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.

I don’t actually have a lot to say about this episode. Mostly because not a lot happened.The people at HQ sit around and talk about L and Watari. And of course they have to have a contrived conversation so that the audience knows that they know that Watari was a famous inventor who used his riches to build orphanages. Is there a better way to get this information across? Absolutely, but there’s no place for that in Death Note.

From there it went into what sounded like a bunch of ugly girls trying to be supportive of their pretty friend:

“I’m so ugly.”
“No you’re not! You’re gorgeous!”
“You think so? You don’t think I’m fat?”
“No way! We wish we were are gorgeous as you are!”
“Well…ok, if that’s how you really feel.”
“It is, it is!”

Light is spreading it on pretty thick, but this sudden fear and modesty doesn’t strike anyone as odd.

Light also has a vision of L sitting in his chair. Aww, he misses him!To make himself feel…um…better?…he goes out to see Misa. And asks her to live with him, in what is clearly the worst decision ever made by a young man. Light, you’re going to make yourself misarable. (Did you catch that? Did you see what I did there?)

Light and Ryuk have a heart-to-heart on top of building and the wise Shinigami points out that with L gone, things are gonna suck. Light disagrees and goes off on what is basically a big jerk off session between himself and his Death Note. We also see him kill off the two members of the team L brought in plus more criminals and the Yotsuba guys. And since it just wouldn’t be complete without a cliche, there’s some spilled red wine that looks like blood. Thanks.

The episode ends with a transmission being sent and a guy at one of the orphanages receiving a text message that L has died. He calls in everyone’s favorite replacements, Mello and Near, to give them the news. Near brings along his puzzle. Isn’t he darling?

This episode was seriously lame from start to finish. I hated Mello and Near in the manga and I don’t see things looking up for them in the series. Well, things can’t get worse, right?

Next time: …I was wrong.

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