You may write the cause and/or details of death prior to filling in the name of the individual. Since the limitations applying to the conditions of a death are unknown to the Shinigami, Death Note owners must find out on their own. The conditions of death will not be realized unless they are physically possible for that human or could be reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human. If the time of death is specified within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated and can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.

If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will die of a heart attack.Īfter writing the cause of death, the details of death should be entered within the next six minutes and 40 seconds. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of the subject's name, it will happen. For example, the Death Note will still take effect if the victim's last name is written on the front page and first name on the back.Įntering the Causes and Conditions of Death However, the front and back of a page is considered to be one page. The Death Note will not take effect if a victim's name is written on several different pages. However, if the Death Note owner intentionally misspells the name four times, the owner will die. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a person's name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. If the same name is written in two or more Death Notes within 0.06 seconds, the entry is regarded as simultaneous the Death Notes will not take effect and the individual will not die. When the same name is written in two or more Death Notes, the Note which was used first will take effect, regardless of the time of death. The Death Note will not ever affect a victim whose name has been misspelled four times. This is to prevent people who share the same name from being affected.

This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in mind when writing his/her name. The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

Death note rules contradiction