1.

The human whose name is written in

this note shall die.
2. This note will not take effect unless
the writer has the person's face in their
mind when writing his/her name.
Therefore, people sharing the same name
will not be affected.
3. If the cause of death is written within
the next 40 seconds of writing the person's
name, it will happen.
4. If the cause of death is not specified,
the person will simply die of a heart attack.
5. After writing the cause of death,
details of the death should be written in
the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
6. This note shall become the property of
the human world, once it touches the
ground of (arrives in) the human world.
7. The owner of the note can recognize
the image and voice of the original owner,
i.e., a god of death.
8. The human who uses this note can
neither go to Heaven nor Hell.
9. If the time of death is written within
40 seconds after writing the cause of death
as a heart attack, the time of death can be
manipulated, and the time can go into
effect within 40 seconds after writing the
name.
10. The human who touches the Death
Note can recognize the image and voice of
its original owner, a god of death, even if
the human is not the owner of the note.
11. The person in possession of the Death
Note is possessed by a god of death, its
original owner, until they die.
12. If a human uses the note, a god of
death usually appears in front of him/her
within 39 days after he/she uses the note.
13. Gods of death, the original owners of
the Death Note, do not do, in principle,
anything which will help or prevent the
deaths in the note.
14. A god of death has no obligation to
completely explain how to use the note or
rules which will apply to the human who
owns it unless asked.
15. A god of death can extend their own
life by putting a name on their own note,
but humans cannot.
16. A person can shorten his/her own life
by using the note.
17. The human who becomes the owner of
the Death Note can, in exchange of half
his/her remaining life, get the eyeballs of
the god of death which will enable
him/her to see a human's name and
remaining life span when looking through
them.
18. A god of death cannot be killed even if
stabbed in his heart with a knife or shot in
the head with a gun. However, there are
ways to kill a god of death, which are not
generally known to the god of death.
19. The conditions for death will not be
realized unless it is physically possible for
that human or it is reasonably assumed to
be carried out by that human.
20. The specific scope of the condition for
death is not known to the gods of death,
either. So, you must examine and find out.
21. One page taken from the Death Note,
or even a fragment of the page, contains
the full effects of the note.
22. The instrument to write with can be
anything, e.g., cosmetics, blood, etc. as
long as it can write directly onto the note
and remains as legible letters.
23. Even the original owners of Death
Note, gods of death, do not know much
about the note.
24. You may also write the cause and/or
details of death prior to filling in the name
of the individual. Be sure to insert the
name in front of the written cause of
death. You have about 19 days (according
to the human calendar) in order to fill in a
name.
25. Even if you do not actually possess the
Death Note, the effect will be the same if
you can recognize the person and his/her
name to place in the blank.
26. The Death Note will not affect those
under 780 days old.
27. The Death Note will be rendered
useless if the victim's name is misspelled
four times.
28. Suicide is a valid cause of death.
Basically, all humans are thought to
possess the possibility to commit suicide. It
is, therefore, not something unbelievable
to think of.
29. Whether the cause of the individual's
death is either a suicide or accident, if the
death leads to the death of more than the
intended, the person will simply die of a
heart attack. This is to ensure that other
lives are not influenced.
30. Even after the individual's name, the
time of death, and death condition on the
Death Note were filled out, the time and
condition of death can be altered as many
times as you want, as long as it is changed
within 6 minutes and 40 seconds from the
time it was filled in. But, of course, this is
only possible before the victim dies.
31. Whenever you want to change
anything written on the Death Note
 within 6 minutes and 40 seconds after you
wrote, you must first rule out the
characters you want to erase with two
straight lines.
32. As you see above, the time and
conditions of death can be changed, but
once the victim's name has been written,
the individual's death can never be
avoided.
33. If you lose the Death Note or have it
stolen, you will lose its ownership unless
you retrieve it within 490 days.
34. If you have traded the eye power of a
god of death, you will lose the eye power
as well as the memory of the Death Note,
once you lose its ownership. At the same
time, the remaining half of your life will
not be restored.
35. You may lend the Death Note to
another person while maintaining its
ownership. Subletting it to yet another
person is possible, too.
36. The borrower of the Death Note will
not be followed by a god of death. The god
 of Death always remains with the owner
of the Death Note.
