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"Yeah, merely… to me, Light is more important than the world."

— Misa Amane ("Chapter xxx")

Misa Amane (弥海砂, Amane Misa) is an up-and-coming model, actress, and supporter of Kira who eventually becomes the 2nd Kira. Subsequently gaining a Death Annotation, she seeks out Kira in order to thank him for killing the homo who murdered her family unit and to offer him her help. Having made the trade for the Shinigami Optics, Misa learns that the identity of Kira is Light Yagami. After a meeting with Light, she decides to dedicate her life to helping Light however she tin can, and becomes determined to use her eyes to uncover L's existent name.

1 Advent
2 Grapheme
3 History
4 Plot
v In other media
- v.i Moving-picture show series
  - 5.one.ane Conception of Misa in the films
- v.2 Novel
- v.3 Television drama
- 5.4 Musical
- 5.5 2017 Netflix moving-picture show
6 Conception
- six.i Overview
- 6.2 Graphic symbol pattern
7 Trivia
eight Quotes
9 Themes
10 References

Appearance

Misa is a short, slender, attractive young woman with long, directly, aureate-blonde hair, nigh commonly styled with a portion of her hair in pigtails tied with red bands, simply occasionally worn loose too. In the anime, information technology seems that she was a brunette at 1 point.^[4] In the manga, her eyes are predominantly low-cal brown; however, they have also been shown as green. In the anime, they alternate betwixt calorie-free brown and blueish. Her eyes plough bright red while using the power of the Shinigami Optics, which allow her to run into a person'due south name and lifespan in a higher place their head. In the games, her eyes are normally lite brownish just accept also been seen equally pink. Misa also appears to take blackness pilus in the motion-picture show, which she was wearing in pigtails throughout the moving-picture show.

Misa frequently dresses in a Gothic and Punk fashion, though noticeably less after the time skip. She likewise typically paints her nails bright red or dark purple and wears bright crimson lipstick.

Misa tends to wear cantankerous jewelry, though the crosses were inverse to "fleurs-de-lis" in the anime adaptations (most notably on the Misa finger puppet). Despite this, Misa is depicted with a cross in the first anime opening and in her model sheet image in the liner notes of the third anime soundtrack. She also has a cross on the collector'south figure included with book 5 of the DVD sets.

Graphic symbol

Misa is very outgoing and is shown to be quite pop due to her career. She attracts a big crowd while visiting Lite almost his school.^[v] She is hyperactive, impulsive, and otherwise childlike, evidenced by her trend to speak in the third person. Despite being considered idiotic by many, Misa is shown to have moments of intelligence, such as when she successfully tricks Kyosuke Higuchi into revealing himself to be the Yotsuba Kira.^[half-dozen] However, Misa possesses the shinigami optics, which permit her to see a person'south proper name and lifespan higher up their head, making it much easier to kill people with the Death Notation. She is very careless in her acts as the 2d Kira, which leads to her being arrested and put in confinement on suspicion that she is is the 2d Kira. As she likely didn't know the Death Notation could dispense victims, and thus mailed the tapes herself; failed to ensure there was no Dna on the envelopes she sent the tapes in; completely ignored Light'southward society to stay away (every bit he was already suspected of existence Kira) as he predicted L was having him followed.

Although she is more often than not nice to those she meets, she can also be quite savage: she tells Lite that she would kill whatsoever other girls he dates,^[7] despite said girls being part of his plan to appear every bit a normal boyfriend to the investigators and deflect suspicion from himself and Misa.

Despite her typically cheerful personality, Misa has been mentally afflicted by seeing her parents murdered right before her eyes. It is unclear how much the trauma has affected Misa psychologically, but in the films, Rem indicates that Misa went through a deep low immediately after she discovered the murderer was acquitted of the offense. After the murderer is later killed by Kira, Misa is incredibly grateful, and her intense appreciation and hero-worship initially fuels her actions every bit the Second Kira. Afterward she becomes emotionally attached to Light, her behavior is strongly motivated by love.

