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ファイト／ステイナイト 
I'm sorry that I haven't been able to blog in the past few days but I have been kind of busy up till now. I'll try to catch up but I most likely will just try to keep up with the schedule. Anyway, this episode is as dry as last week's. I guess those who said that the quality of the series went down slightly after L's death is quite correct. I do like one of the subplots though and hoping that it'll become a major focus somehow. Also, I've read the last volume of the manga and find it to be rather interesting. So I assume once the series gets closer to its ending, it'll get interesting again. Well, it won't be long now since there are only 9 episodes left. The writers seem to be aware of this since the pace seems to pick up considerably from last week's episode. At this rate, the series will indeed end when it reaches episode 37.
Continuing from the previous episode, N informs Light that the murder of the Japanese police's director made them change their minds and now they want to co-operate with him in order to capture Kira. Light is unhappy upon hearing N's confidence but decides to inform N that ever since the death of the director, the daughter of the vice director has been kidnapped for exchange. N immediately figures out that the kidnapper wants to exchange the daughter with the note. Upon finding out about this, N promises Light that he'll gather as many agents as possible and monitor LA. As for the command, he'll leave it all to 'L'. After he phone ends, the rest of the Japanese police are relieved upon hearing this. In reverse, N's camp wonders if it's okay leaving the command to a group which can't pursued Kira. N assures them they can use this to their advantage. While their first priority is human's life, their main goal is still to obtain the notebook.
Back to the Japanese police, Souichirou tells Light to offer up his life as an exchange. Light is angry upon hearing this and reminds him of the many people who will suffer if he's dead. Because of this, he asks his father to make a choice in which neither he nor Sayu is dead. Later on that night, Light asks Misa to come with him to LA because he might need her there. The next day, the group arrives in LA airport and a man immediately approaches Souichirou from behind. He tells Souichirou that they need to gate 15 where their flight is waiting. Aizawa who follows Souichirou panics when as it turns out, Souichirou is boarding a flight which is different from the one that Aizawa is about to take. The control tower quickly realises that the plane goes off course and when they contact the pilot, a man answers. The man informs them that he's just going to take a passenger to a place but threatens them not to interfere or else he'll crash the plane.
Light panics upon finding out about this and decides to contact N to ask for his help. N agrees to help by using satelite camera. Inside the plane, the guy who travels Souichirou instructs him to take a message from Mello, who basically warns Souichirou not to do anything funny and the only thing that he wants is the note. As long as Souichirou is doing what he asks, he and Sayu won't die. The plane eventually lands in the middle of a desert so Souichiro leaves the plan and walks to the desert. N who monitors the situation using satelite camera informs Light that he can see everything that they see. Back to Souichirou, he sees a platform being raised and within it, there's a secret entrance to an underground bunker. After Souichirou enters the platform, the platform lowers down and closes automatically. Light panics again after seeing this because now he can't see the face of the people that Souichirou will interact with.
Souichirou eventually reaches an area where there is a revolving door. He immediately spots Sayu restrained in one part of the door while a gun man stands in another part. The gun man demonstrates that the plexi glass in the revolving door is anti bullet. He also tells Souichirou that there's a small hole in which he can show the note to him. If the note turns out to be right, he'll unlock the door and lets it revolve so Sayu can go home safely. Meanwhile in his hotel room, Light becomes agitated and snaps at Misa. He also starts considering the possibility of killing Sayu. At the same time, the gun man tells Souichirou that he's going to test the note. Souichirou is aghast upon hearing this but he has no choice but to let him since this is the only way to prove that the note is the real deal. As soon as he does this, one of Mello's men is dead. The boss tells the others that the guy has been selling the group's drugs on his own.
In the end, the kidnappers take Souichirou and Sayu into a chopter. Another chopter also goes together with them. Light immediately asks N to follow the chopter in case they have the note. Unfortunately N then informs Light that there is an anti-radar Missile spotted at the exit used by the kidnappers. The missile then destroys one of the chopters, causing N to think that the notebook is on the missile. Later on, Near finds out that some of his men start dying one by one. He informs Light that there might have been a traitor in SPK members. However, he lets Light know that the possible kidnapper is someone called Mello who used to live in Wammy's House in Winchester, England. He admits that he and Mello plays a game where they see who can catch Kira the fastest. Meanwhile in Shinigami world, a Shinigami called Shidou tells another Shinigami, Armonia Jastin, that his note was taken by Ryuk. Jastin suggests that Shidou goes to the human world to retrieve it.
