Netsuzou TRap

Do you want to root for an abusive romance just because it's yuri? Do you want to see non-consensual lewd yuri scenes? Do you want to see people cheating and causing others pain? Do you like watching people so unlikeable that even those with the lowest of self-confidence can point to them and remark, "Well at least I'm not like them." Then NTR is for you.

Not only is NTR filled with terrible people doing terrible things, but it's also a terrible story filled with terrible characters. First off all of these characters besides the main guy are unlikeable. Yuma is at least meh, but ... she still does terrible things even though it should be obvious that what she's doing is wrong. Ultimately I view her more as the scapegoat for Hotaru's abuse rather than someone to hate on her own. However, her own "feelings" towards Hotaru are so tacked on and poorly done that it makes it hard to like her even with this knowledge. She's tainted by those around her and what the plot decided to do with her. Especially when she started to turn into a controlling douchebag too. It was as if they thought 2 controlling douchebags weren't enough, they needed to have 3 of them.

Fujiwara and Hotaru are the worst of the lot, and it's hard to imagine characters that are worse than these two. Hotaru is a manipulative and abusive dirtbag. She frequently comes onto Yuma under the guise of helping her. Then she molests her without her consent even as Yuma tells her to stop. The show is clearly trying to go with "Yuma loved her all along so it's ok", and makes this clear as it develops. But no, that is sexual abuse and it is not ok. Furthermore, the way that Hotaru acts is disgusting. She manipulates Yuma into relying on her for everything. She is trying to be her practice, her outlet, the thing that helps her stand. This is a common abuse tactic as it makes it that much harder for the person to get rid of their abuser. She's trying to make it that she is needed, so that she can't be disposed of, and quite frankly it's disgusting. The way that she tried to plant seeds into her mind that she liked it, the way that she takes advantage of her, and the way that she has no respect for relationships or boundaries. I don't even care that much about the cheating, I care about the main ship is one that's based off an abusive relationship.

And no just because Hotaru is being abused by Fujiwara does not make it ok. In fact, it only trivialized it as it feels so phoned in that it's hard to take seriously. It's clear that they're trying to come up with some sort of excuse for one of their leads to be abusive, but it just doesn't work. You can't just magic away something like that, especially with an obviously evil villain. It looks fake, and like it was all set up just to excuse her. Which again I find disgusting.

Even outside of abuse the two girls basically tell each other that they can't-do / shouldn't do the very exact things that they themselves do. I'm not sure why I would want to watch a bunch of controlling douchebags but here is NTR to provide that.

The sad part is the last guy is actually decent and show what someone should be like in a healthy relationship. However, all he gets to show for it is to be cheated on and lied to. I'm so glad that we get to see the only decent person here suffer. Thanks, NTR.

Did I mention the story? First off its crap. It can't decide between echii fanservice or drama and thusly switches between the two without rhyme or reason. As a friend of mine put it, there's too much drama to just enjoy the echii, and too much echii to distract from the drama. Not that the drama is any good, and personally I find it hard to enjoy echii between scumbags. Even worse is the fact that story ends up stalling. For a good half of the show, it decides to go no where with it, and just leave at the same point. Stalling is terrible and for a show that already has so little to say and do like NTR it just makes it worse. Although admittely every minute that they don't progress means that it's every minute farther away from the yuri couple getting together, which is a benefit although a small one. Not to mention it keeps on cycliDo you want to root for an abusive romance just because it's yuri? Do you want to see non-consensual lewd yuri scenes? Do you want to see people cheating and causing others pain? Do you like watching people so unlikeable that even those with the lowest of self-confidence can point to them and remark, "Well at least I'm not like them." Then NTR is for you.
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Wait was I somewhere? Sorry about that. But I'm sure you can see how that can be annoying..

Not to mention it keeps on cycling the same plot ideas over and over again as if it's incapable to come up with new ones, which at this point I'm pretty sure is exactly what happened.

The art is also pretty bad, and the production values are all terrible. I never really payed attention to the sound because these immoral douches drowned out any care I had about the other parts of the show. When a show glorfies a couple based off cheating and abuse it's hard to care about any other part of it. Add to that a story that goes no where and some of the least likeable characters imaginable, you have a recipe for one of the worst anime out there, which NTR is.

"Netsuzou Trap" is a very poor netorare show. If you’re not familiar with the term, netorare shows are shows that deal with adultery, aka cheating on your partner. In this case, it was Hotaru cheating on Fujiwara with Yuma who, in turn, cheated on her boyfriend Takeda. While the characters gave a valiant effort to try and save this show from being absolute trash, it didn’t do enough to make it decent. The only blessing about this show is the length of the episodes (9 minutes). This anime is something you can get in, watch and get out of rather quickly so there really isn’t ... any harm in watching the show. There definitely is a lot worse out there. Generic would be the best word to describe this....