Low-cal Yagami is an important figure in Misa's life, and she frequently comments on him existence so, often declaring her love for him despite picayune reciprocation. She is faithful to Light to the betoken of refusing to perform a buss with boyfriend actor Hideki Ryuga while making a film out of her fidelity. After losing her memories of the Death Note for the outset time, she even decides to aid grab Kira, whom she views as the avenger of her family, for Light (who has joined the Task Force for the investigation of Kira case and besides creating an excuse for yourself).

History

A yr earlier the get-go of the series, Misa witnessed the murder of her family during an attempted home robbery. The trial against her parents' murderer continued over a long stretch of fourth dimension, during which opinions that he was falsely defendant began to surface. After he was killed by Kira, Misa felt justice had been served, prompting her to go a loyal Kira supporter.

One night, shortly after kickoff her modeling career, Misa met an obsessed, pocketknife-wielding stalker. He confessed his feelings to Misa, but upon her rejection, he attacked and attempted to impale her. A Shinigami named Gelus, who had been watching Misa from the Shinigami Realm and had fallen in love with her, wrote downward the proper name of her stalker and killed him, ultimately saving Misa'due south life.

Since Shinigami are meant to shorten human lifespans and not extend them, Gelus himself died, turning to dust and leaving behind but his Death Annotation. Since Misa was meant to die, only was saved by Gelus, her lifespan was ultimately extended in the process. Some other Shinigami, Rem, witnessed the sacrifice and decided that Gelus' notebook should vest to Misa in accord with Gelus' wishes. After giving Misa the Death Note, Rem was obligated to stay with her (as Ryuk is with Light), and Rem eventually develops feelings for her over fourth dimension equally Gelus did. In the hope of meeting and thanking Kira for avenging her parents, Misa made the eye deal with Rem, she uses this power to rails downwards Low-cal Yagami.

Plot

Misa plans on making videotapes in order to become Kira's attention, so she has a friend of hers prepare the tapes so as to ensure that her fingerprints won't be on the tapes.

She sends four tapes to Sakura Telly, and the station reports alive that they accept received the tapes four days after. He reports that the get-go tape contains a phonation recording which predicted the death of ii arrested criminals. That night, the criminals both dice of heart failure at 7:00 pm. The host states that since simply Kira could perform such an human action, they were sure that the tapes are from Kira. He also states that they were told to broadcast the second tape at five:59 pm, and that they had not watched the tape themselves. The broadcast begins and is viewed past the Japanese Task Force. A vocalism states "I am Kira" and kills a news anchor at the time the voice promised. The voice recording says that i death is surely not plenty to testify that they are Kira, and so they will cede another commentator from Taiyou Television receiver for speaking against Kira as well. As the broadcast continues, the vocalisation says that they practice not wish to kill innocent people and that the police practice non accept to be considered enemies, and that Kira's goal is to create a world without crime. "Kira" continues by stating that even if y'all disagree with Kira, equally long as you do not go against Kira in public, you will not be killed.

Ukita arrives at Sakura TV station, before Misa kills him.

Soichiro Yagami drives a bus through the front doors of the Sakura TV station. "Kira" continues by asking the law to give an respond four days from now, on April 22 if they will help Kira create a better globe, and that "Kira" has tapes to be aired at half-dozen pm of the aforementioned mean solar day in response to their respond. Soichiro exits the vehicle with his jacket covering the area around his face, and threatens Demegawa for the original tapes and the copies.

As the Task Force watches the broadcasts, Sakura Tv set's broadcast is cut while two other stations go along to report on the incident happening in front of Sakura Goggle box station. L calls Vice-Director Kitamura and Soichiro, and arranges for a large number of police officers to cake Soichiro from Kira'due south view using their bodies and armored police vehicles equally encompass. NHN reports that the police have taken a opinion against Kira.

