other a few times, but in the end they return to their original positions and the expectation of some more significant reaction remains unfulfilled. I can certainly recommend this anime to those who are comfortable with anime that is about nothing, and are content to check out an anime that throws around sketches of slight characters without any proper development, but to the rest I would rather recommend they invest their time more wisely. I give this a mere 3 stars. (18.10.2020)