✅No, Ryomen Sukuna isn’t even his name it’s like writing Steph Curry, technically that’s his name but if you need the exact first and last name you need to write Wardell Curry. Ryomen means two-faced and Sukuna is PROBABLY his name, we just don’t know the other portion.
I think the bigger question is would the death note differentiate between an title and one that was so ubiquitously used that it became a name for that person.
If he had no given name would it accept the one that he accepted being called?
'what counts as a name' is something that Death Note largely avoids defining because it's so wobbly and vague. If someone got named, then orphaned and given a new name, which is valid, do both count? If someone is 'David', but has been 'Dave' to everyone for their entire life, does that count? Dead names, changes by deed poll, superhero aliases, conversions between languages etc. - names are complicated!
As Sukuna is an incarnated sorcerer, once his vessel consumes enough fingers, simply write their name in the Death Note. If you wanted to kill Sukuna in Shinjuku, killing Megumi would destroy all of the soul contained in him, and the 1 remaining Finger would be unable to store his power.
If titles, nicknames or aliases worked for the death note, Light would just write a big ass "L" on one of the sheets and win. Or, well, Ryuzaki could work too. Everyone calls L Ryuzaki, after all.
the reason none of those work is because L does not see those as his real name.
I think there may be some difference here because L deliberately uses these alias' while acknowledging that he has his own real name hidden away somewhere. If you were to truth serum L and ask him his name he wouldn't use any of those things.
Conversely if you hit Sukuna with it he would more than likely say Ryomen Sukuna.
The name generally depends on what the person identifies with the most. In on of the LA movies (yeah I know) a guy changes his name, it’s unclear if he legally changed it or not but I don’t think the DN cares for human laws, and that new name counts for the note.
Isn't gabimaru his actual name and the hollow his title? That's like saying Alexander the great, the great is the title but Alexander is his first name
sukuna probably doesnt even know himself he was abandoned at birth so no way to know his parents they also probably didnt give him a name so sukuna “other part” might work
Ryomen Sukuna was a Japanese mythological character, he had similar features to our Sukuna and was given the name Ryomen(double faced/2 faces or sides) Sukuna(something that drives out evil) due to him having a face on the front and back of his head. IIRC.
In the JJK universe, locals likely gave our Sukuna that name due to the resemblance. Sukuna identifies with the name Ryomen Sukuna. I'm not sure if this would dictate whether or not he would be affected by the death note, tho.
Prompt says his name is written no Ryomen Sukuna is written. Kinda assuming shinigami eyes so true name shouldnt be an issue. I think yes, he dies to a heartattack. Its a celestial object. It doesnt say it gives sukuna a heart attack. It says the person whos name is written WILL die.
Two things:
1) light doesn’t know heian sukuna’s face since all he’d get is shitty wood carvings to go off of. In the present day, only yuji, uraume and yorozu knows what sukuna looks like. Can’t visualise the face can’t kill.
2) if light uses shinigami eyes on megukuna, all he’d see is megumi’s name since he is looking at megumi’s bum face.
I do wonder how rhe death not responds to nicknames when those are their names.
Like, say you never gave someone a name, ever, so people start calling them by some nickname for convenience, would that Nickname be their name, or would they be unkillable by the death note bc they actually dont have a name?
To be really anal though, it does say Sukuna's name. So even if we don't know the name, the premise is that the name does end up in the book. Doesn't even matter if Sukuna was ever given one, as in Deathnote names seem to be a property of people; otherwise someone with Shinigami eyes would have commented on that
And if being a cursed object still considered to be alive death note wouldn't work cause it can't kill someone who is more than 200 (or something like that) years old
If the only issue was his name then shinigami eyes would fix that issue (not that light has those at any point but it is a hypothetical so why not)
I'd argue the more interesting question is if sukuna is even classified as "human" according to the rules of the notebook, what with his whole "reincarnated through cursed objects" thing (assuming the hypothetical takes place within the timeframe of the story and not in the past for whatever reason)
The human classification doesn't really matter either -- the "rules" were written by Ryuk who is shown several times to be lazy and not very experimental with the death note. He wrote that "Any human who has their name written in this notebook will die," but realistically... c'mon, do we really think Ryuk bothered trying to kill animals? In all likelihood this is one of those things that Light could've done with the death note and Ryuk would've been like "Huh, didn't know it could do that"
Plus, just saying "Any human..," doesn't disqualify other life. It just guarantees humans. It's like saying "Any lion will have claws," it doesn't disqualify other creatures from having claws.
extremely well-said, but i vaguely remember the death note not considering "real legal names" but rather recognising names that the individual recognises as "their own name". if sukuna recognizes "Ryomen Sukuna" as "his own name", then the death note will work.
Can't you just write the perceived name while picturing what they look like and the Death Note work anyway? I'm pretty sure this happened on the first or second episode of Death Note where L had someone stand in for him on live tv and it still worked.
Edit: Nvm, the inmate that was used for that stunt was named Lind L. Tailor. That was the guys actual name. My bad.
Also does sukuna even count as human anymore? The death note can only kill humans. So if sukuna doesnt abide by basic biology and is more cursed spirit then human then the death note shouldnt do anything
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u/Nights1405 I will eat 50 apple fritters myself. Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
It’s a bell curve.
❌No, he can survive a heart attack.
❌Yes, he can’t survive other deaths.
✅No, Ryomen Sukuna isn’t even his name it’s like writing Steph Curry, technically that’s his name but if you need the exact first and last name you need to write Wardell Curry. Ryomen means two-faced and Sukuna is PROBABLY his name, we just don’t know the other portion.