The anime character that was NEVER meant to become popular?!

[ATEG]

They really had three little gremlins waiting in line to take their father's throne, I can't

[alizardinyourroom]

You gotta understand Matt was MADE so Mello wasn't so lonely, fucking gets me man

[Themakerandreverseflash]

Near catches Kira, becomes L, is the new hero, has an interesting rivalry with two characters, exist: fans hate him
Matt exist: fans love him

[Ren.]

They basically cut his entire screentime in the anime, that's why no one remembers him, I think they never even mentioned his name. The second half of the anime was very rushed, all of the fans are from the manga

[theparadox]

Matt was always the goat and most underrated character

[charu]

Iseyama said Levi was ugly in the aot universes but he turned out to be one of the most popular and thirsted characters in anime ever.

[paperluigi]

Then there’s Araki who randomizes colors everytime. Reminder that the official color scans were made by Shueisha with little to no input from Araki himself. The anime did have Araki’s input.

[WaveRider]

Matt wasn’t even in a whole episode and yet his design till this day remains one of the most kick ass and flawless character designs I’ve ever seen 🤩😮‍💨

[yalovoyhznepomny]

I love loyal characters. They can bully the boss, they can be trolls, but they are always loyal to their boss. Matt is such a character.

[Rocco.thestormfilearchiver]

same idea with undertale and Sans’ slippers being pink, they are actually white in game, but Toby actually liked the pink enough to include it in merchandise!

[Valarie_V]

Till this day my brother still goes "you won't shoo-" 😭

[tsukasa]

Matt had a cool design, I remember also wanting to know more about him (and then being disappointed that we barely saw him)

[DangubicaMala]

Finally somebody talking about Matt, he had like 69 seconds screentime, but him fanart and edits are fire.
He's such an important character and will always be my second fav ( behind Mello ofc).

[sarabeara]

as a tween i printed out matt’s wikipedia page and stored it in my drawer where i would take it out every once in a while to memorise it

[coffeehimouto]

Bro looks like a fusion of Jeff the killer and Ronald Mcdonalds edgy anime version 💀

[ImLiterallyNagi]

i loved matt so much when i first saw him and when i found out the fandom loved him too and i wasn't the only one i was so happy 😭😭🙏

[riversome]

The fandom doing something right giving him the baddie red hair color

[aimlessf]

It's been 15 years and I'm still salty. Watched death note when I was 11 and I got so angry Mello and Matt had almost no screen time.
Looking back they kinda got me into an emo phase that has not ended since.

[sunnyflowerzs]

THATS MY so glad we are still talking about this man in the year of our lord 2024. not a day goes by where i dont wish he and mello got more screentime. they're my favorites ever

[alexkzr]

as soon as i saw Matt i was like 'man i fucking love Matt' lmfao