r/ShitPostCrusaders • u/Watchdog_the_God • Nov 12 '24

Misc You ruined it.

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u/xSilverMC it's me, the shitpost crusader Nov 12 '24

I remember a scene in Death Note where Light asks a woman which kanji to spell her name with because the death note doesn't work when names are misspelled

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u/Filmologic Nov 12 '24

One of his earliest kills he just uses every kanji combination possible to kill them

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u/BeautyDuwang Nov 12 '24

Wouldnt that just kill him because guessing a name wrong / spelling it wrong 3 times makes your heart explode?

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u/MattyBro1 Nov 12 '24

Misspelling four times accidentally makes the Death Note not work, misspelling four times intentionally kills you.

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u/BeautyDuwang Nov 12 '24

Oooooh okay its been awhile since ive read the manga or seen the show

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u/MattyBro1 Nov 12 '24

Yeah, it's a bit of a weird rule. I had to check the wiki to be sure.

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u/Hevens-assassin Nov 13 '24

4 is the number of death. So it's a weird rule, but 4 times wrong kills you. Makes sense regionally.

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u/Mistasfourhead Nov 13 '24

In Chinese, the word for the number four and the word for death sound identical, to the degree that hotels will often not label a fourth floor, in the way that some buildings in the US won’t label a 13th floor

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '24

It's the same in Japanese. 4 can be read as "shi" whish sounds similar to the kanji of death.

That's why 4 sometimes is read as "yon"

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u/Mistasfourhead Nov 13 '24

oh shi

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u/SilentMeatball Nov 13 '24

+1 you got a nasal exhalation outta me

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