Before this show came out, I had been a fan of the manga. The story isn’t particularly good, but good art and yuri is enough to keep me entertained. Luckily, this anime was released, giving me the opportunity to uncover the very poorly hidden flaws in the original story as well as directing and writing errors in the adaptation! As the manga progressed, I was actually kind of happy to see that there was a toxic relationship between Fujiwara and Hotaru. Granted, Fujiwara’s blank face immediately gives away that something is wrong, but regardless I was interested to see how they would turn ... out. That is, until I started the first episode.

Once I saw that each episode of NTR would only be 9 minutes with about 2 minutes’ worth of opening and ending, I already knew that the anime would not give the manga what little justice is deserved. But with this terrible cast of characters, I don’t even think a full length show would help them. From the manga alone, I was well aware of the fact that Takeda and Yuma weren’t the most interesting characters, but it’s the anime that makes this very blatant. The only thing I’ve seen Takeda do is blush and look like the stereotypical male side character of a romance anime. Yuma has it even worse. Most of her lines are “Wh-what?! Hotaru!” and her only emotion is embarrassment. I’m honestly surprised that the two of them actually managed to be in a relationship. High schoolers or not the two of them lack romantic chemistry of any sorts and are only capable of blushing to one another.

When I complain about an anime, I rarely stray from talking about the story, characters, and uses of animation to tell a story. However, I feel like I would be committing a sin for not mentioning that some of the direction in this show is just jarring. My first complaint is that the opening doesn’t fit with this show in the slightest. I couldn’t care less about the pictures that go with it seeing that each time I see it, I’m distracted by the rock song playing. There’s no way to get around it either. If I were to mute the opening, I’d have to watch basically some moving stills for a minute and 30 seconds. The opening lacks much actual animation and tries to cover everything in effects and filters to give the illusion that something cool is happening. It doesn’t help that the ending is a textbook definition of putting the bare minimum of effort into something.

Aside from the opening and ending, the direction of the show at some points is just horrendous. I had to rewind some scenes several times just to understand what was happening. This may sound like an exaggeration so let me give two examples. From episode two, there is a scene where Hotaru pulls Yuma into a kiss from behind a bush so that somebody inside the school can’t see them too well. When Takeda calls for them from the school window, the animators portrayed the distance of the characters and their positions in relation to one another so poorly that I thought that Takeda was diagonal from the girls rather than above them. The second example has to be the most amateur thing I’ve ever seen in anime. From episode 2 again, Takeda shows up to Yuma’s classroom to ask about going to the amusement park during the weekend. Yuma thinks ‘I’m not ready’ and then THERE IS A FAST FADE AWAY AND THE QUARTET IS IN AN AMUSEMENT PARK. This scene actually made me do a double-take. If you choose to make episodes of a somewhat story driven anime to only have 6 minutes’ worth of content, at least get a director who can make decent transitions.

As stated earlier, I don’t like Takeda and Yuma due to their flat personalities, but it’s really Hotaru that disappoints me. Partially due to the rushed pace of the show, the changes of her mood are laughably fast. You blink and she’s sad. Then you blink again and she’s suddenly cheerful again. Also, I really don’t think they casted the right voice actor for this role. Her VA isn’t bad but sometimes her performances make Hotaru’s relationship with Fujiwara seem like it came out of a hentai. I am convinced that Fujiwara is not actually a character but rather a brick with a face painted on it that has up to 3 speaking lines per episode.

Despite my complaints, I do have some praise for the show. I’m happy that the yuri in this show is not diluted. The censoring matches the censoring of the manga. Instead of literally turning Yuma and Hotaru’s bodies into clouds *cough Love Stage cough* they actually depicted sexual scenes which is rare for any anime that focuses on a homosexual relationship that’s not a hentai.

My last problems are entirely revolving around the art and animation. I won’t lie, the art looks nice. Not anything at the levels of Kyoto Animation, but nice to look at. But there’s always a catch with this kind of show. Where art hardly makes up for the visuals, the animation can be dreadful. Most of the times it’s just decent but others it’s so funny looking I actually laughed. An example being towards the end of episode 4 where Hotaru is playing with Yuma’s chest while she talks to Takeda on the phone. Hotaru kinda shakes around and it honestly looks like they pulled the scene out of a Windows Movie Maker video.This scene also leads to my main issue with the art. Every character suffers from a severe case of same-face syndrome. If you were to take a shot each time you saw the SAME EXACT faces used for every expression, you’d be in the hospital getting your stomach pumped halfway through the fourth episode. Even so, EACH CHARACTER ONLY HAS A MAXIMUM OF THREE EMOTIONS: Default,embarrassed, and sad. Embarrassment is only shown with a blush which I can’t really complain about, but sadness is shown through the loss of a character’s pupils.

All in all, each episode of this show feels more like a trailer rather than an actual series. It looks like the staff wanted to quickly use whatever popularity NTR had, and pump out whatever they could to make a quick buck or two. Once again, another yuri show has left me disappointed. I can't believe anybody is actually watching this for the story so let me say, you’re better off watching some hentai.

