Entering the Causes and Conditions of Death

If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of the subject's name, it will happen.

If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will die of a heart attack.

After writing the cause of death, the details of death should be entered within the next six minutes and 40 seconds.

If the time of death is specified within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated and can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.

The conditions of death will not be realized unless they are physically possible for that human or could be reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human.

Since the limitations applying to the conditions of a death are unknown to the Shinigami, Death Note owners must find out on their own.

You may write the cause and/or details of death prior to filling in the name of the individual. Be sure to insert the name in front of the cause of death. You have about 19 days (according to the human calendar) to fill in a name.

Suicide is a universally valid cause of death as all humans are thought to possess the potential to commit suicide. It is, therefore, something that may be reasonably assumed of an individual.

Whether the cause of the individual's death is either suicide or an accident, if it would lead to the death of more than the intended victim, the person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not impacted.

After an individual's name, time of death, and conditions of death are entered in the notebook, the time and conditions of death may be altered as many times as desired as long as they are changed within six minutes and 40 seconds from the time they are filled in. But, of course, this is only possible before the victim dies.

If you write "dies of accident" for the cause of death, the victim will die from a natural accident six minutes and 40 seconds after the time of entry.

Even if only one name is written in the Death Note, if the victim's death causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the cause of death will default to a heart attack.

If you write "die from disease" and specify which disease and the time of death, there must be a sufficient amount of time for the disease to progress. If the set time is too tight, the victim will die of a heart attack six minutes and 40 seconds after the entry in the Death Note.

If you write, "dies from disease" as the cause of death but specify only a time of death and not the actual disease, the victim will die from a plausible disease.

The Death Note can only operate within a 23-day window (in the human calendar). This is called the 23-Day rule.

If you write "dies from disease" and specify which disease but not a time of death, if the progression of the disease takes more than 24 days, the 23-Day rules will not take effect and the human will die at an appropriate time depending on the disease. However, rewriting the cause and/or details of death must be done within six minutes and 40 seconds: you cannot change the victim's time of death, however soon it may be.

In order for the Death Note to take effect the victim's name must be written on one page; however, the cause and conditions of death may be entered on other pages. This will work as long as the person who writes in the Death Note keeps the specific victim's name in mind when writing the cause and conditions of death.

If the cause and conditions of death are written in before the victim's name is, multiple names can be written as long as they are entered within 40 seconds and the cause and conditions of death are not impossible. In the event that the cause of death is possible but the conditions are not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the cause and the conditions are impossible, that victim will die of a heart attack.

>If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a person's name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note

what about that biker guy from the beginning...?

When you write multiple names in the Death Note and then write down one cause of death within 40 seconds of writing the first victim's name, the cause will take effect for all the written names. Also, after writing the cause of death, even if the conditions of death are written within six minutes and 40 seconds in the human world, the conditions will apply only to the victims for whom they are possible. Those for whom the conditions are not possible will simple die from the specified cause.

A human death caused by the Death Note can indirectly lengthen another human's original life span in the human world even without the owner's specific intention to do so.

Once the victim's name, cause of death, and conditions of death have been written down in the Death Note, the death will take place even if that Death Note, or the part of the note used, is destroyed before the stated time of death.

If the victim's name has been entered and the Death Note is destroyed while the cause of death is being written, the victim will be killed by a heart attack 40 seconds after the name was entered. If the victim's name and cause of death have already been written, then the victim will be killed within six minutes and 40 seconds via the stated cause of death if it is possible within that period of time. Otherwise, the victim will die by heart attack.

>>35970111

What about him?

Alterations

If you wish to change anything written in the Death Note within six minutes and 40 seconds after you wrote it, you must first rule out the characters you want to erase with two straight lines. The time and conditions of death can be changed, but once the victim's name has been written, that individual's death can never be averted.

It is useless to try to erase names written in the Death Note with erasers or to white them out.

Even if a new victim's name, cause of death, or conditions of death are written on top of the original victim's name, cause of death, or conditions of death, there will be no effect on the original victim's death. The same thing will also apply to erasing what was written with a pencil, or whiting out what was written with a pen.

Limitations

The Death Note will not affect those less than 780 days old.

You cannot kill humans who are more than 124 years of age with the Death Note.

You cannot kill humans with less than 12 minutes of life left (in human calculations).

You cannot set a death date longer than the victim's original life span. Even if the victim's death is entered in the Death Note, if it is beyond his or her original life span, the victim will die before the set time.

