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This location intrigues the heck out of me. The first couple shots had me thinking it was another SilMil flashback, but it’s Luna’s computer. I’m curious to find out if this is still meant to be in the arcade.

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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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First thoughts on this episode before I start making posts in earnest:

  • I love that is starts out sort of from Ami’s point of view. 
  • Ami notices Usagi wow my heart
  • Ami’s super cute
  • I do think the budget isn’t what we initially thought like a lot of people have speculated. However, I think they’re doing an amazing job anyways
  • Ami thinking Luna is an angel is forever one of my favorite things, but I like how they play it here better than in the first anime I think. It’s giving me a lot of feelings since we’ve already seen her sadness. Like, she thinks heaven just sent her an angel cat to be her friend I can’t.
  • Twenty years has taken Usagi from “I’m warning you I can’t use a computer” to “What if I just press random buttons” and I think that’s beautiful
  • All the hugs and handholding and Ami reaching for the power on her own to save Usagi MY HEART
  • Mamoru noticing Luna talking that was just A+
  • OH MY GOD I’ll have to make a post about that because I just had a thought
  • Ami looks like she’s praying in her transformation eeee
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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).