Impression:
That was overly complicated and a bit long for me. I keep thinking about the whole notebook in the missile and I still don't understand the idea or the purpose behind it. All I know is that Mello is now in possession of the note and starts killing everyone who knows something about his plan. I'm actually surprise that Near didn't know that some of his staff members have betrayed him. This could cause problem in the future if he's not careful. As for Light, he looks like a complete loser in this one. Having said that, I'm surprised that he didn't go along with the plan to kill Sayu. Maybe family is still off-limits to him after all. I still don't know what Mello and Near's plan are but it's obvious that with the two working together, Light feels the pressure on. The most interesting plot, however, belongs to the Shinigami whose notebook was taken by Ryuk. I wish we had gotten this kind of plot earlier. Although since this part of the story is kind of boring, I guess it's nice to see this diversion as a change.
Preview
ZOMG L IS DEAD!!!!!
ZOMG TELL ME SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW
I like the Thunderbirds reference on your roll over. Man, Shidou is UGLY! Damn!
AWESOME EPISODE!
Garten, have you by any chance watch the Romeo x Juliet series? I was curious what you thought of it.
great episode this week.
now, if there was only a way where L can actually come back to life and somehow possess the Death Note...
what a shitty episode... i saw that all coming a mile away.
Hey Garten! I was wondering if you are reviewing Romeo x Juliet or not? That anime shows some potential to it, plus the good animation. Or is that you are quite busy now? Sorry, I am just asking anyway. Not to force you to review on it or anything like it :P
Garten, have you by any chance watch the Romeo x Juliet series? I was curious what you thought of it.
Hey Garten! I was wondering if you are reviewing Romeo x Juliet or not?
Sorry guys, I did watch episode 1 and didn't really like it. But then again I've never been into medieval setting kind of anime. So I don't think I'm a good judge on this matter. The reason I'm not reviewing it is because of that and also because if I want to, I really don't have the time at the moment.
I think i remember from the manga the reason for rocket to transport the deathnote is so that it cannot be detected easily by satellites so that it's destination cannot be found.
Light IS a complete loser. And the series will pick up once we get to the finale (which I love, because...well, because it's the primary reason I stuck with Death Note after L).
Mwahahaha.
I never did figure out "why a missile" in either the manga or the anime unless it was just Mello wanting to do things in a bigger and noisier way than Near.
Poor Sayu, if I was her I prolly would've had a coronary when that guy started shooting.
Aaaand this ep makes me dislike Light all the more. Yeah yeah, I know he's not supposed to be a sympathetic character but certain things that weren't in the manga but in the anime... (expletive en Español deleted).
This episode fell apart at the end. I didn't get the point of the missile and the copter. Besides, what if the notebook WASN'T in either of them??? They didn't build an underground facility in the middle of the desert for nothing.
Solid in the first 15 minutes, so let's see what's left of the story.
@ pakxenon
ur too slow.. the helicopter was just a decoy to think that the notebook was there but the notebook was in the missle that was landed to other desert where mello is...
@sh0e
have u been living under a rock?? -.-''
@Len
this isn't for romeo x juliet comments o.0
i agree that this second arc is lacking quality control in animation and drawing. but at least this is where the story gets to a turning point. i know, we all miss L. like wht near said, you are just another loser if you lose
The domino effect scene was beautifully animated.
Does anyone know what Mello's and Near's real names are?
@Garten
Light seemed on the verge of killing Saya, but I'm leaning more towards him being afraid to reveal so much about Kira's identity than family being off limits. If he had killed Sayu, then Kira could only have been someone in the SPK or Light's Japanese team.
Additionally, that Kira had waited till the last minute to kill her, rather than do it sometime between the demand call & the actual trip further limits Kira's identity and strongly implies that Kira doesn't mind killing the Director, but really wants to avoid killing Light's Sister. This focus the attention on Light, though you could make a case for the ex-officer who has the hots for Sayu or even Light's Father.
I haven't read the Manga, but I wonder if Near will pick up on any of that. Surely he'll notice that Sayu wasn't killed when the Director was, anyway, and speculate on the identity of Kira.
>>the helicopter was just a decoy
Even Near said the missile would be off the radar soon. I disapprove of Mello's wasting of resources.
