I could actually better appreciate it now!!! Anastasia and Dmitri's romance is beautifully written, their dynamic is very funny to watch, their acting is so natural that if I look away during their scenes, it feels like a live action movie!

*Dimitri

For a movie that plays with historical figures like they're dolls to make a fairy tale rags to riches ending for what was a very tragic murder... there's some very oddly accurate details!

Little Anastasia's painting was real. ;_;

Alexei, Anastasia's only brother, who would have been heir to the throne, but despite his father surrounding himself with "healers" soon realized his son would likely die of hemophilia--it was very disabling and even lethal until very recently... I have seen a wheelchair using older patient with hemophilia, before clotting factors were used to treat it.

Alexei is seen limping (due to the bleeding damaging his joints ;_; ) behind his father during Once Upon a December, a detail I never noticed until someone on YT pointed it out. ;_;

Journey to the Past is still so powerful, just blows you away. Once Upon a December is haunting, but Journey to the Past!

SpaceToon loved this song, Rasha Rizq sung it in Arabic and it played a lot during commercial breaks. Rasha is basically THE voice of childhood songs, most Venus Centre Arabic dubbed anime feature her singing, look up, say, Lost Universe and compare Hayashibara Megumi's singing and Rasha Rizq in the Arabic dub. She's just THAT good.

Anastasia - Once upon a December - Rasha Rizk & NAI ...Anastasia: Journey to The Past - Arabic (S&T)I watched it in English, but Rasha Rizq's still amazing. Once Upon a December is, amusingly, more flowery and poetic in English than Arabic, but Journey to the Past is more typical (more flowery in Arabic, fff.)

It was lovely to revisit and so refreshing and I wanna do more of this!!! More of watching nostalgic things.Anastasia | "Ballroom Fantasy" Clip | Fox Family Ent...