I'll try to update whenever i finish a new series, which, at the pace i'm going, isn't exactly very fast... On to the review!
H2O ~FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND~ is a story about a blind high school boy [Hirose Takuma] from the city who moved to a little remote village after his mother passed away. He goes to a new high school in the village and gets to know several girls, and one "girl", which the story revolves around. They are...
Kohinata Hayami
The heroine of the story. From the first episode, she seems like a cold, aloof character who disregards everyone. She is continuously bullied beaten up and called a "roach" by the rest of the villagers. Later on in the story, we find out that Takuma [in background] has fallen in love with her over time. I almost cried during the scenes where she got beaten up by her male classmates, and refused to retaliate for she believed she deserved that treatment. A classic tragic character.
Kagura Hinata
The boring competitor in the quest of "turn-Takuma-into-my-boyfriend". She's your typical nice girl, excellent in studies, well-liked, except for one problem. She is actually the younger sister of the real Kagura Hinata, who drowned when they were still children, and has assumed the identity of her superior [in the eyes of the villagers] sister since then. Her conflict with her grandfather, the villain of the show, could have been fleshed out much more, but somehow in the anime it seemed to mysteriously be left hanging in the air without anything happening until the last episode.
Those are the characters really worth an introduction in this show. The rest are, to me, just "pei jiao" [auxillary characters], most of which are colorless in their personalities. The show, however, is worth a watch just for the sake of Hayami's story, one that shows us the ugly side of human discrimination. The pace seems a bit slow though, even though its only 13 episodes. Nevertheless i found it a good watch, and surprisingly for an anime adapted from a adult visual novel, there's almost no panty shots in this one!