37. Also, the borrower cannot trade the
eyesight of the god of death.
38. When the owner of the Death Note
dies while the Note is being lent, its
ownership will be transferred to the person
who is holding it at that time.
39. If the Death Note is stolen and the
owner is killed by the thief, its ownership
will automatically be transferred to the
thief.
40. When the same name is written on
more than two Death Notes, the note
which was first filled in will take effect,
regardless of the time of death.
41. If writing the same name on more than
two Death Notes is completed within .06
seconds, it is regarded as simultaneous; the
Death Note will not take effect and the
individual written will not die.
42. The god of death must at least own
one Death Note. That Death Note must
never be lent to or written on by a human.
43. Exchanging and writing on the Death
Note between the gods of death is no
problem.
44. If the god of death decides to use the
Death Note to kill the assassin of an
individual he favours, the individual's life
will be extended, but the god of death will
die.
45. Japanese: A Shinigami dies when they
kill a person using the Death Note to
extend their lifespan with favour to a
certain human being.
46. The dead god of death will disappear,
but the Death Note will remain. The
ownership of this Death Note is usually
carried over to the next god of death that
touches it, or is kept in possession of the
human owner of the Death Note.
47. Only by touching each other's Death
Note can human individuals who own the
Death Note in the human world recognize
the appearance or voice of each other's
God of Death.
48. An individual with the eye power of a
god of death can tell the name and life
span of other humans by looking at that
person's face. By possessing the Death
Note, an individual gains the ability to kill,
and stops being a victim. From this point, a
person with the Death Note cannot see
the life span of other Death Note owners
including him/herself. But it is not really
necessary for the individual to view the life
span of him/herself or other Death Note
owners.
49. The god of death must not tell humans
the names or life spans of individuals
he/she sees. This is to avoid confusion in
the human world.
50. It is prerequisite for the Death Note
used in the human world that a living god
of death makes sure that the humans in
the human world use it.
51. It is very difficult to consider that a god
of death who has possessed a human could
die, but if he should die, the Death Note
 that he brought into the human world will
not lose its power.
52. In order to see the names and life spans
of humans by using the eye power of the
god of death, the owner must look at more
than half of that person's face. When
looking from top to bottom, he must look
at least from the head to the nose. If he
looks at only the eyes and under, he will
not be able to see the person's name and
life span. Also, even though some parts of
the face, for example the eyes, nose or
mouth are hidden, if he can basically see
the whole face, he will be able to see the
person's name and life span. It is still not
clear how much exposure is needed to tell
a person's name and life span, as this needs
to be verified.
53. If above conditions are met, names and
life spans can be seen through photos and
pictures, no matter how old they are. But
this is sometimes influenced by the
vividness and size. Also, names and life
 spans cannot be seen by face drawings,
however realistic they may be.
54. Those with the eye power of the god of
death will have the eyesight of over 3.6 in
the human measurement, regardless of
their original eyesight.
55. The individuals who lose the
ownership of the Death Note will also lose
their memory of the usage of the Death
Note. This does not mean that he will lose
all the memory from the day he owned it
to the day he loses possession, but means
he will only lose the memory involving the
Death Note.
56. Whenever an individual with
ownership of more than two Death Notes
loses possession to one of the Death Notes,
he will not be able to recognize that Death
Note's god of death's appearance or voice
anymore. The god of death himself will
leave, but all the memory involving that
Death Note will remain as long as he
maintains ownership of at least one other
Death Note.
57. The god of death must not stay in the
human world without a particular reason.
Conditions to stay in the human world are
as follows:
58. When the god of death's Death Note is
handed to a human.
59. Essentially, finding a human to pass on
the Death Note should be done from the
world of the gods of death, but if it is
within 82 hours this may also be done in
the human world.
60. When a god of death stalks an
individual with an intention to kill them,
as long as it is within 82 hours of haunting
them, the god of death may stay in the
human world.
61. The god of death must not hand the
Death Note directly to a child under 6
years of age based on the human calendar.
62. The Death Note must not be handed
to a child under 6 years of age, but Death
Notes that have been dropped into the
human world, and are part of the human
 world, can be used upon humans of any
age with the same effect.
63. If you just write, "die of accident" for
the cause of death, the victim will die from
a natural accident after 6 minutes and 40
seconds from the time of writing it.
