This episode starts with a strange, sort of slow-motioned montage of scenes surrounding our various characters and their dealings. The music is very somber, like someone has just died. It’s odd. Basically, this is the signal that there’s a lot going on, but they don’t have time to animate it all, so you’ll just have to guess at what’s really happening. Good luck.

Then it goes to Light getting all giddy over Mikami “confirming it.” Confirming what?!

…Even if it cared, the world may never know, considering the C&D order given to Kuro-Hana. I know, I know…I laughed, too.

I didn’t think it was possible, but I’m even more frustrated with the Near/Light interaction due to this episode. Their whole relationship boils down to this:

Near (answering phone): Hello?
Light (cackling to self): Hello, Near.
Light inner monologue: I can tell by the way he drew out the “o” in “hello” that Near hasn’t eaten lunch yet today. That means that he’s hungry and craving a turkey sandwich, and thus he may be more prone to making mistakes. He also won’t want to talk for very long, which gives me more time to sneak off and meet with my girlfriend. HAHAHA! It’s just as I planned!
Near: I just wanted to let you know that I’m a genius.
Near inner monologue: HAHA! I know that he knows that I haven’t eaten lunch yet, but instead of letting him off the hook by keeping this conversation short so that I can go eat, I’m going to keep him on the phone ever longer than usual, thereby making him late to meet with his girl and leaving him no time for a quickie, making him irritable and more prone to making mistakes. HAHAHA It’s just as I planned!
Both, interiorly: I am teh awesome!!!!

INSERT HUGE EYE-ROLL HERE.

Aside from those two mega-lamesters, Matt got riddled with holes and Mello’s chocolatey heart exploded.

Boobs-san also bit it in this episode. No, no, she’s not misbehaving with Light, I mean she died. And I think that was my favorite part of the episode. Not that I hate Boobs-san or anything (I guess I’m ambivalent?), but it was a neat scene. Light writes something on a scrap of Death Note (people in Japan never look in the back seat, luckily for him) and then she pauses and you get the classic bum-bum heartbeat, signaling heart attack.

Yawn, right?

Wrong!

It’s not a heart attack! Instead, Light writes that she commits suicide…by lighting herself on fire. That’s about as hot as their relationship ever got, poor girl. But it was a lot more entertaining than a simple heart attack, so kudos to Light for getting creative and covering all his bases.

Only two episodes left and plenty still needs to happen, not the least of which is a serious improvement in quality. Chances of that are slim at best, though. Soon enough we’ll all be out of my misery.

Next time: It’s a rumble. In a warehouse. Oooh, I’m shaking in my boots!

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