H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~

[DDBen]

I found this one pretty questionable it didn't flow very well for me and as stated why make a guy blind and have his eye's work on occasion in episode 1 of all things it just seems to soon.

Anyway not sure I'll finish this series but I'm willing to give it another episode or 2 in order to find out if it gets interesting.

[Buffalobiian]

I was also trying to figure out if they guy is really blind or not. And also, the significance of the beach and sand. We have no idea if that school is near the shore, but nothing hints it, and the narration about God not being there when needed. I thought it was the girl being beaten, but in the ep, it was the guy who ventures into the sand. Guess I'll have to wait for next week.

[Ryllharu]

I thought it was much clearer after we find that Ami Koshimizu, narrating the opening scene, was playing the boy and not the girl getting beat up. Take that with what Otoha kept calling herself and doing to Takuma (the boy) and it makes perfect sense.

Takuma talks about God "not being there when he needed [her] the most." Hayami is getting beat up by the loli-bitch's two goons, and Takuma is stuck sitting at the house, blind, with the rain pouring down. Otoha granted him two times in the first episode alone the ability to see. Now that Hayami truly needs him to defend her (even if he is just a weakling), there's simply nothing he can do. Obviously blind again in that scene, he's unable to find his way to her, especially in the pouring rain where he can't hear anything.


The beach was just a figurative thing near as I could tell, maybe even a dream Otoha is somehow getting near him. The town is deep is the mountains.

[Buffalobiian]

Bakawolf & m.3.3.w's episode 2.

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[Ryllharu]

How quickly a series can turn from promising...

In the first episode, the mysteries were interesting, but now they've just become trite and pointless. Hinata is supposed to be "saving" Takuma from something, and the evils of Hayami, but not bothering to explain it by now just makes it seem incredibly childish.

Yui becomes beyond annoying, attacking Hayami for no reason, and no one, even the teacher, doesn't give a shit?! Apparently she's not even as affluent or as important as Hinata, but she's somehow the dominating force in the town and school. Maybe that's because all Hinata ever does is make the pouting noise and get all quiet.

Yui's interactions with Hamaji were cute the first time, getting all angry, but in this episode they were just obnoxious.

Everyone uses Hayami as the whipping boy, but by not explaining why, it just becomes stupid and pointless. So everyone hates her, tell us why. It's already been established that everyone hates or avoids her, she's done something to make her the ultimate target, but now it's just wasted time that could have been used for development.

The, to top it all off, they take Takuma's blindness, and make it appear that no one noticed he was blind in the first place! Why even bother, other than make the opening scene of the first episode more dramatic because he's suddenly helpless again. Even if we assume Otoha is so powerful to not only make him be able to see, but also make it so that everyone thought he was never blind in the first place.

Even the animation got worse.

Subsequently, I'm dropping this series here. I could barely even finish this episode.