According to the rest of volume 13, Mikami's character design was based off of Taro's. :)
I think that it would be a complete surprise for Raito. The way I figure it, the two police officers who investigated Taro's case would have made up something as an explanation for the happenings, like "food-poisoning induced comas, which gave an appearance LIKE death, which the students later came out of" instead of "ZOMG it was a CURSED NOTEBOOK and deathy-defying ERASERS". That way, even if Raito investigated past cases for evidence of the Death Note (and there would be thousands of them, if not millions, to go through) he would have missed Taro's.
I also want to do something with the "eraser" pun. See, in Japanese, the verbe "erase", "keshite" (like, as an order) is a euphemism for "kill". Like, a mobster would say "aitsu wo keshite" ("erase him/that guy"). And here an eraser is, giving people life... XD
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Date: 2008-05-05 02:43 am (UTC)I think that it would be a complete surprise for Raito. The way I figure it, the two police officers who investigated Taro's case would have made up something as an explanation for the happenings, like "food-poisoning induced comas, which gave an appearance LIKE death, which the students later came out of" instead of "ZOMG it was a CURSED NOTEBOOK and deathy-defying ERASERS". That way, even if Raito investigated past cases for evidence of the Death Note (and there would be thousands of them, if not millions, to go through) he would have missed Taro's.
I also want to do something with the "eraser" pun. See, in Japanese, the verbe "erase", "keshite" (like, as an order) is a euphemism for "kill". Like, a mobster would say "aitsu wo keshite" ("erase him/that guy"). And here an eraser is, giving people life... XD