Manly tears or MANLIEST tears? NOT AS PLANNED! Why must you toy with us Madhouse? On one hand I’m really disappointed that they didn’t animate swimming lessons and opted to give Light a rather pitiable death. But I have to admit, it worked. I lost the impression that Light was a figure of justice a [...]

Rather than delaying releases, Viz’s cease and desists caused subs for Death Note to be released faster this week. Can’t say I’m surprised, shitstorms tend to cause that effect, never underestimate the power of spite as motivation I suppose.

Holy crap. Matt’s death AND Melodies in the same episode, awesome. My only complaint is that we didn’t actually get to see Mello die, only his corpse postmortem. Oh, and Takada dies too, but no one cares about her.

It’s been a while since an episode of Death Note has confused me as much as this one does. Light is one to talk, his actions of late seem to be just as random as those of the two girls he’s stringing along. Near is also no exception, his conclusions of late have been based [...]

Though quite revealing in terms of plot, this episode was a little disappointing. Maybe it was because the animation quality dropped off after the first 5 minutes or because it was too predictable, but I just didn’t enjoy it as much as previous episodes. However, it did do a good job in setting up events [...]