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HEARTS IN MY EYES.

Even though this is pretty close to what happens in the manga, Crystal plays up a side to it that Crystal plays up quite a bit and I really really love it– this is a girl’s fantasy.

You’re alone and even though you feel beautiful you’re sad, so the person you’ve been dreaming of comes and asks you to dance. It’s entirely perfect. It’s entirely what most girls (and women!) would wish for. 

Crystal I think is always aiming for this sort of fantasy, and while I don’t think it always comes through I love that this is the driving idea. It’s a story for women, and it does all it can to make it a story we want to be a part of.

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Things that are hilarious to me:

  • Rei said she didn’t think Usagi should go to the party because she had a bad feeling. But here she is, going to the party with Usagi. 
  • Ami and Rei don’t have disguise pens, and the dialogue suggests they didn’t use Usagi’s. That means they had those tiaras. Or else went and bought them just for this.
  • Usagi looks so demur and graceful in this cap, and nearly the whole time she’s in this disguise. She believes so much in the power of a costume. 
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I can’t decide on an interpretation for this moment.

On the one hand, Rei is completely new to the having friends thing. She has the children who come to the shrine, like Mii chan, who love her, but I don’t know if she’s ever had someone her own age play games with her and be so kind. So this could be Rei stepping back in her mind and having a moment of disbelief, a little moment where she questions how this is happening and if she should trust it. And then of course she can trust it, because Ami is probably the most sincere person in the world (perhaps tied with Usagi).

On the other hand, I really like the idea of Rei having a little crush on Ami right back. I definitely read manga Rei as ace, and am ready to see Crystal Rei that way too, but there’s wiggle room for me on if she’s aro as well, so I could definitely see her blooming admiration for Ami leaning towards a romantic crush.

But on a third hand (can I have three hands? Just for this?) I almost think this is a flash of Silver Milenium memories. With the game being tied to Senshi fighting and Ami/Mercury being their strategist anyway, I think Rei could have had a moment of recollection from when Mars and Mercury had a moment just like this one, perhaps early in their lives when they were training or fighting low-grade monsters.

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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.