I don't usually write reviews for anime, but I wanted to do so for this one. Yesterday wo Utatte is a drama-romance-comedy anime about crushes, dating and friendship. I gave this anime a 9/10 score, and will go into the details now. (my main points are written in the "character" section btw.)
📖Story (8/10):
The plot is pretty simple. No action, adventure, fantasy magic, ecchi fan-service, oversized boobs, etc. Just a coming-of-age story with innocent love and friendship. We start off with a love square. Haru loves Rikuo, but Rikuo has had a crush on Shinako since their university years. Shinako considers Rikuo a friend. A highschooler
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called Rou loves Shinako, but she only considers him as family. The whole anime is about the development of these four's relationships. A simple setting, but intricate story.
It's very entertaining to watch if you want to spectate realistic human relationships and conversations. Some of their lines really hit home, and bitter but sweet thoughts and emotions welled up in my heart and mind. I personally thought back on my relationships (past and present) while watching this anime, and could relate to a lot of events, while some I didn't relate to, but made a note in my mind to do/not to do the same thing.
📷Art (10/10):
The art and animation is magnificent. This is pure eyecandy. There are no flashy lightings like in action animes (Fate UBW for example), nor is there colorful tones everywhere. The colors are very realistic. They're colors you would actually see in real life. The usual grey, black, white, brown. But the art-style is beautiful. The details in the characters are impressive, and the animation of their movements, their facial expressions capture actual human movements and faces so well. For reference, if you liked the art and animation style of Plastic Memories and Engaged to the Unidentified, you'll most likely appreciate this anime's art as well.
🎵Sound (8/10):
Personally, I didn't find anything impressive with the sound and music in this anime. Music didn't really stand out, but it wasn't useless either. While there were no epic drops or anything, this anime's story and style didn't really need those epic sounding soundtracks. For this anime, the sound was pure background music. You don't really pay attention to it, but if it weren't present, something would feel off. The guitar+strings combo added a sweet and heartwarming feeling to each scenes in the anime. So while the soundtrack wasn't really noteworthy, it was essential and enhanced the anime's flavor and style. Therefore, I gave it an 8 for very good.
😶Character (10/10):
So, many people had problems with some of the characters, complaining that they were too "indecisive" or "uninteresting" or whatever. Personally, i found that to be the charm and core of this anime. In most animes these days, you have a lot of unrealistic characters who act in certain trope ways (tsundere, yandere, the super honest pervert, always shouting and screaming, etc.)
But this anime captured a real human being's behaviour, attitude and emotions very precisely in everyday life situations. The hesitation you feel when giving your crush a present. The indecisiveness when you're about to confess. The thoughts that go through your mind when you want to tell someone a secret. The feeling of disappointment in yourself when you let someone else down. The feeling when you're lost in life and don't know what you want to do (as a job, as a living, as a friend, as family, etc.).
While I admit that many of the characters were awfully indecisive, I believe that many people in the world would actually act in the same way when confronted with the same situation. Even the childish characters and mature characters were portrayed masterfully.
I could relate to many of the characters, as some of them portrayed my stages in life pretty accurately. The childish one who acts a bit annoyingly. The indecisive one who doesn't know what to do with life. The mature one who doesn't hesitate to speak up her mind. The silent one who doesn't want to ruin her current relationships. Most of them I found relatable, and whenever a character picked out the flaws of another character, I would silently nod in agreement while also feeling offended. Especially the "I wish you had the pushiness that [Name] does."... That one really did a lot of internal damage... I thought back to all the past relationships, friend and family relationships that went wrong, and how it could've been corrected if i were pushier...
Anyways, so conclude, the characters in this anime were written very realistically. Many anime watchers didn't like them as they watch anime looking for entertainment and unrealistic scenarios (fantasy, magic, superpower, isekai, harem-protag). But I think that the anime industry has too many of these "unrealistic" settings today, and this one was a breath of fresh air, where every character was somewhat relatable, and reminded me of some of my irl friends & family.
🎉Enjoyment (9/10):
As someone who loves stories like this (realistic setting, intricate character relationships and development, drama, romance and friendship), I really enjoyed this anime. It wasn't like those superpower, fantasy magic anime where the action was amazing and the fight scenes were breathtaking. No. This one was slow-paced but attention grabbing. And watching the characters grow was also entertaining, as if i were watching my own child (i don't have a child tho) grow. It is something you definitely DON'T want to watch when you want some heart-wrenching drama, tearjerking romance, or hilarious comedy. But something to watch when you want to relax a bit and want some fresh air, but still want intricate characters and relationships? I think this is worth a chance.
Overall: I gave this a 9/10 overall. The anime wasn't a masterpiece, but it definitely portrayed human relationships and behavior, emotions and thoughts masterfully. It was truly a "great" anime. One that I will keep in mind when people ask me for 'realistic' romance anime.
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Jun 20, 2020
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I don't usually write reviews for anime, but I wanted to do so for this one. Yesterday wo Utatte is a drama-romance-comedy anime about crushes, dating and friendship. I gave this anime a 9/10 score, and will go into the details now. (my main points are written in the "character" section btw.)
📖Story (8/10): The plot is pretty simple. No action, adventure, fantasy magic, ecchi fan-service, oversized boobs, etc. Just a coming-of-age story with innocent love and friendship. We start off with a love square. Haru loves Rikuo, but Rikuo has had a crush on Shinako since their university years. Shinako considers Rikuo a friend. A highschooler ... 
Feb 20, 2017
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