May 25, 2007

1000 Posts!!

Filed under: Other:/Random Posts

Finally, after blogging for eighteen months, I finally hit the 1k-posts milestone! As usual: a few statistics.

- The total amount of commenters: 2198.
- The person with the most amount of comments so far is Cos (65), Anga (61, too bad he lost interest in anime, I liked reading his blog) is second, and all variations of asdf(51) come in third, with Kite (49) fourth.
- The total amount of visitors up till now: 258867 (I can’t believe how much the site has grown over the past few months, it took me13 months to reach the first 100k visitors, and the 250k milestone was already reached in less than half that time)
- Highest amount of pageviews on one day: April 15th (4339, I have no idea what I did back then to make that number so high).
- Amount of series and ovas finished blogging: 26.
- Series with the highest amount of posts: Jigoku Shoujo (51, but Saiunkoku Monogatari will be overtaking that one pretty soon).
- Longest episode-post: I still haven’t written anything longer than with Higurashi 19, with a massive 3973 words. Boy, that post was too long. ^^;

Death Note - 32

Filed under: Finished Series:/Death Note


When I first learned about Mihael and Near, I feared that the two of them would be the only two new characters for the anime. The past episodes have really surprised me with Takada and Mikami, two new major characters. So far, I like them better than the two of Mihael and Near. It’s probably because they really do what they believe in, and they stand for that. M and N are just playing a treasure hunt, trying to beat each other while using finding Kira as a goal. They don’t really have ideals that they stand for, unlike L, for instance. But then again, they are just children.

Perhaps that’s why I liked this episode so much. Mihael only appeared for two seconds, and Near was entirely gone. Instead, it focused on flashing out Mikami and Takama. It’s interesting, Light may have found an ally with Mikami, who is completely on his side, the fact does remain that the guy is obsessed with justice. The scenes where he wrote down his victims’ names showed this, and his background, which got shown at the beginning of the episode, does explain the source for his behaviour.

Takama also turned out very interesting, it’s a clever trick for the first half to have shown a bit of her, only to really use her in the later half. I wonder what turned her to side with Kira so easily. We know Mikami’s background now, but I’d like to know a bit more of her as well. I do hope, though, that she won’t turn into a damsel-in-distress. Remember that Near is currently suspecting Light Yagami. He’ll probably rejoice when he finds out the guy has a girlfriend. It’ll be quite easy to get information out of her, unless she somehow proves that she knows what she’s doing in the future episodes.

This episode did an excellent job in building up. Even though it wasn’t anything exciting, it set a good base for the finale to begin. It’s hard to imagine that there are only five episodes left. I’ve already been spoiled about the ending, though I do wonder how it’ll happen. If I had to guess, then this was the last of the slow episodes, and the pace should really start kicking in, in all shounen-series fashion.