So this story is about two girls who are best friends, Yuma, whose point of view the story is from, and Hotaru. Hotaru is in a relationship with a boy named Fujiwara, and Yuma recently started dating a boy named Takeda. Hotaru actually loves Yuma and is in an abusive relationship with Fujiwara, so she proceeds to rape Yuma multiple times during the show. Yuma doesn't do anything to stop her because she is her best friend and doesn't confess about it to anyone. (Also maybe gets a case of Stockholm syndrome, it's been a bit since I've watched it.) Takeda begins to feel like ... Yuma is cheating on her/ is using him, so he breaks up with her. Yuma is destroyed by this and is on the verge of a mental breakdown. She tries to get back with him after finding out about her friends abusive relationship and being raped more and I believe he agrees or just agrees to be friends for then. Again its been a bit since I've watched it and I'm not about to waste my time again. This whole show is just rape, abuse, mind break, and Stockholm syndrome. If you like that, then you will probably like this show. The reason I decided to write this review is because I saw someone rate this show a ten, which is fine I guess. But he called it a mutual love for the girls and both the boys being played by the girls, which is complete BS. I don't care if you like this show, but call it how it is.

(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)

Being trapped in some form is almost never a fun experience.

It doesn’t have to be tangible like locked inside of a room because of a misplaced key. It could also be a mental cage of sorts like anxiety or depression. Whether from a physical or a psychological standpoint, the trap is set, and the feeling of helplessness consumes.

One other way to reach this same feeling is through watching Netsuzou TRap, an anime which “traps” the audience with boredom, uselessness, and irritation aplenty.

STORY

Those with a keen enough eye will notice a strangeness in the title of ... this anime. The “r” there is capitalized for a reason: to complete the initialism “NTR”. In this context, “NTR” stands for “netorare”, an infamous genre within the sphere of animated Japanese pornography (i.e., “hentai”). It centers on unwanted sexual advances of an extreme measure. While this description purposefully avoids simplified, coarser language for the sake of professionalism, suffice it to say that NTR is a niche among niches.

Thus, true to its title and as it forewarns, Netsuzou TRap channels this genre in the content it delivers. A young lady name Yuma dates her new boyfriend Takeda as she contends with her best friend Hotaru and her “pranks”. Now, the anime by no means reaches the same level of depravity (if only because it is not considered hentai), but the genre’s shadow falls over this anime across its just-under-two-hours runtime.

Fetishes aside, the audience will find next to zero value within this darkness.

The show attempts to prove differently, though, with its risqué scenes between Yuma and Hotaru. Representing one of its only major allures, their presence at least makes sense given Hotaru’s motivations and the negative nature of the narrative. Yet the anime doesn’t know what to make of them. Yuma will be shocked and appalled at Hotaru’s actions but will soon after forgive-and-forget. Which leads back to shock and then once again to forgiving and so on and so forth.

Such a churn gives Netsuzou TRap the vibe that it is not so much a worthwhile story with some ecchi material sprinkled in but rather a bunch of lewd moments loosely stringed together by a haphazard narrative. That is to say, a lame excuse for some perverted asides. This argument becomes more apparent when sifting through the non-risqué scenes.

For instance, infrequent tonal problems pop up despite the seriousness of the situation. Hotaru jokes about (not) raping Yuma despite the serious tone of the situation and having literally felt her up in the bath minutes prior.

There’s also the dialogue and how it treads the same ground over and over. Yuma repeats constantly about understanding Hotaru and being so close to yet so far from Hotaru and hating the fact that she does not know every side of Hotaru. It gets very same-y very fast.

Its dramatic edge chooses not to find anything beneficial, either. Netsuzou TRap contains potential talking points about homosexuality, relationship abuse, and the meaning of love. Yet, much like the ecchi content, their existence within the anime rarely leads to a stronger thematic foothold.

Realistically, if one wants an interesting story, it isn’t here. And if he or she wants some titillation for the imagination, it would be better to seek out normal porn (hentai or otherwise). Thus, because this show fails in both regards, it remains out of the light indefinitely.

ART & ANIMATION

The visuals for Netsuzou TRap rise above the story they present. That’s not saying much and, indeed, not by much anyway.

At the minimum, the character designs, while not exactly inspired, conform to the anime’s aims and the characters personalities. Takeda is plain looking to go with his good-guy self, and Fujiwara is a bit more eccentric (taller, unkempt, silver palette) to go with his bad-guy self.

Similarly, Yume’s design (lighter coloring) and Hotaru’s design (darker coloring) coincide with their opposing roles within the show while still maintaining their cute and refined looks. Furthermore, the show bolsters its ecchi scenes with better animation than usual, making sure that the grabbing, touching, and caressing matches the intensity of the ladies’ lust.

