Hands down, this is my favoritemost episode in the entire series. The beginning is great, the middle is great, the ending is great. I don't care if you think I'm a sentimental schmuck. This episode is just so good. And sweet. And touching. And sad. And insightful. As someone once said, "You can't feel that many emotions at once! You'd explode!"

In a space of less than 7 minutes a story is narrated. A story about a boy and a girl. But the way it is told, and every little thing about the story, and every little thing in the whole episode in general, just makes it phenomenal. Huge mad props to all the staff involved in this episode.

Now, every time I see a paper crane in the following episodes, I get all excited and shivery and I glaze over as I flashback to this episode.

I'm hopeless, aren't I?