Oct 7, 2010 4:49 AM
H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~
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H2O: Footprints in the Sand
I've decided I'll start to keep a summary of my thoughts after each episode I watch. I started to do this sometime after I started watching this anime, so some if it isn't as detailed as I'd like. I think this will prove to be pretty entertaining and useful; hopefully anyone who stumbles upon these think so also. There will be tons and tons of spoilers ahead, and the same will hold true for future blogs, so be warned. So without further ado, I present to you the first of what is hopefully to be many accounts of my experiences while watching anime.
H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~
Episodes 1 through 6 -
(This section was written I think after finishing episode 6 during a pretty one-sided conversation with my brother :s )
They're finally addressing the real reasons why everyone's complete douches to the one girl (Kohinata), and some of them are actually being nice to her and stuff, and it's making me not hate a lot of them, lol. But there is one thing I don't get- what sort of power do the families have? I wasn't aware in modern day there was any sort of political or judicial power held by families, yet supposedly the girl's family was abusing their power to somehow harm the village, but all I've seen is that they didn't sell medicine to a dying old dude 'cause he didn't have money, lol. The smart choice would have been to write up a contract and agree to pay later... But whatever- no one else sold him the medicine either, so to blame them seems retarded. The anime's getting a lot better now though.
Now would be the proper time to put in episode 4... Lol.
So, I liked the first episode except that Hirose's blindness randomly goes away, though I guess it's something like he's supposed to use this time to help Kohinata, and I was drawn into the series wanting to know why the hell they were abusing her so much. I was hoping Hirose would stop it, so when his being blind got in the way of doing that even though he wanted to it definitely got my hopes up for a unique spin on things, but I guess the blind-curing was acceptable, so long as they have some reason to explain why it occurred later on.
Hirose was pretty quick to help her too, so that's not bad, made me like him a bit more. However, the reasons they gave for the abuse at the time were horribly retarded- made it look like it was because the two girls (Kohinata and Kagura) were friends rather than that Kohinata's family was somehow taking advantage of the village or whatever- still an idiotic reason, but much much much better than the one I thought they were using. Anyways, that pissed me off and made me hate a lot of the characters, lol. Specifically the teachers, the grandpa guy, abusive chick (Yui) and those 2 guys (Who look absolutely idiotic, their faces are all messed up and annoying), and sort of the blond female lead (Kagura) since she kept trying to stop the main male from helping Kohinata, who I was disliking.
Episode 3, let's see... It was okay, started to really not like the blond chick since she tries even harder to stop the guy from helping her, and that got on my nerves quite a bit.
Episode 4 was randomly inserted, and should have been left for later, but on it's own had some funny elements and what not. Would have been fine pushed back to episode 7, but I was still too pissed off at a lot of the cast to enjoy the episode very much where they had it.
In 5 Kagura finally stopped interfering, and reestablished a friendship with Kohinata, and it finally began to put an end to the parts of the show that were pissing me off.
Episode 6 established the real reasons everyone hates the girl, and put an at least temporary stop to the abuse, along with developing Yui a bit and explaining why she hates Kohinata so damn much. Seems like at least the class will finally stop being evil, or at least the majority of them I hope.
Anyways, on to episode 7
Episode 7-
Kagura stands up for herself, and tells everyone she's not the sister they thought she was; quite good over-all. The ending of the episode worries me, since it makes it seem like it could all just be a story, but this cleared out just about the last thing still bugging me about the show.
~.~.~
Predictions for the rest of the series: The old dude's probably gonna try to do some crap to Kohinata, and Hirose's eyesight is probably going to go away again at some point soon, but will still stand up against the old grandpa guy and help out Kohinata despite his handicap. He'll hopefully win over the crowd that's bound to be gathered together and call out the abusive situations that these girls (Kagura and Kohinata) are being put in because of the old guy, and he'll lose his standing in the village. The ending will be the town helping rebuild Kohinata's home that they burnt, and her and the Hirose will live there together, and the Kagura will be free from the old guy finally, probably doing some job with art. Good chance they'll do something for fixing his eye-sight magically, but personally I'm hoping he just returns to being blind and stays that way.
~.~.~
Episode 8 -
Uh-huh... Random, very very random. 98% of the episode was completely unnecessary and failed to even develop any of the characters, and the random break into comedy/parody threw me off- would have been better to not put this episode in at all.
Episode 9-
I enjoyed it quite a bit, though the villagers randomly blowing up Kohinata's home was pretty screwed up; she accepted it pretty well, and her friends helped her out satisfactorily enough. Hirose and Kohinata seem to have worked out all the problems in the way of their relationship, and even the old guy's not being psychotic any more, though this series hasn't been without its problems so far. It's becoming more and more satisfying though, but I don't think I'll be convinced Kohinata's family was so evil any time soon- how would they have even gotten into a position of power where they could do anything that would affect the welfare of the village at all? It doesn't really make a lot of sense to me, I don't think families have had any type of real political power for a long time in Japan, though if there's some type of under-ground gang or yakuza thing that was going on it'd clear that up I suppose, though there should have been some retaliation to them burning their house down then. It's not too likely they'll address it anyways, but, this series isn't too bad as a whole so far, though I'd have shifted a lot of scenes around and removed episode 8 were I the director. The biggest problem early on was making the audience think the abuse was because of the two kids being friends, instead of an even half-way rational reason.