They're really rushing things now, aren't they? I mean, from the preview . . . it looks like the next episode will be with the building-blowing up and Mello getting the nasty scar . . . but so soon?! They're totally skipping over all the cool details and things that developed Mello and Near as characters . . . not to mention that some of the details they're gonna trim just make some of their motives, etc. unclear. ;_;
Damn, your rollover text is TOO FUNNY. XDDD I laughed out loud at the chief being kidnapped by a gaijin. :D:D:D
light so loser at this episode
btw garten, you had already stop blog kamichama karin?
@XYZ: Does anyone know what Mello's and Near's real names are?
Near's real name: Nate River
Mello's: Mihael Keehl
btw garten, you had already stop blog kamichama karin?
I will include it in an all-in-one update which I'll write tomorrow. But there won't be episode by episode thread for it, I'm afraid.
Anyone might be happening to know L's real name?
@ Rosen
L's real name is L Lawliet (I think it's pronounced LOW-LIGHT). It was never included in the actual series (it was mentioned in the How to Read Volume 13 DN info book), so no one start complaining that it's somehow a spoiler, okay? XD
They could have placed real DN pages in a fake black notebook for the kidnapper's to test.
That way they'd have given them only a couple of pages as opposed to the whole notebook.
Oh, Light. You're slipping in your old age.
@ Avery:
Didn't Light write (as one of the fake rules) that a human could not take pages out of the Death Note, or destroy it in any way, in order to clear himself from suspicion of killing whilst L had been watching him (with the cameras, etc.)?
If not . . . dang, Light. o_O I know it'd been years since you had to actively use your brain against Smrt People, but . . . dang.
"That was overly complicated and a bit long for me. I keep thinking about the whole notebook in the missile and I still don't understand the idea or the purpose behind it."
I think the issue was that Near and SPK had monitored the area very closely, so the notebook couldn't just be "handed off" to a member of the mafia without Near being able to track them down. This is why the anti-radar missile was necessary in order to prevent tracking so that the note could be extracted by Mello without comprimising their position.
@ Moi
Well, yes - you're right. There is that fake rule that states:
"If the Death Note is burnt, destroyed, or otherwise damaged in any way, all those who have touched that Death Note will die."
Yet, taking two pages out of the DN might not have been considered destroying it.
Otherwise, he could have stealthly planted a couple of DN pages into a fake notebook.
He would have easily pulled this if he pulled the stunt with L's kira's trial.
I personally like Near's game a lot. Haha :p
I hated this part in the manga. I still hate it in its animated form, but at least it's fast paced. The chapters in the manga made me want to stop reading completely.
The most interesting plot, however, belongs to the Shinigami whose notebook was taken by Ryuk. I wish we had gotten this kind of plot earlier. Although since this part of the story is kind of boring, I guess it's nice to see this diversion as a change.
I wouldn't get your hopes up. Shidou is... an idiot, basically. But meh, maybe I'm the only one who thinks that.
By the way, Garten, I was wondering... Have you seen Lucky Star and/or Koutetsu Sangokushi? If you have, is there a chance you might start blogging them? Lucky Star is random and fun to watch, while Koutetsu Sangokushi... well, it's not really my type of anime, but the seiyuu line-up is amazing. *___*
At the end of the last conversation Near and Lightto had, Near tells Lightto that he might know who's behind all this. Somehow we dont know he figures that out(I'm ok with that).Then he tells him he's nicknammed as Mello, no one knows his real name but then he aslo tells him that nobody has a picture of him. Although in episode 27, he was holdin a picture of him and asking one of the SPK members whether or not he knows his whereabouts. somebody pls explain
@ Kidd:
It's something the anime cut out. In the manga --- if I'm remembering it correctly --- Near got a hold of the recordings of the conversations Mello had with Papa Yagami over the phone, etc. In the tapes' backgrounds, Near heard crinkling (like candy wrappers), and also, whenever the kidnapper spoke, it sounded like he had his mouth full of something. Not to mention that the voice was quite familiar. From that, Near pretty much concluded that Mello was the kidnapper. (Anyway, who else would know about the Death Note besides Mello? Hehe.) It's been a while since I've read the manga, so if I got any of that wrong, someone correct me, please. XP
As for Near saying there are no pictures of Mello . . . well, he was obviously lying. XP Wammy's kid gotta look out for each other! But, seriously, both Near and Mello already suspected that the Japanese Kira task force had a little something-something to do with Kira himself, so it's not like either of them would go out of their way to provide Light with info about each other. Plus, Near probably wanted to get to Mello first, because . . . well, as you'll find out in future episodes, Near's not exactly opposed to working with Mello in order to catch Kira. (It's the other way around, of course --- Mello wants nothing to do with Near, except to "beat" him to the chase, i.e. catch Kira first.)
