H2O – Episode 2
Short Summary:
Takuma is now able to see. When his brother comes to wake him up in the morning Hirose is already up and prepares for a trip into the village, as Hinata and her friends want to show him around. On the way he meets Hayami, but as she did before she sends Takuma away and wants to be alone. For a moment otoha-chan comes to visit Takuma, but the minute he asks her to come along she’s vanished.
Hirose spends the day with Hinata and Co and everything is fun, till they come to a bridge. Takuma is told there lives an oni (demon) behind the bridge and that he should avoid that place. Especially Hinata looks very serious about this!
Of course Takuma crosses the bridge and guess who lives there – it’s Hayami! Hirose by accident observes the girl when she’s taking a shower beneath a water fall. Hayami gets so angry she hangs the boy up a tree. In the end she frees him but she’s angry he came to visit her.
When he leaves Hayami Hinata is waiting for him. She knew from her grandfather Hirose crossed the bridge and in panic she ran to fetch him. The more Takuma gets close to Hayami the more tortured Hinata looks. Next day ins chool the pupils are supposed to make pinwheels in a group of two. Instantly Takuma asks Hayami to be his partner and the rest of the calss is shocked. Hinata involves and begs him to be her partner. Hirose actually agrees, but he wants to build a group of three, including Hinata and Hayami.
That’s the moment Yui gets crazy and together with two of her henchmen she leaves the classroom with Hayami to bully her again. Yui and the two buys beat Hayami and throw a buckjet with toilet water over her. About a hundred times they call her a cockroach. Finally Takuma appears and embraces Hayami. From now on he’s seen as a cockroach, too but again Hinata involves and promises to keep Hirose away from Hayami.
Takuma doesn’t care, he walks Hayami home, even hand in hand over the bridge. They make a pinwheel together and in the end they are sitting on a hill and Takuma says he would wish for a wind to blow the pinwheel. Hayami answers there’s already a new wind blowing, that’s going to blow away stagnant things.
My opinion:
I can’t say exactly why, but I didn’t enjoy this episode as much as the first one. Actually I leered at the clock from time to time. There were several factors that annoyed me: I couldn’t stand Yui from the very beginning and this time she must have used the word “cockraoch” a hundred times. Nobody seems to care about the fact Takuma is able to see again. Not even his brother acted strange concerning that. I can cope with a portion illogicalness but that was too much. Also I’m longing for an explenation why everybody hates Hayami so much, I mean she’s compared to an oni and even the teacher doesn’t prevent Hayami from being bullied. There were some hints on her past with Hinata and a fire that burned down a house, but I would love to know a bit more.
