Matthew Leong

Matthew Leong (born: February 10, 2008 - January 20, 2023[aged 14]) is an unseen character of the Watanabe Show, in the show he was replaced by Kenji.

On June 22, 2021, it was reportedly that Matthew was banished from his home country, along with Karl and both lived in exile and deported to Kyrgyzstan the next day

On June 29, 2022, they announced on the same date that they will likely retire online activity, but the 3 reasons that was given was that they isn't interested of making animations as he grew older, and running comedy gave him too much stress and anger, and the third reason announced on July 2, 2022 was that his mental health is messing up and distracting from using his animating abilities and that he would likely step away from YouTube and all his medias.

On June 30, as he was ready for his departure on his plane, he landed on Kyoto, just 2 hours before his disappearance.

On August 1, 2022, rumors claimed that Matthew was banished from his mansion (which is now Charlie's currently)

On November 1, 2022 the same day when the Migos rapper Takeoff was murdered, he traveled from Siberia back to Kyoto, his current residence and new home

On December 28, 2022, almost 6 months after his disappearance, he succumbed to poison after the bullies secretly put poison in his meal.

## Death

On January 20, 2023, after 1 years and 5 months spending his life in exile in Japan, Matthew passed away at Tokyo Medical University Hospital due to complications of food poisoning resulting in an heavy illness, but his death was announced on January 23, 2022.

On January 21, 2023, about a day after their death, Watanabe examined the corpse at the hospital room after multiple DNA tests, which the results came back confirming the body was his.

His funeral was scheduled to be held at the same date, But the funeral date has been postponed to January 24 due to a traffic jam.

Per Matthew's wishes, he was buried next to Charlie's uncle and aunt in the Japanese-American National Cemetery in Bayside, New York.

He is also survived by his 3 siblings, his parents and grandparents. Matthew will also be dearly missed by his beloved friends, Charlie Watanabe, Niko, Stipe, Anthony, Ryan and a German friend named Karl, who all attended his funeral to pay tribute.

## Trivia

* He was the first foreigner YouTuber to be disappeared in Japan
* He disguised as a fisherman to enter Japan
* He said that when he abandoned his account, and if the content is edited, which means someone hacked into his account and edited his profile
* After his death, Charlie declared that his name is now a racist language because when a person says the word without Charlie's consent, this means they brought shame to the Japanese and German people, the reason given was to protect Matthew's privacy and prevent doxxing.
* It's a myth that if you said his name after his death, it can cause mouth cancer or you'll be saying vulgar terms such as "defecate or urinate on his grave".

## Quotes

* "Just to let you know my mental health is messing up my animating work.... So I'm going to do a few more videos and I'll might end up shutting my channel down and disappear forever."
* "I....love you..... Charlie......Save my house and bring me to the sea..," (Last Words before Matthew dies from illness)

## Gallery

The grave of Matthew Leong in 2023. With no body present