Review of Sing "Yesterday" for Me

What are you getting yourself into if you choose to watch Yesterday wo Utatte? You'll be getting a slow paced, slice of life love drama, that attempts to be realistic. Long story short, we get a few characters' daily lives as they go through the complicated struggles of love. To start off with, one thing I really liked about this anime was the art style and the animation. Just looked a bit different to the stuff we're now used to seeing, so it was nice to look at. With the animation, I'm obviously not saying that you'll be seeing the most eye-catching things in theworld, I just appreciated that the characters tended to actually move and change expressions as they talk. It was actually nice to watch the dialogue (which is quite important in a drama that revolves around people talking).

Now let's go with the story. I personally enjoyed most of it. People have their everyday issues, and this story simply follows the way our main characters end up coming to terms with them (or generally, the ways in which they deal with them). It mostly revolves around the characters (romantic) feelings towards each other (since this is a love drama after all), as well as some exploration of our protagonist and what he wants to do with his life in general. There isn’t much else. And many may feel that this, on its own, is probably not enough for this to be successful. If you would agree with that, or if this generally does not sound interesting enough, then this anime will NOT be for you. The show doesn't really do anything too special, so it would be completely reasonable to not find this idea interesting. In general, it seems quite slow paced; not much progression is actually made in each episode (with the exception of the ending, which was very much rushed, and the main reason I couldn’t give this a higher score, despite my overall enjoyment). However, I personally enjoyed that aspect of the story. Something about just taking it slowly, and trying to slowly flesh out the characters and their web of feelings and interactions appealed to me. Overall, I felt the show was really good, with the exception of the ending, which was rushed (this would have benefited from having 6 more episodes, which is what many of us that watched it as it aired expected it to be in the first place)

So, in the end, should you watch this anime?
If a slow paced drama sounds appealing, then yes!
If it doesn't, then there isn't anything special about this show, so this may be something to just skip.