Talk:Rules of the Death Note/Manga Chapter Rules

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2. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim’s name is misspelled four times.

If this is true, then how was Light able to kill that guy in episode 1 of the anime? He wrote the name at least eight times, and only one of those could have been right. Maggosh 15:20, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Where did these rules come from?
Having read the manga, seen the anime and even the supplemental pilot chapter of the manga and the "How to Read" supplement, I can honestly state that I have not seen most of these rules. There is no sourcing for any of these rules, and considering both that the offical website ( http://www.deathnote.com.au/rules/ ) lacks the vast majority of those written on this page, and the series itself lack mention of these, I have to question their validity. The best result I found for a preliminary search is a blog that claims to be of official rules from Ohba, but the version of the cited source (Death Note: How To Read 13) I have seen does not contain a ruleset like the one listed. Granted, however, I do not have access to a hard copy of it, so I might not have seen the relevant details. If anyone can more adequately confirm or deny the existance of this ruleset in the Death Note mythos, please do so. RadagastNyrr