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Sep 11, 2021 12:41 PM
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I am not sure if I missed an explanation somewhere in the series, but what happens to a death note user after he/she dies? At the start of the series Ryuk explained that someone who uses the death note wont go to heaven or hell, so I’ve been wondering where the user of the death note ends up after his/her death.
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Sep 11, 2021 12:45 PM
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Never explained. Theorised to be either purgatory or to become a future shinigami.
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Sep 11, 2021 12:55 PM
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just a random question, how do i make threads
Sep 11, 2021 12:57 PM
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I think that they become a shinigami
Sep 11, 2021 12:57 PM
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They just become a shinigami I tuink
Sep 11, 2021 1:01 PM
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Them niggas all go to hell
Sep 11, 2021 1:03 PM
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never confirmed but some theories are you become a shinigami
Sep 11, 2021 1:06 PM
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Arda52 said:
I am not sure if I missed an explanation somewhere in the series, but what happens to a death note user after he/she dies? At the start of the series Ryuk explained that someone who uses the death note wont go to heaven or hell, so I’ve been wondering where the user of the death note ends up after his/her death.

They don’t go haven or hell so shinigami realm
Sep 11, 2021 1:08 PM
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There is no heaven or hell. All humans Will, without exception, eventually die. After they die the place they go is MU. (nothingness)
Sep 11, 2021 1:13 PM
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They told it in the 1st couple of episodes. A death note user's soul is stuck between heaven and hell for eternity. Ryuk told this to light. Don't confuse shinigami with something evil or ghost. Shinigami is a God itself. The Death God
Sep 11, 2021 1:20 PM
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Maybe become a shinigami but its a mystery
Sep 11, 2021 1:20 PM
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Maybe become a shinigami but its a mystery
Sep 11, 2021 1:27 PM
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FxRobinHood said:
just a random question, how do i make threads

Random question's answer: it took me half a year to make one, and it's quite complicated (at least it was for me), you can do it only on a computer, you go to the anime that you want to create a discussion, then you go to the forum section, view all topics and then there's a button called create new topic
Sep 11, 2021 1:27 PM
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He is somewhere on the anime "Death Parade".
Sep 11, 2021 1:28 PM
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Arda52 said:
I am not sure if I missed an explanation somewhere in the series, but what happens to a death note user after he/she dies? At the start of the series Ryuk explained that someone who uses the death note wont go to heaven or hell, so I’ve been wondering where the user of the death note ends up after his/her death.

You become a Shinigami yourself, as seen in Death Note Rewrite
Sep 11, 2021 1:30 PM
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I believe they become a Shinigami themselves. Not 100% positive if that's true though. Just a guess.
Sep 11, 2021 1:34 PM

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They get yeeted to Death Parade


Sep 11, 2021 1:42 PM
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No where they don’t go to heaven, hell, not even purgatory. Most of death note users who die end up MU (Nothingness).
Sep 11, 2021 1:56 PM
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Might just be me, but light showed up in death parade so I'm pretty sure that those are linked, and he went there after.
Sep 11, 2021 1:57 PM
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Might just be me, but light showed up in death parade so I'm pretty sure that those are linked, and he went there after.
well maybe it was just a small cameo and not official. As seen in the death note rewrite manga light becomes a shinigami
Sep 11, 2021 2:13 PM
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Maybe i read it in the manga i dont remember exactly but when ryuk wrote lights name he said"theres no heaven or hell only void"
And thats for all those who die
Its a simple atheist view
Sep 11, 2021 2:22 PM

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They go to Brazil.
Sep 11, 2021 2:33 PM
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They go to limbo. Hence why Light makes a cameo in Death Parade
Sep 11, 2021 2:51 PM
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They go to death parade
Sep 11, 2021 3:37 PM

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Yea u didn’t watch it properly ryuk said to light that if a death note user dies, they don’t go to heaven or hell. Just in a empty place where other shinigamis are at.
Sep 11, 2021 3:40 PM
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Arda52 said:
I am not sure if I missed an explanation somewhere in the series, but what happens to a death note user after he/she dies? At the start of the series Ryuk explained that someone who uses the death note wont go to heaven or hell, so I’ve been wondering where the user of the death note ends up after his/her death.
purgatory or limbo or they just turn into nothing I guess
Sep 11, 2021 3:51 PM
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Since they can't go neither in hell nor heaven, I think their "soul" or consciences just ceases to exists, once they die.
Sep 11, 2021 3:51 PM

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It's implied that they become a shinigami
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Sep 11, 2021 4:16 PM
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Arda52 said:
I am not sure if I missed an explanation somewhere in the series, but what happens to a death note user after he/she dies? At the start of the series Ryuk explained that someone who uses the death note wont go to heaven or hell, so I’ve been wondering where the user of the death note ends up after his/her death.
i bought the full 1-12 all-in-one book and it included an extra chapter (chronoligically exactly at the time where ryuk told light that a death note user wouldn't go to hell or heaven) where light says to ryuk: "because such a place doesn't exist right?" To which ryuk responds with: "that's right, when people die they go to En (pretty sure that was what it was called). And if i remember correctly En literally meant nothingness
Sep 11, 2021 4:36 PM
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In death parade light is shown to be in purgatory i think, but idk if that’s cannon.
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Sep 11, 2021 4:36 PM
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They don’t go to heaven or hell, Maybe only void.
Sep 11, 2021 5:31 PM

