Takuo Shibuimaru



Takuo Shibuimaru (渋井丸 拓男, Shibuimaru Takuo), nicknamed, is the second person that Light kills using his Death Note. Shibuimaru travels with a group of bikers, and starts harassing a woman in the street. After Light hears his name and sees him chasing this woman, he writes his name down in all possible variants, and uses a condition, a death by traffic accident. A truck slams into Shibuimaru's motorcycle, killing him. In the manga, Shibuimaru and his group harass the woman, while in the anime he and his group try to sexually attack her. In the manga Light feels some guilt since Shibuimaru is not a criminal. Tomohiro Nishimura (Japanese) and Lee Tockar (English) voice him in the anime.

In the film
A character having the same name appears in the film, but their actions, personality and degree of criminality are different. Shibuimaru is a criminal who was never prosecuted for killing five children. Light finds his name in a police database after he hacks onto the NPA server. He finds Shibuimaru in a lounge, bragging about the fact that he was not prosecuted. When a man asks Shibuimaru how he felt, he brags about his acquittal and laughed at the fact that the parents of his victims screamed when they discovered the acquittal. Shibuimaru finds Light looking over his shoulder and threatens him with a knife. He than backs away and laughs, taunting Light by stating that no-one can prosecute him. Light leaves the lounge just before he finds the Death Note.

At a later point, Shibuimaru sees Light at a train crossing and starts gawking at the law student. Light, who had previously killed another criminal, writes Shibuimaru's name into the Death Note. As a train passes between Light and Shibuimaru, the criminal collapses of a heart attack.

Trivia

 * In the Death Note Alternative ending, Light dies in the same way he killed Takuo Shibuimaru (with the Death Note) until he is brought back to life again for the third time.
 * The nickname "Shibutaku" is a parody of "Kimutaku", nickname of Takuya Kimura, a member of the Japanese idol group SMAP.
 * It is interesting to note that Takuo's death in the manga may have actually been coincidence since there is a rule in the Death Note that says a person will not die if their name is misspelled four times (and Light wrote down six spellings of Takuo's name). It does not specify whether the name misspellings need to happen before or after the correct name though.