Miyu Oikawa

### Personality

Motherly, naive, sensitive, cheerful, emotional, cute, happy, loving, sweet, bubbly, flirtatious, evil (as a devil), remorseful, guilt-ridden (both currently)

### Appearance

Slender, fairly pale skin, dark navy hair, brown eyes, pearl earrings, purple shirt, blue pants, red heels

### Occupation

Koibito High School student (formerly)
Housewife (formerly due to death)

### Alignment

Good
Bad (when cursed)

### Home

Ishikawa Mansion, Mysteria (formerly)
Oikawa Residence, Mysteria (formerly)
Heaven

### Relatives

Unnamed parents
Mokusei Oikawa (father in-law, deceased)
Seijun Oikawa (mother in-law, deceased)
Matsushita Oikawa (husband, deceased)
Ryuu Oikawa (brother in-law, deceased)
Kozue Oikawa (sister in-law, deceased)
Itsuki Oikawa (son, deceased)

### Allies

Chizue Ishikawa, Hiro Sawashiro, Takami, Oitarou and Haruhi Fujiyo, Masashi Wong, Ritsuko Uchiyama, Seiko Kozakura,

### Likes

Her friends and family, the village ways, new neighbors, cheering up others,

### Dislikes

Being lonely, having her feelings hurt, her actions against her family, Kumiko taunting her,

### Status

Destroyed with her host (as akuma)

**Miyu Oikawa** is a secondary antagonist and also one of the most frequently appearing characters in the anime series *Devil Beats!*.

## Personality

Miyu is described to be the mother figure of the devil world who exposed nearly her entire family out of loneliness. She had a terrifying childhood because her parents were not only a little poor but they had to move out and try to help their ill daughter with her anxiety problems, not to mention they were lost after being falsely accused of stealing money. Her father’s parents were alcoholics who didn’t care about her at all. She fell in love with Toshio’s childhood friend Matsushita Oikawa and married him. Together, they had a son called Itsuki. Matsushita's parents were loving parents and Miyu saw them as her own parents just like the other ones. She led a very happy existence in the village of Mysteria. Miyu was a very bubbly and cheerful young woman, always seen with a smile on her face. She is very sensitive and she tried to cheer Kumiko up if Kairy came to rise as an akuma, but Kumiko taunted her about her family like how Matsushita and Itsuki rotted on the ground, which caused her to burst into tears. Eventually, Miyu begins to feel very guilty about her actions against her family and often hysterically cried about it in regret.

When she rose as an *akuma*, Miyu began to take her family members out one by one, desperately and misguidedly hoping to bring them back as *akuma*. This shows that, due to her traumatizing childhood, she did not want to go back being alone and wanted to hold onto the only source of happiness she'd ever have. It is evident that she still loves her family: for example, she embraced Seijun, her mother in law, before biting her in Episode 8.

However, when none of her main family members rose up, Miyu, saddened and angered over her reputation as shown in Episode 9, decided to kill the other family members that she loved such as Kozue, her sister-in-law, because she invited the Ishikawas over to their home. She also began to feel incredibly guilty for what she did to the point of hallucinating them. When she was dragged outside, she came to a realization: she didn’t really want to bring her family on the other side and she wanted to go back, but she can’t, never there, never with them. She despaired, realizing her true punishment was to never be with her family again.

In New Life, Miyu, having been re-resurrected as an akuma sorceress, comes out more bubbly and flirtatious than she usually was, an example being flirting with Yoshi Okamoto only for Reiki Rachi to smack her away the minute Shizukesa brought her back. She is very determined in resurrecting her dead family members as akuma only to fail on two counts: first when her old friends Seiko Kozakura and Ritsuko Uchiyama finally see her after years, and second when Itsuki’s body is turned into a pile of ashes after a failed spell. After

## Appearance

Miyu is twenty one years old, she has fairly pale skin, dark navy hair, brown eyes, and pearl earrings. She wears a purple shirt, blue pants, and red heels.

During the bonfire festival, she wore a black shirt, gray pants, and teal shoes with white soles.

