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I think this anime is riding on the back feet of Kuzu No Honkai. Both series are cuck smut with lesbian/bisexual protagonists. There has been a growing appeal for lesbians in anime since 2009's release of K-On or at the very least 2011's release of Yuru Yuri. For some reason, it's appealing to see cute girls act gay or kinda gay with each other. I think all the faggotry these shows and others like Hibike Euphonium, Sakura Trick, and Fate Kaleid, just to name a few more, are accepted because it feels more realistic for girls to be genuinely romantic with each other than ... with men. There's a lot of harem anime out there that would make anyone think differently, but really there's only a gift bag's worth of genuine hetero-romance anime out there. More recent examples of such include, Koe no Katachi, Tamako Love Story, ReLife, and Kyoukai No Kanata. In these anime, romance is the focus of the show and the love coming from the main characters seems genuine and mature. If the characters is these anime were real people, I'm sure they would be together for a long time. For romance in a text to succeed to the majority of a mass audience, the romance must seem genuine.

Kuzu No Honkai has been criticized for being unrealistic and a smut-driven drama, but I'd disagree. Kuzu No Honkai was about two teens seeking comfort for their loneliness, and they don't care too much of where they got it from because being with someone you can at least tolerate feels so much better. Hanabi in that show wasn't even really gay for her friend Ebato, she was just a horny teenager. That's realistic. All the smut and drama pays off in the end because the characters leave with the moral that they can only find true love when they're not just looking for comfort. The love these characters want feels genuine, but they're not going to get it from the people currently around them. It's sad, but true.

Netsuzou Trap is similar to Kuzu No Honkai because both sets of characters are in cuck-relationships. I refer to them as cucks rather than cheaters because, all the parties seem to not really care who has sex with who. Again, they're all just horny teenagers. Both shows open with the main characters kissing, but only in Kuzu No Honkai does the kissing feel genuine. Hanabi and Mugi kiss each other like they're in love because they want to experience true love. Them embracing each other afterward shows how tightly they cling to that sense of comfort. Both the kiss scenes are lustful, and that's fine, but Netsuzou Trap's kiss scene between Yuma and Hotaru seems to be without purpose. The most one can figure from their kiss is that Yuma is gay as fuck and Hotaru is playing with her friend's emotions. This is realistic, but what's the context? Why does Hotaru toy with Yuma like that? Claiming that she's always been that way is kind of a cop out for good reasoning. There's no other reason for Hotaru to act that way. My guess is that the author just wanted to write a realistic and smutty series with lesbians because that stuff is the 'in' thing these days. Once people realize that a concept in a series is without genuineness, without reason, or without logical explanation, the immersion is quickly broken and people are going to rate it harshly.