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The Other
This zeroth episode felt fantastic.
We got ourselves an almost entire episode dedicated to both Misaki twins, and it shed a lot of exposition about Mei originally being a very opened person towards her twin.
The interaction between the two twin sisters was flawless and sublime.
It was a nice setup watching those two twins going shopping, discussing their tastes in clothing, and Misaki (Mei's twin) was just a cute little devil teasing Mei.
This is how Mei was before Misaki unexpectedly pass away, and the loss of her twin triggered the Mei we got to see in the TV show.
Some of the scores reflecting Mei's everyday life used in the TV series were reused for the zeroth episode, but given how this episode began as cheerful and serene those scores did not feel gloomy and sad to me.
The episode itself does a very good job to seamlessly integrate and tie together without holes the time when both Mei and Kouichi crossed paths and met for the first time at the hospital, and the post-ending credits scene gives into detail what Mei did with the doll she carried, originally meant to give as a gift to her twin Misaki.
Likely, the real blunder I got with this episode was that Misaki got diagnosed with leukemia and her manner of death was just too convenient to be believable.
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