64. Even though only one name is written
in the Death Note, if it influences and
causes other humans that are not written
in it to die, the victim's cause of death will
be a heart attack.
65. If you write, "die of disease" with a
specific disease's name and the person's
time of death, there must be a sufficient
amount of time for the disease to progress.
If the set time is too tight, the victim will
die of a heart attack after 6 minutes and 40
seconds after completing the Death Note.
66. If you write, "die of disease" for the
cause of death, but only write a specific
time of death without the actual name of
disease, the human will die from an
adequate disease. But the Death Note can
 only operate within 23 days (in the human
calendar). This is called the 23-day rule.
67. If you write, "die of disease" like before
with a specific disease's name, but without
a specific time, if it takes more than 24
days for the human to die the 23-day rule
will not take effect and the human will die
at an adequate time depending on the
disease.
68. When rewriting the cause and/or
details of death it must be done within 6
minutes and 40 seconds. You cannot
change the victim's time of death, however
soon it may be.
69. You cannot kill humans at the age of
124 or over with the Death Note.
70. You cannot kill humans with less than
12 minutes of life left in human
calculations.
71. If you have traded the eye power of a
god of death, you will see a person's
primary life span in the human world.
72. The names you will see with the eye
power of a god of death are the names
 needed to kill that person. You will be
able to see the names even if that person
isn't registered in the family registration.
73. The number of pages of the Death
Note will never run out.
74. If someone possesses more than one
Death Note, by visualizing the victim,
then writing down the name in one of the
Death Notes and the cause of death in the
other, it will take effect. The order
however, is unimportant, if you write
down the cause of death in one Death
Note and afterwards, write the name in
the other, it will take effect.
75. This can also be accomplished by two
Death Note owners working together. In
this case, it's necessary that the two touch
each other's Death Notes.
76. If a person loses possession of a Death
Note, they will not recognize the gods of
death by sight or voice any more. If
however, the owner lets someone else
touch his Death Note, from that time on,
 that person will recognize the god of
death.
77. In accordance with the above, the
human who touched the Death Note and
began to recognize the gods of death's
image and voice, will continue to
recognize it until that human actually
owns the Death Note and subsequently
loses possession of it.
78. The owner of the Death Note cannot
be killed by a god of death who is living in
the world of the gods of death.
79. Also, a god of death who comes to the
human world, in the objective to kill the
owner of the Death Note, will not be able
to do so.
80. Only a god of death that has passed on
their Death Note to a human is able to kill
the owner of the Death Note.
81. If a Death Note owner accidentally
misspells a name four times, that person
will be free from being killed by the Death
Note. However, if they intentionally
 misspell the name four times, the Death
Note owner will die.
82. Japanese: If the name was misspelled
four times intentionally in order to avoid
being killed by having their name written
in the Death Note, the person who wrote
the name will die.
83. The person whose name was
misspelled four times on purpose will not
be free of death by a Death Note.
84. There are male and female gods of
death, but it is neither permitted, nor
possible for them to have sexual relations
with humans. The gods of death also
cannot have sex with each other.
85. When regaining ownership of the
Death Note, the memories associated with
the Death Note will also return. In cases
where you were involved with other
Death Notes as a well, memories of all the
Death Notes involved will return.
86. Even without obtaining ownership,
memories will return just by touching the
Death Note.
87. You will lose memory of the Death
Note when losing its ownership. But you
can regain this memory by either obtaining
the ownership once again or by touching
the Death Note. This can be done up to 6
times per Death Note.
88. If the 6 times are exceeded, the
person's memory of the Death Note will
not return and they will have to use it
without any previous memory of it.
89. Humans that have traded for the eye
power of a god of death will see a person's
primary life span, and will not be
influenced by the Death Note. If the
victim is killed using the Death Note, the
remaining lifetime of that victim will be
provided to the god of death.
90. Japanese: The lifespan visible by
Shinigami Eyes is the person's original
lifespan, one that is not affected/influenced
by the Death Note in the human world. If
the victim is killed using the Death Note,
the remaining lifetime of that victim will
be provided to the god of death.
91. Humans that have traded for the eye
power of a god of death cannot see the
name or life span of humans who have
already passed away by looking at their
photos.
