Review of Sing "Yesterday" for Me

Quick reminder that there will be spoilers ahead So, what made me watch Sing ''Yesterday'' for me was a youtube clip of the last episode, of Rikuo confessing to Haru. I found the moment cute, liked the art and was like ''hey, i can give it a shot, i can appreciate it even more knowing the context and the characters''. The problem is that the opposite happened: having watched all 12 episodes, it made me dislike the scene, even though the couple i wanted to see together happened. In truth, Sing ''Yesterday'' For Me is an anime about the romance between Rikuo and Shinako, something thatmakes the ending couple Rikuo-Haru shallow and totally out of the blue. We get twelve episodes of Rikuo not giving into Haru's advances and making it clear that he doesn't reciprocrate her feelings while trying to get closer to his actual crush, Shinako. After managing to do that, the two of them break-up when they were finally starting to grow-up, for no apparent reason. At the ending scene, we see that Rikuo says that the way he is approaching Haru looks like he is ''just going for her because Shinako dumped him'', but it doesn't ''just looks like it'' it is literally it. His feelings for Haru appeared out of nowhere except for a single scene of jealousy in the middle of the anime. Literally what was supposed to be a cute scene about Rikuo finally being the one to reach out to her instead of the opposite, with sparkles on top, became just plain fake romance.

As the story is merely the characters developing relationships between them, i wouldn't judge it differently from the characters themselves... the problem is, the characters doens't develop any relationship at all. Rikuo and Haru don't leave the ground they stood in the first episode until the very last minute of the finale, to the point it, like i said before, looks like Rikuo liking her back seems plain false.
Rikuo's relationship with Shinako gives the illusion of development, but in the end they behaved literally the same way they did even before the story started, in their days of college, with Shinako using him so she doens't get lonely and Rikuo being the blank slate that he is and just nervously going trough
And the relationship between Rou and Shinako shouldn't even be of note. They don't change at any moment, Rou continues to be infatuated by her from beginning to end, and she continues to let the cycle of ''QUO-fight-separation-reconciliation-QUO'' go on, without any of the two moving forward from anything

I really expected to like the characters after seeing episode 1 and, until Rikuo stood her up, i actually liked Haru. After she simply forgives him (even tho he literally did nothing) i simply stopped caring about her, that was the only character in the show that i liked. None of them are really captivating nor anything that would make them likeable. Rikuo is a boring blank slate that only does what he likes to get a girl, suddenly knowing what he wants in the last episode. Shinako is literally the same character from her backstory to the point where we left her, meaning she is a broken girl who ends up hurting others because of her indecisiveness. Haru goes from interesting to a side character that Rikuo just puts up to within a few episodes, whom the viewer (me included) just get sad for because her love is doomed to be platonic (until would you look at that, it's not). Last and least, the only thing that i manage to say about Rou is that i like the musics that play when he is on the scene

For some reason, I enjoyed the show until the 2-3 last episodes. I didn't cared about the side characters that were just appearing and disappearing or being thrown away without any deeper connection with the main cast and I didn't found awful how the ''love triangle'' happened, mainly because i knew that Haru was going to end up with Rikuo. The problem arose when, three episodes left to end the anime, Rikuo still didn't see Haru as more than a nuisance. I started to say to myself ''maybe we will get some backstory for Haru, maybe we will get an arc of her and Rikuo getting closer to one another, maybe...''. Of course, none of that happened, and at that point was where i thought to myself that the anime was actually... bad. And it pretty much is. I only put it high on the ''Enjoyment'' cattegory because I didn't had an aneurism watching it confusely and harshely wreck itself to pieces

A lot of content was cut from the manga, wich would expalin the shallow and stale relationships ''developed'' in the animation.