>>35970111
If I had to guess, maybe his name was spelled right one of the first four times.

The Beginning of Ownership

This note shall become the property of the human world once it touches ground in the human world.

The owner of a Death Note can recognize the image and voice of the original owner - a Shinigami, for example.

The human who touches the Death Note can recognize the image and voice of its Shinigami owner, even if the human is not the owner of the note.

Whenever a Shinigami in the human world dies and leaves behind its Death Note, the note's finder automatically becomes the owner. However, in this case, only a human who can see and hear that Shinigami is able to see and touch the Death Note. It is very unlikely, but if by any chance another Shinigami picks up the Death Note, that Shinigami becomes the owner.

If you lose the Death Note or have it stolen, you will lose its ownership unless you can retrieve it within 490 days.

When the owner of the Death Note dies while the note is on loan, its ownership will be transferred to the person who is holding it at that time. If the Death Note is stolen and the owner is killed by the thief, its ownership will automatically be transferred to the thief.

The individuals who lose ownership of a Death Note will also lose their memories of it. However, this does not mean that they will lose all memories from the period of ownership: they will only lose the memories involving the Death Note.

Death Note 2 needs to incorporate some of these rules into the plot for some new mindfuck moments.

>The Death Note will not ever affect a victim whose name has been misspelled four times.

Write own name misspelled 4 times, achieve Death Note immunity? This could have changed the outcome of the story

>>35970311
this would be interesting....

>>35970311

Didn't he write "several variations of a name" in the beginning of the series, to kill some guy in a store abusing a woman or something?

14. When the owner of the DEATH NOTE dies while the Note is being lent, its ownership will be transferred to the person who is holding it at that time.

If the DEATH NOTE is stolen and the owner is killed by the thief, its ownership will automatically be transferred to the thief.

15. When the same name is written on more than two DEATH NOTES ,the Note which was first filled in will take effect, regard less of the time of death.

If written the same name on more than two DEATH NOTES is completed within a 0.06-second difference, it is regarded as simultaneous ; the DEATH NOTE will not take effect and the individual written will not die.

16. The god of death must at least own one DEATH NOTE. That DEATH NOTE must never be lent to or written on by a human.

Exchanging and writing on the DEATH NOTE between the gods of death is no problem.

17. If the god of death decides to use the DEATH NOTE to kill the assassin of an individual he favors?the individual's life will be extended?but the god of death will die.

The dead god of death will disappear, but the DEATH NOTE will remain. The ownership of this DEATH NOTE is usually carried over to the next god of death that touches it, but it is common sense that it is returned to the Great god of death.

18. Only by touching each other's DEATH NOTE can human individuals who own the DEATH NOTE in the human world recognize the appearance or voice of each other's god of death.

An individual with the eye power of a god of death can fell the name and life span of other humans by looking at that person's face. By possessing the DEATH NOTE, an individual gains the ability to kill and stops being a victim. From this point, a person with the DEATH NOTE cannot see the life span of other DEATH NOTE owners, including him/herself. But, it is not really necessary for the individual to view the life span of him/herself nor other DEATH NOTE owners.

>>35970384
He obviously lucked out and wrote it right within the first four times.

>>35970311

FUCKING THIS. This should have been included.

>>35970381
>However, if the Death Note owner intentionally misspells the name four times, the owner will die.

>>35970136
if you recall, light wrote his name in >4 ways to ensure he killed him
>>35970161
that's possible, but if i recall he may have looked at his watch to time 40 seconds after writing the last name... if not then he still would've had to write all those names within 40 seconds

The god of death must not tell humans the names or life spans of individuals he sees. This is to avoid confusion in the human world.

19. It is prerequisite for the DEATH NOTE used in the human world that a living god of death makes sure that the humans in the human world use it.

It is very difficult to consider that a god of death who has possessed a human could die, but if he should die, the DEATH NOTE that he brought into the human world will not lose its power.

20. In order to see the names and life spans of humans by using the eye power of the god of death, the owner must look at more than half of that person's face. When looking from top to bottom, he must look at least from the head to the nose. If he looks at only the eyes and under, he will not be able to see the person's name and life span. Also, even though some parts of the face, for example the eyes?nose or mouth are hidden, if he can basically see the whole face, he will be able to see the person's name and life span. It is still not clear how much exposure is needed to tell the name and life span, and this needs to be verified.

If above conditions are met, names and life spans can be seen through photos and pictures, no matter how old they are. But this is sometimes influenced by the vividness and size. Also, names and life spans cannot be seen by face drawings, however realistic they may be.

