Review of Sing "Yesterday" for Me

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) eventho 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