Review of Sing "Yesterday" for Me

It's been 3 years since Fuuka Anime happened, and I'm pretty sure many of you remember how awful that anime was. What if I tell you that, Yesterday wo Uttate is almost, the second coming of Fuuka? I really wanted to like YwU, but the more I watched it, the worse it became. For the first 5 minutes of the first episode, I thought that I was going to love this anime, boy I was wrong. Despite the smooth artsyle and animation, this anime was already doomed from the start. You see, this anime is filled with an alarming amount of tropes I absolutely despise onanime. Don't misunderstand me, being predictable or generic isn't a bad thing from the get go, the problem here, it's just that the studio never knew what to do with it's plot and characters, so we ended up on a spiral of plot conveniences, contrivances, infuriating characters and very idiotic events that I fail to see as "realistic".

Let's open the package, we get:
- The dense MC Rikuo, who is in love with a potato he met in college. This guy is a complete dunce who fails to say things when he has to, and when he does, he shows his inner stupidity to everyone.
- The Potato Shinako, who is the MC's main love interest. She had a boyfriend who died and now she's stuck in the past (There's nothing wrong with that, until there is)
- The annoying Haru, who claims to be in love with the MC. (I'm sorry to all the Haru Fanboys, but someone's gotta say the truth). Her timing is awful as she almost always find a way to conveniently find Rikuo, as if she were stalking him, blatantly sticking her nose in the business of 2 idiots, "challenging" Shinako into a fight she's never going to win, unless you make the characters braindead.
- The MC's rival Rou, who is cringe inducing. He's only there to spice up the drama. There's nothing much to add up to his character, but the fact that he wants a girlfriend who cooks meals for him lmfao.

Having all that, I already knew what kind of anime this shit wanted to be, and I was hoping that things would end up being different, sadly, that never happened and only got worse.

This anime could have been done in less episodes, if only Rikuo would have made clear that he had no interest in Haru. Instead, despite him rejecting her indirectly, he won't stop giving her hope by fulfilling her selfish requests, which, in the end, would keep hurting her because Rikuo is that stupid. Not just that, despite him rejecting her, Haru would keep pushing her way into his life, hoping that something goes her way. I fail to understand how others like Haru, but if I had someone pushing their way into my life despite showing no interest on them, the last thing I would do is giving them hope by fulfilling their selfish requests. Then we have Shinako, whose pressence is to make things way worse by dragging things up. She's stuck in the past because her beloved boyfriend (who we never got to see what was so good about him) died, and thanks to that, every time she seems like doing a step forward, she gives several steps back. She also suffers from the same thing Rikou does: Not telling things when she has to, prompting others into a spiral of misunderstandings and events that could've been ressolved easily if these characters weren't that dumb.

Thanks to Rikou and Shinako's indecisive being, we got 12 episodes of dragged shitfest full of melodrama and very infuriating events. This is sad because the animation is really good and the visual storytelling this anime has, would have added a lot of value to the anime, sadly, it does nothing when the "plot" and characters have little to no value at all. Animation alone can't save an anime, and we've seen that happening several times. This is just another trashy romcom disguised as a seinen.

If you despise anime where the characters are this infuriating, do yourself a favor and stay away from this.