The side by side day the Task Strength arrives at headquarters, and L explains that tapes three and iv had arrived with instructions. If the police agreed to work with Kira, tape number three should be aired; if they did not, tape number four should exist aired. The third tape contains details of the agreement, saying that the police are to release all details of criminals so that Kira tin deal judgment unto them. To seal the understanding, those in the upper ranks of the police along with L must reveal their identities. The fourth record is more than or less the same, although information technology is worded differently. L tells the Job Force to inform Sakura TV that they can air the fourth tape. On Apr 22, the tape is aired. "Kira" states that if criminal reports end, Kira will kill police officers and reporters, and and so demands that the life of someone in charge of the Kira investigation be handed over—the Manager's or 50'due south. "Kira" says to choose one and reveal them in iv days and that, considering Kira knows the Directors face, there are no special requirements; however if they should choose Fifty, he must announced on Sakura Tv set's 6 o'clock news and give a ten-minute speech. "Kira" says that he or she volition determine if the person on the news is L, and if Kira decides that he isn't, Kira will take the lives of several constabulary officers as bounty. "Kira" says to exist truthful as Kira does non wish to impale those who have not sinned, and to think carefully over the next four days.

Meanwhile, Light Yagami and Ryuk watch the broadcast, amused, while Light decides to notice a way to contact and subsequently dispense the new Kira without revealing his own identity.

On April 24th, Soichiro Yagami informs L that the ICPO has decided that the detective should appear on Television receiver. L besides deduces that this is the piece of work of a second Kira.

Fifty says that catching i Kira could definitely lead to clues about the other. He then says that a battle has begun between them and Kira to find the 2nd Kira first, and that there is a run a risk that they will uncover the existent Kira in the process.

Misa'southward first appearance in which she discusses her actions and Kira with Rem

Meanwhile, Rem asks Misa if it'south a good idea to not use the Death Note for herself, and Misa says that she is using information technology for herself; she wants to run across Kira, talk to him and detect out what kind of person he is. Misa explains that she moved here to live past herself and sent the tapes to the Television receiver station so she could catch Kira'south attending. She tells Rem that Kira must be interested in her by now, and could want to run into her as much equally she wants to run into him. Rem says that Misa is playing a unsafe game and could go killed, and Misa replies that it volition be fine as Kira is probably squeamish to girls, and she has the Shinigami Eyes and therefore, the upper hand.

50 has Low-cal join the Job Strength, then they forge a response, posing as the real Kira. As it is broadcasted, Misa watches with excitement from her bedroom, and says she has some back-up tapes that she saved and is going to dub the audio over them. Rem asks her what she plans to do, and Misa says that she is going to reply to Kira, and so wonders what she's going to say to him.

Sometime afterwards, Misa forms a response herself, which mention Shinigami. She takes advantage of this mention in her next entry, a diary, where she mentions Shinigami at a big sports event, which is meant to throw off the investigation. However, the principal part of the bulletin is "My friend and I showed off our notebooks in Aoyama," successfully prompting Calorie-free equally Kira to go to Aoyama, where a disguised Misa notices his lifespan is absent meaning that he owns a Death Annotation, and concludes he is Kira, while falling in beloved with him instantly.

Later on finding out his address by purchasing the information, Misa arrives at Light'south house, telling his female parent and sister that she has his notebook. When she is in private with him, she explains what has happened, and asks to be his girlfriend and partner in crime, admitting that she wouldn't even mind if he simply uses her. Light agrees, intending to use her for her Shinigami Eyes, which would help kill Fifty. Light tells her to make a new record which would arrive seem like the first and 2nd Kiras still haven't allied or met yet. Light explains to her that he'll have to engagement a bunch of other girlfriends in social club to mask suspicion, but Misa protests, maxim she'll kill the girls. Light threatens her, only, in turn, Rem says that should Misa die, Rem would assume it's Light and kill him instantly. Light instructs Misa to non meet him until two weeks later.

However, not too long afterward, Misa impulsively arrives at his home confronting his wishes. Lite takes advantage of this too as Rem threatening to kill Light should Misa die by swaying Rem into killing L, ensuring her that Misa would be happy. Light uses Misa'southward second jail cell phone to use for emergencies, and he kisses her.

