Death Note – 08 – Weirdness

When I accidentally read a few facts about this episode, it seemed that this episode would feature some potato-chips-bag-opening-action. I didn’t think much behind it, though it’s almost scary how Light ripped open that bag and started eating. Death Note surely has some of the more creative “action”-scenes I’ve seen in a while.

In any case, this was a fun episode. As the previous episode featured a big climax, the current episode takes a step back again, and the creators start to introduce even more strange quirks in the characters. This episode was really meant in order to flesh out all of the different characters. For starters, Watari treats every member of the investigation to a cone of strangely coloured ice-cream. After a lot of searching, L finally found something suspicious with the surveillance tapes where Ray Penbar was captured: the envelope. Therefore, the ones who were investigated by Ray Penbar have gotten cameras installed in their house.

Then, back at Light’s side, it seems that Ryuk starts acting very weird when he suffers from a lack of apples. Very weird, though very funny as well. Because of this, Light has found a good way to manipulate him and now knows the location of every camera in the house. Light meanwhile displays his extreme chips-eating skills and Light´s father shows some interesting reactions when it seems that his family might be under suspicion. Quite good. After seeing the surveillance on Light, L also gets his first suspicions on Light himself. It seems he’s reminded of himself. ^^;

Also, this episode also showed a good example of lazy animators. It’s been a strange episode this time, in contrast with the previous ones. A very good one as well, mainly due to the weirdness and L’s reaction to Light’s behaviour.