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Hello and welcome back to Ringtail Reviews, where once more, it's Yurei Deco time! I'm excited to return after taking a couple weeks off from these writeups. As it turns out, it's pretty tough to maintain a blog on top of a 40-hour work week, and even moreso when when the day job starts demanding more than 40 hours! I'm sure I could make a comparison to Yurei Deco's techno-dystopia somewhere in this, but I'm just glad to be in a place where I can write about this show again, and also kind of sleepy. When we last left off, we'd just learned Finn's tragic backstory, and our detective club had been cornered by the impoverished citizens of his hometown and accused of being Phantom Zero. I'm ready to power through the rest of this show and see who the actual  Phantom Zero is, and I'm hopeful the show will tie that together with the themes it's been building involving truth, rumors, government censorship, and Berry's coming of age. Let's di...

Hey there, and welcome back to Yurei Deco! After a few weeks of episodic adventures that broadened the show's themes but didn't do much to change the status quo, last episode ended with a big stinger in that the Yurei detective club was officially over, per a decree by club leader Finn himself. I honestly wasn't so hot on that ending—which I wrote about in plenty of detail here —but regardless of the show's execution, Finn's betrayal is still a fairly reasonable story beat. Finn has been a mysterious character throughout, so making his biggest decision so far something that puts him at odds with the rest of the characters opens the door to some meaty drama as we explore his actual motives and resolve tensions within the group. Plus, I'm sure Finn's motives tie in with some other mysteries, and with presumably only three or four episodes left, the show has some major revelations to knock out.  However that pans out, I also hope that we don't lose focus on...