Review of Sing "Yesterday" for Me

Love is subjective, a senseless emotion. A person can sacrifice everything and work at 500% for the love of someone, but that doesn't mean its gonna get it. The person he/she is looking for might end up falling in love with someone that just discovered or rediscovered, even if its love is not reciprocated. Still, the person that works for it has more opportunities and that's what life and love is about, to use your opportunities. Story: 5 Just like every other story with the same genres, It's about characters with some kind of emotional problems because of the past. Rikuo is a person that hasn't found hisplace in life. Disappointed and lacking of ambitions, he just waits for the future to come with whatever it wants (I bet most of people feels identified with him). This changes when a girl comes to his life for the first time and an old crush comes back to awake remaining feelings. What do we get? an usual love triangle.
Yes, the story is cliché, but it always work with this kind of genres because of something that must never fail: Characters.
The climax is to sudden and lacks of development, like if it has rushed half the story of the manga. It's the worst way to end a story, but even if I believe it was poorly developed, the idea is a good way to end this story. I would have done the same thing as Rikuo if I was there instead, falling in love with Shinako just to find out she's not ready for a relationship and because of this losing interest over her, ending up falling in love with Haru, someone that has been waiting for me no matter how hard it was.

Characters: 5
The only one I think is bad is Shinako, not because of Haru or other emotional things, but because her character development was a useless waste of screentime. Rikuo and Haru are fine, even if they are kinda cliché.
- Rikuo: An alive person that lives like a dead person. His personality fits with the average person that likes anime, someone disappointed with life, it's realistic. He gets character development by deciding to find out the meaning of his life thanks to Shinako's indirect support (rejection). In the end he finds out what is bet for him
- Haru: The "weirdo-perfect waifu" of the story, someone that fans will blindly attack for to anyone who "hurt" her, even fictional characters (Shinako). An introvert girl that became assertive for the love of someone she just discovered all of a sudden. Yes, love is a senseless emotion, but I feel forced the way she fell in love with Rikuo, I'm the kind of person that wants good reasons. Even if she's a cliché character at this type of stories, it's impossible not to fall in love with her, that's why she was created for.
- Shinako: Someone living in the past, someone that thinks impossible to live a future without overcoming the past. Maybe some fans wrongly think she's a bad person for "toying" with Rou and Rikou by not explaining thinks clearly and giving them chances, she's not. Most anime fans are used to think all female characters must be perfect, no important problems allowed, that's why when they see one with emotional problems, they don't understand it and if she somehow gets in the way of their waifu (Haru), they will hate her to death.
She stays negligent with her decisions in the climax, something I disliked.
I remember Haru saying that Shinako has the advantage over her because she has known Rikuo for a longer time than her and had more opportunities, but that's not true. Even if Shinako has the "time" advantage, she never used her opportunities with Rikuo until near the end of the anime because she was trapped in the past. That's why Haru won, because she worked hard for Rikuo's love for longer and used all her chances, unlike Shinako.

Sound: 5
Ok for me, background music does its job, but I found negative the lack of opening tbh.

Character design, scenarios, animation: 4 | 8 | 6 = 6
- Character design: Kinda mediocre, but good enough when needed.
- Scenarios: Good, beautifully made and better than the average.
- Animation: Ok, but could have been better. Not too smooth, but not bad.

Enjoyment: 6
Enjoyed untill I reached the climax, then I wanted to drop it.

Overall: 5.4 = 5
I've been a fan of Romance/Slice of Life/Drama stories for a long time because they are the most realistic and human ones, even if they are fictional stories. Yesterday wo Uttate does a decent job expressing what this kind of stories want to be, but not at the level of other stories of its kind like Anohana, Kokoro Connect or Nagi no Asukara. I would rate it 6 or even 7 if it wasn't because of that forced climax, even if I believe that the love triangle ended logically and subjectively correct. Most average of Romance/Slice of Life/ Drama stories usually get bad near the end, Yesterday wo Uttate is another example, just like Glasslip or True Tears.