Touta Matsuda

Touta Matsuda also known as Taro Matsui, is a major antagonist in the Death Note franchise. 
Matsuda is the youngest and mostly inexperienced member of the Japanese Task Force and NPA. His lack of policing experience can sometimes hinder the investigation. His reckless attitude can gets him into certain sticky situations, much to the annoyance of his co-workers. L Lawliet and Shuichi Aizawa views of him as a naïve, young detective lacking seriousness in work.
He is voiced by Ryo Naitou in the Japanese version of the anime, and Vincent Tong (who later voiced Flash Sentry from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Kai from Ninjago, and Eugene Wong from Dragons: The Nine Realms) in the English version.
==Appearance==
Matsuda has brown eyes and a black hair. He wears a gray suit with a red tie.
==Personality==
Despite being inexperienced, he is able to bring down several mafia members who were holding death notes, and shows great proficiency in tight situations. As Taro Matsui, he infiltrates as Misa Amane's manager in the face of Yotsuba. Matsuda also was devoted to Soichiro Yagami, Light's father, whom he sees as a mentor.
Though he had sympathy for Kira's followers and thought that Kira have great intentions at heart, Matsuda was enraged when Light insults his own father, apathetic about his death. In response, he shoots Light five times (three times in the manga) to stop him from writing Near's real name down.
Matsuda is also one of the few characters that survives the events of the anime/manga, alongside Near and a few of the other task force members. The manga epilogue shows that he continues to work as a member of the police force. Although he refuses to believe that Light was Kira, and that Near was involved with Teru Mikami's death.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
Touta Matsuda Othellonia Artwork.png|Matsuda's artwork from Othellonia.
Othellonia art 1583 Matsuda.png
==Trivia==
* Despite his appearance, Matsuda is proven to be a pretty popular character.
* The manga explains that nepotism is the reason why he has a job as a cop despite being more or less incompetent at it.
* While Ryuk was the one who wrote Light's name on the Death Note but it was Matsuda who shot Light several which is more than an enough reason for Ryuk to write Light's name.
*Throughout the anime, the phrase "Matsuda, you idiot" would constantly repeat, having most of Task Force saying it (Mostly Ryuzaki said this phrase).
==External Links==
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*Touta Matsuda on the Death Note Wiki
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