The remainder of the artistry leaves much to be desired. The bland setting hardly ever stands out. Weird fade-to-white cuts happen on occasion to move the setting along. Its jokey style which accompanies the comedic moments feels out of place.

More generally, the quality of the visuals lessens as the season progresses with lower movement and worsening actual animation. Episode six is particularly bereft of problems, such as forgetting to include Hotaru’s side ponytail and mistimed mouth synchronization.

With these errors and the boring artistry in general, the visuals scrape by at best.

CHARACTERS

Netsuzou TRap mostly centers on four important people: Yuma, Takeda, Hotaru, and Fujiwara. Yuma dates Takeda, Hotaru dates Fujiwara, and the lot of them find their relationships tested on many different fronts.

Yuma is the most out of tune with her feelings, and so her designation as the main protagonist makes sense. Nervousness keeps her from going further with Takeda, a young man who sincerely respects her and their romantic bond.

On the complete opposite end, Hotaru seems to know exactly what she wants, letting Yuma know as well (under the guise of “practice”). Same goes for Fujiwara. As he would put it, he hates women but loves sex, so his own “bond” with Hotaru barely extends past hormonal needs.

Besides Fujiwara, whose involvement equates to a fourth-wheel given his barebones connections with the others, the cast of Netsuzou TRap arguably stand as the show’s strongest aspect. If only because they own up to their respective parts in this dramatic dance.

For instance, Yuma struggles with her tumultuous feelings for both Takeda and Hotaru. She understands how poorly she treats him with her distractions and her unwillingness to face their relationship with maturity even as he always gives her the benefit of the doubt. And, with Hotaru, her small backstory about protecting her best friend and having parallel jealousies in her aloof behavior pull her the other way.

Hotaru herself refuses to budge from her common tactics of evilness, leaving her in static state for much of the season and thus failing to have a very impactful arc. Nonetheless, her manipulative personality is easily seen throughout Netsuzou TRap. She lies about her emotions. She forces unfair predicaments. She commits to underhanded plans. As her overbearing forwardness weighs down on both Yuma and the audience alike, her deplorable actions feel heavy in their implications and their control. Yes, she’s a mean person but designedly so.

As for Takeda, he’s simply a cool dude, a regular guy like anybody else. His lovestruck thoughts do not impede his supportiveness, for he reads boundaries and offers advice when possible, even as the situation turns against him. Compared to Fujiwara, Yuma, and Hotaru, who wrestle with or outright indulge in the shadier side of the mind, his saint-like attitude shines as a glimmer of hope and friendliness. Unfortunately for him, the phrase “nice guys finish last” rings true. Yet he can also rest easy knowing that he – and he alone – has the moral high ground when all is said and done.

So, unlike the rest of the anime, the characters at least have some solid ground to stand upon.

MUSIC & SOUND

Netsuzou TRap decides upon a curious option. Where the average twelve-episode anime has only one ending track, this anime instead includes three different EDs during the season. A new one appears every three episodes (except for the final three episodes), giving the audience an unexpected change of pace every now and again.

While these moodier pieces do not have much intrigue in the way of instrumentation or musicality, knowing that the show went out of its way to create multiple tracks deserves at least some recognition.

The rest of the audio direction falls short of such praise. The opening track, “Blue Bud Blue”, goes for a pop-rock song that loses its nifty guitar playing amidst the loudness. The voice-acting performances provide next to nothing of note save for perhaps Hiromi Igarashi as Hotaru not having as much nastiness in her way of speaking as needed. And the original soundtrack, while trying its hardest, fouls out with its simplistic approach.

Altogether, the sound work within Netsuzou TRap is more negative than positive – a common occurrence throughout the entirety of this project.

ENJOYMENT

A lot of my readers know that I am a big fan of the “yuri” genre. Admittedly, it’s a big reason as to why I even gave the show a shot in the first place. What I watched, though, wasn’t very rewarding or very interesting in the slightest.

In fact, the more I got through this anime, the more I came to like a different, almost opposite part entirely: Takeda. He is way too nice of dude to have to be put through these events, and I was rooting for him the whole time because he totally deserved better than he received here (title of the anime notwithstanding).

Otherwise, the show rarely contained anything of note to me. The romance elements were mostly icky. The scenes as portrayed had little weight. The ending didn’t seem all that convincing or satisfying. The show’s only saving grace? It’s short enough that it avoids becoming an absolute slog to complete. But this situation also works against it, for the anime leaves the brain as fast as it entered.

Netsuzou TRap just barely survives a full hounding. While its cast members reach mediocre execution, the rest of this unremarkable, uneventful tale locks itself away and throws out the key.