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Nowhere, neither heaven nor hell. They just get removed from existence or to the Shinigami Realm
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Sep 11, 2021 8:01 PM

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I'm pretty sure that the implication in the anime was that there's nothing after death, which is basically confirmed at the end of the manga on the final page where it's mentioned that everyone disappears into nothingness, but the anime didn't adapt that part.

Of course some people think that Death Note users become shinigami when they die, but that's an anime-based theory.
Sep 11, 2021 11:28 PM

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Not confirmed but there is a theory that they become shinigami and there is also a video, named like the cutted death not ending where light becomes shiningami,
Link for it:https://youtu.be/mcB4lOXRq-0
Sep 11, 2021 11:55 PM

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They just goto nothingness(yeah literally a place with nothingness)
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Sep 12, 2021 12:35 AM
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I mean, light became a shinigami in the rewrite but I don't know if that's Canon or not
Sep 12, 2021 1:17 AM
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AmazingMatt said:
FxRobinHood said:
just a random question, how do i make threads

Random question's answer: it took me half a year to make one, and it's quite complicated (at least it was for me), you can do it only on a computer, you go to the anime that you want to create a discussion, then you go to the forum section, view all topics and then there's a button called create new topic


Actually you can do it on mobile, you just have to scroll down to the threads section of an anime and scroll down to the create new section button. Basically follows the same process but it’s complicated nontheless.
Sep 12, 2021 2:24 AM
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Nowhere,in the manga they said that when a death note user die they didn't go to heaven or hell,their soul just vanished.
Sep 12, 2021 2:28 AM
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Nowhere.In the manga ryuk said that when a death note user die they won't go to heaven nor hell,their souls will be vanished when they died.After they died,they won't feel nothing.
Sep 12, 2021 2:50 AM

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My theory is they go to purgatory and relive their lives from the day they first used the Death Note to the day they died. My favorite imagery used in anime is Lights death spot. The stairway neither heaven nor hell

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Sep 12, 2021 8:08 AM
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A lot of users are calling out the theory that they become shinigamis which I think would make sense. Light's main idea of owning the death note is that he becomes a god, so I do think that is a pretty solid theory
Sep 12, 2021 8:21 AM

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Heavily implied to be the Shinigami realm though without your human memories where you basically become a new person (Or Shinigami) as seen at the end of Rewrite.

Though if we go by the definition of what ็„ก(Mu) means which translates to nothing, you literally become nothing or non-existent. Well think back to your existence before you were born, were you conscious of yourself? Figured not, that's what ็„ก(Mu) is so you don't have to worry about flying around in heaven with a halo on your head and your dick hanging out your toga neither will you burn in the lake of fire and fry till the 4th of July.
Sep 12, 2021 10:31 AM
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Arda52 said:
I am not sure if I missed an explanation somewhere in the series, but what happens to a death note user after he/she dies? At the start of the series Ryuk explained that someone who uses the death note wont go to heaven or hell, so I’ve been wondering where the user of the death note ends up after his/her death.

I'm pretty sure they neither go to heaven nor hell. I think they go to shikigami realm where thay die all the deaths which have have caused on earth like if someone die from heart-attack he will die from heart-attack too and then came back alive again and die the next person death the same way they killed him or her. And after they have experienced all those deaths they turn into nothing and die for real and cease to exist anymore anywhere.
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FxRobinHood said:
just a random question, how do i make threads


Go on to the show you want to talk about then press forum at the top then press view discussion then press the create discussion
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Sep 12, 2021 10:07 PM
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I think that they become a shinigami and ryuk was human too,ryuk use death note too and became a shinigami.This is a loop.
Sep 12, 2021 10:40 PM
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I think I remember Ryuk saying they don't go to heaven or hell they just go to an emptiness I think..
Sep 13, 2021 4:24 AM

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I don't think it was explained...my guess, purgatory ?
Sep 13, 2021 8:26 AM
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I believe Ruyuk says that the user goes to neither heaven or hell but some place in between. I think they probably become shinigamis themselves, I mean that extra episode thing with Ruyuk seeing a new shinigami after the show ended that looked a lotlike light kinda proves it to me.
Sep 13, 2021 8:28 AM

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They go to neither, upon usage of the Death Note.
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I want to get off, but I keep riding the ride
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To play someone's game, or live my own life
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Sep 14, 2021 2:17 AM
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There are many fanmade assumptions which says that the user goes to shinigami world and experience all the deaths of his victim in to mean pass on.
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