Misa confined under suspicion of existence the Second Kira.

Misa meets Calorie-free on campus, seeing Fifty for the offset time likewise as his name. Shortly after, she spawns a crowd, where her phone gets stolen past L, and is taken abroad. She is then captured by Fifty under suspicion of existence the second Kira. The Job Force establish several pieces of bear witness in her flat: stamps like the ones used to mail the Kira tapes to Sakura TV, a pen with the same ink, and a notebook with paper similar the paper sent with the tapes. They too found receipts for railroad train tickets from Nagano and Tokyo (the places the tapes were sent from), as well as flower pollen from flowers that grew in the area Misa previously lived in (the flowers happen to be a blazon that is not found in Kantou). Misa is put into confinement, unable to move her torso or see due to L's restraints. Because Misa refuses to talk, L tells Watari to do everything possible to brand her, and to fifty-fifty resort to torture if necessary. Misa eventually asks Rem to kill her. L and the others watching, who are unable to see Rem since they oasis't touched Misa's Death Note, believe Misa is talking to them. Every bit an alternating solution, Rem eventually convinces Misa, who had originally refused, non wanting to forget her love for Light, to requite up buying of the Decease Notation. Rem assures Misa that her feelings for Light Yagami will non become away and that she will just forget that Low-cal is Kira. Misa gives up ownership of her Death Annotation, causing Misa to lose all of her memories of the Decease Note, beingness the Second Kira, and having met the Kira. Afterward losing her memories, and thus forth not sure every bit to how she got into her situation in the first place, she assumes that a stalker fan of her modeling work has kidnapped her, and starts to talk aloud to convince "the stalker" to let her become. L and the Chore Force recall she is playing dumb, but somewhen conclude that it is not an deed.

Light is somewhen able to create a state of affairs in which she is free, simply withal under surveillance. Misa proves to be a surprising nugget to the investigation by uncovering the identity of the Third Kira.

She as well establishes an alliance with L, whom she simply knew as Ryuzaki. This unlikely friendship begins when L tells Misa that he understands her feelings for Light, and, touched by this, Misa kisses him on the cheek and offers to exist his friend. L comments that she is the first and only person to ever practise so.

After regaining her memories as the Second Kira, Misa trades for the Shinigami Eyes a second time with Ryuk, and, once once more, takes on the role of Kira. When 50 notes that the murders connected once Misa was released, Rem realizes that Misa will doubtlessly be discovered past Fifty, and the only manner to forestall this would be to kill L. Disgusted with Lite, but willing to relieve Misa, Rem writes down Watari and 50's real names. After Watari and L dice, Rem turns to dust, having saved Misa and extending her lifespan in the process.

Misa assists Light in the years during the timeskip. When Mello and the Mafia got their hands on the Death Note, she used her Eyes in order to find the current owner, Jack Neylon. She also poses as Kira during Lite's plan to relinquish the Decease Note to the Job Force.

Sometime later, Calorie-free sends Demegawa and his men to set on the SPK, with her keeping watch of the entrance, waiting for Nigh to leave the building, assuasive her to write down his proper name later on seeing her face up. This plan failed every bit Near had used money to escape and and so wore a helmet.

Misa as she is prepared to relinquish the Death Note

Considering the Chore Strength now suspects Light, he expects surveillance and has her forfeit her ownership of the Decease Note a second time. Later her memories are gone, Misa ends upward spending the remainder of Light's life (well-nigh ii months) in the company of Kanzo Mogi, as he investigates her. She also develops a conflict between her and Takada, Lite's new girlfriend.

At the end of the anime, shortly after Light'southward death, Misa is seen standing on the ledge of a alpine edifice solitary. Although information technology is not shown, it is theorized that she committed suicide following Low-cal'south death. Tsugumi Ohba besides states in Death Note 13: How to Read that she probable committed suicide.

