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Sakura Trick Ep 1: FIRST IMPRESSION

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Here's how it started. I liked Yaoi, so I thought I might enjoy Yuri too. And since this is one of the most famous ones around, I thought why not give it a try? I did.  Didn't really like it. To start off, the two main characters, Haruka and Yuu, are way too underdeveloped for my taste. Considering how terrifyingly new I am to this genre,  I'm in no position to speak. However, as a girl who has liked other girls, this was definitely not how girl love looked nor felt like to me. The two mains did not seem to share romantic feelings for each other, but rather an extremely strong friendship accompanied by a lot of skinship. Homosexuality is a tricky theme to deal with and I want it to be portrayed in the right light, not as a form of fanservice. The amount of fanservice in just the first episode itself can be a turn-off for some people.  There were several close-ups on Haruka's D-cup boobs, which I have no problems with because boobs are great, but they were duri