TV series

H2O: Footprints in the Sand

2008 · 1 season

A quiet, sorrowful school drama that lingers on hurt and healing, with gentle romance and a faint supernatural ache.

Overview: Takuma Hirose, an emotionally wounded boy becomes blind after his mother died in his childhood. For medical treatment, he moves to his mother’s home village where he enters a new school.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, romantic and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Grief, trauma, coming-of-age, identity
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
trauma
coming-of-age
identity
isolation
Places: small town
school
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Genres: animation, comedy, drama
Starring: Ami Koshimizu, Harumi Sakurai, Yasuda Mio, Mia Naruse, Youko Honda, Yui Sakakibara, Hikaru Isshiki
Music: Junpei Fujita
Cinematography: Nobuo Kimura
Length: 1 seasons, 12 episodes, 24 min each
Network: Teletama
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese