"Hotaru"This episode reveals the truth behind the Kagura family. Hinata was revealed to be Hotaru her dead younger sister. Once Hinata and Hotaru went out together, unfortunately Hinata accidentally falls and drowned. The kagura family were shocked as the successor was dead. As a result the Kagura family decided to lie to the public that it was Hotaru who died instead of Hinata. The Kagura family instructed Hotaru to take on the role as Hinata. The episode also reveals Hotaru being overshadowed by Hinata in everything she does. Hinata comes to a decision after receiving notes from her friends for being absent from school for three days. She completed her picture book which she stopped drawing after assuming the role as Hinata. The picture book was a story drawn by the then Hotaru which is named "Tale Of The Spirit Of The Sounds Of Time" the story was about a person called Otoha who was a spirit and only a 'chosen one' is able to see her.Otoha was actually the dead Hinata while the chosen one was Takuma.
H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~ 4 - Hamaji, 2008-01-31 5.Otoha
"Otoha"Otoha uses her spiritual powers to have Takuma experience a very strange world which contains the same people in the same place, but they have all changed dramatically. Hayami and Hotaru and now living with Takuma as younger sisters not related by blood, Hamaji is Takuma's childhood friend, Yui is an evil magical girl, and Otoha is able to come to school with everyone, plus she is Takuma's fiancé. Otoha tells Takuma how he has to take charge in order for the world to correct itself, though it tires him out to constantly be correcting others regarding their strange behaviors. Eventually, Otoha ends her fun with Takuma and says her goodbye as she disappears before him.
"Hamaji"Takuma, Hinata, Yui, Hamaji, and Maki go to the beach together to have fun, but before long Hamaji's younger sister Yukiji shows up and tries to take Hamaji back home. In the end, Takuma and the others agree to let her stay, though for a while Yukiji attempts to hurt (even kill) Takuma or otherwise separate him from the others due to her love for Hamaji. When Yukiji is confronted by the others about Takuma, she runs away and swims in the sea, but when her leg cramps, it is Takuma who attempts to save her, though he nearly drowns himself. Hamaji has to use CPR to revive Takuma,(strangely in slow motion) and Yukiji thanks Takuma for saving her while he was florid with Hamaji's CPR. While taking a bath, Takuma finally realizes that Hamaji is actually male. Hayami comes to the beach to ask Takuma about his true feelings, but they get interrupted by Hinata.
H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~ 3 - Hinata, 2008-01-24 4.Hamaji
"Hirose"Hayami manages to escape the beating with Yui's interference, and meets Takuma, who went searching for her. She confronts him on his past, urging him to vent his anger and frustration, and is beaten unconscious by Takuma, who loses consciousness as well. Takuma wakes up, having lost his vision, due to his refusal to forgive and forget; learning that he was never able to see.He becomes introverted, believing everything he experienced was an illusion. Hayami decides to leave the village, but is stopped the village elder and two others, who intend for her to die. After a brief conversation with Hotaru, a blind Takuma manages to reach and prevent Hayami from being shot.
"Hozumi"The summer festival in town is coming up and the villagers are starting to bring out decorations covered in bells, which makes Takuma remember about his late-mother's bell. He takes the bell to school, but does not know that there is a tradition in the village for a guy to give a bell to a girl he likes before the summer festival, which causes a few misunderstandings. Some of the villagers burn Hayami's makeshift home, and Takuma takes her in to his house. At night, she presses him to tell her more about his mother, and he finally tells her that she committed suicide. The night of the festival, Hayami goes to meet Takuma on a hill overlooking the village and Takuma confesses his love for her. Hayami accepts him and they kiss in the moonlight.
"Kohinata"After Takuma and Hayami become a couple, Takuma starts getting hounded by his friends at school for the details for the summer festival. Takuma and Hayami are told by Hotaru's grandfather that it was Hayami's family that drove Takuma's mother to suicide, which is later confirmed by Takuma's uncle. In the midst of this revelation, Takuma realizes that his vision is starting to blur again, and one day during a typhoon, Takuma voices his frustration to Hayami which causes her to run outside. She makes it to the bridge with sandbags pilled across it to prevent a flood, and starts attacking it with a sign. Two guys from her class, who had previously beaten up Hayami, find her doing this and start beating her up again.
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H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~ 5 - Otoha, 2008-02-07 6.Yui
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