Episode 10-
Eh, Hirose acted a bit irrationally, though old guy's at least not violent any more, and Kohinata... Hm, guess she feels guilty for what her family did and felt like shit after she thought the main felt she was at fault also, and given that she probably doesn't trust people much yet considering she's been abused her whole life it's understandable that she'd be depressed and what not. Those two annoying looking kids still piss me off though, guess the blame could be on the psychotic parents who raised them and are constantly trying to screw with the girl, but still, they're retarded. The blindness started to come back finally too- hopefully they handle the remaining two episodes well.
Episode 11-
Hirose's gone psycho too, old guy's gone back to being ultra-violent for no reason, and those parents are pretty screwed up in the head. I liked the twist about Hirose really being blind all along- the hints it gave I took as just being the other characters not being aware he had regained his vision at the time (The 'I wasn't peeking!' comment specifically), and just realized why he couldn't swim- it'd be hard to tell direction while submerged when you're blind. I liked that he's not letting his blindness interfere with protecting Kohinata, though beating her at the beginning of the episode was... Well, I guess because he was losing his mind along with his sight, but still man. Not sure what he means by he'll be the one to protect his mother, though I guess it's just saying he's going to prevent any tragedy from befalling him himself this time. Then again, he's gone crazy... Sooo, who knows- let's see the finale.
Episode 12 (Final)-
Well, it would seem Hirose had just gone absolutely insane. The series over-all was... Hm, fairly decent. Didn't really like the magically reviving Kohinatal after she died, but given that last time something like that happened it turned out it was all just a delusion, I'll go ahead and say it's all in his head :s I don't think moving back to Tokyo would have been the best way to deal with his psychosis though, seems like it'd be hard for a young girl to take care of an extremely dependent person (Both blind and crazy!) along with herself while having to work for an income, though I wasn't too sure if she had to pay rent, so which would make it quite a bit easier. Stupid kids shouldn't run out in front of trains so often too... And people really shouldn't chase out after them and hold them 'til the train comes (Really, that isn't gonna protect 'em much from the massive freaking train coming towards you. Alas, it could be that they pushed the kid out of the way, hard to tell when the camera cuts away.) Also, not that I really expected it, but I was never convinced Kohinata's family did anything bad, but I'll just assume they were even worse than the current old dude and somehow were getting away with it all (Trying to murder a young girl with a broken arm who hasn't done anything to harm anyone? All because someone else they're related to were 'evil'? This guy really needs to take a look at reality...)
H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~
Episodes 1 through 6 -
(This section was written I think after finishing episode 6 during a pretty one-sided conversation with my brother :s )
They're finally addressing the real reasons why everyone's complete douches to the one girl (Kohinata), and some of them are actually being nice to her and stuff, and it's making me not hate a lot of them, lol. But there is one thing I don't get- what sort of power do the families have? I wasn't aware in modern day there was any sort of political or judicial power held by families, yet supposedly the girl's family was abusing their power to somehow harm the village, but all I've seen is that they didn't sell medicine to a dying old dude 'cause he didn't have money, lol. The smart choice would have been to write up a contract and agree to pay later... But whatever- no one else sold him the medicine either, so to blame them seems retarded. The anime's getting a lot better now though.
Now would be the proper time to put in episode 4... Lol.
So, I liked the first episode except that Hirose's blindness randomly goes away, though I guess it's something like he's supposed to use this time to help Kohinata, and I was drawn into the series wanting to know why the hell they were abusing her so much. I was hoping Hirose would stop it, so when his being blind got in the way of doing that even though he wanted to it definitely got my hopes up for a unique spin on things, but I guess the blind-curing was acceptable, so long as they have some reason to explain why it occurred later on.
Hirose was pretty quick to help her too, so that's not bad, made me like him a bit more. However, the reasons they gave for the abuse at the time were horribly retarded- made it look like it was because the two girls (Kohinata and Kagura) were friends rather than that Kohinata's family was somehow taking advantage of the village or whatever- still an idiotic reason, but much much much better than the one I thought they were using. Anyways, that pissed me off and made me hate a lot of the characters, lol. Specifically the teachers, the grandpa guy, abusive chick (Yui) and those 2 guys (Who look absolutely idiotic, their faces are all messed up and annoying), and sort of the blond female lead (Kagura) since she kept trying to stop the main male from helping Kohinata, who I was disliking.
Episode 3, let's see... It was okay, started to really not like the blond chick since she tries even harder to stop the guy from helping her, and that got on my nerves quite a bit.
Episode 4 was randomly inserted, and should have been left for later, but on it's own had some funny elements and what not. Would have been fine pushed back to episode 7, but I was still too pissed off at a lot of the cast to enjoy the episode very much where they had it.
