This series kind of surprised me after the first episode. I was thinking this series would be on the same seriousness level as a series like ef, but after reading most of the good, wholesome poem by (probably) Mary Stevenson (quite possibly strategically leaving off the final verse), a story that started off as a series show started getting, well, a little weird.

Really, the series has 3 different personalities, personified by the 3 main girls in the series.

The first personality is it’s serious side, which is personified by Hayami and the disturbing fact that she gets bullied and tends to get the crap beat out of her on a regular basis, seemingly without any resistance from Hayami. I’m sure there is something up with that.

The next personality is the “weird” side in a way, personified by Otoha, who claims to be a spirit, and apparently gives Takuma, the main male lead, the gift of sight (he’s blind), at least temporarily, at the end of the first episode, and calls Takuma, “The Promised One.”

The third personality is, shall we say it’s ecchi side, which appears to be personified by Hinata, who ends up finding herself is a compromising position with Takuma (too bad he’s blind…)

I’ll be interested to see how all these different personalities end up meshing together to make this show. As I noted before, the last verse of the famous poem was left off, and I’m sure that wasn’t a mistake and will be one of the main lessons of this story, especially for Hayami.

ANN says this show is supposed to be 12 episodes long, though as we saw with Shion, what ANN says isn’t necessarily absolutely correct.

I did kind of get a chuckle at the end, though, when the characters were like “H2O stands for something longer!” and I was thinking “yeah. It stands for hydrogen oxide! (or dihydorgen monoxide for fans of that internet hoax)” only to have the show correct me, telling me that it means Hayami, Hinata, and Otoha (duh!).

As I said before, I’ll be interested to see where this ends up going.