#also just realized that shitty yuri anime probably get recommended everywhere because there isn't enough good ones to fill up a top 10 list

[curestardust]

Do you know of any other cute shoujo ai like sakura trick?

I have always tried to find any cute yuri anime, but all I ever find is the like.. clearly 10000% made for men ecchi or just straight up hentai, I really just want fluffy cgdct type stuff

I kind of gave up looking a long time ago but sakura trick gave me hope there might be something else, and I trust your taste 🤭

ohohoho that is a very high praise thank you~!

unfortunately i have also suffered my way through many-a horrid yuri experiences and the conclusion i've ultimately come to is that CGDCT anime with heavy yuri *subtext* is the closest you can get to sakura trick. yeah it's not exactly what i - or we- would want exactly but i kind of write it off as them being "baby lesbians" who just haven't exactly figured out what's going on (copium? maybe so)

anyway i do have one anime, an hour long movie, that fits exactly what you are asking for: Asagao to Kase-san. two high school girls in their first relationship and exploring all that comes with it. it's very cute~

one more i'd 10000% recommend is Konohana Kitan. while the worldbuilding is more in the forefront here and the 2 mains mostly just have heavy hint hint nudge nudge moments, 2 secondary chars (pictured in gif) are very much together. anyway i LOVEEE this anime so i just had to plug it here.

honorable mentiones that ARE shoujo ai but not CGCDT but more SoL with romantic drama: Bloom into You, Aoi Hana, Strawberry Panic

if the CGCDT part is more important, here's some stuff with pretty heavy shoujo ai subtext, just don't expect them to approach that part seriously

Hanayamata - i absolutely adore this anime~

Anima Yell - insane levels of cute

Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san - girlie has a vampire fetish (we all been there). a testiment to how far something can be yuri without being yuri (somehow???)

(Bonus) I wanted to mention Endro here. it's not a shoujo ai anime but it has an adoooorable artstyle and besides a very few sussy fanservice moments, it's a nice fantasy CGCDT watch. also this moment lives rent free in my head

SOOOO i know this list is (unfortunately) very short but i only wanted to recommend stuff I've actually seen and enjoyed personally. there's a lot of stuff out there that's either mid or just outright gross that gets recommended by almost everyone (cough Citrus cough). but i also do have a huge backlog, so i'm sure there's more decent shoujo ai anime out there that i just haven't gotten to!