In 5 Kagura finally stopped interfering, and reestablished a friendship with Kohinata, and it finally began to put an end to the parts of the show that were pissing me off.
Episode 6 established the real reasons everyone hates the girl, and put an at least temporary stop to the abuse, along with developing Yui a bit and explaining why she hates Kohinata so damn much. Seems like at least the class will finally stop being evil, or at least the majority of them I hope.
Anyways, on to episode 7
Episode 7-
Kagura stands up for herself, and tells everyone she's not the sister they thought she was; quite good over-all. The ending of the episode worries me, since it makes it seem like it could all just be a story, but this cleared out just about the last thing still bugging me about the show.
~.~.~
Predictions for the rest of the series: The old dude's probably gonna try to do some crap to Kohinata, and Hirose's eyesight is probably going to go away again at some point soon, but will still stand up against the old grandpa guy and help out Kohinata despite his handicap. He'll hopefully win over the crowd that's bound to be gathered together and call out the abusive situations that these girls (Kagura and Kohinata) are being put in because of the old guy, and he'll lose his standing in the village. The ending will be the town helping rebuild Kohinata's home that they burnt, and her and the Hirose will live there together, and the Kagura will be free from the old guy finally, probably doing some job with art. Good chance they'll do something for fixing his eye-sight magically, but personally I'm hoping he just returns to being blind and stays that way.
~.~.~
Episode 8 -
Uh-huh... Random, very very random. 98% of the episode was completely unnecessary and failed to even develop any of the characters, and the random break into comedy/parody threw me off- would have been better to not put this episode in at all.
Episode 9-
I enjoyed it quite a bit, though the villagers randomly blowing up Kohinata's home was pretty screwed up; she accepted it pretty well, and her friends helped her out satisfactorily enough. Hirose and Kohinata seem to have worked out all the problems in the way of their relationship, and even the old guy's not being psychotic any more, though this series hasn't been without its problems so far. It's becoming more and more satisfying though, but I don't think I'll be convinced Kohinata's family was so evil any time soon- how would they have even gotten into a position of power where they could do anything that would affect the welfare of the village at all? It doesn't really make a lot of sense to me, I don't think families have had any type of real political power for a long time in Japan, though if there's some type of under-ground gang or yakuza thing that was going on it'd clear that up I suppose, though there should have been some retaliation to them burning their house down then. It's not too likely they'll address it anyways, but, this series isn't too bad as a whole so far, though I'd have shifted a lot of scenes around and removed episode 8 were I the director. The biggest problem early on was making the audience think the abuse was because of the two kids being friends, instead of an even half-way rational reason.
Episode 10-
Eh, Hirose acted a bit irrationally, though old guy's at least not violent any more, and Kohinata... Hm, guess she feels guilty for what her family did and felt like shit after she thought the main felt she was at fault also, and given that she probably doesn't trust people much yet considering she's been abused her whole life it's understandable that she'd be depressed and what not. Those two annoying looking kids still piss me off though, guess the blame could be on the psychotic parents who raised them and are constantly trying to screw with the girl, but still, they're retarded. The blindness started to come back finally too- hopefully they handle the remaining two episodes well.
Episode 11-
Hirose's gone psycho too, old guy's gone back to being ultra-violent for no reason, and those parents are pretty screwed up in the head. I liked the twist about Hirose really being blind all along- the hints it gave I took as just being the other characters not being aware he had regained his vision at the time (The 'I wasn't peeking!' comment specifically), and just realized why he couldn't swim- it'd be hard to tell direction while submerged when you're blind. I liked that he's not letting his blindness interfere with protecting Kohinata, though beating her at the beginning of the episode was... Well, I guess because he was losing his mind along with his sight, but still man. Not sure what he means by he'll be the one to protect his mother, though I guess it's just saying he's going to prevent any tragedy from befalling him himself this time. Then again, he's gone crazy... Sooo, who knows- let's see the finale.
Episode 12 (Final)-
Well, it would seem Hirose had just gone absolutely insane. The series over-all was... Hm, fairly decent. Didn't really like the magically reviving Kohinatal after she died, but given that last time something like that happened it turned out it was all just a delusion, I'll go ahead and say it's all in his head :s I don't think moving back to Tokyo would have been the best way to deal with his psychosis though, seems like it'd be hard for a young girl to take care of an extremely dependent person (Both blind and crazy!) along with herself while having to work for an income, though I wasn't too sure if she had to pay rent, so which would make it quite a bit easier. Stupid kids shouldn't run out in front of trains so often too... And people really shouldn't chase out after them and hold them 'til the train comes (Really, that isn't gonna protect 'em much from the massive freaking train coming towards you. Alas, it could be that they pushed the kid out of the way, hard to tell when the camera cuts away.) Also, not that I really expected it, but I was never convinced Kohinata's family did anything bad, but I'll just assume they were even worse than the current old dude and somehow were getting away with it all (Trying to murder a young girl with a broken arm who hasn't done anything to harm anyone? All because someone else they're related to were 'evil'? This guy really needs to take a look at reality...)
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