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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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Is someone who wrote his name in the Death Note allowed to make the eye deal?

Bad example: Bob Hyrule writes his own name in the death note: Bob Hyrule, peaceful heart attack. Dies peacefully from a heart attack in 20 days. So let's say, he then decides to make the Shinigami eye deal. Can he make the Shinigami eye deal? If…
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Could I kill myself with a Death Note?

On the bottom left paragraph, it reads: You will not die if you write your own name in here, but it's not recommended. This page is taken from the pilot chapter of Death Note. Would the manga pilot be considered canon? And thus, would I be able…
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Which philosophers have influenced Death Note?

Which philosophers have influenced Death Note? What is the name (or category) of their philosophies? I want to read deeper.
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What is the limit of the Death Eraser?

The Death Note Wikia states that... The Death Eraser can revive the people that have been killed by the note The Death Eraser is an artefact In the wikia is also states if you wrote "dies from a tragic accident or something",would the person's…
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Are there any new/conflicting rules in the Death Note Movies?

In a Madman Newsletter talking about the release of Death Note: Light up the NEW World in the cinemas it says In 2016, society is afflicted with cyber-terrorism. The Death Note is a supernatural notebook that grants its user the power to kill…
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How does L deduce that Kira needs a name and not just a face?

This is something that I've been wondering about, how does L deduce that Kira needs a name? Surely all the victims he investigated had their name and face, but how can he figure that he needs both? The stunt on tv with Lind L. Tailor only proved…
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Can the Death Note manipulate people whose names aren't written in it?

For example let's say James wrote: "Bob Schneider gets stabbed at 13:30 by his best friend. Dies of blood loss one hour later." Would the Death Note control his friend whose name isn't written in the Death Note, or would it result in Bob having a…
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Questions about nationalities and languages in Death Note

In the Death Note 2015 series, some people sometimes speak English. For instance when Raye Penber and Bell talk and when Lind L Tailor comes out on TV, it's in English. The Death Note anime of course acknowledges the existence of the English…
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How did N come to the conclusion that Light Yagami was Kira?

Even though L had his suspicions about Light, he was not sure that Light was Kira and he couldn't prove it either. However, N was able to do so. What evidences led N to believe that Light Yagami was Kira? Since I only watched the anime and didn't…
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Killing Conjoined Twins using Death Note

There are Mr. A and Mr. B. They are conjoined twins who each has their own set of organs except for the heart. I write the name of Mr. A while imagining his face, with the cause of death being falling from the top of Tokyo Tower head first. Let's…
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How long can you manipulate a person with a Death Note?

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…
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Must you write the full name of a person in the death note to kill them?

So let's say I wanted to kill, for example, David Connor with the death note. But his full name would be David Winston Connor. Must I write his full name, or is David Connor enough?
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Why didn't Light kill Mello?

In Episode 29, the NPA tries to capture/kill Mello. Soichiro Yagami gets the Shinigami Eyes and tells Light that Mello's real name is Mihael Keehl. So, Mello escapes because Soichiro Yagami couldn't kill him. But didn't Light know Mello's face? It's…
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Did Light truly love anyone?

In Death Note, I am not aware of whether Light actually truly loved or cared about anyone although at the beginning of the series you could say he loved his parents perhaps. But it seems that he was at least shown to be as an intellectual person who…
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How did Ryuk trick the King of Death Gods?

In chapter 27, Misa says Ryuuku tricked the king of the gods of death to get the second death note that kira is using. Does anybody know how Ryuk tricked the king of Gods and got his Death Note?
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