Come to think of it, Death Note’s world seems to have been operated by some bro who was like ‘YOUR REAL NAME IS ON YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE NO EXCEPTIONS MNHEHUHHHGGGH’ because if other kinds of names worked then a lot of people would have been dead way faster and Light would basically be god

@dzuk

I like to think of it as that system just being how the humans who got the Death Notes assumed it would work.

after all, the time system was explicitly stated to have been changed from the system the gods used, so why not the name system, too?

so the people were awful, and their lives were made more difficult for it!