H2O Episode 3: Hinata, You sly girl you!

So much for being a good girl

*Checks the time* HAHA YES, MADE IT BY 1 MINUTE! It’s still a Sunday so I’m not late! My Standardized Tests are next week and I’ve been cramming in every last bit of mathematical knowledge that I can find. This week’s episode focused primarily on Hinata and reveals how she actually is one of the biggest b****es of all time, despite how cute and goody goody she appears.

On a side note, her head is as as big as a watermelon when she was a little girl.

Episode Summary

The episode starts off at the end of a conversation, if you can call it that, between Hinata and her grandfather. He asks if she understands her duty and she answers yes…that she must be a good girl. The next day, at the Hirose household, Takuma sets out for school and is surprised to find Hinata waiting for him. She grabs his arm and walks with him to school, pulling him towards her bobos in an attempt to seduce him. So much for a ‘good girl’. On the way, they bump into Hayami, who surprisingly grabs Takuma’s free arm and drags all three of them to school at warp speed. At school, the teacher assigns an outdoor sketch project in which the theme is “the most beautiful thing to me”. Takuma looks around and is surprised and saddened to see that Kohinata isn’t taking part in the class.

Once everyone begins drawing, Hamaji and Maki start teasing Takuma about a possible love triangle between Hinata, Hayami, and himself. However, they are interrupted by two classmates who say that a love triangle shouldn’t even exist, because Hayami was only trying to pry Hinata and Takuma apart that morning. At lunchtime, Hinata has made Takuma sliced omelettes, which turn out to be his favorite. She feeds him one, and to her delight he says that they are delicious. Hinata breathes a sigh of relief, revealing that she burned nearly a hundred eggs before succeeding in cooking. Upon seeing Takuma’s shocked expression, she confesses that those omelettes were the first thing she’s ever cooked. Takuma asks her why she spent so much effort to cook for him, but she replies that he is her ‘Destined One’. Embarrassed, she goes off to fetch some water for him to drink, but Takuma leaves while she is away in order to find Hayami.

He finds Hayami sitting on a hill, as usual, but instead of talking to her, he talks outloud about how nice the scenery is and how boring it is to draw alone. Hayami is initially shocked at being ignored, but then laughs, commenting on how dumb he’s acting. Takuma wonders aloud at how he wishes his friend would talk to him at school, but Hayami replies by saying that while outside of school is permitted, if he talks to her at school, he’ll be treated like trash as well. Takuma then asks her about her actions earlier that morning, which she insists weren’t intentional. Takuma says that it is great to have friends because since he lost his eyesight, friends were hard to come by. This causes Hayami to think about the past, and how when she was crying, Hinata offered her candy to try and lift her spirits back up.

Hayami tells Takuma that long ago, she did have one good friend, but they were pried apart. Her friend told her that “Candy carries the taste of Happiness. If you suck on it, a flower will blossom on your mouth.” Takuma asks where Hayami’s friend is right now, but Hinata walks up and interrupts their conversation, asking for Takuma to return with her.While Hinata starts talking about what the others are doing, Hayami starts walking away despite Takuma’s protests. Hinata offers Takuma some candy, and tells him that it carries the taste of happiness, the exact same words that Hayami’s friend had said before.

Back inside the classroom, everyone is turning in their paintings. Hayami gets up to leave, prompting Takuma to try and follow, but he is blocked by Hinata, who asks if he wants to come to her house. Takuma agrees, and she asks him to wait by the school gate while she finishes up a talk with her teacher. Takuma is waiting by the gate, when Otoha appears and tries to glomp him. Absentmindedly, he dodges her and she falls flat on her face. Takuma apologizes for dodging, saying that it was by instinct because now he is finally able to sense her presence. Otoha declares him amazing for being able to sense spirits (AHA I KNEW SHE WASN’T REAL) but upon seeing Takuma’s face, realizes that he is feeling down. She tells him that she will cast a spell on him to make him feel better, but instead of a spell, all she does is tickle him until he falls to the ground out of breath. Hinata comes running up and Takuma attempts to introduce Otoha to her, but Otoha is nowhere to be seen.

