2007-04-03, 17:45 | Link #1 |
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Supernatural - Death Gods and Death Note Rules
Out of this world influence is a very important aspect of the Death Note universe.
Shinigami, their Death Notes, and several other supernatural aspects are major factors in this story. We don't know much about of them, and most of the information we have comes either from the Shinigami themselves (and they can lie) or from the so-called "How to use" rules for Death Note. Of course, the latter are far from actually being just "How to use", especially with rules such as XXXVI Spoiler:
Rather, these are an attempt to answer some of the readers questions. A list of them was on infoseek, but it is no longer there. There are two sets of them - one being in Japanese, the other in English. How different are they? What exactly do those rules mean, what would happen if ...? Why are some of them so controversial and illogical? Are all of them true? What made the author create such rules? Please discuss these and other questions regarding anything supernatural in the Death Note here. Last edited by SinsI; 2007-05-01 at 13:35. |
2007-04-04, 05:56 | Link #3 |
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rule XXIX
"You cannot kill humans with less than 12 minutes of life left (in human calculatons)." I guess this means that the wacko who was going to kill Misa along with himself would really only have killed Misa rule XXXIV "...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." "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." Rem can't really kill Light
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2007-04-04, 06:19 | Link #4 |
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I think everything the rules say about remaining lifespans (i.e. halving one's life in exchange for the eyes) is false, the main reason being the Death Note itself.
We already know that if you kill a murderer his victim's life would be extended. And Kira is killing dozens of those every day, irreversibly changing the fates of all their future victims. Add the "butterfly effect" - and it becomes obvious that no such thing as "remaining lifespan" could exist. I think this rule is a Deus ex machina, reflecting the author's dislike for superpowered characters and his desire to kill'em off faster. |
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2007-04-06, 07:41 | Link #8 |
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some of the rules are weird, for example in the previous episode i watched the rule "if the name is written in two death notes then the first to be completed takes effect" or something similar.
but in the next episode it said "if the same name is written within 0.006 seconds in another death note then they cancel each other out" is this really neccesary |
2007-04-16, 17:19 | Link #9 | |
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Death Note: How to Use It XI covers most of your next question;
Not concerning the above rules... My favorite rule has always been from XXXVI, as mentioned in the first post of this thread. I understand why it was written, to answer fans' questions avoid as many creepy fanfics as possible, but still. It's called "Death Note: How to Use It" and that has nothing to do with actually using the Note XD |
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2007-04-24, 19:47 | Link #10 |
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I'm especially interested in the punishments that the Death Gods receive for breaking the rules... Considering the highest-level ones result in death, the Shingaimi must not break the rules very often. I guess they're vunerable to things in their own realm.
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2007-04-27, 11:29 | Link #11 |
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L gets an idea
this is cute, also makes me wonder if anyone would've actually done this lol http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs12/f/200...3/3/DA_DN2.jpg |
2008-08-24, 17:22 | Link #13 |
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well the rules dont make much sence cuz i got the 'how to use 13' n they 'explain' the rules n all but all they r doing is re-writeing them
anyways my fave. rule is the one that was first posted ^_^ its funny to me n also the one that says : the god of death will not die from lack of sleep. moreover, gods of death do not really need sleep. the means of sleep for gods of death is essentialy different from humens and is merely lazyness. thats calling all shinigami lazy ^_^ |
2008-08-25, 14:30 | Link #14 |
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They pretty much are. Shinigami lead pretty boring and crappy lives. It's the trade off for being immortal. Human's only live a short time but can have much more fufilling lives and the human world is much more interesting. Balances everything out.
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2008-09-27, 14:19 | Link #16 | |
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(That would also imply that people who he thought he saved early on would not have died, but that's not much of a stretch.) |
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2008-09-29, 04:34 | Link #17 | |
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i haven't really know that!? |
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2008-11-17, 12:35 | Link #19 | |
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A neat one: http://www.zanpakuto.com/viewblog?id=29
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