User blog comment:Heyur2nice/Thoughts on the Pilot manga/@comment-4495599-20120523225459

The Pilot is, in fact, very good. Thanks to it Death Note managed to be published. The Death Eraser was just a plot device, a bad one, so it was removed from the manga. Just think how easy would be for the detectives to discover Kira if at some point the victims resurrected.