Watching Death Note with my partner and they asked “How do you know which Death Note is yours?” And the obvious answer seemed potentially fatal.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    Actually, one of the rules is:

    You will not die if you write your name here, but it is not recommended. (Arrow pointed at the cover.)

    and also:

    You can write with any pen: the color doesn’t matter. If you use a sticker with a name printed on it, there will be no effect. Please write directly onto the notebook. It would be a good idea to change your handwriting as much as possible.

    But if that’s true then it implies you will die if you write it anywhere else, which breaks another rule:

    When the (loaned) owner dies, the Shinigami writes their name in the book (This is not a numbered rule but something Ryuk states, which could be false).

    Which can also conflict with Rule IX for an immortality hack:

    The Death Note will not ever affect a victim whose name has been misspelled four times. IX

    But then they already patched it I guess:

    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. However, if the Death Note owner intentionally misspells the name four times, the owner will die. XXXV
    The Japanese version also includes:
    The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      My interpretation is that “the” and “a” is doing a lot of work there. Maybe a translation quirk? It reads like, if it’s misspelt 4 times in THE death note (the one you’re holding), but later on it clarifies that it doesn’t make you immune from ANY death note. So it’s not so much complete immortality as limited exclusion to prevent abuse, which makes sense if you imagine some Eldritch death God being spammed with junk assassination requests

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It’s complete immortality if Ryuk’s rule about writing his name in THE deathnote was true, because even if Ryuk wanted to he can’t.

    • Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      7 days ago

      About the immortality hack, I saw a skit where Light gave the businessman kira a misspelling of his own name and told him to write it four times. Light is now free from the death note’s influence since the other kira did not purposely misspell it.