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There are some cute little details in this show that impress me time to time.

I loved when Yuu heaved a sigh while outside in the cold air, you can see the memories of the map man and the flight lady (and yes...my peanut brain can't seem to remember their names right now). I thought that was such a neat detail added to the episode.

The spiral building made me want to throw up. The thought of going around in a circle over and over would not only make me sick, but you saw the condition that road on the inside of the building was like!

Finally, I was not expecting to watch an episode that had some underage drinking, but you know what? Chi probably needed the drink. Hah!

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Bill Hallisey

When I was a kid (around 8 years old and an adventurous boy), a few friends and I decided to pick the fruit off a wild cherry tree and make a soft drink out of it. Once we picked all the cherries, we put them in some bottles, added sugar, and sealed them up. We shook them up occasionally to mix the cherry juice with the sugar so the "soda" would taste good. After a few days, we broke them out to drink them. Our parents were sitting on the back porch talking with our neighbors and saw us with the bottles. They made us show them the bottles. There was foam at the top of the bottles. My dad told me "let me see those bottles". He tasted what was in the bottles, and immediately confiscated the bottles. It turned out we had made wild cherry wine. It did taste good, but I didn't drink enough to get drunk, thanks to my dad.

Andrew Hellebrand

I obviously can't take credit for the below quote. but I thought you might find it interesting. This is regarding the opening Memories segment of the episode and is taken from a contemporary review by Gabriella Ekens on Anime News Network, back when the show was first streaming outside of Japan in November 2017: "This episode delivers a fantastic little parable about the structures that organize life and the value of living even within such constraints as death and forgetfulness. In the first segment, Chii quietly contemplates what might be left of her and Yuu after they die. In witnessing the transient beauty of melting snowflakes, she realizes that they'll probably just be memories in the minds of the few people they've encountered – and that even those will eventually fade. Still, you get the impression that life is worthwhile for the sake of experiencing this beauty (This is classic MONO NO AWARE, the traditionally Japanese theme of wistfulness at the impermanence of life. It's a sentiment that can be found all over anime, but this is one of the best expressions of it that I've seen for a while)." Within regards to the drinking in the Moonlight segment, each bottle had markings on them that seemed to most likely indicate 320ml (or if not possibly 3.2% which is pretty weak), so assuming it means size even if they split the contents of all three bottles equally they would've barely had a little over a single US pint each (UK pints are 20oz as opposed to the US being 16oz). Chii being hungover afterwards is more likely just a reference to her having the frailer constitution of the two of them and thus a bit of a lightweight. The legal drinking age in Japan is 20, in most of Europe it's 18 with limited quantities of certain beverages allowed from 16 in supervised company as part of a meal (being out with family/parents at a restaurant for example). At home in my family we were introduced to alcohol in a controlled fashion with food to an extent from our early teens, so we'd sometimes be allowed watered down wine with Italian dishes or if we were having a curry for tea on a weekend, I was often allowed a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale to accompany it. It took away some of the forbidden allure of drinking & helped develop a slightly more mature attitude towards alcohol generally, though I'll admit I still did irresponsible things in my mid-teens like sneak Bacardi from the drinks cabinet occasionally when no one else was home.