This is one of those little moments that I’ve always really, really loved about the manga, how the Sailor Soldiers had actual connections with their elements beyond just associations and using them in attacks.
Ami focusing on the sound of the water, able to pinpoint where the pipe is broken, when it’s not about being in her Soldier form, but her everyday civilian one. It’s full of such potential!
Like, I love that every incarnation has her fond of water, that she enjoys swimming and feels an affinity for it, but seeing her able to actually do something with it, a way to help people or just to feel that water in her normal life, it brings to mind all sorts of other possibilities that she might be able to do.
Naoko’s world both fascinates and frustrates me, because there’s actually some really amazing worldbuilding stuff she set up, it’s just that there’s not really time (or focus) to do much with it, and so these little bits and pieces of it are fantastic, even as I want MORE MORE MORE, TELL ME WHAT ELSE AMI CAN DO WITH HER CONNECTION TO THE WATER.