Huhuhuhu.. L is dead... but I think Near is better than L.. hehehe
The satelite cant track missiles so it is smart of Mello to put the death note in there.
L Near and Mello are triplets
That episode was pretty confusing. Heheh, it'd be funny if L, Near and Mello were cousins or something.
If you look at the alphabet, it's L M N .... L gets the notebook first, then Mello, and soon perhaps Near will get hold of it.
I think L is WAY better than either Near or Mello, though. He was just more human and a lot cooler... I don't know what else to say, L just rocked.
Well, actually I think that the problem is also that Near and Mello (even though they're much younger than L who was either a teenager or in his early twenties when he was fighting Kira) are even more emotionally detached than their predecessor. L at least had his funny and sweet moments, but Mello and Near just aren't the same. L had the adorable habit of eating sweets all the time...
Also, he actually looked at his worst enemy, Light, and felt that they could be friends (they are kind of alike except one used his powers for good and the other evil).
L's tragic belief that Light had some good in him might've been his downfall, but I also think it made him the most human and likeable character in this series.
Who knows? He might've made a lasting impact on Light. At any rate, he was smart enough to know he could die in his line of business so he set up successors who (though they're not as cool as he is) keep Light in check.
Mello is a bit annoying with the chocolate biting thing like Garten said (but he's also an interesting character), and Near is okay; he's much closer to L because he's not as impulsive or maniacal as Mello. I do think Near's toys are cool, but he still doesn't come close to L. (and L isn't a loser. he might've died before he caught Kira, but he was the best detective and i can only hope that one of these other guys gets any closer.)
I'm also a bit undecided... did Light refrain from killing his little sister because he thought he'd be found out or because he still harbors some compassion for familiy members deep down inside?
I think that's what it'll eventually come to though. He's going to have to kill someone he cares for (or used to care for since he's got the weird "god" complex after the death notebook). If he could get away with it and he had to, he probably would kill his family... the a-hole.
>Spoiler warning!
Nears real name is Nate River. Mello's real name is Mihael Keehl.
end spoiler!
Any other names you would like to know? ;]
Heh, Near is gonna OWN Light, After All Near is my Favorite Charecter in Death Note.... Kick his ass N!!!! Woot!
L's real name is...
i cant believe L is dead he was so cool dang
i know this is kind of late, but i'm a little confused as to how the death notes ended up where they are. didn't Light pick up Rem/ Misa's Death Note when L died? So shouldn't he have possessed two notebooks at that time?
Or maybe I just have a really bad memory. Hope someone can enlighten me..
I have to say, the captions you have for your pictures have made me laugh SOO much...that you for being random!
I agree with marlene...without L, DN has just not been as interesting as it used to be...I was wondering...if I were Light, when he got Rem's DN, wouldn't he have wanted to take a look at L's name? And this episode was kinda draggy...
Btw, I always thought that L's real name, L Lawliet, was pronounced LAW-LEE-IT. Even though he looks more Japanese than British, his last name looks more British than Japanese. Unlike Near and Mello who look like British people...
I agree with marlene...without L, DN has just not been as interesting as it used to be...I was wondering...if I were Light, when he got Rem's DN, wouldn't he have wanted to take a look at L's name? And this episode was kinda draggy...
Btw, I always thought that L's real name, L Lawliet, was pronounced LAW-LEE-IT. Even though he looks more Japanese than British, his last name looks more British than Japanese. Unlike Near and Mello who look like British people...
L is he really dead or not someone tel me that plz!
I laughed so hard when Misa got yelled at by Raito.. I was like "HAHA DESERVE IT YOU STUPID BITCH"
She's okay sometimes though. Her voice is really annoying. I can deal with her as long as the volume is turned down. She is pretty cute, though.
I feel so bad for Raito. He just made himself suck in front of Near... Oh, well, things will get better.
@Moi:
I believe his name is pronounced Law-lee-ey, concerning he is French (as well as Japanese, British, Italian and Russian). Just a guess, besides, it sounds all cooler, and French....
The past generations of family were a little horny, eh? XD either that or they traveled a lot.
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