Round 1: Ghosts True Tears: No ghosts, just angels (which are even more boring than spirits) If only The Ghost of Raigomaru rose from hell to strike fear into the hearts of children… H2O: There’s an awesome ghost, but everyone calls her a spirit. Regardless, she is a ghost. Advantage: H2O Round 2: Lesbians True Tears: Not even one. H2O: Not [...]
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In my honest opinion, I happened to think we were too generous with our reviews in the for the fall 2007 season. There are a lot of rationally justifiable reasons for why that’s the case: we were new to the blog scene, we haven’t done reviews before, etc. So the game plan [...]
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The final episode review which brings us to the end of this series.
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Finished the show. All I can say at first is… “oh wow”. Continuing off from 11, the trauma has caused Takuma to revert to a child state, and he thinks of Hayami as his mother. With no options, Hayami leaves for Tokyo with Takuma to try and make him recover by going back to apartment [...]
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Hirose injures Hayami in a fit of anger, after he goes out looking for her in the typhoon. When he comes to his senses, he’s back home and blind again, seemingly all this while. With a push from Hotaru’s grandfather, Hayami decides to leave the village in order to not bring any more harm to [...]
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Oh wow. More dramatic revelations this episode. So it’s revealed that the Kohinata’s were directly responsible for pushing Takuma’s mother to committing suicide, and the news of this causes Takuma’s trauma to resurface, resulting in a minor amnesia and nightmares for him. Hayami only worsens it more, by being apologetic about it, when Takuma clearly [...]
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Finally catching up on this show. Hirose brings his mom’s bell to school, causing a big misunderstanding because bells are seen as a sign of confession in the village. Yui is just… lol. Unfortunately, the bell breaks, and Hirose entrusts it to Hotaru and Hayami to fix it, while he mopes alone. This causes a [...]
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If you take one line away from this review, it’s this: They didn’t lie when they said “H2O will rock your soul.” Not in the slightest. If you take two lines, the second would be to not believe everything you see in H2O - style-wise and certainly character-wise. I know that I was for sure completely turned [...]
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And so H2O comes to an end. It's not clear, wether Hirose actually was able to see but it's not that important. All in all this show was not excellent, but still enjoyable to watch and I like the message: Everybody can achive happiness! Though he wasn't able to see and he carried a heavy burden Hirose was strong enough to help everybody in the village and so they got strong enough to help him. Some characters, especially Hinata/Hotaru matured a lot and I love shows were you can see character development and...take alook into the future. Oh my God, Hirose's feet are so thin and long *giggle* The ending is kitschy, but still I like it and it makes me feel good. Over all a three star rating out of five!
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And now the conclusion of one of the more unique drama series of this year, yet! We await what happens to Takuma and Hayami … his coping of his past … and the fate of the village! Will everybody survive? Are we guaranteed a nice future? More twists abound! Status of soul: *jaw dropped?!* …which would [...]
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I’m going to miss these chibi’s. H2O definitely has one of the more unique endings for any eroge adaption. I’m still trying to sort my feelings out on it, because it wraps everything up while at the same time leaving one thinking “what the hell just happened?” I’ll just go through things blow by blow (not [...]
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ZEXCS has truly proven themselves to be masters of the renai genre with H2O. Time and time again, it has dazzled me with its deep characters; complicated but poignant storyline; and astounding directing; and episode 12, the finale, has firmly planted the show into the realm of my all-time favorites. It has done [...]
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Wait a sec, how’d I miss this episode? x.x It slipped past my torrent radar. Oh well, catch up time: Things are going full-circle now, with the happiness appearing short-lived and characters’ problems and complications coming back. Can Hayami and Takuma make their way out by overcoming even greater challenges? Or is the village doomed [...]
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This show gets an awesome ending arc, I can't belive everything concerning his blindness was Hirose's imagination. We're coming back to the theme of a girl beaing beaten, now even by her closest friend. I wonder if Takuma will come back to normal and IF wether Hayami can forgive him.
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More emo emo this episode as Hirose gets depressed over his dead mother.
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Every so often an anime makes an unintendedly brilliant scene. It is one so perfectly drawn and executed that it could only be explained as a sheer accident. H2O’s appeared in episode 11. We were not sure what was going on. It was slowly being revealed that the past may not have been what we thought. [...]
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This was quite a nice episode, as the story finally gets rounded up. I liked the symbolic use of the upcoming storm and that at long last Hirose's blindness is a central theme again. Two episodes last and with the hostile behaviour of the villagers I wonder wether there's a chance this could end good.
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If it wouldn't have been for the episode's title, I guess, I woudln't have recognized Hozumi as a character again. So far I only saw him as a funny element, being Hirose's uncle, but dressing like a woman. This time I could see he cares about his nephew and even more important, he supports him. While Hirose, Hayami and Hotaru are involved in problems they more or less can't understand and don't have to answer for, Hozumi was part of the original events, one generation before! With episode 9 we come to the important Hotaru/Hayami decision and I have to admit I don't really care. I'm not very attached to the characters, Hirose is no man for me and I don't care wether he lives happily with Hotaru or Hayami. No matter what they are going to be in trouble with Hotaru's grandfatherd and the rest of the villagers.
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I was really looking forward to panning H2O. Seemingly a basic low-level visual novel conversion with fanservice and light-hearted ’storyline’ cliches abounding, it didn’t seem to offer much promise. It’s been a while since I got to break out my flaming keyboard and H2O looked to be just the whipping boy needed to make more endearing [...]
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Perhaps I'm the problem, but after that very serious Hinata/Hotaru story this episode seemed too funny for my taste. I'm unsatisfied with last times ending, as I wrote I was not sure wether Hotaru only wished for that ending. It's not realistic everybody just accepted her new identity. I must have been stupid not to recognize Otoha's true identity till Hirose asked her. Baka, baka!
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