Anime Review: H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ (Ep 1- 12)
Writen by Chiisuki on Saturday, 5 of April , 2008 at 12:35 pm, ,
H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ turned out to be an more interesting series than I originally predicted. The quality of the animation was pretty poor at least when compared to what else was on offer but the plot was interesting enough to keep it entertaining. What surprised me is the dark turn the series eventually took, there were enough hidden secrets, repressed memories, supernatural events and strange village elders to keep me watching for the full 12 episodes.
The animation thought not great was watch able enough, I don’t usually like series that are badly drawn or possibly just the character designs weren’t too my taste. I did particularly like the personalities of Hayami and Yui, then again I have always been a fan of tsundere girls. Hotaru and the male lead Hirose even managed to develop personalities of some depth towards the end of the series, instead of turning out just drippy and boring like I originally thought they would. The backgrounds were nice enough, the animation was nothing ground breaking artistically but the served it’s purpose of telling a story
Besides the incredibly random episode 8 which did completely throw me off, I did enjoy this series and thought not compulsive viewing it did make for interesting filler. I do think this series would have benefited from cutting out the fan service which often was unneeded and to be honest just made what would have been quite an emotionally driven series seem silly and completely ruined the mood for me on several occasions. An interesting enough series with a few decent plot twists, at least at only being 12 episodes it managed to stay relatively interesting throughout.
Category: Anime, Anime Blog, eMagi Reviews
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