Rules of the Death Note
Item from Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
The absolute, unbreakable laws that govern the most powerful weapon in existence — written by the Shinigami King and printed in every notebook.
Also known as: Death Note Rules, The Rules, Notebook Rules
What They Know
- CORE: Write a name while picturing the face → death in 40 seconds (heart attack default)
- Cause of death can be specified within 40 seconds; circumstances within 6 min 40 sec
- The Death Note does not work on targets under 780 days old
- A victim can be controlled for up to 23 days before their specified death
- Relinquishing ownership of a Death Note erases ALL memories of using it — this is how Light cleared himself during confinement
- A person who touches a Death Note can see the shinigami attached to it
- If a shinigami's Death Note is destroyed in the human world, the shinigami must retrieve it or find a new one within 82 hours
- The human who uses this notebook can go to neither Heaven nor Hell (this is true for all humans regardless — it's a cosmic joke, not a punishment)
- A Death Note is useless in the 6 minutes after being brought from the Shinigami Realm
- There are dozens of additional rules governing edge cases — ownership transfer, multiple names, simultaneous writing, and more
Connections
- created_by — king_of_death
- exploited_by — light
- studied_by — l
- studied_by — near
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