Rules of the Death Note/Manga Chapter Rules

See also: Fake Death Note Rules

The following is a list of all the rules 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. For instance, Sidoh states in the manga that for him to get his notebook back, he would have to wait for the owner to die or use up all of the pages, whereas 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."

Other

 * 1) All humans, without exception, will eventually die.
 * 2) After they die, the place they go to is MU (nothingness).
 * 3) Once dead, they can never come back to life.

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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."