

Light Yagami gets back his memory when he touches the death note. But Misa
does not get back her memories when removing touches her with a piece of paper
from the death note. Why?


CC BY-SA 3.0
2016-06-06T13:49:44.307
33569
2019-05-21T20:19:07.123
2017-03-19T05:05:44.753
2604
16712
question
death-note
Why doesn't Misa Amane regain her memory when she touches the death note?


In short: Unlike Light, Misa never owned that death note.

Now the relevant timeline:

Ryuk dropped a death note that became Light's - the one with the rules so we
call it the rulebook. Rem handed a death note to Misa - without written rules
so we call it the blank book.

Light and Misa met and touched each other's death notes. At this point, they
were both able to see either shinigami. Also, Misa allows Light to keep the
blank book but does not transfer ownership.

Misa gets caught and tortured by L and forfeits the ownership of the blank
book so it is owned by Rem or the first other human to touch it (aka. Light).

At this point, Light is the owner of both death notes and knows that whenever
he touches or get ownership of one of them, he regains his memories. Misa
however only ever held ownership of the blank one.

Light makes the Shinigamis switch the death notes so that the blank note is
now accompanied by Ryuk and the rulebook by Rem. Light hides the blank book
and gives the rulebook to Rem.

Than Rem returns to the Shinigami's world searching for someone to give the
rulebook while Lights gets himself incarcerated before finally giving up the
ownership of the blank book (to Ryuk who returns to the shinigami world).

Rem finds a human who would abuse the death note (Higuchi) and hands the
rulebook over to him.

Rem finds Misa in trouble and wants her to know that Rem would support her so
she makes Misa touch a snipped of the rulebook - that is accompanied by Rem
but never was owned by Misa so Misa gets the ability to see Rem but does not
regain her memories.

After they defeated Higuchi, Light touches the rulebook and temporarily
regains his memories so he kills Higuchi and assumes ownership of it, thus
permanently regain his memories. After meeting again, Light orders Misa to
find the blank book (that has been originally been given to her by Rem) so
that Misa would finally regain her memories too. Note that since the shinigami
swapped the notes, Ryuk now accompanies the blanc book.

If Misa would have remembered L's name, she'd have killed him right away but
since she didn't, she makes the deal with Ryuk again what Rem would never have
allowed.

Since Rem is connected to Light and sees the task force haunting Kira (Misa),
Rem kills L and Watari as she realizes that this is the only way to safe Misa
from being captured and sentenced to death.


CC BY-SA 4.0
2017-06-20T14:37:40.640
40971
2019-05-21T20:19:07.123
2019-05-21T20:19:07.123
33164
33164
33569
answer