Audience reviews
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fayt93
The love is superficial for everyone, they just decide that they love someone and that's it instead of actually showing development of feelings.
There are so much characters loving the same persons and for multiple of them that it's a comedy at this point and for literally everyone there is no reason at all for their love. Not even physical attraction, it's just there.
This anime is just here to throw superficial drama with nothing interesting. The characters don't evolve and there are even past classmate that just show off to declare their love and bring more chaos before just leaving because otherwise there is nothing to say.
I do not recommended, this is really bad and it was a waste of my time.
Read at the sourceGabrielSinTierra
This is yet another person writing their first review on this site just to warn others not to waste their time with this title. I read the premise of this show and I immediately thought it was worth the shot, specially since I've always appreciated productions that use 'normal' people as characters that manage to tell a compelling story. The first episodes actually made me think that this series actually had some merit until we get to the midseason. Two characters are introduced but they are absolutely irrelevant to the rest of the story and offer no further reactions to the main cast, even though basically two episodes are focused on these new characters.
Even if it isn't necessary for supporting characters to have big impact, the main reason why this seems like such a waste of screen ti…
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If Scums Wish and Domestic Girlfriend had a child.
I think this anime is a pioneer in the field of seinen and slice of life, two genres which are my favourite. I recommend this to anyone who likes either of this genre along with romance.
The anime might feel a little childish at first but this anime gives off the vibe of Blue Period while merging into the romance genre, the show is slow in dialogue but its actually very crammed into 12 episode and a lot of emotions and stories are conveyed in as little time as possible. The main takeaway from this anime is "Value the present more than the past".
Read at the sourceHeartsUneasy
Made for those of us in our 20s who want something even just a LITTLE more relatable out of the romance genre. Here our cast is split between working adults and college students, and the situations explored make it a perfect getaway from your overdone Festival arcs and Beach episodes.
Sing "Yesterday" For Me benefits greatly from not having a traditional anime opening. The spared runtime alongside the perfectly-executed pacing early on allow each episode (at least the first 4-6) to feel unusually, satisfyingly long.
Unfortunately, the second half of the show becomes a little sloppy. Evidently, this is around the time when a lot of content from the source material was cut or extremely condensed. In a 12-episode stint, it is of course difficult to work everything in, but even though I've…
Read at the sourceTZUN4I
Don't waste your time - NOTHING happens here. Just some mundane people doing mundane things. No character development, no sweet love moments, no cool twists, even the drama is not up to par! Nothing. The two main female characters behave extremely inadequate and disrespectfully towards the male characters. I swear, if someone treated me like that - constantly changing their mind and giving me false hope - i would immediately kick them out of my life, rather than feeling bad AND CLING TO THEM!! I really don't know why I kept watching - probably was hoping for something to change, but then came the finale which was downright cringeworthy.
That aside, the animation, music and overall setting are on point - a typical slow-paced slice of life anime. I read here that the manga is good and I feel…
Read at the sourceRebelPanda
Everyone reaches crossroads in their life. You have nowhere to go but forward, but you hesitate. Which road will you take? Who will you meet at the intersection before moving on?
Rikuo Uozumi is stuck. A college graduate with no future goals and a dead-end job. His friends have begun their lives as adults, leaving him behind. Throughout Sing Yesterday for Me, he encounters other stuck people. Shinako, his old friend from school and now a full-time teacher, struggles to move on from a loved one’s death. The two reconnect when she comes back to town for a local job. She seemingly always had a vision for her future, Rikuo admires that. He conflates his desire to find purpose with his unrequited love for Shinako. After he confesses to her early on, her choice to just stay friends is for the b…
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Okay, I guess I know what the author tried to transmit with this story; love is confusing and all that stuff. However, I think that the very ending of the last episode screwed it up.
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
I don't know what people see in Haru. Don't you think she is a bit of a stalker? After being rejected by Rikuo several times, she keeps going after him, waiting for him at his work and house.
In the last chapter, I kind of understand why Shinako and Rikuo split up at the end; they are confused and trying to understand what love is. But then, Rikuo goes after Haru (who APPARENTLY seemed to finally give up on Rikuo) and all of a sudden he says he loves her. Honestly, I don't understand.
Read at the sourceBlackHaze71
When I saw the slice of life,seinen and romance tag in the anime, I had high hopes for it. But was utterly disappointed.
