This quote perfectly describes the situation of the 3 main characters within the story and the problems they face. I'd also say that this anime identically portrays situations that people in reality face, as people are always looking for ways to get what they want without hurting their friends. This anime truly makes it fall in love with you as they portray their characters in a way to relate it to reality by showing that humans truly do not like change, as shown in anime as the 3 main characters wish to stay the way they are currently living forever.
First of all, to the people who wonder as to whether they should be watching this anime or not, I highly suggest that you don't dismiss this anime based on a preconceived opinion without much reasoning behind it. Although I do understand that people simply dislike the 'love triangle' category because of their own reasons, 'White Album 2' isn't quite the average love triangle anime that displays two boys fighting over a girl. I also want to mention that 'White Album' and 'White Album 2nd Season' are completely irrelative to this anime and are based off of completely different characters. I wouldn't suggest you watch it due to its mediocrity but you're always welcome to do so.
Moving on to the plot, the story revolves around the three best friends who make up the Light Music Club. Haruki Kitahara, who had begun playing the guitar and strived to improve in order to play on stage with his two other friends. Setsuna Ogiso, the school idol whom is adored by many due to her looks and kindness. And her polar opposite, Kazusa Touma, who is known as a rebel who is selfish and only cares about her music, therefore never paying attention to not only students but also teachers. Eventually, the three turn into best friends who adore each other possibly because the situation that they face are so similar in terms of the problems they face and the things they're interested in.
The characters are developed in a way where they believe that the time they spend together is just time spent developing their relationship with the intent of getting to know each other and becoming better friends, but that simple adoration towards each other turns into romantic love where they strive to develop a relationship that goes further than being friends. The way they face their incoming problems and how they react to that is truly something that will make you fall in love with the characters as they continuously still strive to staying as the three best friends who are part of the Light Music Club, but fail to do so as love intrudes their daily lives and prevent them from being the same trio ever again.
People say that they strive to maintain friendly relationships with others, or that they would do anything for loved ones. Humans tend to sacrifice things like trust, destroy relationships, hurt others, or even disregard other emotions just because of one simple fact - that they love another. 'White Album 2' portrays a person's true personality, and the things they would do for a romance. It perfectly singles out how human emotions can affect one's rationality and decision making ability and this similarity between reality and the anime; may or may not, make you fall in love with this anime.
The art of the anime, however, isn't really as special as the story, and is just average, though I still think that the normal-like art perfectly fits this deep romance story and still successfully delivers and shows the watcher how the protagonists of the story are feeling. Whether it be a character blushing, or feeling angered, the art of the anime perfectly delivers visually.
As a musical oriented anime, I would have been seriously surprised if the music and OST were bad and didn't fit with a certain scene, and fortunately, I wasn't disappointed as I really did enjoy the songs they sang during their concert and played with their instruments. The sound of the voice actors were also clear-cut, and the voice actors themselves deserve a clap and truly did an awesome job as well, as they spoke in a way that fit the mood of many scenes and also made me feel really into it. They successfully delivered and spoke in a truly emotional way that made me seriously fall in love with their characters, for example, the end of the anime shows a certain character leaving and another character is truly depressed about it, and the way that character spoke made me feel seriously bad for him.
With the characters, I really do think that all three of the main protagonists are really well developed and the anime chronologically develops them and shows how the romance and guilt from betrayal affects them and eventually changes their thoughts and ideals. The romance between a set of characters is further developed than another set of characters due to scenes that showed they really loved each other and were crucial parts of each others daily lives, however, the peak of development was near the end of the anime where a sex scene is displayed (nothing is really shown) which shows how much these characters had grown as they were now entering their adolescent stages where they had to decide their future.
As someone whose watched the series twice, I thoroughly enjoyed this anime and hope people will watch this anime after reading my review, and as this is my first review, I don't think it turned out as great as I wanted it to be, but in the end, I just want to say that 'White Album 2' is a masterpiece and indeed, the best romance anime I've ever watched, and overall...
I give 'White Album 2' a 10 out of 10.
