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I can sum H2O up in one word: rollercoaster. What. A. Rollercoaster.

H2O reminds me greatly of Clannad and ef, in that it has everything you’d want from a slice of life show. And it’s not just all thrown at you at different times, it’s perfectly blended to create that perfect, absolutely delicious taste.

Even though I was surprised at what really came of Hirose’s blindness, I wasn’t too displeased. I’m actually glad that it turned out to be something a bit more realistic. While Otoha might have actually let him see, I’m glad it ended up that he couldn’t really see until he accepted what happened. I’m also extremely pleased that they didn’t just shove it under the rug either. There was a reason he couldn’t see, and even though I expected the reason to be him witnessing his mother’s death (and I’m sure everyone else did), it was still an interesting way of developing his character.

I’m so glad that Hotaru finally stood up to her total bitch of a Grandfather. I’m sorry Japan, but I will never, ever understand how you can possibly transpose the actions of the parents onto the children. Children are often extremely different from their parents, even though it is the parents who raise the children. Perhaps I’m just way more laid back than most, but even if someone’s parents did somehow cause the death of someone dear to me, I couldn’t blame their children.

I’m sure some people got rather pissed at being toyed with in episode 8, but to me it was pretty funny, and I knew it couldn’t honestly be serious. I figured since Otoha was there, it was something of her doing. On that note, I think CCY said he felt this was the best moment of the series, but I’ll have to respectfully disagree. It was rather touching to hear Otoha leave, and I couldn’t help but think that Hirose’s sight would leave with her, but in the end, it wasn’t quite as touching to me. Mostly because I knew she wasn’t really dying, she was just returning from whence she came. It’s sad that Hirose wouldn’t see her anymore, but at the same time, it’s not like either were going to be alone.

Then, when more drama was thrown at us in the form of Hirose reverting to a past time in his memory, I found it a bit strange, especially when he started calling Hayami ‘kaa-san.’ It was really pretty sad, but I didn’t see any way it could get better. And at least they could be together, and as Hayami said, he hadn’t totally forgotten her. He still had dreams of her, so she wasn’t gone from his heart. Still, it felt so sad that she was going to have to raise Hirose as her child, even though she’s the same age as him and was in love with him.

Going back for a moment to when Hirose was in a sort of coma and we see him losing his mother over and over again, I realized that she didn’t commit suicide. The way Otoha was saying that he had to accept what happened was clutch, and that’s when I realized that in the end, it wasn’t that his mother committed suicide. But when we encountered the same situation again with Hayami, my heart was pounding. I kept thinking, hoping against all hope that what I knew was coming really wouldn’t come. But truly, H2O didn’t pull any punches and let loose with another trainwreck. Literally. Oh god I nearly died.

But nothing, nothing could prepare me for what was next. When Otoha came running at Hirose with the boar chasing her again, I was pretty surprised. At first when she said about talking the Spirit World (or was it Court?) into ‘this’ that she was talking about herself being born in Hirose’s world. But when she said to take care of her properly this time… I just couldn’t believe it.

Right here. I absolutely lost it, I’m still dissolving into a puddle of tears, listening to the song over and over again, seeing Hayami-chan walking towards Hirose. At this point, I’m not even bothering to wipe away the tears, they just keep coming. I don’t know why I’m surprised that I keep finding things that literally hit me with the emotional version of a freight train, but I was so unbelievably unprepared for the overwhelming emotional freight train I was hit with as Hayami walked towards Hirose.

Thank you, H2O – Footprints in the Sand, for pleasantly surprising me and going beyond all expectations. You could not have made me happier.