This episode couldn’t have aired at a better time. Watching some “Ghost Hunt” on Halloween seems to be the perfect mix. This was a really entertaining episode to say the least. The cause of all the incidents from the previous episode are made clear. Things turned out to be a lot more serious than previously thought. Since many of the other characters really didn’t contribute much in the previous file, they are given a chance to make up for that. We finally get to see some of the other characters make a difference. All that remains is for the crew to resolve the issue at hand. I’m pretty interested in seeing how they will go about doing it. Now that we know what has been behind all of the events, it makes me wonder if Kazuya will be able to do anything.

You can always count on “DEATH NOTE” to provide quality entertainment. Whether or not Light’s actions are correct or not is up for debate. However, his decisions in this episode make it much more difficult for people to defend his cause. I thought the entire scene between Light and Ray was great. We could really see how much confidence Light had in his plans through his lack of hesitation and a complete control over the situation. Due to more and more people falling victim to Kira, the investigation team winds up losing everyone but the core group of personnel. With L about to reveal his identity to the investigation team, things are going to become much more exciting. Unlike some of the other series this season, the story’s moving pretty quickly to keep us entertained from beginning to end.

This is easily the best episode from this current mission. Not only did it conclude the mission, it was pretty entertaining as well. The writers may not follow every detail of the manga, but for most of the events they stay true to the manga. It was fun to watch the rest of the plot unfold, but I thought they could have done a better job with the action scenes. At the rate they’re moving at I think the series could easily surpass 26 episodes well before they reach the manga’s current story. I look forward to the next episode simply because Linali will be part of it. Not having any recollection of the story in the upcoming episode makes me uncertain whether or not it will span more than one episode.

Since two of the three lead females already had episodes devoted to them, it was only natural for them to focus one episode on the remaining character. At the present time Sayuri is the type of character as expected. I guess she’s likeable, but hardly interesting for the time being. I thought the comedy in this episode was poorly executed. They tried too hard to make it funny, making it almost boring to watch. To top it off, the artists butchered Tsukasa in this episode. She only had a few lines, but it was difficult to watch her scenes because of the surprisingly subpar art. Suffice it to say, this was a pretty disappointing episode overall. The moderate amount of character development was the only part I found to be worth watching.

Although there wasn’t any new concrete facts about the little girl, there was some progress in terms of the underlying plot of the series. One thing I do know for sure is, up close, she looks extremely creepy with her overly-large eyes. At the moment I can’t tell whether her intentions are good or not. Something is going on with Ai as well; at least it appears that way. As for the one-shot story in this episode, I felt it kind of lacked impact until late in the episode. The lead character’s actions in the past may be unforgiveable, but you can’t help feel sorry for him by the end. The fact that he really ended up not gaining anything made his efforts appear as if they had been in vain.

In order to accomplish what he desires, Lelouch took on an alter ego. When you combine that with the way he has been portrayed in the previous episodes, it really makes me wonder who the real villain is. I’m hoping for lots of interesting twists down the line. Suzaku revealed his intentions by staying with the empire. As great as it would be if it worked, there’s little to no chance of it succeeding. At least with the way things appear right now Suzaku’s plan seems futile. There’s no doubt his actions will conflict with Lelouch’s plans at least once. Everything was starting to come together until the final scene where a whole new layer of complexity was added. They picked the perfect time to end the episode. It left us hanging and wanting to find out more.

They conveniently provided an answer as to why nobody really knows about this bizarre student who missed school 4 days in a row. We do learn quite a lot about Papillon Mask in this episode though. It partly explains his actions and whatnot. Even after watching this episode I still can’t take him seriously as a villain. It was too bad Mahiro’s scenes were so limited in this episode. She did make some pretty nice comments about Chouno though. I’m sure many viewers have been thinking the same thing as Mahiro when we first got a glimpse of Papillon Mask. I hope they’ll wrap this part of the story up soon. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy this episode, it’s just that I’m hoping there will be a more sinsiter villain coming up.

I found this episode to be more enjoyable than the first file. There really was no character development to speak of in this episode. For this series, character development isn’t a high priority for me. As long as they give us interesting stories with some occasional character development, I’ll be happy. Although the title of this file already suggests the culprit of the incidents in this episode, it could always turn out to be something else altogether. The events in this episode don’t really provide a solid answer to the situation at hand since it looks like there may be two separate entities at work. I look forward to getting more clues to help bring us closer to figuring out the truth behind this case. If the other files turn out to be as entertaining at this episode then I have no doubt I’ll want this to be a long-running series.

I’m glad most of this episode appeared fresh to me. I had forgotten about the details Light uses to fulfill his objectives in this episode. I also had no memory of this Yui character. Although that probably just means that she didn’t play much of a role after this episode for her to leave any lasting impression. We get to see just how much detail can be put in the note to set up a person’s death. They already give us a clue that things are going to get much more complex with the mention of a second notebook. L didn’t have a large part in this episode, but we can see that he’s catching on quickly with the limited amount of information he has available to him. There’s really not much else to say about this episode besides the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thought this mission would wrap up this episode. I don’t remember the manga being so long for this particular story, but then again it has been a while since I read this part. Regardless, this episode had some entertaining moments. Getting to see the level 2 Akuma’s abilities beyond what was shown in the previous episode was pretty interesting. Most of the mysteries the previous episode brought forth are answered in this episode. Things make more sense now, which should add to the overall entertainment value of the next episode. I’m actually hoping this story will conclude in the next episode. This current story isn’t all that bad, but as long as they stick to the manga it will only get better.