Manga Adaptation by TYO Animations
Simulcast on Crunchyroll

Premise
Classical Japanese poetry liberally re-imagined in anime form.

Jel’s Thoughts
I don’t know anything about the poems this anime is based on and I get the impression that if I were an average Japanese adult I would at least know what they are. So that’s one hurdle Uta Koi already has going for it. I can get past that as the two tales presented are pretty universal love stories, in fact I applaud the concept in theory. In practice however, this is a mess. Rather than highlight the beauty of the source material, this episode just got downright silly, marred even further by a cartoony art style and the most inappropriate OP and ED I’ve heard in some time.

Verdict? I Demand To Be Taken Seriously 
I love the idea and maybe I’d appreciate it more if I was familiar with its origins, but it’s hard to appreciate the emotional impact of the material with such a lighthearted presentation. You’d probably be better off passing on the anime and looking up the poems instead.

Lifesong’s Thoughts
I’ve read bad eroge with better dialog than this. I didn’t think anything would top the awful execution in Kingdom but oh was I wrong. Kingdom might be worse overall but this was so bad I don’t even want to laugh at it.

Verdict? Awful 
Want haiku an’me?
Sengoku Collection sev’n.
Has your fix handy.

Irothtin’s Thoughts
Love poems adapted into an episodic anime format.

Verdict? Not Poetic 
Here I wrote a haiku about how bad this show is:

The plot of this show
Moves just like a bad hentai
Loose women are lame

Marlin’s Thoughts
I’ve never really understood Japanese poetry. Either way doesn’t help that this show sucked.

Verdict? Poetry Slammed 
Oh how ironic
Despite story’s origin
No poetry found