In other media

Film serial

Misa as she appears in the beginning 3 films

Misa is portrayed in the Death Note picture show series by Erika Toda. Misa's role is very like to her catechism self in that she uses her Death Note to support Kira and she falls in love with Low-cal. Her career is also farther developed with her being an extra, Telly personality, and vocalizer. In addition to her parents, she had a younger brother who was also murdered, and their murderer is named as Yoichi Tamura.

In the showtime film, Misa has a recurring background office as a popular idol. An advert for her is printed on the side and back of the omnibus that Lite, Shiori Akino, and Raye Iwamatsu are on when information technology is hijacked by Kiichiro Osoreda.

Misa during her evidence "Misa-Misa's Happy Sweets"

Misa notably has a TV show called "Misa-Misa's Happy Sweets" in which she bakes treats, playfully planning to make her love-rivals fat only and so saying that they're so skillful that she ends up eating the treats herself. Light has her evidence on while in his sleeping room. During the program, Ryuk laughs upon seeing Misa, probably foreshadowing that he knows she is going to die before long.

After filming a segment of her show, she expresses support for Kira to a announcer during an interview. A supervisor states that the section will be cut due to controversies.

Ryotaro Sakajo, the assistant director for her show, develops an obsession with her. Misa once blows her nose into a tissue and throws it away, and Sakajo takes it out of the trash to go along. At the stop of the kickoff picture show, Sakajo follows Misa ane night with a pocketknife, and she runs from him screaming for help, but ends up at a dead end. He plans to kill her and himself and so she tin be with her parents over again, merely he collapses before he's able to exercise and so. A Death note falls beside his dead body.

The 2nd film, Decease Annotation: The Last Name, begins during this same scene, just information technology shows Gelus watching the events from the Shinigami Realm and he writes Sakajo's name in his Death Notation. Gelus's Death Note then falls in front end of Misa, who picks it upwardly and meets Rem.

Misa sends her envelopes to Sakura Television from Kita-ku, Osaka. Her message airs while she is in her individual dressing room at the station. It'southward as well during a Telly festival attended past Sayu Yagami. Instead of Ukita, Kanzo Mogi runs to the station to get the broadcast to end, and Misa kills him with her Death Annotation. Witnessing Mogi'due south Decease Annotation, Sayu becomes upset and calls her a "murderer", which causes Misa to freeze with a flashback to her murdered family, and she stops. When Light comes to the station for Sayu, Misa sees him on her style out, which is how she discovers his proper name.

Later confinement, information technology appears that she and Calorie-free share a room at headquarters, and she comments that it's like being married.

At the finish of the 2d pic, her memories of the Expiry Note are still intact when Light dies, and she witnesses the final showdown between Light and L. Misa cries in anguish every bit she can do cypher but watch as Ryuk kills Light. Misa was likely taken into custody, but L burned the Decease Notes and Misa lost her memories. Misa is not prosecuted and is somewhen released.

Unlike in the original series, Misa does not commit suicide post-obit Light's death. Instead, she is seen wishing Lite a happy birthday before a family shrine, which holds Light's picture and a picture of Misa's family. She feels that a part of her life is somehow missing, or that she has forgotten something of import. However, she doesn't remember what it is.

The fourth film, Decease Annotation: Light Up the NEW World, is set x years later. Misa is a successful model and actress. Although cipher suspicious has happened with her, she remains under surveillance past the police. Yuki Shien gives her one of the Death Notes, and her memories of events come back to her. Shien meets her secretly in her car in the parking garage, where the cameras can't meet them talk. Shien wants Misa's help, but she isn't interested. She tells him to take the Death Note, only he leaves it with her maxim it's hers.

Shien later texts Misa for help, and she arrives. She again makes the centre deal with Ryuk, and she writes down Ryuzaki's name, plainly killing him. When Shien starts to become them out of in that location, Misa tells him to proceed alone considering she tin can't. She tells him the location he was looking for and she gives him her Death Note, and she stays behind. With scraps of Decease Note paper, she kills Kuromoto and Uragami, members of the Task Forcefulness, to help Shien become away.

Misa then goes outside, having written her own name and the circumstances of her death on a scrap of Expiry Note paper. Equally written, she dies on December 18th at 2:40 pm "in the arms of Light Yagami."

