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Jump Comics: Full Colour Digital Death Note Manga Online for 10th Anniversary

3/3/2014

12 Comments

 
Death Note Matt canon colours
I'm not going to lie. This is the most exciting up-date for me so far.

All of the Death Note manga have been officially digitalized and free previews placed online. We get to see the Jump Comic volumes in a choice of two formats: as published, or in full colour.

FULL COLOUR! That doesn't mean a few pages at the beginning and the end. That means every single solitary panel of each and every page.  Colourings just got canon.

Which further means that after nearly a decade of the entire Death Note fandom depicting Matt with red hair and green eyes, he's just officially become a brunette. With a red and black striped shirt.

Death Note manga canon colours for Matt's death
As yet, the digital editions of the Death Note manga are only in Japanese. But that's never taken very long to sort out. Plus, let's face it, we've all got enough copies by now in our own languages, that the teams of scanlation angels hardly need to rush themselves on our account.

Anyone going to rush to get their cyber paws on these versions?  I'm counting myself as a yes there.

What scenes and/or characters are you most looking forward to seeing in colour?  And Matt fans (of which we are legion, expect us), will you be altering ten years of mental images to match his now canon black hair?

For the record, no, I am not going through ten fan-fiction novels to change his tresses. Feel free to copy them onto your own computers and run through with an editing program, if you really wish that to conform to canon. (We all ignored the anime sludge-green-brown hair colouring anyway.)


12 Comments
MelMat
3/3/2014 17:52:17

Okay, so we have conformation he is in fact a brunette and his shirt is actually red/black stripes, not black/white. But I have to say nothing is going to change. In my book, Matt WILL always be a red-head. As far as the shirt goes, I've written him with black/white and black/red stripes. It's all how I visualize a certain scene.

I like the full color previews I have seen so far and hope to see more BUT I love the original. It to me has a darker edge ( Like Mello in the control room) than it would in color. I mean even in the anime it lost a little something- at least to me- and that is one of my favorite scenes.

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Matti
3/3/2014 18:19:03

I've just been talking to BlairBender in Twitter. She's absolutely NOT changing her cosplay. (She said it with much more feeling and fury.)

Ooh! Yes, I can see your point. I'd like to see it coloured though, just to make the comparison.

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Typo
5/3/2014 22:44:03

There's official pictures of him with blue hair already in one of the game books. The games that were only released in Japan mind you so it's not a widespread thing. I'll be staying up in the air, it's not unlike Death Note to contradict itself though. Totally agree with you on the lot of it though, Matt's always gonna be a redhead for me too lol.

Okay I'm gonna go crawl back into my hidey-hole.

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Matti
7/3/2014 12:35:10

Oh yes! I'd totally forgotten about the game and Matt's blue hair! Well reminded.

I haven't found anyone in the fandom yet, who is prepared to accept Matt with black hair. I hope you peep out of your hidey-hole more often. :)

Alexhliel
3/3/2014 20:59:14

I guess I will leave my two cents here in saying that I have never followed canon where it comes to Matt (as you know, Mel). When i first started reading fics with Matt…oh long ago… he was always given red hair and pretty much everyone scoffed when it was changed. Kind of ironic that even though we already/now know what his correct coloring is, we are disregarding it anyway :D

But, since i don't have the manga in full anyway i will probably complete the original manga for the cover art, then buy this when/if released.

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Matti
4/3/2014 01:07:08

Yeah, we've all been pretty much disregarding it since HtR13 came out. LOL

I love how you giving him canon hair colour makes you the rebel. :D

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mihaeljkeehl
3/3/2014 21:09:18

Matty is a redhead. End of statement.

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Matti
4/3/2014 01:07:37

Yes, Sir. :D

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Blondielove link
5/4/2014 17:38:43

I'm just gonna go ahead and pretend like I didn't read this. |:

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Matti
6/4/2014 04:45:17

You and every other Death Note fan out there!

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Angie
2/8/2015 00:07:26

In my headcanons, Matt is a redhead...but it comes from a bottle. His natural hair is brown. I kept the green eyes of fandom, however. (I'm conditioned, like everyone else!)

As an aside, though, he doesn't look too bad with brown hair and blue eyes. (HTR13 supplied a picture of him from the anime sans goggles...he's so pretty! I wish he'd take his goggles off more!)

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Matti
21/8/2015 05:59:30

(Are you Angie who is now on the forum?)

I thought Matt was very pretty in the DN13 version too, but he's long since engrained as a redhead in my mind. I wish that I'd thought to have him dye his hair too, as that would have allowed for all those variations in hair colour from different manga, games etc.

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