Review of Sing "Yesterday" for Me
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.