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What I really, really love about this is that it’s Makoto reaching out. With Ami and Rei, it’s Usagi building the connection all the way. In Crystal, more than the other versions, they’re ready for that connections, but within their episodes Usagi has to come to them, she has to be the one inviting them out or visiting them.

But once Usagi shows herself to be genuine, Makoto reaches back. It’s a really simple question, but it’s also an open invitation for Usagi to keep spending time with her. It’s not just that Makoto wants friends, because Rei and especially Ami do to, it’s that Makoto knows how to make friends. Makoto has these social skills. Once she gets to talking to someone, she knows how to handle it.

The problem is getting people to talk to her. Girls are afraid of her because of her reputation. Boys vary more, I think, but are mostly the same. That’s why she’s so happy Usagi notices these other aspects of her. Mako definitely plays up her feminine side to try and combat her appearance and reputation (though she also just likes feminine things, too) and Usagi is possibly the first person to notice.

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Please enjoy (and by enjoy I mean cry over) the image of young Makoto digging through her parent’s stuff in the wake of their deaths because she can’t take it all with her (as I firmly believe she did have a guardian (or several different guardians) for the first few years, and she’d have limited space in their house), and finding the lunchbox that was her mother’s. Imagine little Makoto clinging to it, taking it everywhere while trying to keep it in pristine condition. Imagine little Makoto using what little allowance she gets from her guardians to buy paint to keep retouching where ever it gets scuffed. Imagine little Mako throwing her first punch when some bully decides to steal her lunch box and tries to smash it. Imagine Mako getting kicked out of her first school for that punch, and imagine her getting shuffled to a new guardian because whatever relative she’s living with doesn’t want to handle a delinquent like her.

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THIS IS THE CUTEST.
That’s really all I have to say. I love that Usagi recognizes it’s not entirely polite to take food from someone she just met (especially since she practically invited Mako to offer it), but she wants it’s so bad that she can’t refuse. And Makoto just isn’t sure how to take it. She hasn’t been approached by a girl in so long, she’s actually a little suspicious right now (oh Mako, you’re suspicious because you heard Umino tell her about you, but you’re not suspicious when an older boy on a dark street says he loves you out of nowhere. Darling, no.). But Usagi is just so genuine, and that overrides everything.

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Oh Mako.
I love that this is her refrain through the episode. And then she doesn’t follow it.

Every version of Mako is just so ready to trust and love people, so she barrels in over her head and gets hurt. It happened with senpai, it happens here with Motoki. Mako is so gentle and concerned about others, but she’s not careful wither herself. She’ll jump in front of cars to save a girl. She’ll throw caution to the wind for a boy who seems to maybe like her.

I’m really excited to see her growth in these terms. I don’t think she’ll ever stop entirely, because it’s so inherent to what makes her the Mako we know and love, but with the others there to help and support her, hopefully there’ll slowly be a little more caution before falling so hard and a lot less heartbreak.