

There is a one-shot manga for Death Note that was published on Mangaplus, on
February 3th, 2020 (you can read the manga officially
[here](https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/titles/100085).

In the final scene of this one-shot manga, Minoru Tanaka, the new owner of
Death Notes, was selling the Death Note through an auction online and it sold
for 1 Quadrilion Yen. The person who bought it was the President of the US at
that time. The money will be transferred to the account of every person in
Japan that has an account registered with Yotsuba Bank of Japan, 1 billion Yen
in each account.

When Minoru gave the Death Note back to Ryuk, Ryuk got yelled at by the King
of Shinigami, who said it's forbidden to sell Death Notes to humans. So for
the first time, the King of Shinigami added a new rule for Death Note usage:

> A Human who buys or sells the Death Note in the human world will die. The
> seller will die when they receive the money and the buyer will die when they
> receive the Death Note.

This canceled the transaction, but the money was already transferred to every
person in Japan that had an account with Yotsuba Bank of Japan. But at the
end, Minoru still died when he withdrew the money one month later after he
gave up the Death Note's ownership because Ryuk wrote his name in the notebook
below Light Yagami's name.

**Question:** What makes me confused is does Minoru Tanaka die because he
withdrew the money since the new rule said "...The seller will die when they
receive the money..." or does Minoru Tanaka die because Ryuk wrote his name in
his Death Note just like when Light Yagami died? If so, why does Ryuk have to
wait for one month and start to write Minoru Tanaka’s name in the Death Note?


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Did this character die because of the Death Notes' new rule or because Ryuk wrote his name in a Death Note?


Minoru died because of Ryuk, similar to how Yagami Light did.

Through the original Death Note Series Ryuk mentions that when the owners life
would come to an end, he would write down the name instead. However, Ryuk has
also shown that he is impatient in that sense.

As Minoru has broken the new rule, and obtained his payment Ryuk wrote down
his name, as Minoru was set to die anyway.

The One Shot however does not cover whether this new rule would actually kill
Minoru off even without a Shinigami writing his name down. However, knowing
how Shinigami themselves have also died from breaking the rules set upon them,
there is a high likelihood this would have happened non the less. Where I
would speculate that the Shinigami King himself would be the one to pass down
the punishment for breaking the rules.

> You have lost, Light. **Didn't I say in the beginning… when you die, the one
> who'll write your name down in a notebook will be me. That is… the deal
> between the Shinigami… and the first human to get their hands on the note in
> the human world.** Once you enter the prison, I don't know when you'll die.
> It's annoying to wait… Your life is already over. You'll die here. Well, it
> was good while it lasted… We killed some boredom, didn't we? We did some
> various and interesting things…” - **episode 37**


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"The seller will die **when they receive the money** "

Minoru mentioned that he has to wait a month before getting the money all at
once, because the bank put up a daily limit for withdrawing money. So Minoru
waited a month before getting any money. Therefore **he received the money a
month after the auction** and died.


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Here's what I think.

Because the transaction never went through, the death note was still owned by
Minoru. Minoru had told Ryuk not to get near him afterwards. Ryuk didn't want
to wait for Minoru to die naturally and killed him.


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Minoru died because he was never aware of the new rule of the Death Note. The
moment he got any type of payment, he was domed to die. Ryuk was not able to
warn him about the rule since, Minoru told him to not appear and never show
his face after the sell. Also, he lost all memories of the Death Note the
moment he sold the Death Note and told Ryuk to never show his face. I fell
that Ryuk would have warn him if Minoru would not have been such a smart ass,
as telling him to never bother him. Minoru studied the rules and calculated
everything, but the new rule added at the last moment was unexpected and his
downfall. Ryuk was just obligated to write his name, as his time had come by
breaking a Death Note rule.


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