Information technology is also revealed in the 4th film that Calorie-free had a kid who would be nine years erstwhile. The child was being raised by Teru Mikami, who was Misa'southward prosecutor afterward the Kira case. Although the kid'southward mother isn't straight named, the historic period of the child and the connexion between Misa and the child's guardian implies that Misa is the mother.

Conception of Misa in the films

Erika Toda said that, prior to filming, she felt "a lot of pressure level" due to the grapheme's popularity with audiences. She said the pressure level vanished when filming began. Toda said that undoing the straight jacket took a lot of time, and at times she waited in the jacket betwixt takes. Toda also said that on one occasion, she wore a blindfold for an hour during filming.

Erika Toda said that she views Misa as "complicated and fascinating." Toda added that she does non comprehend why a person would willingly use a Expiry Note; Toda said that she admired the fact that Misa "does everything she sets out to practise" and that the actions of Light and Misa are "criminal."

Novel

Misa is mentioned several times in the novel, 50: Modify the WorLd, and L's obsession with her seems to be much greater. She is extremely famous by at present, fifty-fifty working as a singer.

Maki Nikaido reveals that she grew up in Osaka, in the aforementioned neighborhood as Misa Amane and her family. Misa was well known in the neighborhood for her beauty, and her family was very close with the Nikaido family. The two families even used to go on vacations together. Maki keeps a computer scrap containing photos of the Amane's and her family unit on vacation to her, which she holds very precious, though agrees to requite it to L after he offers to trade her for his notebook, which he values greater than his ain life.

Misa and Maki have a close relationship, Maki viewing Misa every bit an older sister, even after she became famous. Misa cares almost Maki every bit well, going out of her way to assist Maki escape, despite it existence all over the news that Maki was carrying a deadly and highly contagious virus.

It is revealed by L that Misa only has a few years left to live.

Television drama

Misa's office in the Telly drama is largely the same equally in the manga; she is a pop idol who falls in honey with Lite after she discovers he punished her parents' murderer. Yet, the dynamics of Light and Misa's relationship are dissimilar because Calorie-free in the drama adaption is a fan of Misa, causing him to have romantic feelings for her as well. Misa also proves to be much useful to Light than in the manga, existence the i to end Raye Penber when Light's programme to kill the FBI agents is botched. All the same, Light yet views Misa every bit a liability and even threatens to write her name in his Death Notation should he ever doubtable her of implicating him.

Misa is portrayed by Hinako Sano (佐野ひなこ, Sano Hinako).

Musical

Jeong Sun Ah every bit Misa (2015, Seoul) during Set to Love

Misa is a popular singer in the Musical. Just every bit in canon, she'due south grateful to Kira and wants to meet him, and she trades for the Shinigami optics to do so. Dissimilar in other versions, Misa isn't shown killing anyone, leaving it unclear if she actually uses her Death Annotation.

Sayu is a fan of Misa, and she takes Lite along to ane of Misa'southward concerts, during which Misa openly supports and gives cheers to Kira. When Misa encounters Rem, she insists on finding Kira, so Rem reluctantly offers her the middle deal, which Misa accepts. Misa comes up with a song with a secret message to Kira, which Sayu shares with Light. Misa also sends tapes to a Television set station equally the Second Kira. From the vocal and tapes, Light gets her message and they're able to secretly meet. Misa suggests they date, and Light agrees, but he gets her to give him the name of the human following him, which Misa does despite her reluctance. Misa afterward goes to visit Lite on campus where she meets L and sees his name, but L has her apprehended immediately subsequently. Afterwards several days in confinement, she gives up her ownership of the notebook and loses her memories. Rem laments that Misa has forgotten her as well, and sacrifices herself so that Light can defeat 50 and salvage Misa. Misa's fate is unknown. During the ending vocal, she comes out on stage and sand runs from her hands in a symbol of Rem's remains and of time running out.

