"Yui"Hinata continues to hang out with Hayami and still wants to be friends with her, but the other members of the class are a bit uneasy about the whole situation since Hinata complicates things with her being a member of the Kagura family. However, Yui still loathes Hayami due to Hayami's family abusing their power in the town many years ago which indirectly caused the death of Yui's grandfather due to sickness. When Yui, Hamaji, and Maki go into town, they run into Takuma, Hinata, and Hayami shopping for clothes together. Yui eventually gets frustrated by the situation and leaves, but drops her wallet, which leads Yui to go through the mountains to get back into town. Hayami goes to look for her alone since she knows the mountain area well, and the two meet up at the ruins of Hayami's former home. The next day at school, Yui starts to show a bit of compassion for Hayami.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatura No of Episodes:? Takuma Hirose, a blind young male high school student, though the cause for his blindness is undetermined. After his mother died an unexpected death, it left a deep emotional scar on him, which caused him to become very lonely and reserved. Due to this, Takuma and his father move from the city out into a rural area and Takuma is enrolled into a new high school. At his new school, he meets several new girls, though three of whom he gets to know the most out of anyone else. They are, the firm and obstinate Hayami Kohinata, the kind and obliging Hinata Kagura, and the cheerful and mysterious Otoha. As Takuma interacts with these girls, his medical condition gradually begins to heal.
"H2O" Takuma and Hayami are saved from the village elder's wrath when Hotaru arrives with the police, who place her grandfather in jail. Oddly, Takuma's mentality has experienced a drastic change, shifting to a child-like state, with the belief that Hayami is his mother. He is sent to Tokyo, for further treatment, and is accompanied by Hayami. Life goes well for the two, though Takuma still recalls Hayami to some extent. On one day, Hayami leaves Takuma's side to go to the aid of a child on the railroad tracks, leading Takuma to remember that his mother had never committed suicide, but had attempted to save a life.Upon realising this, he regains his sight and mentality, but is unable to stop Hayami from crossing in front of an oncoming train. Years pass, and Takuma returns to the village. After building a windmill on the very same hill where he met Hayami, he thinks of her, and encounters a younger version of Otoha, who brings Hayami to him.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Yui"Hinata continues to hang out with Hayami and still wants to be friends with her, but the other members of the class are a bit uneasy about the whole situation since Hinata complicates things with her being a member of the Kagura family. However, Yui still loathes Hayami due to Hayami's family abusing their power in the town many years ago which indirectly caused the death of Yui's grandfather due to sickness. When Yui, Hamaji, and Maki go into town, they run into Takuma, Hinata, and Hayami shopping for clothes together. Yui eventually gets frustrated by the situation and leaves, but drops her wallet, which leads Yui to go through the mountains to get back into town. Hayami goes to look for her alone since she knows the mountain area well, and the two meet up at the ruins of Hayami's former home. The next day at school, Yui starts to show a bit of compassion for Hayami.
"Kagura"After the events of the beach trip, Hayami starts to ignore Takuma at school, and Hinata continuously presses Takuma to come along with her. Takuma goes to ask Hamaji about what happened between Hinata and Hayami, and he tells him the whole story. Hinata and Hayami had once been good friends, but Hinata's family and much of the rest of the village burned Hayami's house to the ground, and severed the ties between Hinata and Hayami. Takuma goes to see Hinata at her home and drags her over to when Hayami lives across the bridge. Hinata becomes upset about how she has treated Hayami in the past and apologizes to her in tears. Hayami accepts her as a friend again. After the credits in the omake section, there is a parody of Gundam 00.
"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.
"Hinata"After the events of the previous night, Hinata comes to meet Takuma so they can walk to school together, but on the way they run into Hayami who had been waiting for Takuma. She tries to take Takuma herself, but Hinata does not let go, leading to the three going to school together. At school, today Takuma's class gets to sketch outside for the day, and during this time Hinata refers to Takuma as the "Destined One" while feeding him an omelette she made. Takuma later discovers that Hinata was once Hayami's good friend, but when he tries to ask Hinata why she acts so distant now, Hinata does not tell him. However, a flashback is shown which explains this. Takuma tries to take Hinata to see Hayami, but when they get to the bridge, Hinata kisses Takuma as Hayami looks on.
"Hayami"Takuma is shown around town by Hinata and two of her friends, and while out they come across a suspension bridge. Takuma is told that a monster lives on the other side and that he should never cross the bridge. Despite the warning, Takuma crosses the bridge later that day and finds Hayami who lives a poor lifestyle in two old buses. At school the next day, Takuma tries to protect Hayami from being beaten up, though Hinata has to intervene in order to stop it.
"Takuma"Takuma Hirose, a blind junior-high school student, moves from the city to a rural area to live with his uncle. At school, he starts making friends on the first day, but soon discovers that the girl he sits next to in class, Hayami Kohinata, is subject to constant bullying by a few of her classmates. Takuma tries to protect Hayami in any way he can, but since he is blind he cannot do much for her, which she herself reminds him of. Otoha, a spirit only Takuma can see, gives him the temporary ability to see.
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