92. Whenever a god of death who had
been in the human world dies the Death
Note is left behind and is picked up by a
human, that person becomes the owner.
93. However, in this case, only the human
that can recognize the god of death and its
voice is able to see and touch the Death
Note.
94. It is very unlikely, but if by any chance
a god of death picks up the Death Note,
that God of death becomes the owner.
95. The names you see with the eye power
of a god of death are the names needed to
kill that person. You will be able to see
their names even if they aren't listed in a
family register.
96. It is useless trying to erase names
written in the Death Note with erasers or
white-out.
97. The use of the Death Note in the
human world sometimes affects other
humans' lives or shortens their original life
span, even though their names are not
actually written in the Death Note itself.
In these cases, no matter the cause, the
god of death sees only the original lifespan
and not the shortened lifespan.
98. If a Death Note is owned in the
human world against the god of death's
will, that God of death is permitted to stay
in the human world in order to retrieve it.
99. In that case, if there are other Death
Notes in the human world, the gods of
death are not allowed to reveal to humans
that Death Note owner or its location.
100. If the Death Note that the god of
death owns is taken away by being cheated
by other gods of death and so forth, it can
only be retrieved from the god of death
who possesses it at the time. If there is no
god of death, but a human possessing it,
the only way that the god of death can
retrieve it will be to first touch the Death
 Note and become the god of death that
haunts that human. Then wait until that
human die to take it away before any other
human touches it, or whenever the human
shows a will to let go of it.
101. As long as the god of death has at least
once seen a human and knows his/her
name and life-span, the god of death is
capable of finding that human from a hole
in the world of the gods of death.
102. There are laws in the world of gods of
death. If a god of death should break the
law, there are 9 levels of severity starting
at Level 8 and going up to Level 1 plus the
Extreme Level. For severity levels above 3
the god of death will be killed after being
punished.
103. For example, killing a human without
using the Death Note is considered as the
Extreme Level.
104. Losing memory of the Death Note by
passing on the ownership to another, or by
abandoning its ownership will only occur
when someone is actually killed using that
 Death Note. You will not lose memory of
the Death Note, for example, if you merely
owned it and had not written anyone's
name. In this case, you will not be able to
hear the voice or see the figure of the god
of death any more. You will also lose the
eye power of the god of death you traded
with.
105. The god of death will not die from lack
of sleep. Moreover, gods of death do not
really need sleep. The meaning of sleep for
gods of death is essentially different from
humans and is merely laziness.
106. Especially gods of death living in the
human world that have passed on their
Death Note shouldn't be lazy, as they are
required to see the death of the human,
but it is not that they are not allowed to
sleep.
107. Only 6 Death Notes are allowed to
exist at a time in the human world. Of
course, the Death Note that the god of
death owns does not count. This means
only 6 gods of death that have passed on
 their Death Note to humans can stay in
the human world.
108. One God of death is allowed to pass on
Death Notes to only 3 humans at a time.
109. It is possible for a single god of death to
hand out up to 6 Death Notes, for
example, by handing 3 humans 2 Death
Notes each.
110. In other words, one human could own
all 6 Death Notes.
111. However, if a seventh Death Note is
owned by a human in the human world,
nothing will happen even if used.
112. In the event that there are more than 6
Death Notes in the human world, only the
first 6 Death Notes that have been
delivered to humans will have effect.
113. The seventh Death Note will not
become active until one of the other 6
Death Notes are burned up, or a god of
death takes one of them back to the world
of the gods of death.
114. The Death Note will not take effect if
you write a specific victim’s name using
several different pages.
115. But the front and back of a page is
considered as one page. For example, the
Death Note will still take effect if you
write the victim's surname on the front
page and given name on the back.
116. In order to make the Death Note take
effect, the victim's name must be written
on the same page, but the cause of death
and situation around the death can be
described in other pages of Death Note.
This will work as long as the person that
writes in the Death Note keeps the
specific victims name in mind when
writing the cause and situation of death.
117. In occasions where the cause and
situation of death is written before the
victim's name, multiple names can be
written as long as they are written within
40 seconds and the causes and situations of
death are not impossible to occur.
118. In the occasion where the cause of
death is possible but the situation is not,
only the cause of death will take effect for
that victim. If both the cause and the
situation are impossible, that victim will
die of heart attack.