Fuka Yuzuki as Misa (2015, Tokyo) during "Mortals and Fools"

Misa is portrayed by various actresses for the different musical productions. Fuka Yuzuki (唯月ふうか, Yudzuki Fuuka) portrayed her in the 2015 Japanese product, and reprised the office in 2017. Jeong Sunday-Ah (정선아) portrayed her in the 2015 Korean production, and Ben (벤) took on the role in the 2017 Korean production. Adrienne Warren portrayed the grapheme in 2014 for the English-language workshop in New York and for the New York studio demo recordings.

Misa performs the following songs in the musical:

"I'1000 Ready" is Misa's introductory vocal, performed at her concert. She dedicates the song to her hero Kira.
"Nosotros All Need a Hero" is a vocal Sayu sings for Light. Misa joins in to sing for Kira.
"Mortals and Fools" is a song Misa and Rem sing when they commencement meet and Misa requests the heart trade.
"Stalemate is vocal mainly betwixt L and Low-cal at the Todai University entrance ceremony. Misa sings a verse about her plans to compose a song with a message to Kira.
"I'll Just Love You More than," aka "A Secret Message," is a song that Misa writes and performs with a bulletin to Kira.
"Borrowed Fourth dimension" is a song Misa sings while held in confinement.

2017 Netflix film

In Netflix'south American Death Annotation motion picture, Misa's proper noun is changed to Mia Sutton, and she is played by Margaret Qualley.

Mia is a loftier school student and classmate of Light Turner, and she helps him after he finds the Death Note. Her role and human relationship with Lite is much different in this adaptation as Calorie-free shows her the Death Note early on on for her to accept involvement in him, and she plays a more than dominant office in existence Kira with Lite.

Conception

The post-obit data is from Decease Note xiii: How to Read.

Tsugumi Ohba: Author

Takeshi Obata: Creative person

Overview

Tsugumi Ohba, writer of Death Note, decided to create Misa to exist the second Kira before the serialization began. They felt that having the story solely consist of males would exist "deadening" and that they wanted "a beautiful female person."

Ohba, intending to introduce Misa with the Shinigami Optics, described her as having to exist "spontaneous and not also bright" and that they determined her personality "from the showtime." Since Light Yagami would never want to merchandise for the Shinigami Eyes, Ohba wanted another character to use to trade for the eyes, so they decided to utilise Misa.

Ohba said that the conception of the name Misa "was kind of random simply I recollect it was from "kuromisa" (Black Mass).

Character design

Ohba and Takeshi Obata, artist of Death Annotation, wanted to use the Gothic Lolita design to convey "Gothic imagery of the Shinigami and that world". Ohba said that they were "into that fashion" and that having Misa beginning appear in unusual clothing would exist "more interesting". Obata said that he remembered "having a lot of fun" while looking through Gothic Lolita magazines and drawing Misa. Obata said that he felt "apprehension" regarding the length of Misa's hair; personally he wanted her fringe (bangs) to be "straight across" simply believed that creating Misa completely within the bounds of Gothic Lolita style would exist "too much". Therefore Obata designed her so she looked "a little more natural" and to appear "cute" to people who "weren't into the Gothic Lolita manner". Obata, imagining a mix of an "energetic Japanese artist" and a "foreign rock and roll vocaliser", felt "set up" when he drew Misa for the offset fourth dimension. When the Near and Mello story arc began and Misa became a top idol, Obata decided to brand her look like "a popular extra".

When designing color book covers, Obata assigned colors to characters to "get the atmosphere right." Obata assigned pink and black to Misa.

In response to a question inquiring well-nigh which characters the creators faced the most difficulty in creating, Obata selected Misa. Obata said that he had difficulty comprehending the concept of "doing anything for the person you love" and that he felt similar the character controlled him when he drew her. Death Note xiii: How to Read also states that Misa "required a lot of artistic variation" considering of her "many expressions" that ranged "from goofy to serious."

