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What I Like About Matsuda (Essay by Sakiko Rau)

12/3/2016

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Matsuda is a very honest guy, has a sense of justice, and is kind of clumsy. All he wanted was involvement in Kira's case with the rest of the team.

Matsuda kun is sort of behind his team members, everybody was easily ignored and annoyed with the young officer.
   The image of Matsuda is that he's a little clumsy, he ended up being called "Matsuda Idiot!"  Yet he seriously wanted help everybody. Matsuda felt himself an outsider, and wanted proof himself that he is a reliable man. At the end of the season, he dramatically proved himself as reliable he can be in front of his team members.
(Death Note) Matsuda Yellow Box Warehouse shooting Kira
January 28th.   One sound of a shot-gun broke the silence through the entire Yellow box storage facility. Touta Matsuda, NP task force, had shot at Light's right hand, as soon saw that Kira had tried to pull out a piece of Death Note. Kira made one critical mistake. He betrayed Takada, who had a piece of real Death Note and could kill Near, and killed her instead. However, Kira didn't know that the Death Note was switched with a fake note, and attempted to kill the rest of his team members, Near, and APT.

Even after Kira found out, Mikami contacted Takada and told her write down all their names. Before Kira found out it was fake, he claimed himself is winner. Near was waiting to see Kira's confident face  turn to panic. He hadn't anywhere to turn. He was like a mouse chased by chat into a corner. He couldn't  turn nor move.  Kira finally admitted that he was Kira.

Death Note Matsuda - Your father... wat did he die for??
Matsuda couldn't believe what he was seeing with his own eyes. He had a lasting hope that Light was innocent. All of sudden, his confusion turned to anger and he wanted revenge on Light for Chief Soichiro Yagami, who was father of Light Yagami. Light, the one who led him to death; if he didn't order the team, Soichiro wouldn't have had to die by the Mafia.

Matsuda couldn't understand why Light deceived own father. He was so furious, because Soichiro never had given up his hope that his son was not Kira. Matsuda asked Light what was meant by his father's death?  He hoped that Light might regret killing so many people.

But Light's ambition was only one thing. He wanted create a new world and became a god of new world. That's all. Whoever got in Kira's way was punished by this new god. He was the only one who could cleanse this rotten world. He killed too many people, and forgot about the importance of  human life.  Light lost his principles, particularly that about not killing innocent people. His hope was remembering his father's last words that he was so happy to see lives expand. He had never known his own son deceived him until he died.

Light was quiet for a moment, and replied to him with coldness, in an unemotional voice, that his father was one of a weak human race, and part of the reason this world has sunken to rock bottom - humanity was rotten as could be. Because the crime rate is so high, they were overwhelmed and unable to control all these crimes. It was just a matter of the time before the police adapted their system to suit criminals, who would change their perspective and control the police.  Rotten people only produce evil because of their deeds the world can only occur that way. As a result rottenness sprayed out across all the world.

Light continued saying that His father was a fool, because Light gave him a chance to use the Death Note.  But Soichiro was cowardly and couldn't use it.
Death Note Matsuda screams
Matsuda's blood pressure had risen up. He triggered his gun and shot Light again with teary eyes. He wanted to kill Light so badly.  He didn't  consider that Light had any value to stay alive.

Kira looked at Matsuda with no emotion, just cold eyes.  There was a mention that Light had been using his Death Note for six years, which meant Light had long since lost himself. Light underestimated the Death Note's power and the longer he used it, the more its power pulled him into the dark and took over his mind.

Remember Episode 9? When L was still alive, L showed up and gave Light a surprise at college? Light was so furious, because he got humiliated by L.  Ryuk was seeing his outrage from behind, and in astonishment said, "Light was usually a quiet guy, but I've never seen his rage like this. It got into him!"  Yet Light was just sneering about how weak his father was.

Again, Matsuda trusted Light; also Matsuda was fond of Light. Light was Matsuda's friend and he was also the last person to believe Light.

Death Note Matsuda held back after shooting Kira

Death Note anime: Matsuda held back after shooting Light Yagami
After Kira's death, Matsuda couldn't overcome killing Light. After the world noticed Kira's death, the crime rate went back to what it used to be. Matsuda was still regretful of killing his friend. Ide and Matsuda were talking about this society and Kira's society. Nobody knew which society was right, but if Kira had stayed alive, criminals would have continued being killed by him.

I think Matsuda made the right decision to take action. He connects with anyone, heart to heart. He was sort of clumsy, but that was his personality. I think his optimistic character had balanced with this dark story. He is one my favorite characters.

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Faith
7/5/2017 01:39:57

Matsuda's my favorite character too. I find him highly relatable. :) All the reasons you listed are valid...in a show where I found myself getting angry at several characters and depressed at the low probability of living for the others, Matsuda really lightened things up for me. His end is sad but at least he's not dead :D I was really bracing myself for that in the last episode.

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L
3/2/2021 02:36:38

I do like Matsuda. He makes quite a few mistakes though, such as his blunder falling into the Yotsuba meeting room. He should have know how understaffed this was, and interrupting fights with Misa Misa news, ridiculous.

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Aizawa
3/2/2021 02:39:59

Yeah...the Misa Misa crap was pretty annoying. He's got a good heart but he should keep his head out of the clouds, y'know.

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Light
3/2/2021 02:42:45

I do agree, he was a bit of an idiot.

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Mikami
3/2/2021 02:43:43

The way he shot God- I mean Light was uncalled for!

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Matsuda
2/8/2022 04:52:36

Thank you guys!XD!!!

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