Matsuda Spinoff

Matsuda originally appeared in L: Change the WorLd, with Sota Aoyama returning for the role, but his subplot was cut from the feature. Those deleted scenes, combined with newly shot footage, formed this sixteen-minute short directed by Hideo Nakata and written by Kiyomi Fuji. It aired on television and later turned up as a bonus on the three-disc Complete Set of L: Change the WorLd, with its events falling in July 2006.

The piece hinges on final paperwork that needs Matsuda's signature to close the Kira case. Lost as to either Light's or L's idea of justice and denied any closure, he refuses to sign until Sanami slips him Soichiro Yagami's note urging a visit to Ryuzaki. Matsuda brings L a slice of cake and demands to know why he keeps working with so little time left, but the detective stays unmoved. Later a crepe vendor delivers a snack and a note in which L urges him to down sugar for brainpower and calls him an idiot, leaving Matsuda in tears that L still hides behind his mask.

The crepe vendor is portrayed by Tanaka Tadashi, who himself produced the franchise's first three features, and the short was never given an official English release.