Trivia

Although Ohba came upwardly with Misa's name from something based on "kuromisa," "Misa" is, in fact, a female person Japanese name. The female Japanese proper noun "Amane" means "sound of the heavens."
Misa was born in Kyoto, Japan.
Misa's engagement of birth, December 25, is Christmas, and her appointment of expiry, February 14, is Saint Valentine'due south Day.
In the anime, the ringtone on Misa'southward telephone is Alumina.^[v]
In the anime, certain characters take on stylized hair colors while the viewer hears their thoughts; Misa's color is a deep blue. However, when Misa's thoughts are heard in the series, such every bit in episodes 21: Performance and 22: Guidance, her colors do non change.

Misa is one of the Death Note characters that were made into Nendoroid figures. The Misa Nendoroid comes with a handbag, a doll, and iv faces, a shocked face, a laughing face, honey-struck face up, and a normal confront.
She is the merely grapheme in the Death Note Musical then far to take been portrayed by three different vocal ranges: Fuka Yuzuki, the original Japanese Misa, was a soprano, Jeong Sun-Ah, the original Korean Misa, was a mezzo, and Adrienne Walker, her English Demo voice, was an alto.
Misa's BWH measurements are 30-20-28.

Quotes

"I hate evil and dear justice. I do not consider the police every bit my enemies, but my allies against evil." (Chapter 23)
"What a wonderful mode to kill…" (Chapter 27)
(To Lite Yagami) "I'm satisfied with just existence used by you. Trust me." (Affiliate 29)
(To Light Yagami) "A pretend boyfriend, correct? That'south a good start. I'thou certain you'll autumn in love with me for real one day." (Affiliate 30)
(To Calorie-free Yagami) "There'southward no way I'll stand up for you seeing other girls. If I see that, I'll kill them." (Chapter 30)
"Thanks to Rem, Light really became Misa'due south knight… but… don't really kill him, okay?" (Affiliate 30)
"Rem… I wish Lite would beloved me… I want Light to be happy…" (Chapter 31)
"If I die at present, I'll be happy… kill me while I'm still young and pretty…" (Chapter 33)
(To Rem while being held convict by 50) "Kill me!! Kill me at present!!! I was suppose to die on that day, correct? Please. Just. Impale. Me." (Chapter 33)
"I couldn't live in a world without Lite." (Chapter 45)
"You tin't buy peace or honey with money." (Chapter lxxx)
"To me… Kira is an absolute being!"
(To L) "If Light were Kira… awesome. I've always been grateful to Kira for punishing the man who killed my parents. If Light was Kira, then I'd beloved him even more."
"What practice you mean I use my sexual charm?!"

Themes

Misa has five themes, two of which are found on Expiry Notation Original Soundtrack II. Misa's themes are "Misa's Theme A" (ミサのテーマA Misa no Tēma A) and "Misa'south Theme B" (ミサのテーマB Misa no Tēma B). Three more are constitute on Decease Annotation Original Soundtrack III. Her themes are "Misa" (ミサ Misa), "Misa's Loneliness" (ミサの孤独 Misa no Kodoku), and "Misa's Feelings" (ミサの気持ち Misa no Kimochi).

Besides worth noting is "Misa's Song" (Misa no Uta), which Misa sings in the anime prior to 50'due south death. "Misa's Vocal" appears on the soundtrack three times. In that location is ane track with vocals, a piano version titled "'Misa's Song' (Piano Solo)," and an orchestra version only titled "'Misa's Vocal' (Orchestra Version)." The vocals are performed by Misa's voice actresses for the different dubs. Some dubs, nonetheless, such equally the German dub, keep the original version sung past Aya Hirano.

Misa's Theme A

Misa's Theme B

Misa

Misa no Kodoku

Misa no Kimochi

Misa no Uta

References

↑ Convinced
↑ ^2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^two.06 ^2.07 ^two.08 ^2.09 ^two.10 From Death Note thirteen: How to Read.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^iii.ii ^three.3 ^3.4 From Expiry Note/A Blitheness Official Assay Guide.
↑ Dearest
↑ ^5.0 ^five.i Wager
↑ Requite-and-Take
↑ Bomb

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