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Hilarious Response from a Fan to Death Note Matt's Official Canon Colouring

18/3/2014

14 Comments

 
The Death Note fandom has always resisted official attempts to find canon colours for Matt. Fans had already established their own.

As the only popular character to have spent years only in black and white, it quickly became the norm to depict Matt as having red hair and green eyes. His stripy top was either white or red, with black lines.

But it had never been officially sanctioned.

By the time Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata made it canon for Matt to have black hair and brown eyes - in How to Read - it felt downright jarring to the fandom. Like some kind of continuity error.

Fans en masse ignored the directive.

It didn't help that the canon itself couldn't seem to settle upon Matt's official colouring. The anime rendered his hair a weird green-black sludge colour. A game recoloured his hair blue. The fans stuck with red.

With the recent advent of the whole Death Note manga being coloured by Obata, suddenly we're back to black hair and brown eyes. This is confirmation by the creators of Matt's absolutely canon colours. So how did the fans react?
Death Note Matt canon colours
The comments on my blog entry about it demonstrated no great rush to honour the wishes of Ohba and Obata.

But the funniest response so far has to have been a short story, penned by Death Note fan-fiction writer ShinigamiMailJeevas.  If you've not yet read it, then I thoroughly recommend Changeling.

It looks like the Death Note Matt fandom is most certainly resisting this canon colouring attempt too. You'd think that the mangaka would just give up and go with the consensus!



14 Comments
Alexhliel
18/3/2014 09:11:34

You mentioned my fic XD Thank you.
I have had contact with numerous other fans and they all agree that Matt's hair is red, official thoughts be damned. its quite amusing.

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Matti
18/3/2014 15:43:27

I'd somehow managed to forget that you're ShinigamiMailJeevas. I'm so used to you being Alexhiel instead.

If I'd remembered, I'd have bigged it up much sooner. <3

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Alexhliel
19/3/2014 20:02:05

Hahaha oops? Thats alright, i figured since its was mainly MB people that putting "shinigami" might confuse XD

:) and thank you, didn't even have to mention me at all.

Trish K.
18/3/2014 11:01:52

Not only black hair, but also brown eyes? Don't tell me canon Matt is my father! :| XD

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Matti
18/3/2014 15:44:41

This is crying out for one of the Death Note fan artists to draw you in front of Matt, screaming, 'You're not my fattttthhhhhhheeeerrrrrrrr!!!'

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Matti
20/3/2014 03:29:41

To Alexhliel - You are very welcome. :)

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Oreo
15/4/2014 22:42:02

Where does one find the colored manga? I've never heard of it.o.o
While I've always been a fan of red hair for Matty... I'm one of those strange people hell-bent on him having blue eyes and Mello's being green. >w>;

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Matti
19/4/2014 04:20:15

Sorry, I forgot to press reply, hence my comment answering yours is floating there as new thread. -.-

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Matti link
19/4/2014 04:19:31

Click on my name, as I've embedded a link to the blog entry that takes you to both digital versions.

You're going with canon on Matty, so no-one can argue with you there! i do love the idea of Mello with green hair though. That would be a triumph. Do share!

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Oreo
19/4/2014 07:06:16

Ahh thank you! Even if the colors are 'wrong' (back hair, really? ._.) it's amazing to see all of them in full color <3
Okay I mentioned Mello with green eyes but I didn't say anything about green hair o,o Unless you meant eyes and not hair... I don't know either way I have this image of Mello with green hair that will never leave my head.

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Matti
19/4/2014 07:46:13

No, Matt's never struck me as the black hair kind. Any colour but really!

Sorry, I misread what you originally said. But in my defence, I'd only just woken up and was halfway through my first cuppa. I too can now never unsee Mello with green hair.

Oreo
19/4/2014 07:07:04

(hopefully I'm replying right and it told me there as an error submitting this so if this posts a dozen times I'm so sorry)
Ahh thank you! Even if the colors are 'wrong' (back hair, really? ._.) it's amazing to see all of them in full color <3
Okay I mentioned Mello with green eyes but I didn't say anything about green hair o,o Unless you meant eyes and not hair... I don't know either way I have this image of Mello with green hair that will never leave my head.

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Matti
19/4/2014 07:46:43

Ah! Not to fret, it's all good. <3

Oreo
19/4/2014 07:07:17

(hopefully I'm replying right and it told me there as an error submitting this so if this posts a dozen times I'm so sorry)

Ahh thank you! Even if the colors are 'wrong' (back hair, really? ._.) it's amazing to see all of them in full color <3

Okay I mentioned Mello with green eyes but I didn't say anything about green hair o,o Unless you meant eyes and not hair... I don't know either way I have this image of Mello with green hair that will never leave my head.

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