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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.

Hirose’s blindness became a dud point ages ago; and that was one of the show’s charm points. But even so, he’s still quite a coward who can’t even say anything when Kohinata is called a cockroach. Not only that, but I really hate Hinata—regardless of whether she really likes Hirose or not, everything she’s doing is quite evil in my opinion. I’m not sure what to make of the back story that’s explained (everyone burning Kohinata’s house down, and possibly her parents as well), mainly because it seems to me like Kohinata never did anything wrong…but I’m sure that’s not the case.

Aside from everything though, I’m ashamed to say that I JUST FREAKING realised that Hamaji is a freaking trap (trap like Watarase Jun xD). But now that I know, his behaviour makes much more sense now. But the fact that there’s a trap in the show makes this show seem more like some poorly handled side-project of a visual novel conversion, rather than a worth-the-watch, decent anime series. Oh and some last complaints: the show tries to build suspense by adding in all these little love-hate things (such as Hinata stealing a kiss from Hirose), but frankly, it all just increases the level of ‘harem-ness’ of the show, which is definitely NOT a good thing…*sigh*.

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