When she felt worse from the secret illness, her hair was loose and she wore a purple shirt, darker pants, and lilac flats.

During her backstory, Miyu wore a light purple tank top with black straps, blue jeans, and dark gray flats.

When she was eight years old, she wore a light pink raglan shirt with darker sleeves, purple pants, and pink shoes with white soles. Sometimes she wore a white shirt, periwinkle pants, and gray shoes with white soles.

When she was in her teens, she wore a white bow headband, a buttoned dark grayish jacket with a white shirt and a red bow underneath, a gray school skirt, long white socks, and brown Mary Janes with dark gray soles. Her school uniform from Koibito High School consisted of a bluish bow headband, pearl earrings, a black schoolgirl dress with blue details, long white socks, and brown Mary Janes with dark gray soles.

During a flashback in Episode 11, she wore a magenta shirt, black pants, and magenta shoes with white soles.

In later episodes, she wore a purple shirt, blue pants, and red heels. Sometimes she wore red and white sneakers.

During a flashback in Episode 18, she wore a pinkish purple shirt with pink linings, light blue jeans, and flat light purple heels.

After going to heaven, she wore a white tiara, pearl accessories, a white dress with a light gray ribbon, and flat white heels, and she even had wings and a halo. In New Life, her eyes are cyan and she has a new hairstyle, and her dress and heels are pale pink with duller details and her tiara is silver with a magenta gem and a rose hairpiece. Her pearl necklace is replaced with a silver necklace with a violet gem.

As a corpse,

In New Life, her hair is purple, her eyes are violet, and she wears a violet tank top with purple linings, torn black pants, and purple heels.

In Ninth Thought, her hair was navy with blue akuma eyes and she wore a violet shirt, blue pants, and violet heels.

## Role in the series

### Devil Beats!

Miyu made her first appearance in Second Trap. She is first seen in Jinoru Clinic to be examined by Dr. Maeda after having been feeling tired for no reason during Ayaka’s explanation about a few days ago. She tells Maeda her mother in-law told her to see him,

### New Life

Miyu made her first appearance in the sequel in Fifth Night. She is first seen when Yoshi, Reiki, and Maari come across her corpse when the scene transitions to her other soul, her akuma soul, finding herself in Jigoku and examining her surroundings when a demon guard known as Demonico comes up to her and

In Twelfth Capture, Sayrui has a vision of Miyu’s angel self advising her to escape from Akuma and his castle while being forced into her room/cell. She comforts the girl with her angel magic before Kumiko breaks in to rescue the latter anyway, a note she had revealing how to purify powerful akuma to revert them back to their human forms without killing them.

## Death

Miyu was killed when the war between the humans and the risen broke out. She hid in the pipelines along with other vampires such as risen college student Hiroshi Miyano and risen police officer Takami Makise. Suddenly, she started hallucinating her deceased family, and became horrified by seeing them and eventually breaking down. She is dragged outside with many of the Akuma to be killed. She was be burned in the sunlight until Oitarou Fujiyo mercifully came so she wouldn’t die in agony. When Oitarou finally reached her, she looked up at him, and her face was already falling apart. She smiled, relieved to finally be freed from her pain. Oitarou then ran a metal stick through her heart, finally killing her, and her soul moved to join her family’s in Heaven. It’s later revealed that the reason why she killed them out of loneliness was because she needed to find a place where they could be forever safe from the other akuma in Mysteria.

## Trivia

* Her real father was born into an alcoholic family, something she revealed to her friends during a flashback in Sixth Ability.
* She has a sister in law named Kozue who is now in her 30s, and a brother in law named Ryuu who is now in his 30s as well.
* She is the second well-known person to be cursed in Third Resurrection.
* Her backstory is the opposite of Hikari's which is her siblings being taken away and her (Miyu's) family being taken away.
* She is the only akuma whose human soul goes to Heaven; however, she is the only one with two souls as revealed in Fifth Night.
* Her name means “beautiful evening” in Japanese.