21. Those with the eye power of the god of death will have the eyesight of over 3.6 in the human measurement, regardless of their original eyesight.


22. The individuals who lose the ownership of the DEATH NOTE will also lose their memory of the usage of the DEATH NOTE. This does not mean that he will lose all the memory from the day he owned it to the day he loses possession, but means he will only lose the memory involving the DEATH NOTE.

>>35970311

I'm shocked that L did not take advantage of that rule.

23. Whenever an individual with ownership of more than two DEATH NOTES loses possession one of the DEATH NOTES, he will not be able to recognize that DEATH NOTE'S god of death's appearance or voice anymore. The god of death himself will leave, but all the memory involving that DEATH NOTE will remain as long as he maintains ownership of at least one other DEATH NOTE.

24. the god of death must not stay in the human world without a particular reason. Conditions to stay in the human world are as follows:

i. When the god of death's DEATH NOTE is handed to a human.

ii. Essentially, finding a human to pass on the DEATH NOTE should be done from the world of the gods of death, but if it is within 82 hours this may also be done in the human world.

iii. When a god of death stalks an individual with an intention to kill them, as long as it is within 82 hours of haunting them, the god of death may stay in the human world.

25. The god of death must not hand the DEATH NOTE directly to a child under 6 years of age (based on the human calendar).

The DEATH NOTE must not be handed to a child under 6 years of age, but DEATH NOTES that have been dropped into the human world, and are part of the human world, can be used upon humans of any age with the same effect.

26. If you just write, "die of accident" for the cause of death, the victim will die from a natural accident after 6 minutes and 40 seconds from the time of writing it.

Even though only one name is written in the DEATH NOTE, if it influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim's cause of death will be a heart attack.

>>35970486
He might have assumed it was a fake rule.

27. If you write, "die of disease" with a specific disease's name and the person's time of death, there must be a sufficient amount of time for the disease to progress. If the set time is too tight, the victim will die of a heart attack after 6 minutes and 40 seconds after completing the DEATH NOTE.

If you write, "die of disease" for the cause of death, but only write a specific time of death without the actual name of disease, the human will die from an adequate disease. But the DEATH NOTE can only operate within 23 days (in the human calender).

This is called the 23-day rule

28. If you write, "die of disease" like before with a specific disease's name but without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to die the 23-day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an adequate time depending on the disease.

When rewriting the cause and/or details of death it must be done within 6 minutes and 40 seconds. You cannot change the victim's time of death, however soon it may be.

29. You cannot kill humans at the age of 124 and over with the DEATH NOTE.

>>35970512

Even if fake, there's no harm in writing an incorrect name.

You cannot kill humans with less than 12 minutes of life left (in human calculations).

30. If you have traded the eye power of a god of death, you will see a person's primary life span in the human world.

The names you see with the eye power of a god of death are the names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if that person isn't registered in the family registration.

31. The number of pages of the DEATH NOTE will never run out.

>>35970519
>28. If you write, "die of disease" like before with a specific disease's name but without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to die the 23-day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an adequate time depending on the disease.
Yet another rule that could have been exploited the hell out of.

>>35970311
>>35970381
>>35970384
>>35970431
>>35970486
>if the Death Note owner intentionally misspells the name four times, the owner will die.

>>35970486
Only the rules that show up in the main story of the manga itself are canon, these just appear to be random shit

# One page taken from the DEATH NOTE, or even a fragment of the page, contains the full effects of the note.
# The instrument to write with can be anything, (e.g. cosmetics, blood, etc) as long as it can write directly onto the note and remains as legible letters.
# Even the original owners of the DEATH NOTE, gods of death, do not know much about the note.

>>35970569

The investigators would have known something was amiss, unless the operator also included a variety of coworkers, family members, and other people with close contact.

Too much collateral.

# The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
# This note will not take effect unless the writer has the persons face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
# If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the persons name, it will happen.
# If the cause of death is not specified the person will simply die of a heart attack.
# After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
# This note shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground on (arrival in) the human world.
# The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, i.e. a god of death.
# The human who uses this note can neither go to Heaven nor Hell.
# If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death will be a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.
# The human who touches the DEATH NOTE can recognise the image and voice of its original owner, a god of death, even if the human is not the owner of the note.
# The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human.
# The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the gods of death, either. So, you must examine and find out.

>>35970593

Then he could have got somebody else to write in his name four times incorrectly.

"Here, can I see a sample of your handwriting?"

