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Death Note is a manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, with various adaptations. The protagonist, Yagami Light, finds a notebook which can be used to kill anyone, and tries to use this to reform society as he sees fit.

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Death Note is a Japanese manga series, created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata, about a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a shinigami (a god of death). The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name and face they know, by writing the name in the notebook. It has had several adaptations (anime, anime movie, novel, live-action movie).

For more information on the franchise, see its Wikipedia page or the Death Note wiki.

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Can you manipulate a person using an alias with the death note?

So. Let's say John has a death note. Now there's a killer on the run, and John doesn't know his name and face. Now he writes the name of a criminal in his death note, to indirectly catch the killer. He writes: Bob Zorto gets stabbed to death, at…
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What happens when a human saves another one with a death note?

Since a shinigami dies when he saves a human with his death note, he dies. But when a human does it, he/she won't die. This makes me wondering what happens when a human saves another human with a death note. So here's my bad example: Mr. X is a…
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Is there a way to kill Shinigamis with a death note?

I know that if you write the name of a shinigami in a notebook he won't die. But let's say I would write something like this: 7.11.2014. John Zeürtö gets scared to death. At 11:30, John Zeürtö enters a dark alley (name of the alley) with a knife…
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Can you manipulate a person with a death note, if the cause of death is a disease?

If John Zeurto wrote something like this: Bob Doe Bradykardie. At 11:30pm Bob Doe sends a list of every SPK member to the email address: blala@gmail.com. Is it possible to manipulate someone with the Death Note when the cause of death is a…
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More steps from person until the Death Note than a pen still works?

I am writing a DN fic (not sure if that'd be appropriate, but I can give you a name of link if you would like, and don't care about this particular spoiler) where as one of (probably) minor plot points, Light gets an idea to try more layered medium…
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Can you protect yourself from a death note by changing your eye color?

So. In order to kill somebody with the death note, you have to know his face and name. Let's say, Bob knows both, and wants to kill John. Now he hasn't a picture of John, but he remembers his face and name. But the thing is, that when he met John,…
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