#sakura trick

[himejoshidoll]

[beanghostprincess]

To be a sapphic you have to do the upside down pose or else it doesn't count

[baltharino]

Sakura Trick 01 ❀ "A Cherry Blossom-colored Beginning"

[kitsunebis]

₊˚⊹♡ 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝓋𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑒'𝓈 𝒹𝒶𝓎 ♡⊹ ࣪ ˖ ݁

[junosartz]

Shitty Sakura Trick sketches

[basil-is-adorbs]

The Gay is too strong

[theirisianprincess]

She straight up saw it happen and still went into denial mode.

[lesboymetaknight]

The shows that awakened something in us.

[unluckiestmember]

Maybe in another life.

[himejoshidoll]

[flchan]

[baltharino]

Sakura Trick 02 ❀ "Yet Another Cherry Blossom Color"

[maryeont]

[mx-pokirby]

Episode 1 review of Sakura Trick

I'm conflicted in a way that makes me curious to watch more

The explicit "selling point" of this anime is that there are girls, and they kiss. Genuine, unapologetic, not-a-joke, canon, on screen, love-fueled girl-on-girl kissing. "These bitches gay. Good for them, good for them."

When the two leads kiss in episode 1, and even when they're just yearning for each other from afar, it's really sweet and wholesome and makes my gay little heart go :)

Now here's the middle part of the compliment sandwich where the not compliments come in.

Less than 15 seconds into Ep 1, the very first time we see of one of the leads is a cliche, albeit not explicit, slow pan-up shot of her bare legs, then the rest of her doing a cute post for the camera. No, it's no "grave offense", it's just a nice single example of a pattern we quickly noticed throughout the episode.

Despite essentially being about lesbians, the show (ep 1) also absolutely has "cute girls doing cute girls things/moe appeal/male gaze" written all over it. The way the girls are generally framed by the animators says everything. Even the OP shows them all off in bathing suits and 'family-friendly' naked. Except for the actual kissing scenes, which feel like they were intended to evoke feelings in a specifically lesbian audience.

We're thus led to the conclusion that this anime's ideal target demographic is not myself; it's myself (or more specifically Isabelle) like 10-15 years ago. An anime for growing "boys" who want to gawk at cute girls, and get a funny feeling in her chest when she sees these girls kiss, even though she's totally not gay like the characters are because she likes girls, and she's "totally" a straight boy, which then makes her sad cuz it means the characters could never be interested in her for being a boy.

... What was I talking about? Oh, right. Anyways I think this already shows the potential of once being able to be one of my favorite Slice of Life's as a teen.

But anyways we highly doubt a work like it would've ever been made with the intent of specifically appealing to pre-out trans lesbians, so I've no clue what the actual goal was to tell if they succeeded or not.

[glitter-nicky]