In the interest of getting caught up, I’ve opted to make this a double entry. Don’t worry, there was more than enough material to find fault with in each episode. Really they should both probably have had their own, but…I’ve fallen behind and it’s lonely back here.

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I think the production team was in mourning over having to kill off L, so the first half of episode 26 was a big recap. You know, in case we hadn’t been watching the series up until this point. I’m sure there were a lot of people who thought, “I don’t really care for that L guy. I don’t think I’ll watch until he dies.” Good job, team.

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Last week Moonlight Mile introduced us to its own brand of manliness. Today we’re going a different route. This episode was stained brown with shit, both literal and metaphorical, both in the production decisions and the characters we met. It’s a cornucopia of scatological treasure.

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You can get an idea of how bad my connection is by how long it’s taken me to download and watch this episode. I’m only, what? Three weeks behind?

Anyway.

Since the Internet has basically turned into one big celebratory jerk-off session for Death Note, I thought I’d play Devil’s Advocate - and let out some of my own frustration - by focusing, instead, on what’s wrong with the series*, starting with the complete failure known as episode 25, “Silence.”

*Besides the OP and ED, which still make me bleed from the eyes and ears.

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I’ve decided to take blogging a little less seriously. Not “less seriously” in the sense that this whole thing is a big joke. What I mean is, there are lots of other great blogs where you could easily find an awesome summary of the latest episode of whatever (I flatter myself by assuming anyone but me reads this) and because of my terrible internet connection and general lack of time lately, my big summaries come out really late, so what’s the point? Instead, I’ll try to offer some commentary and work through some issues. And I’ll do a lot of stating the obvious, because I’m just that slow.

…Starting with DtB03. Come along, won’t you?

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The first story arc continues and concludes this week as we follow our mysterious exchange student and his mysterious friend in their ongoing escape from the Bad Men. We also find out that Lee-san knows how to treat a lady, even if she is kind of mean to him and clearly bad news and, oh yeah, a step above a prostitute.

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This week’s episode took a shocking turn: not a single scene of Goro screwing some broad. (Though it’s implied - no dry spells for our hero.) Instead, the show opted to get a little deeper into the human psyche. We’re a quarter of the way through the season now and Moonlight Mile is going to teach us all about what it means to be a man.

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Oh boy - my first-ever anime blog post! This is exciting stuff - and on a series I think is gonna be awesome. It’s also already been blogged to death, but you know what? There’s no stopping me.

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