SUMMARY

Story: Terrible, a schlocky narrative that holds very little value on either the ecchi or the dramatic side

Art & Animation: Bad, an uninteresting visual direction with visible errors contains some meager designs for its cast members and marginally improved animation at times

Characters: Fine, Yuma introspects, Hotaru manipulates, and Takeda supports, fitting their roles within this journey well enough, but Fujiwara lacks involvement

Music & Sound: Bad, while the changing EDs surprise, the tracks themselves and the audio in general miss the mark

Enjoyment: Bad, Takeda is at least a super-cool guy

Final Score: 2/10

First of all, this is a rant, written in poor English. And Netsuzou TRap is horrible & will be that way till the end.

On the 5th episode (and another disgusting cliffhanger) I've decided to read manga to know the continuation (all translated 16 chapters)... it won't get better. Anyone who gave this anime chance, like me - stop right now, please. Save some hope for the ones who deserve it.

Now in details.
Netsuzou TRap has completely OK-tier art and mediocre animation, but the greatest trouble is in the characters. I still remember the feeling of disgust from School Days and Makoto-kun. That nice boat in the ... end healed some scars on my soul, but in NTR... you will meet the 100% bastard, with no character and charisma who will force you to despise him all the screen time, being the complete failure as a human being...
...who will just get away with everything. And be treated like his behaviour is okay.

That's the thing I can't stand. Portray anything, as evil, immoral and twisted as you like... but don't show it as *perfectly* normal.

If you have anything like moral compass, I mean, even that little bit that can survive half a hundred R+-rated titles (with Netsuzou TRap rated PG-13 - I still wandering who was bribed and with what amount of money) - you will despise this anime, its creator and everything about it.

I even thought about a little improvement for MAL - creating black list for authors. This feature would help you never meet anything related to people you choose. And I would have only one name in the list - Kodama, Naoko, original creator of this abomination.

So this is an NTR anime which means if you are like me and despising cheating or looking for a good romance go no further and skip this. Before the review, just wanted to say its an anime only ending so if you decided to invest in this series anyway, go the manga route.

Story 3\10
Long story short, a girl cheats on her boyfriend with her best friend which is also a female. So a yuri ntr anime to sum it up. It shows how our main MC Yuma, deals with guilt and being secretive to her boyfriend while cheating and trying to find her ... feelings. Sadly even though most of us would not enjoy the plot in the first place, its done terrible as well having the characters do unrealistic and unnatural acts in order to keep the show going and relying on cliffhangers since this is a ten episode series.
Art 5\10
This is a ten minute per episode series, so the art is gonna take a hit along with this series has 21 chapters as of this review an anime should be the LAST thing on the creators mind. The budget was dispersed equally and while not bad at all, it is lower then 2017 standards but this never really bothered me and it most likely will not bother you.
Sound 8\10
Read carefully because this is most likely the only thing I can praise about this anime. While music is subjective to each individual, The Opening was a great listen along with the ending. The OST is also where you may find some great music. I remember the OST from this anime the most besides my anger at this anime but The music will stay in your head and would be an excellent edition to a good anime but sadly it went to this...
Characters 2\10
Point of the show for most is learning to hate every character. You hate the girls cheating, along with how stupid the MC is. The main guy is our dense main protagonist of any harem where he wont get the most obvious hints of her cheating. We also have a misogynist but funny part is, he brings up the best points and does care about his friends at the very least.( note I hate the word misogynist since feminazis and sjw take it out of proportion but there is a quote and his actions that prove this).
Overall 3\10
The manga is a bit better, but I suggest unless your into the NTR genre or like cheating I would strongly advice skipping this anime but maybe listening to the opening on youtube or something.

It's too bad.

Even if – let's assume for the sake of argument – the source manga was bad, this adaptation didn't have to be bad. The premise itself could have been interesting, exploring dysfunctional and abusive relationships. While similar stories have been done before (Kuzu no Honkai as a recent example), Netsuzou TRap could have been refreshing as a yuri genre work, as it was willing to involve male characters in the main conflict.

But it falls way too short. The visuals, though not quite ugly, are substandard, and there's too much reliance on narration over film language. While the intimate scenes aren't unappealing, their presentation ... lacks finesse (less is more, as they say) and they're not paced properly (i.e., with increasing intensity).

The characters are too basic (each of the four can be described in one word, respectively). Yuma's stupidity can be chalked up to an extremely heteronormative Japanese society, but this level of denial is dated by modern yuri genre standards. The show fails to endear the average viewer to Yuma (with the exception of one aspect, which I'll touch on later).

The message behind Yuma's final dramatic plea is good in theory, but otherwise the payoff is too small for all the frustrating drama, so the message doesn't have enough impact. There's no falling action at all, either. In most romantic dramas, even a clichéd epilogue is better than no epilogue at all.

The script would have needed a complete rewrite, and it should have been a film or OVA, no longer than one hour. I could go on about the various ways it could have been better, but this is supposed to be a review, not a speculative essay.

