Anime: Fuyu no Sonata

In resume, a story with many romantic cliches and hard to happen situations that manages to be watchable.

Sound 9
The main strong point of this anime is the soundtrack that clearly improves the overall experience. With 26 episodes long, some people could find tiring listening the same melodies repeatedly, however I very much liked the music related parts of this series.
The voice acting however is another story, at first I was put off with the lack of emotion that the voice actors where showing, later I got accustomed and could feel more emotion in their interpretation, I can't tell if the voice actors improved their performance along the way or my Korean listening skills improved, I don't know if Koreans talk like that but I feel that the voice acting in this anime fails to deliver in many parts.

Animation 9
It's good for today standards, the character designs are lovable without being unrealistic beautiful or deformed, I feel they fit perfectly with the genre. However, the ending is very disappointing, but it can be skipped without losing much of the story (which at that time is totally wasted).

Story 6
The biggest flaw with this series relies in the execution of the story, it has the potential to be a very good romance-drama, however due to many over complications and hard to believe events, it ends being just a mediocre love story with some interesting twists. I am a loser for romantic dramas, and certainly I would lie saying there is no drama in this anime, there is (and a lot), but most of it is just made-up drama for the sake of enlarging the experience. The first episodes are the best ones in terms of execution, and I really recommend them, they really put my hopes high, but after that everything went down hill leaving me with a jumping the shark final taste.
I understand that most (all?) of the stories are artificial, but good writers make their work good enough to hide them from their readers, so you don't end feeling like you have being told an artificial story at all at the end. This is not the case, after the mid of the series is evident where everything is going and you can predict easily how everything is ending. Now, I like happy endings better that sad endings but I don't want a story to be so ridiculously retouched just to make it fit in that "happy ending", so I felt this story very artificial, a good start ended as your average soap opera. That said, some people could like this, there are lots of popular soap operas in all countries. I don't recommend seeing the episode 0 (I did and I kind of spoiled myself a bit), if not I would have enjoyed the initial episodes best, but my final valuation would be the same.

Characters 7
The main male characters has sometimes the grace of a brute and the voice acting of a sleepy person but remains watchable. Some people is well portrayed, with a better executed story some of the characters would have get more deep and value.

Value/Enjoyment 7
Starts with 9 ends with 5. Declines fast.