In return for letting you keep the notebook, the Shinigami may take it back at any time.

The Shinigami's voice and form will go completely unnoticed by others.

If you write small, you can cram in as many names as you want.

The notebook has 60 pages with 38 lines per page.For instance, Ryuk says in the pilot chapter that 'the notebook has 60 pages with 38 lines per page,' and that when the owner runs out of space to write in the notebook, they 'may ask the original Shinigami owner for another.' In the manga canon rules (How to Use It: XXXI), it's stated that 'the number of pages of the Death Note will never run out.' Some of the rules are different than what's later used in the manga. In the manga pilot chapter, there is nothing written in the notebook when Taro Kagami first picks it up. With the exception of Netflix's 2017 film, the adaptations mostly honor the original canon rules. If you make this Note unusable by tearing it up or burning it, all the humans who have touched the Note till then will die.If the person using this Note fails to consecutively write names of people to be killed within 13 days of each other, then the user will die.These are the fake rules that Ryuk writes in the Death Note: In the series, Light Yagami convinces Ryuk to write down fake rules to mislead investigators and clear himself and Misa Amane of suspicion.

This issue is only in rules released in volume 7. The Japanese mis-numbered two of their rules, reusing the numbers again Viz instead removed two pages so that the numbers wouldn't be duplicated. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.Ī total of 70 pages (68 in Viz's edition) were released.If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen.Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name.The human whose name is written in this note shall die.The first five rules are the ones Ryuk wrote in the Death Note, and which are provided with the first 'How to Use It' page: The rules are essentially identical in the anime, and are the original rules on which the other adaptations are based. These are the full-page rules provided at the end of manga chapters titled 'How to Use It,' and they are the main rules of the series. Main article: Rules of the Death Note/Manga Chapter Rules

Death note rules on one page