Who would think to actually encounter a 1/10 show? Think about, how bad does something have to be, to have it rated the lowest you can? After watching this show I can tell without a doubt; this is the bottom of the pit.
You look around in the threatening darkness of this unknown chasm you fell into. Weak sunlight pierces this abyss, you see the frames of motionless bodies laying around you. These rotting corpses you knew from before. You tried forget, sure, but they etched themselves in the back of your mind. Unending recycling of tropes, merciless sexualization, deprived of all story and meaning. You know the list of such shows.
To be fair, at one point the majority of the popular anime shows reach into this same old trick hat too. But there's a difference between what you can consider 'borrowing ideas' and between not having a single unique, defining element in your show. If I had to summarise my problem with this show I think I would say:
"The problem with Sakura Trick is that it believes without second guessing that it came up with lesbians"
It is legitimately a 'trick'. It's a trick on you. To make you believe it will attempt to turn this around. It will become a good show eventually. Keep watching. It will change. You want to believe it. It's the family alcoholic in this unending downward spiral. But you already know how that ends. Not the way you wanted it to.
This show is a combination of these tropes that are like caffeine and nicotine. Refreshing in small doses, lethal in large ones. You will inject yourself with a deadly amount of Moe and Yuri tropes by watching this show. You will not survive. It's raw. It's concentrated. It's like you order a coke and they bring you the syrup it was made of instead. You want romance? Here's direct, non-stop, sexually overheated physical relationship between your protagonists and characters.
Sakura Trick is the definition of the 'now, kiss' meme. This is how far you can take sexual innuendo in anime without becoming hentai. But interestingly enough, it's not at the ecchi level either. It's this thing, that's just awkward sufficiently enough so that you keep looking behind your shoulder when you are watching it, even though it's not particularly explicit visually. It's that feeling of guilt that you get watching it. Do I like this? What's wrong with me? Why am I watching this? It leaves you in an existential crisis after an episode.
Sakura Trick is like locking yourself in a cage with two male, underfed Bengal tigers, who had been exposed to female tiger hormones for weeks and then throwing away the keys. It's like shutting off the water main and then lighting your flat on fire while your entire family is sleeping in it.
Sakura Trick is oblivion. Watching this show will shatter your soul. If you respect yourself or merely don't want to damage your mental health, avoid this.