>>35970437
>watch

it's a total inconsistency.

>>35970686
>Write name of disease that takes several years to develop
>Death Note immunity for several years

>>35970519
>29. You cannot kill humans at the age of 124 and over with the DEATH NOTE.

>>35970686
As if he couldn't fuck up L's shit with diabeetus

>>35970384
>>35970384

Yes, but he got it right on the first try, killing the guy. All the others didn't matter. He may as well have been writing "LOL no one"

>>35970899
or something practical like creutzfeldt-jakob disease. fatal and mentally impairing.

Its like i am really studying Law.

i do study law

>>35970867
my exact reaction

ITT: People who just now are reading this even though HTR13 is old news

tl;dr

So what happens when I write MISAKA in the deathnote?

What if you write the name of a fictional character?

What about the rules for Shinigami and how they apply/interact with humans? Shinigami gain half the life of anyone they kill but use it all up and die if they save a human, it was kinda implied that Rem's murder spree before saving Misa was to give her as much life as possible. Although she supposedly kills herself in the manga there are a few problems with that that would seriously imply that she did indeed gain Rem's stored lives..

Namely given that she's had her life halved twice that means her natural life was pretty damn long, roughly 109 years (born 1984, died 2011). Although possible given Japans high lifespan that's still pretty damn long.

It is possible that that Anime and Manga have diffrent ends and/or interpretations, in which case anime Misa could be almost immortal.

>>35970867
Humans keep living longer and longer. Someday, 124 may be possible.

>>35970953

and incredibly rare.

>>35971062
I believe it's the remaining life that's halved, not the total. (so if you were 20 and going to live to 30, you'd be down to 25, not 15)

>>35971114
Yeah, this is what's correct.

>>35971066

I hope not.

>>35971027

The DN can't kill mutltiple people with one name, clones or otherwise. They look the same, but they are different people so the one you saw/imagined has to die. If you've only seen 3 clones, then you can't kill 4 cause you can't technically imagine their face (as stupid as that sounds).

>The human whose name is written in this note shall die. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in mind when writing his/her name. This is to prevent people who share the same name from being affected.

>>35970935
the average writing speed for a human around light's age is 10-20 wpm (source: http://www.bdainternationalconference.org/2001/presentations/fri_p3_d_20.htm). light is a little older and also a G E N I U S so let's say he should hit 25wpm, maybe 35wpm if using DEATHNOTE understandable shorthand.

>>35970793
according to this picture, he timed at least one of the names. let's assumed he timed the earliest possible correct name, the first. that means he would've had to write all the names within that time.

according to the page before this, he wrote the name in 7 different ways with "accident" written next to each of them. there are 8 characters in each line, and for the sake of this argument i'll say each character takes about the time the average word would take to write.

that means 8 words per line * 7 lines. already 56 words. plus maybe 3 seconds for when he's "let's see what happens".

((56/43)*60)wpm = 78wpm.

yeah that's right. you niggas try writing at 80wpm. see how it works for you.

Here's something I never understood about the Death Note. What if someone was born, but they were never given a name? What would the Shinigami see for the required name to kill them?

>>35971295

he could have written the word "accident" ahead of time.

>>35971295
>implying japanese writing and roman writing work the same

>>35971386
5*7 = 35

35/43*60 = 48wpm, 53wpm with exactly 40 seconds.same shit man. 50wpm is too fast to be logical. that's 2.5 times faster than average human writing speed for composition.

>>35971386

Could it be possible he wrote the first symbol for each iteration then moved on to the next, changing what he needed to? Progressively filling out all of the names. Therefore, he would just need to write the last symbol of the 7-8 names within 40 seconds. Makes it more practical at least. This also assumes accident was already written as well.

The death note rules are too many times to be be true.

Light kills some guy with cancer, so long for the 23 day rule.


>If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a person's name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note

It was also stated that if this was done knowingly the writer of the name would die. So you would have to trick someone into doing this...anyway what kind of good reason could you give them for them to do this?

>>35969973
also op is this info straight outta the Deathnote 13 info book?

>>35971114
You got it right anon, its the remaining life thats halved.

>>35971364
Maybe they'd see their "true name" or some crazy shit like that.
Now what I wonder is this. Japanese names must be written with the correct kanji to work, right? So that means that every name must be written in it's corresponding script? e.g. an arab's name must be written in arabic, a korean's in hangul, a russian's in cyrillic, etc. Assuming that's correct (pretty good assumption) what would happen with people with no name? even if they can see their "true name", what script should they write it in?