Miura

Round glasses and a bowl haircut give Miura a plain, studious look. School hours put him in the standard uniform of white shirt with dark trousers and shoes, while at home he switches to a striped tee.

The pilot gives him no settled temperament, only a trajectory. A target of classroom bullies, he reaches for the notebook first as a way to strike back, then panics into killing the detectives who question him and the very classmates he had revived. Yet he proves reachable in the end, willing to be talked down and to confess once Taro Kagami offers him a way out.

Miura picks up a Death Note left lying in the street and takes it home, and by the next morning two classroom bullies who had tormented him, Taro Kagami, and others lie dead. Inspectors N-Suke Yamanaka and Takagi start canvassing the class, Miura among them. When the dead pair inexplicably return to life and the detectives press the revived boys for answers, Miura scrawls their names, along with the two officers', and kills all four before anyone can speak. The deaths reach a televised panel discussion, which Taro and the Shinigami Ryuk happen to be watching as three of the four commentators collapse from heart attacks. Ryuk admits he seeded a second notebook in the human world, and Taro instantly works out who must have found it. He races to Miura's home and arrives just as Miura is about to write his name, with plans to add his own afterward. Taro halts him and uses the Death Eraser, a tool Ryuk supplied, to restore everyone the notebook had killed. The two boys then go to the police, prove the notebook is real by killing and reviving Taro in front of the detectives, and earn forgiveness; the officers burn Miura's notebook. Taro, however, never discloses that he is holding a Death Note of his own.