Lunar Month

NAME: Misa Amane.
ALIASES: Second Kira.
AGE: 19 at introduction.
GENDER: Female.
SPECIES: Human.
DATE OF BIRTH: 25 December 1984. (1989 in the anime).
OCCUPATION: Model, Actress.

Misa is a famous model, singer and actress and has an immense crush on Light Yagami. She usually refers to herself in the third person by calling herself "Misa-Misa" to be cute and tends to be hyperactive. Though Misa wears jewelry with a crucifix theme in the manga, she wears fleur de lis jewelry in the anime adaptation. Despite her hyperactivity; she rarely, if ever, allows her personal feelings about anyone to interfere with Light's plans, showing her unflinching loyalty to him.

Her song is Misa no Uta (Lit: "Misa's Song"). She sings it in episode 25, dressed in Gothic Lolita clothing.

She decides to devote her life to Light because he punished the criminal that killed her parents when she was younger; a burglar killed Misa's parents in front of her eyes. Misa, unable to forgive the killer and wanting to kill the burglar herself, saw multiple delays in the killer's trial before Kira killed him. According to Ohba, Light sees Misa as a "bad person" who killed people, so he acts emotionally cold towards her and manipulates her. Ironically, she manages to charm everyone else associated with Light (with the obvious exception of Kiyomi Takada) other than her idol himself. Her own charm and affection for her friends within the Taskforce is also quite genuine. Whatever Light's feelings towards Misa are; Light and Misa both act together as Kira for over five years, until Light decides that it's too dangerous for Misa to be Kira with members of the taskforce suspecting him. When he tells Misa to forfeit ownership, she is initially upset, but then tells herself that Light has her safety in mind. Whether she actually believes this is not clear. The Shinigami who follows her is Rem. Misa also performs two eye trades, cutting her lifespan in half twice; the first was with Rem, and the second with Ryuk. However, two shinigami destroyed themselves for her (Jealous and Rem), which added their original years to hers. Because Shinigami have exceptionally long lifespans, Misa's life expectancy would have been extremely long and the eye trades would not make much of a difference. Indeed, Misa appears to have a profound effect on Shinigami in general; even Ryuk admits he felt shy when Misa hugged him.

According to How to Read 13, Misa loses her memories related to using the Death Note and retains her love for Light. Since it is in the nature of a Death Note user to "suffer misfortune", Misa falls into despair after she found out that Light died. Misa commits suicide one year later on February 14, 2011. The cloaked woman who appears at the end of the manga is not Misa, she is an unnamed follower of Kira. Misa's fate is not shown in the manga at all; she was last seen staying at the Teito Hotel. Ohba stated that this was simply because he did not have a situation to fit her in.

At the anime's finale, Misa appears standing outside the safety rail on the edge of a skyscraper looking into the sunset dressed in Gothic Lolita clothing.