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Someone arrest these two for being too cute.

I really like that Ami gets to have this moment with Rei. Ami had her first arcade experience with Usagi, and it was monumental for her. But Rei had a different connection to Usagi, so Ami gets to introduce her to the arcade. 

And (manga spoiler) since the Sailor V game is intended to be like a training demo for being a senshi, I think it’s so cool that Ami coaches Rei through it. Ami isn’t the most powerful fighter in the field, but she’s a great strategist and she can see what needs to be done, and this echoes that beautifully. 

I love too that Rei accepts her help. It’s so easy when you’re doing badly in a game to scorn help and insist you can do it, but Rei has such respect for Ami that she listens. And they beat the monster together, and celebrate together. This is likely their first time together without Usagi (as the arcade is their meeting place for senshi talks, and I doubt they’d wait long after finding Mars to have a meeting), and they click so well.

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LOOK AT REI BEING SO IMPRESSED WITH AMI. 

A couple weeks ago Ami was all alone. Her academic success isolated her. Sometimes she saw a pretty girl on the bus and admired her from afar.

Now that girl is her friend, and so impressed by the very thing that used to separate Ami from other people. Rei thinks it’s so cool that Ami can do this. 

Ami’s life has just turned around so quickly. I’m just so happy for her.

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USAGI

And Ami being SO embarrassed but trying to be gentle while telling Usagi to stop because she loves this girl so much and friendship is so new to her.

But Ami probably admires Usagi’s confidence in expressing herself, too, not so much in this but after, when Usagi follows Rei off the bus and befriends her. Ami could never do that and if not for Usagi and being Sailor Guardians together, she might never get to be Rei’s friend.

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This might be my favorite senshi awakening in any incarnation of the series, because I think Ami could have done it even if Luna wasn’t there. She reaches for the power before she knows she has it.

Ami loves Usagi so much already. I think just the word friend is enough fo Mercury to grasp who Sailor Moon is, because only one person would call her a friend right now. And that person is so dear to her, she can’t let her be hurt. 

So she breaks through her brainwashing. But she doesn’t stop there. She needs to save Usagi, dear sweet Usagi. All her love (so new but strong) and all her rage call her power to her. Ami calls out for Usagi, and Mercury responds to save Serenity. (I love how Ami/Mercury transforms and goes through the entire speech before being shocked by it. Crystal is doing such cool things with SilMil memories.)

(Also, I have to go back and listen later to see if the monster *does* actually say she’ll send Sailor Moon to heaven, because if so there’s an angel/heaven connection that I think Ami made)

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I love this moment to the moon and back.

Ami has no friends. Enter Usagi. Happy Usagi, with her group and her smile and her joking about her terrible grades.

Ami notices. But she’s unreadable.

I love that she’s unreadable. People comment that she seems cold, and Crystal makes those words not be empty. That is a stone cold face right there. Entirely emotionless. But inside? Ami’s feeling everything. Desire and envy and sadness and more.

She can’t show it.

Seconds before this we see her barely react to people talking behind her back. She’s learned to hide the pain, because nothing’s worse than people seeing you cry over their comments. 

Then the second Usagi pays her any attention, she’s as warm and sweet as humanly possible, because she doesn’t have to be so closed off.

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WOW CRYSTAL WAY TO THROW UNCOMFORTABLE HIGHSCHOOL MEMORIES BACK IN MY FACE.

I mean wow, my situation was different than Ami’s, but I’m relating hard right now. I had impeccable grades in highschool and ended up valedictorian (college no so much) and people did talk like this all the time. (For me, it was more that my test scores and grades were pitted against other people’s, like I was somehow at fault for scoring higher than someone more popular.)

And it’s a strange sort of thing, because it’d be easy to think that being so well known would make it easy to make friends. But it really really doesn’t. People knowing who you are without knowing you means they’re watching and judging, which is hard to break through anyway, but then the above happens and people outright avoid you because you heard them. It’s isolating, and I’m so happy Ami has Usagi to break through that for her.

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I don’t plan to countdown to *every* Crystal episode, but I’m too excited for each Inner’s introduction to not at least do their episodes (and probably the season finale as well, although that countdown will be half dread and half bracing for oceans of tears).