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Rating: 5/10

Impressions:

Honestly, I forgot about this show. But sorry anyways for being so behind. I find it rather annoying how simple things have gotten. If you take a look at all the complicated issues that the show once had, including Hirose’s blindness and the relationships between some of the characters, you’ll see that practically all of that has been settled. The problem is, these aspects of the show never produced anything other than badly executed quasi-drama and blatant harem comedy. I seriously can’t believe Yui and Kohinata’s relationship turned out so ‘friendly’. I hate to admit it, but this show has something wrong with just about everything it’s done…

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Popularity: 4% [?]

Rating: 7/10

Impressions:

I wonder how many people are still watching this show…and how many will follow it to the end. Once you get used to it, the show isn’t that crap. I still say that Hinata is a bitch and Hirose is a sissy, who can’t say no to anything. This episode itself isn’t that bad, but the reunion of Hinata and Kohinata is just bullshit. I mean, come on, they’ve been mortal enemies for what, 10 years now? And suddenly they can relinquish all their emotions, expect the other party to accept them, and unite happily ever after? What the crap is that? Furthermore, I don’t find any of this suspenseful or dramatic at all….(Oh and it seems Otoha was Hinata’s sister or something…)

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Popularity: 4% [?]

Rating: 6.5/10

Impressions:

I had thought that perhaps the animators decided to remove Hamaji’s ‘trapness’. But instead they decided to give us a full shot of his bare chest, which really was quite disturbing. I sure as hell never want to see that episode again…a girl’s head does NOT go on a guy’s body. In any case, the class beach episode which all harems have is here, and it doesn’t do very well for the overall drama level of the show. Which, I might mention, is approximately zero right now. I now expect nothing more than an Amaenaideyo level of harem now, as H2O is failing in every other respect. Maybe I’ll get more out of this show if I severely lower all my expectations…

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Popularity: 4% [?]

Rating: 5/10

Impressions:

I am definitely never watching H2O after watching True Tears ever again. Because H2O fails…..fails, and continues to fail. I know I would be able to put up with it more easily if I watch it first, but after seeing how good True Tears is, anything that’s just a little worse seems like uberfail to me. I also watched Clannad after H2O, but I’ll get into that when I post episode 14. I guess the same issues apply in this episode—not so good animation, not so good execution, a progressively more harem-like setting and a diminishing seriousness in the show’s overall tone. Which is practically everything the show had going for it in the beginning.

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Popularity: 4% [?]

Rating: 6.5/10

Impressions:

Sorry if I seem a bit blunt but, WOW that was shit. Well, the first half of the episode is, due to some very low animation quality and the display of some extremely annoying harem antiques. The second half of the episode does a lot better, with a lot of attention placed back on Kohinata and the entire feud happening between her and the rest of the town…though considering how one-sided it is, it’s not really a feud at all…Anyway though, I think I’m going to stick with the show, since it seems like a fun show to bash if it starts turning shit, or an interesting show to contemplate about if it does well. =)

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Popularity: 5% [?]

Rating: 7.5/10

Japanese Title: H2O: Footprints in the Sand
Genres: Harem(?), Romance
OP: “Katayoku no Icarus” by Yui Sakakibara
ED: “Kazahane” by Haruka Shimotsuki
Producers: ZEXCS
Source Material: Visual Novel (there’s also a manga)
Official Site: http://anime.webnt.jp/h2o/

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Popularity: 7% [?]