Review of Sing "Yesterday" for Me

Story: 9 Art: 9 Sound: 5 Charecters: 10 Enjoyment: 8 Overall: 7 Doga Kobo is back at it again with ANOTHER moe anime and it's... wait... what? It appears this anime isn't moe at all. This is a darker themed reflection on adulthood and growing up. For all that are reading this I want to make sure that you know that this review is coming from a highschooler. That's what I am at the moment. I have no experience living on my own, paying my taxes or really falling in love. So I want that to be kept in mind as my point of view will probably be much different thensomeone in college or already in the work force.

This anime focuses on 4 people. Rikuo Uozumi, Haru Nonaka, Shinako Morinome and Ruo Hayakawa. Over the series these charecters are experencing and experimenting with love and adulting. (except for Ruo who is in highschool most of the series). Sometimes certain scenes will leave me in awe with how well executed and how well these charecters personalities clash with one another. It's truly amazing to me how well a studio like Doga Kobo could do something like this. This is no Umaru-chan. These charecters are so deeply personalized and individualistic it would seem almost impossible for me to describe them! You really have to watch it to get it. Doga Koba did an AMAZING job with this aspect. It really had potential to be a 100% 10/10 overall for me. But I'll get into that later.

The music. Not the biggest fan. I'm not going to let it affect my overall score becuase I feel like in a show like this it would be irrelevent. It's not drop dead horrible but it didn't really catch my attention.

Except for one very special ED.

The third ED in this show just GOT ME! I don't know why but I love how they show all the charecters and all the different "love combonations" at the beginning. To then cut to each of the charecters in doing things in their "natural habitat" you could say. It then resolves under one backround, unifying all the charecters, together.

Almost every episode of this anime felt like a full length movie. But that's a huge almost. The pacing was perfect in this anime! Slow and steady wins the race. Until the last couple episodes. Everything went so fast it was almost sickening. And I understand that they had to work under a 12 episode handicapp but I feel as though it would've been a much better option to have two 12 episode seasons or an 18 episode season (LIKE WAY MAL HAD PUT IT... thanks a lot...). But I really think if they had the opportunity to take their time this could've been something truly amazing. And this is coming from someone who liked the outcome. You can't build a rollercoaster that has a slow build up to a huge drop but halfway through stop building the other half of the ride up and only finish the drop. Granted, the riders will still get to the bottom, but as you could probably imagine it's not going to be AS fun.

Overall I would recommend this to others. And I heard the manga is so much better. So I'll probably be checking that out.

Thank you for reading.