Story: (2/10)
It’s basically about romance and life choices. The story doesn’t progress much. The same thing repeats itself over and over again. It was boring up to episode 3 and became extremely boring after that.
Characters: (1/10)
One thing I like about slice if life/seinen is the development of the characters. But here, this anime let me down. Throughout the anime, the characters remain more or less unchanged. The presence of the pet crow does not add anything to the plot.
Art: (8/10)
The art was actually pretty good. The anime had a calm and relaxing aura.
Sound: (4/10)
The ending songs were soothing but it’s not worth to remember.
Enjoyment: (2/10)
I persona…
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Probably this year's prime example of how the 12-episode format and the hardheaded insistence on it do more to damage anime than to help it thrive. Or even keep it alive, as the case were.
Yesterday wo Utatte is about as common, simple and pedestrian a slice-of-life as a story can be, so if you expect it to distract you from real life, you're gonna be disappointed. The characters themselves are also perfectly normal, everyday people, if some of them a little too one-dimensional; I'm sure many of us can find one or more we easily relate to (or could, at one point or another in our lives). There isn't a whole lot of action, as befitting life in general - if anything, it spends a lot of time contemplating the trivial everydays in quiet melancholy. Mind and soul often take center stage, and e…
Read at the sourceJiangHaoyi1979
Yesterday.......
All my troubles seemed
So far away...
Now it looks as through
They're here to stay
Oh I believe in yesterday.....
Ok, so the series' title was "Yesterday wo Utatte" or Sing "yesterday" For me, funny that this anime so much so has that thing about , Paul McCartney's song 'Yesderday" , cu'z , if one was to observe this seires as a whole everything has something to do as to how the past affected the character's in this anime , so basically it wasn't much of a surprise that this series' genre was about coming of age cu'z as the anime progresses we see as to how the characters develop. Somehow, we can say that original creator, Kei Toume, may have has use his inspiration from the said song 'Yesterday" to make a manga outta it.... TBh, I really don't know if any of the reviewer…
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Story 5/10: Even though it's nothing new or complex, each of us who had been watching it each week became so invested in it enough to be eager to the next episode. You would root for one or more characters. In itself it didn't stand for much; it was rather 100% supported by the apparent complexity of the characters, and you know what happens when a support fails. Also the Drama genre is not bad per se, but it needs to be properly dealt with, with proper pacing. Some say they rushed the story too much (it was supposed to be 18 episodes long instead of the current 12) so it would be fair to say a lot got lost in translation and and the COVID factor affecting animation studios didn't help.
Art 4/10: Could've been better but it's still watchable. It doesn't really enhance the viewing experie…
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Yesterday wo Utatte is an anime that had great potential, but unfortunately wasted it. When I saw its premise, I immediately felt a strong sense of connection to it. It's been more than a year since I graduated from college, and the show reflects the uncertainty I've felt about the future recently. Not everyone will find their success story immediately once they set foot on the real world. Feeling like you're in limbo during the time between graduation and employment is normal. Perhaps, these are just assurances to comfort me as I’ve been stuck in one place for a while now. Watching the first few episodes made me reflect if I made any real progress in life as an adult. It made me root for Rikuo's character, hoping things get better for him eventually. The show could've been an emotionally…
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There is a particular pet peeve of mine that only recently has surface because there have been so many good examples of it. If I could describe Yesterday wo Utatte with it, the word would be "Pretentious."
That is not to say everything about Sing "Yesterday" for Me was bad—in fact quite the opposite, but it's that exact reason that I want to breakdown exactly why I find YwU ultimately lackluster to what it could be.
To start off I want to define what I mean by pretentious and explain why YwU fits that mold as well as it does. Ultimately a pretentious anime is a show/film that thinks it's way more deep and complex than the writing actually reflects. A show can look as nice as it wants but if the writing is ultimately juvenile at best then what's the point? A show like the Monogatari serie…
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"You're not making sense to me...You seem pretty evasive about life. Do you think you'd look dumb if you were a tryhard? You're just being self-deprecating to give yourself a way out, aren't you?"