119. When you write multiple names in the
Death Note and then write down even
one cause of death within 40 human
seconds from writing the first victims
name, the cause will take effect for all the
written names.
120. Also, after writing the cause of death,
even if the situation of death is written
within 6 minutes and 40 seconds in the
human world, the situation will only occur
to the victims whom it is possible. For
those where the situation is not possible,
only the cause of death will occur.
121. In the Death Note, you cannot set the
death date longer than the victim's original
life span. Even if the victim's death is set in
the Death Note beyond his/her original life
 span, the victim will die before the set
time.
122. By manipulating the death of a human
that has influence over another human's
life, that human's original life span can
sometimes be lengthened.
123. If a god of death intentionally does the
above manipulation to effectively lengthen
a human's life span, the god of death will
die, but even if a human does the same,
the human will not die.
124. Japanese: If a Shinigami carries out the
above in favour of the person whose
lifespan is to be prolonged as a result, a
Shinigami will die, but even if the person
does so, they will not die.
125. A human death caused by the Death
Note will indirectly lengthen some other
human's original life even without a
specific intention to lengthen a particular
person's original life span in the human
world.
126. After a god of death has brought the
Death Note to the human world and given
 its ownership to a human, that God of
death has the right to kill the human using
his/her own Death Note for reasons such
as disliking the owner.
127. Even if a new victim's name, cause of
death, or situation of death is written on
top of the originally written name, cause of
death or situation of death, there will be
no effect on the original victim's death.
The same thing will also apply to erasing
what was written with a pencil, or
whitening out what was written with a
pen, in attempt to rewrite it.
128. Once the victim's name, cause of death
and situation of death have been written
down in the Death Note, this death will
still take place even if that Death Note or
the part of the note in which it has been
written is destroyed, for example, burned
into ashes, before the stated time of death.
129. If the victim's name has been written
and then the Death Note is destroyed in
the middle of writing the cause of death,
 the victim will be killed by heart attack in
40 seconds after writing the name.
130. If the victim's name and cause of death
have been written and the Death Note is
destroyed, like burned, in middle of
writing the situation of death, then the
victim will be killed within 6 minutes and
40 seconds via the stated cause of death if
the cause is possible within that period of
time, but otherwise, the victim will die by
heart attack.
131. No matter what medical or scientific
method may be employed, it is impossible
for humans to distinguish whether or not
the human has the eye of power of a god of
death. Even gods of death cannot
distinguish this fact, except for the very
god of death that traded his/her eye power
with that human.
132. The following situations are the cases
where a god of death that has brought the
Death Note into the human world is
allowed to return to the world of gods of
death.
133. When the god of death has seen the
end of the first owner of the Death Note
brought into the human world and has
written that human's name on his/her own
Death Note.
134. When the Death Note which has been
brought in is destroyed, like burned, and
cannot be used by humans anymore.
135. If nobody claims the ownership of the
Death Note, and it is unnecessary to haunt
anyone.
136. If, for any reason, the god of death
possessing the Death Note has been
replaced by another god of death.
137. When the god of death loses track of
the Death Note which he/she possesses,
cannot identify which human is owning
the Death Note, or cannot locate where
the owner is, and therefore needs to find
such information through the hole in the
world of gods of death.
138. Even in the situations 2, 3, and 4
above, gods of death are obliged to confirm
the death of the first owner and write
 down that human's name in his/her Death
Note even when he/she is in the world of
gods of death.
139. In the world of gods of death there are
a few copies of what humans may call user
guidebook for using the Death Note in the
human world. However, the guidebook is
not allowed to be delivered to humans.
140. It is perfectly okay for gods of death to
read the guidebook for him/herself and
teach humans about its contents, no
matter what the content may be.
141. Some limited number of Death Notes
have white or red front covers, but they
would make no difference in their effects,
as compared with the black cover Death
Notes.
142. All humans will, without exception,
eventually die.
143. After they die, the place they go is MU.
(Nothingness)
144. Once dead, they can never come back
to life.
145. The owner can have their memories of
the Death Note erased if they so desire.
146. A god of death should stay near the
owner of the Death Note, but they may go
as far away as 14 km.
147. A human who buys or sells a Death
Note will die.