Genuinely such a beautiful portrayal of human emotions. Every single second of this episode, I sat in that eerie feeling that built up from the first second I heard the first piano key start playing. I absolutely adore Subaru and what he had to go through, and I have so much sympathy for him because it's so wonderful to see play out the way it does. The fact that this is a piano-centric story makes the soundtrack wondrous and ethereal while also constantly adding to the underlying tension that just seeps from every corner of this episode. I wouldn't change anything about the way this episode panned out; I feel completely shell-shocked (in a good way) and do, in fact, need a little while to process what I've just seen. Would never have expected something this amazing to be an opening story.