For an understated and reasonably well-made and interesting show, Yesterday has earned itself a lot of controversy over the course of its short run. A lot of people were attracted to this show as it started, and many of these fans were seriously put off by how the series progressed, particularly over the course of the season. Having an understanding of why this show is polarizing to its fans is important for deciding whether or not to pursue watching this show.
I agree that there are some significant problems with this show, particularly with how it was adapted and published. In June 2020 the c…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
I lost my dad when I was 15 to prostate cancer. Growing up without a father during some of the most important times in a boy’s life is hard. Whereas most people would turn to their fathers for advice and help with relationships, life, decisions, etc. I instead turned to anime/light novels/manga.
One of the mangas that has been the most influential in my life and development since my father’s passing was Yesterday wo Utatte. A tale about unrequited love, the struggles of adulthood, the pain of loss and learning to accept the way things are. Needless to say, when I heard that the anime was in production I was ecstatic. DG have always been a favourite studio of mine due to their success in the CGDCT department, but they’ve also made more serious shows that taught me life lessons like Plasti…
Read at the sourceExemplarCayman
Spoilers for the story’s end in the last paragraph - because everyone deserves to know what a vomit-inducing ending it is.
“What if we took Welcome to the N.H.K. and bastardized it into pure wish-fulfillment? We’ll earn millions!”
The isekai LN title of this series would be “I’m the most dull, unremarkable, and devoid of appeal ‘literally me’ MC in existence, yet I’m inexplicably beta-orbited by an underaged manic pixie dream girl and an inexplicably single 9/10 woman in her prime.”
In case you don’t like isekai LN titles and prefer comparisons to the previously seen shows, NHK ni Youkoso! is a perfect one. Imagine NHK. But instead of a mentally ill shut-in, Sato is just a nondescript part-timer schmuck. And instead of the troubled characters with deep backgrounds, Misaki and Senpai are…
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There a lot of long reviews out there that conveys my feelings so I'll keeps this short.
Anime started out nicely, after setting the main characters we saw some of their old acquaintances. Everything going average till this point but the last few episodes are where things start to go downhill. While the author may have tried to present that adult romance is like what is shown on the anime between Rikou and Shinako, it is not. They are not adults per se, they are just human garbage. Rou and Haru shows their emotions and expect an answer while these two supposedly adults think it is ok to just play around. This isn't realistic this is just extreme selfishness that makes you a human reject in my opinion. I don't for a second think that it is ok to show this as normal, adult relationships an…
Read at the sourceHollweg
Almost there, going nowhere.
I don't mind a realistic, slow-burning slice-of-life anime, nor do I have a problem with melodramatic teens experiencing love for the first time. My taste nowadays will probably gravitate towards the former, but sometimes you just gotta have some of that seasonal high school angst in your life. A young girl who just had her heart broken and is running home screaming while some classical music is blaring in the background? In small doses, but more importantly, when done RIGHT, it pleases me a lot.
The (main) problem with Yesterday wo Utatte is that it wants to be both... and doesn't succeeds in any. It looks like a mature show at first, but upon closer inspection, something is just... off.
It wants to showcase the struggles of real people with real, believabl…
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Life is complicated, especially when it comes to love.
Who do we have feelings for, are they enough for a close and familiar relationship or is it more of a friendly nature? This anime focuses on these aspects and presents them in everyday situations that can also be imagined in real life.
Yesterday wo Utatte was one of the most hyped series for the Spring season in 2020, so let's take a closer look at it:
STORY:
Friendzone or more? Many of us have already gotten into this situation. If the feeling of love is only one-sided, even friendship is in danger. Our protagonist Rikuo is also affected by this and experiences how difficult and uncomfortable it can be. Initially without big goals and dreams, he continues to develop with the help of his friends. He really loves his old college fema…
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This is a show about a bunch of permanent adolescents who whine and bitch about stupid shit they shouldn’t be whining and bitching about anymore, and they do so all whilst acting like the petty elements of their lives which they’re whining and bitching about are actually mature in their complexity and worthy of deep contemplation. Ultimately, this show is either one of two things: a very young, amateur author’s idea of what adults’ emotional tribulations look like, or a cynical ploy by a very intelligent author who knows exactly how to pander to impressionable audiences and trick teenagers into watching a show by presenting it as being more high-minded than it actually is. Your ability to relate to the show on any given occasion is predicated on whether or not you’re a fucking crybaby, whi…
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