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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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What happened to everyone else after the ending of Death Note?

I am not sure if I have asked this question before but deleted it, but I was just wondering if Matsuda and the other detectives found out that Light died If they did: Would they have made an investigation to see if somebody else had a Death Note…
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Is Light's insanity influenced by the Death Note, or did he make himself become that way?

Some were saying that Light's insanity was influenced by the use of the Death Note, taking note that Ryuk tells Light about what the Death Note makes people fear and so on. But having rewatched the first episode, Light tells Ryuk that creating a…
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Is Death Gods in Death Note are that useless?

In Death Note, the Shinigami (death gods) need the use of the Death Note to kill people, especially in order to continue their lives, so if they won't use it, they will die, their only means of killing is the Death Note, and that is the source of my…
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Why Light didn't lose memory in ep31

In ep31, Light says he had misa sign off as the notes owner, and hence she loses her memory. In the earlier eps, it was shown that Light used misa's note to keep his memories. But as soon as the book was given away, why didn't he lose his memories?
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Death Note, chapter 2 - Website "The Legend of Kira the Savior"

I am re-reading Death Note and in the second chapter called "page 2: L" Raito Yagami found out through the website "The Legend of Kira Savior" that he is now known as Kira. In the English scanlations the text of that website mentions the…
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Why did Near start to suspect the presence of a second Death Note?

At what point and why did Near start to suspect the presence of a second Death Note? How and why did he consider that Mikami used a faked one?
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Effects of writing the name of a person who has an identical twin with the same name in the death note

I'd like to know what would happen in a situation like I'm describing. If I renember correctly it was needed to both write correctly the name of the person to die and have his image on head. But if that person has an identical twin with the same…
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Can you get rich off of the Death note?

If you write instructions to take out a big loan, convert it into cash (or a nontraceable valuable), take out all your other cash and then drop it off a predetermined location and then die somewhere else by 'insert random cause here' could you…
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Is it true that there's an eraser for the Death Note that can bring people back to life?

While it was only mentioned one time in the pilot of the manga, one interesting detail about Death Note is that there was originally a way for the user of the note to reverse any of the deaths they carried out. Just as writing a name in the Death…
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Why did Teru Mikami confirm Death Note's validity by examining the pages with a microscope?

In the Death Note anime series, Light instructs Teru Mikami to confirm that his Death Note is not tampered with. He does so by examining his Death Note with a microscope to confirm it's genuine. Why didn't he just write someone's name to confirm…
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Was Soichiro Yagami that much close to his natural lifespan?

Shoichiro dies from wounds inflicted by Mello soon after making the Shinigami Eyes deal. Since he didn't even use the Death Note (nor was any DN used on the people involved in the incident) prior to his death, it can be assumed that the DN did not…
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Would a Death note still work, if a heart attack could lead to someone else's death?

L has just thought of a cunning plan to prevent himself being killed by a Death note: He straps a device to his heart that directly links to an equivalent device strapped to Watari's (his butler) heart. If either heart stops beating (or the device…
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Were there more than two Death Notes?

I am watching the anime right now and can't understand this part of the plot: there were two notebooks out of which one had been returned to the Shinigami that came to Ryuk to get his notebook back. That leaves one which was with T as he was doing…
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Is it possible to have absolute obedience using Death Note?

We've seen Light completely manipulating the robber in the bus-accident case (in which he figured out the identity of the FBI stalker). At the end, though the robber died, but everything went according to the book or in other words the robber was…
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Can someone stop the cause of death after someone writes the details in the Death Note?

Let's say I had a Death Note. If I wrote someone's name in the book and then wrote details of the death, can an individual stop the cause of death and the actual death entirely or will the death still take action, but in a different way?
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