Rules of the Death Note/Manga Chapter Rules

See also: Fake Death Note Rules

The following is a list of all the rules (found in between the manga chapters) for the Death Note and Shinigami that have been revealed to the reader/viewer throughout Death Note and in the thirteenth manga volume, Death Note 13: How to Read. Some rules have been changed in How to Read from what was mentioned in the manga pilot chapter. In How to Read, it is stated that there are an unlimited amount of pages in the Death Note. In contrast, the rules listed in the manga pilot chapter, included in How to Read, state 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."

Volume 7
Note about the numbering: The Japanese edition reuses numbers XLII (42) and XLIII (43) between volumes 7 and 8. Viz cut two rules in Volume 7, and renumbered the rules they kept, beginning with rules XXXIX (39). The rules between the Japanese and Viz editions correspond again in volume 8.

Trivia

 * In the opening sequence for Death Note: The Last Name, the second rule in How to Use I has been shortened to "This note will not effect people sharing the same name."
 * The proper roman numeral for #19 is XIX, but the rules uses XVIV instead.

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