Okay, this... made me feel things. Not just the fluffiness that good yuri always makes me feel- in fact, it was a bit weak on that front- but rather, how much I related to Moritani (Moriya?).
Like, I first discovered this series in 2014, but it wasn't done yet and I lost track of it pretty quickly. I think I rediscovered it again at some point, but once again completely forgot about it.
But then, I found it now, and it suddenly means a whole lot more to me than it did the first two times.
Mainly because of the scenes where Moritani gathers up all of her courage and determination and just DOES something that she's scared of doing. It reminds me a LOT of how I've been trying to deal with my own mental health lately. Like, she often scolds herself for coming up with excuses not to do things that she really wants to do because she's scared, and... I know that feeling. And I know how liberating it feels to finally throw the consequences to the wind and just DO IT. How it makes you feel less helpless and more like you really can live a normal life despite your poor mental health. It's hard, it's insanely hard, but so worth it. It makes me feel alive in ways that I haven't really felt since elementary school.
ALSO: Moritani can stop time for a whole three minutes. This means that she could TOTALLY kick Dio Brando's vampire ass. That makes this feel even more empowering.
BUT: I will admit, I kind of went, "Oh, come on," when she started losing her power. Because, like, they framed it as a scary thing that the audience should be worried about... but, like, it's super obvious that the reason she's losing it is because she's growing out of it. I like that she did grow out of it, but I don't like the way they tried to frame it as a scary thing even though the plot twist that it was actually a good thing was super predictable.