In the end, I didn't have a bad time. I was starved for romance, and I usually prefer the yuri genre for that, so it was at least serviceable in that way. Even though Yuma was dense as a brick, Kakuma Ai's performance was actually touching at times. The series was only about 84 minutes long (without OP and ED), so it's not like I had to sit through a full standard anime season.

As it stands, Netsuzou TRap is a waste of time for general audiences. It might pass as a temporary fix for fans of the yuri genre who want to see yuri with moving images and sound, and who can stomach the cheating and the abuse... but otherwise they're better off reading yuri manga (there's some really great stuff out there), if they've already seen the handful of good anime in the genre.

If you don't mind me using this review as a soapbox... The genre may be still be in its infancy (especially in anime), so we have to be patient. Or just create our own stories. You know, be the change you want to see, and all that.

Edit: Kat Callahan has written a very interesting post on how Netsuzou TRap depicts the cycle of abuse. It's a terrifyingly fitting interpretation, and her post is an absolute must-read, but I think the fact that the story took such turns is a result of intuitive decisions by the author (in an effort to justify the plot), instead of intent based on real-life psychology. The series simply doesn't place enough emphasis on the abuse, for me to be able to believe that it is part of the message. That said, it does make the series a little better in my eyes, and it also makes me wish that the series had explored this aspect with a steadier hand.

Do I like yuri? Yup.
Do I like Netsuzou TRap? Not even if I died.
You see the problem with this series is that it could have been a good story, the potential was there, but it was wasted with stories of abuse that were not over-analyzed and a homosexual love story that had nothing particularly compelling. I would certainly have preferred something more like Shoujo Sect, which despite being a hentai has a lot more romance than this pile of dung that is called anime.
But who am I to judge, right? I'm just that poor devil who had to watch a cheap yuri. This anime is ... an animated torture. I left this anime after the sixth episode. Too much dung for me.
If you are masochists, I send you my best wishes because this series is for you.

I'll be honest. I didn't expect a thing from this series and I'm still disappointed. I haven't read the manga and I'm watching this anime only because I'm getting into yuri, so I'm not gonna criticise this anime based on its faithfulness towards the manga, but for what it is.

I despise Netsuzou TRap with a passion and it is easily the worst anime I've ever seen, so I'm gonna get with the positives first.
The art is kinda nice and I like the yuri scenes (although they don't show anything). That's it. There's nothing else positive or enjoyalbe with this piece of trash that some people ... like to call anime.

First of all, the main gimmick of this piece of fiction is probably the worst thing about this anime and it makes the other aspects of it really unenjoyable. This anime is about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend with another girl. I'm no one to judge the kind of fetish/fantasy that this anime offers to it's audience, but adultery is a horrible act that should not be romanticized in such a way.

Following with the characters, they are the four most disgusting people I've had the displeasure of encountering in a piece of media. I'm not gonna call them by their names because I don't remember nor care what they are called.

The pink hair girl is a complete idiot who doesn't seem to know what infidelity is, but sure likes practicing it. Even if it seems like she is geting forced to romantically and sexualy engage with the dark hair girl, she doesn't complain about her friend harassing her and she obviously enjoys it. She is a horrible person who does not like her boyfriend at all and she has him suffering like an idiot, while she kisses or fornicates with her girl friend.

Dark hair girl is even a worse person than pink hair girl. She is the one who constantly harasses her friend in a sexual matter. She seems to do this because she is fisically abused by her boyfriend, but I think this is a really stupid excuse to make her harass someone. If someone is being abused by their partner/friend/relative, they tend to abuse other loved people too, but not in the time they are abused, they do it in a more distant future, when it seems their emotional wounds have been healed.

White hair boy is by far the worst of all this characters. He fisically abuses her girlfriend (dark hair girl) and he is not mad about her girlfriend cheating on him, instead he uses it in his favor to blackmail her. This character is clearly a sociopath that doesn't care about the well being of anyone but himself and there is nothing remotly relatable or redeemable about him.

Brown hair guy is the only character I don't dislike, but he is such a poor unlucky bastard. He gets cheated by his girlfriend (pink hair girl) and he doesn't even notice although being really obvious to everyone else. He is a moron that doens't really deserve what is happening to him, but should know better.

Being done reviewing each character and interactions, only leaves me with the story. The plot is nearly inexistant. I mean, the characters do stuff and go to places, but everything they do is completly unimportant, being the only important parts the ones where the characters harm each other in one way or another.

I haven't finished this series and I don't know if I will, but I highly doubt this anime with horrible and unrelatable characters, boring plot and morally questionable themes will get any good.

As the title suggests, this is a show about cheating, so by that point alone, it won't be for everyone. If you don't want to see major characters being complete pieces of shit and toying with other people, just avoid it altogether.

The problem with Netsuzou Trap, however, that it's not even good at being an NTR series. Because of how short it is (9-minute episodes, including a full-length opening and a short ending sequence, leaving a stunning 6,5 minutes for actual plot), it ends up feeling rushed and shallow. To make some kind of impact, it could've chosen two different approaches - going grimdark like ... School Days, punishing the characters for their behaviour, or elaborating on their internal conflicts and giving them a proper chance at redeeming themselves. It did neither, ending on a horribly unsatisfying note.

