East of EEODN: Post index

Welcome to my autopsy of a savvy, tragic, disastrously flawed anime. I did it for Learning.

The early posts are uneven, the middle ones long, and there’s a massive change of tone toward the end, when the plot begins to collapse. No spoilers past the current episode (unless marked).

The best kid in Japan: Episode 1
That’s right, this is your first Interpol meeting: Episode 2
No matter how you look at it, it’s an ordinary date: Episodes 3-5
Let us be careful about telling people our names; let us value our lives: Episode 6
Considering he’s seventeen, it isn’t that unusual: Episodes 7-8
And our other freshman representative, Ryuga Hideki: Episode 9
Yagami Light sure talks a lot: Episode 10
Are you telling me to just sit here and watch television?: Episode 11
Totally ruining Kira’s image: Episode 12
She’s not as stupid as I thought: Episode 13
My first friend: Episode 14
As long as I don’t die, university is fun: Episode 15
I’m sure it’s a gray that’s almost indistinguishable from white: Episode 16
So you lean that way, Ryuzaki-san: Episode 17
It’s probably better if we don’t try too hard: Episode 18
They just said “kill!”: episode 19
Why we blog
Ningen fucker: Episode 20 (spoilers through 25)
I know you aren’t a stalker, but you clearly aren’t human!: Episode 21
Everybody watch this
This is going so precisely to plan, it’s almost scary: Episodes 22-23
This is the longest forty seconds of my life: Episode 24 (spoilers through 25)
Everyone lies: Episode 25
My firm achievement: Episode 26
My name is John McEnroe: Episode 27
Something wrong, L?: Episode 28
Not just any orphanage: Episode 29
All you lot seem to do is watch TV: Episode 30
She is nothing but a woman: Episode 31
Is God unable to act freely right now?: Episode 32
I have never boarded a plane alone in my life: Episode 33
You people are already out of the picture: Episodes 34-36.5
All humans will, without exception, eventually die: Episodes 36.5-37

All humans will, without exception, eventually die: Episodes 36.5-37

You people are already out of the picture: Episodes 34-36.5

(Sorry for the odd division. These two and a half episodes cover the series’ final period of soulless plot-agony, just before it abruptly gets up and runs around for a final, surprisingly good second and then realizes it’s dead — I wanted to cover that whole last scene, all 35 minutes of it, in one swoop.)

I have never boarded a plane alone in my life: Episode 33

Is God unable to act freely right now?: Episode 32

(Note: This is about the time that my excellent Animanda fansubs give away to the not-so-great Kuro-Hana translations, supplemented with the official discs. I want to say how much I’ll miss Animanda, whose translators had a particularly good literary sense. Though the official translation takes a different tone, I’ve always particularly liked how Animanda rendered L’s speech — an odd combination of formality and slang which perfectly reflected his personality — as well as Light’s sulkily commanding tone and and Misa’s chatty, no-nonsense language. The key first-arc episodes wouldn’t be the same without them, and I’ll miss them from now on.)

She is nothing but a woman: Episode 31

All you lot seem to do is watch TV: Episode 30

I wish I could do a cut inside the cut when I write a summary this long. There are probably people who assume there’s nothing after the summaries.
 

Not just any orphanage: Episode 29

Something wrong, L?: Episode 28

My name is John McEnroe: Episode 27

Saints and angels preserve us from this arc.