How does the Death Note work?
The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
-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.
-If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen.
-If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack.
-After writing the cause of death, the details of the
death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
-One page taken from the death note, or even a fragment of the page, contains the full effects of the note.
-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.
-Even the original owners of the death note, gods of death, do not know much about the note.
-If the owner of a Death Note does not use the notebook after 13 days time, he/she will die.
-If the Death Note is burned, torn up, or otherwise rendered
useless, any people who have touched the Death Note will die.

Throughout the series, other rules are revealed, such as "When the same name is
written on more than one Death Note, the Note which was first filled in will take
effect, regardless of the time of death." This rule played an important role in the
movie, as L used this rule to prevent Kira from killing him. A few of them match the
rules Ryuk wrote inside the Death Note, but most of them are rules that are not
known by humans and in some cases, even the Shinigami. These rules are revealed
at the end of certain chapters in the volume format of Death Note and the beginning
of the Jump format chapters, on black pages that contain only the rules.
In the eyecatches of the last chapter/episode (then, the two last eyecatches of the says.
series), the "rules" revealed are not Death Note rules, but the rules of life itself, as it
- All humans will, without exception, eventually die.

- After they die, the place they go is Mu. (Nothingness)
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