I think it didn't have to be that way, if not for one fatal problem - Hotaru. Her boyfriend, Fujiwara, being an abusive dickhead fitted the formula, just like the protagonist, Yuma, being torn between her attraction to, and later love for Hotaru and unwillingness to hurt her genuinely nice boyfriend, Takeda (spiced up by the confusion about her own sexuality). Yume makes questionable choices and could be considered a bit spineless, but means well all throughout the story. Hotaru, however, not only acts like a psychopath, seducing, sexually assaulting and toying with Yume, but the justification the show gives for it is simply absurd. She receives a happy ending with Yume, while everything she deserves from her is a slap across the face. Paradoxically, the one real "romantic moment" the show offered was the one that upset me the most - it didn't earn this conclusion in the slightest.

The show is also pretty tone-deaf, including comedic moments that completely don't fit its general climate - it makes School Days look like a masterpiece of an NTR drama. Unlike some, I didn't really hate all the characters and the general concepts Netsuzou Trap uses (I really did enjoy School Days after all). It simply doesn't know how to use any of them properly or how to appeal to any of its possible audiences. It fails as a yuri romance and it fails at least as hard as an NTR show. Even the fanservice isn't very interesting, always either including Yume being sexually assaulted or the scene being interrupted by someone (after all, you have to condense all the conflict into the tiny runtime). It ends up being and series for no one and without any real redeeming qualities.

Avoid, unless you want to watch it from morbid curiosity, like I did.

I hoped in the end the main character would realise she is the victim of a sociopath, that's why I watched it until the end.
This story shows an unhealthy, abusive relationship. Due to the main character's low self esteem and insecurities, she is being mentally, emotionally and physically abused by her sociopath "best friend". This girl uses gaslighting & projection and she avoids the subject to be held accountable. She conditions the victim to be dependent on her through physical affection, isolates her from everyone, uses smear-campain against family so that the victim is completely alone. In the end the sociopath uses her own ... boyfriend for triangulation so that the victim gets jealous. And there are many more tactics to be observed.
This should not even be aired unless people get the message in the end that this is an abusive relationship and the victim realizes this, gains confidence to break free, rescues herself or gets rescued by her environment. This show gives a very wrong image of relationships!

Hello world, this is my first review. This Show... wow.... Just Gross. I did not enjoy watching this anime. The story intrigued me at first. But as we got to know these naff ass characters. I was actually disgusted by the behavior of all of them. Not even the yuri action made me feel good. I felt really bad for Takeda. The poor boy just didn't know he had such a naff ass girlfriend. The fact that he was still nice to her blows my mind. He is bigger person than I. I couldn't do it. As much as Yuma bothered me. Wow Hotaru and ... Fujiwara. Both disgusting.

I felt no connection with this anime. I actually dropped it around week 8 but since i invested the time, I wanted to see if it got better. Nope.

And another thing. One of my favorite seiyuus was in this mess of a show and i didn't even realize it until i was told. Usually i can pick up his voice in an instant. My brain didn't even register that Daisuke Ono was apart of this train wreck.

This is just my opinion of the show. I do not have final say. If you like it, do you. We are all entitled to like what we like. No judgement here.

peacexx

After seeing all the fuzz about this anime on the internet I decided to give it a shot, so basically the plot is that the Hotaru (the blacked haired girl starts to kiss the Yuma (the orange one) for some unexplained reason, but the thing is she enjoys it,

The problem I have with this anime is that first of all, the start of the relationship wasn’t consensual, also Hotaru knew Yuma had a boyfriend, as well as her, but she still kisses Yuma knowing that.

Also every character except Takeda is extremely unlikable, especially Fujiwara, if a show has unlikable characters most of the time is ... gonna be bad for the plot, unlikable characters are okay as long as they are
actually good for the plot (that in this case is non-existent).

The plot is another problem I have, the thing is it is a problem with most modern yuri, it isn’t about telling a love story between two females anymore, yuri anime looks like it has a quota of fanservice they have to deliver or nobody will care about it.

TL;DR: A mediocre series that is just mindless fanservice.
4/10
Edit:typo fix

Honestly, I had high hopes for this anime. I saw a certain someone dedicating a whole video for the anime adaptation of NTR (and also Citrus). Didn't know about it before that, but after watching his video I couldn't wait for this yuri anime to air... But I couldn't be more dissappointed :(

Maybe it's because of all the excitment I build up, I dunno really. However these are the reasons to why I don't enjoy it:

Every goddamn character is more or less AWFUL, without exaggeration. I wanted to score "character" with 1, only reason I gave it a 2 is because of Takeda (who ... seems to be the only somewhat ok character so far).