While the two of them are walking to Hinata’s house, Takuma asks Hinata if she knows anything about Otoha. However, Hinata claims that she’s never heard of Otoha. Takuma glances at Hinata’s face and is surprised to see that she’s blushing. Suddenly, she takes his hand in hers, causing him to blush as well as they finally arrive at her house. Upon finding Hinata’s grandfather in the garden, Takuma begins to talk to him. The old man thanks Takuma for taking care of his granddaughter and asks Takuma how his illness is coming along. Takuma states that he is already cured, which perturbs the guy, but he does a good job of covering his emotions. He tells Takuma to take it easy, but right before walking back inside, he shoots a nasty glare at Hinata. Hinata starts showing Takuma around her house, but the tour is interrupted when Takuma stops at a room with many children’s toys inside. Hinata explains that the room belonged to her little sister Hotaru, who died many years ago.

After the tour is finished, Hinata begins telling Takuma stories about her past, with Hamaji, Maki and the others. Takuma stops her and asks if he can talk to her about something. She asks what it is he would like to know, and he tells her that it is regarding Hayami. Flustered, Hinata tries to change the subject, but Takuma presses on, demanding if she was the friend Hayami once had a long time ago. He asks her why she always ignores Hayami and why she’s been acting strange for the whole day, telling him that he is her Destined One. She insists that she’s not being strange, and that he truly is her Destined One. However, when asked how she knows for sure, she can only say that it is because of her feelings. Takuma says that he doesn’t understand her or Hayami, inquiring what exactly happened in the past that broke the two of them apart.

After the fade in, Hayami is seen gazing at the remnants of her old home. She reminisces on all the fun times she had with Hinata but also ends up remembering how her house got burned down by an angry mob. They claimed that Hinata shouldn’t be associating with such low standing people, as they will tarnish the Kagura name. When Hayami called out for Hinata to help her, all Hinata could do was turn back and run away. Back in the Kagura household, Hinata claims that she was never close to Hayami, but Takuma states that if she was never close to Hayami, then why does she looks like she’s suffering. He believes that she is denying her true feelings (Well, duh), and that she’s not the kind of person to abandon someone. She asks him how he can be so sure of how she feels when just a moment ago, he said he didn’t understand her at all. Takuma says that the reason he knows is because her omelettes tasted just like his mothers (The writers get points for originality I guess).

Takuma promises that he will get the two of them back together and starts dragging her to meet Hayami. Hinata struggles against him but Takuma’s manliness prevails as they make it all the way to the bridge. Suddenly, Hinata stops struggling and pulls a fast one by kissing Takuma on the lips. The reason? A shocked Hayami staring at them from across the bridge.

Final Thoughts:

Unfortunately, I too am starting to have second doubts about this series. The animation steadily gets worse and worse per week and a lot of the support characters are still very undeveloped and seem to be in the series just so it can declare itself as a harem. The plot is VERY predictable now, and rather than evolving into a well developed love story, it is turning into some kind of sappy soap opera that could be found playing on CBS.

Hayami has already fallen for Takuma and it isn’t even halfway through the series. So much for being a tsundere. I think that the writers should have made her more wary of Takuma, although she does ask herself if she can trust him. But obviously she already feels that she can trust him because she even waited for him to come to school together. It turns out my prediction of Hinata burning down the house was wrong, as it wasn’t even Hinata’s house that burned down but rather Hayami’s. The mention of Hinata’s sister is intriguing however, as maybe Hinata thought of Hayami as a little sister to replace the lost Hotaru.

However despite all of the worrysome stuff, the curtains haven’t closed for this show yet! One of the bright spots in my opinion is Otoha. She always manages to make me smile whenever she pops in randomly…PLUS SHE HAS MUSIC NOTES ON HER RIBBONS! THAT IS JUST SO COOL! *Fanboyish scream* Erhem…anyways, I was right about her being imaginary, although her spiritual entity may mean that she doesn’t only exist in Takuma’s mind. I’m predicting that later on, there may be some sort of festival and her spiritual presence could be revealed to everyone.

I’m really really short on time and plus, I think everyone is getting tired of my tl;dr posts. Next week’s episode should focus on Hamaji, who is actually a reverse trap! Toodles~