I feel like Hotaru is forcing herself on Yuma, and that alone makes me very uncomfortable to watch this. Yuma clearly has some kind of sexuality confusion, so for Hotaru to force herself on her is in my opinion not ok, even though this anime is supposed to(?) be more focused on the sexual relationship between 2 girls.

Do I even need to mention Fujiwara? No spoilers, but yeah, don't like that dude.

To be honest, I don't even know what I think about Yuma... She is confused, but I don't know if that's a good enough reason to keep hurting Takeda and also leading him on when she doesn't know what she actually wants :/

I'm still gonna watch it through though, with little hope of improvement in the characters..

I advise anyone who plans on watching this to avoid it. This show is basically just soft core hentai. You are better off just skipping this and visiting hentaihaven for your fap material. There is little to no character development that I have seen so far, although I have only seen 7 episodes, i highly doubt the characters will be given any development in the remaining 5, especially as the girl on girl element is just getting more intense. I will watch this to completion and update if they squeeze in any character development. The art isn't anything to get excited about either, but for ... what this anime is, I didn't expect to be stunned with art, although it would've been the one redeeming factor of the show.

Why do I even watch this in the first place? Is it for Fanservice? For story?

The answer to the question above is pondered by so many people who decide to waste their precious 9 minutes per episode. Maybe everyone who stumbles upon this trash of the season perhaps doesn't realize what they're stepping into. A TOTAL TRASH!.

Here, let me describe my experience for the last five episode. First, there are two couples. "Yeah, finally some anime where the story starts with the couples already dating!". Some of you may think like that but wait a minute. The girls start to cheat on their respective boyfriend ... to......... guess who? To each other! That's right folks. This is a straight-up Yuri from the get-go. OK, maybe you like Yuri and Netorare and then ask, "Why should I hate this anime. I love Netorare and Yuri" (If you are one of the people I specify above, please seek some help. you are just in the right place for a help). Then here's another bad thing I notice here. One of the boys is just a straight-up jerk, abusive man. Another one is a straight-up way too nice man. The abusive guy is really into his character (meaning, he's a complete douchebag who will resort to any possible path just to get laid. Even worse, he blackmails the girls into doing a threesome. Rape and violence never go together well)

So, this is a complete failure in my opinion. The story just not suited into anime. it's too short. The story is disgusting (Netorare is not my least favorite genre. It's just when you combine it with Yuri and Torture, it is there where the anime turns into a sickening parade)

FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Netorare means Cuckold. Don't know what cuckold means? It basically means cheating from your partner in a sexual manner

Yes, I know that some people are into cheating or enjoy watching things that involve cheating, but that is not even the reason this anime sucks. Overall I think it is portraying very bad and uncomfortable behavior in an almost lighthearted way and I was not prepared for that. almost every scene made me feel uneasy and the thought that someone could watch some scenes in this show and not get uncomfortable/think it is normal or okay makes me very ehhh feeling. Go ahead and watch it if you do not think you will be bothered by the scenes in this, but I wish I ... did a bit more research and read reviews before watching this because at the time I did not know what I was getting myself into.

Okay so how to review this.

First the good then:
- Character designs were decent.
- The Overal animation was on par for normal.
- Voice actors were good.

Then the bad: (Oh boy where to start.)
- This is not an anime, this is a softcore Hentai.
- Not appropriate to be on Anime websites or Crunchyroll
... - Story is garbage NTR shit
- Overusage of rape scenes
- Cheap heat on the main antagonist
- The title is obviously shown ntr in it.
- Attempting to capatalise on the weird fetish of NTR in hentai
- Show is not a hentai it's meant to be an anime so most people don't want to see that.

Overal:
Do not watch this garbage. The plot of this show makes Eromanga sensei look like it was written by Shakespear. I'm actually genuinely angry that this is even a thing.

If you want sweet,cute yuri love story then this anime isn't for you.The characters are dreadful except Takeda.The mc is dense as hell,Hotaru is a slut who can't keep her skirts up more than a second and Fujiwara is a horrible person overall.I feel no romantic feelings toward Hotaru and Yuma.They are no more than friends with benefits and Hotaru will only have sex with her when she is piss off with her boyfriend.Meanwhile,Yuma the the main character has as much as personality as a rock.She cheat on her boyfriend with Hotaru but doesn't think as it is cheating because they are both girls.This is ... the most stupid reason for cheating I ever heard.She only hurts Takeda who is the most decent character in the series.

I continue to watch the anime for the best guy(Takeda) hoping he will have a happy ending because there's no other reason to watch this series.Thankfully the show is only 9 minutes long.The show fanservice is not that great and average at best.The seiyuu for yuma is a great actress but I don't think she is great at voicing the character during fanservice(organasm).

Skipping this show won't have any effect since it's quite forgetful.I recommend this show for people who are tired of watching yuri anime where the couple may or may not kiss (You know what I mean)