{"id":37700,"date":"2024-09-30T17:17:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=37700"},"modified":"2024-09-30T17:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:17:34","slug":"tekken-8s-katsuhiro-harada-asks-fans-to-leak-the-next-character-leading-to-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/tekken-8s-katsuhiro-harada-asks-fans-to-leak-the-next-character-leading-to-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken 8&#8217;s Katsuhiro Harada asks fans to &#8220;leak&#8221; the next character, leading to chaos\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Heihachi Mishima close to releasing, Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada took to social media site X to ask fans who they think the fourth and final character of <strong>Tekken 8<\/strong>\u2019s season 1 is. Accompanying this request was a template featuring the roster of the three current playable characters and a blank fourth box. This caused a wide variety of speculations to come to light; some of which seem plausible while other ones are just downright hilarious.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">If the information for the fourth character in TEKKEN 8 Season 1 was leaked, what character would it be? Please upload your idea using the materials below (Use your imagination!).<br>\u7a7a\u767d\u306b\u597d\u304d\u306a\u30ad\u30e3\u30e9\u30af\u30bf\u30fc\uff08\u306a\u3093\u3067\u3082\u53ef\uff09\u3092\u5165\u308c\u3066\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u3057\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TEKKEN8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TEKKEN8<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Leak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Leak<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oG9o87nOfZ\">pic.twitter.com\/oG9o87nOfZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1839751476916433000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Plausible characters include Tekken alumni <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AbsenteeRoger\/status\/1839861899556728990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LadyGravano\/status\/1839758506712338760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anna Williams<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RagingRowen\/status\/1839774102573273129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Street Fighter\u2019s Akuma<\/a> (the latter of whom was in Tekken 7). While Akuma may have seemed out of the ordinary back then, he is nothing compared to the other characters fans want to see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mgata_official\/status\/1839790220071325798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Final Fantasy VII\u2019s Tifa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MKJavierMK\/status\/1840166646977052742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mortal Kombat\u2019s Scorpion<\/a> have long been requested as guest characters so it\u2019s not surprising to see fans putting them in. However, niche choices such as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TendoXI\/status\/1839841638136361172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Devil May Cry\u2019s Vergil<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Strike110E7\/status\/1839831275517161667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonic the Hedgehog\u2019s Shadow<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ltsVerde\/status\/1839780082040045596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metal Gear\u2019s Big Boss<\/a> help shake things up.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not content with staying within the confines of video games, one person even requested for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CManic97\/status\/1839796075437195304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cyberpunk: Edgerunners\u2019 David Martinez<\/a> to be added into Tekken 8 due to the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/guilty-gear-strives-season-4-battle-pass-adds-4-new-fighters-including-old-favorites-and-exciting-newcomers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guilty Gear Strive will be getting Lucy Kushinada as a guest character<\/a> next year. Other requests that leaned into the world of anime included ones for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jojo_wiki\/status\/1839796686387872213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jojo\u2019s Bizzare Adventure\u2019s biggest baddie Dio<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Trunkiez\/status\/1839764195161846133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dragon Ball\u2019s Son Goku<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Geta_Boshi_\/status\/1839790421485994088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bleach\u2019s Ichigo Kurosaki<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"884\" height=\"579\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240930-7700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240930-7700.jpg 884w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240930-7700-380x249.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240930-7700-768x503.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the most striking character to fill the fourth season 1 slot has to be <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kqingu_\/status\/1839772783259127820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katsuhiro Harada himself<\/a>. Considering the number of times he\u2019s raised his fist for photos and how synonymous the game developer is with the Tekken franchise, it was only a matter of time before fans got wise and requested for him to be put into the game. Harada already appears in Tekken 8\u2019s Arcade Quest mode, so it wouldn\u2019t be that big of a leap for him to become a playable character.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who do you think should close off Tekken 8\u2019s season one character roster? Is it one of the fan suggestions? Or is there some other character you would want to see in the game? While Harada has said that serious content proposals from fans are generally <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230720-20174\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">completely avoided due to legal issues<\/a>, he seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1840137952103432232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">having a blast looking at these fan creations<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada asks fans to be &#8220;imaginative&#8221; about the next new character to join the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":37703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-37700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tekken 8&#039;s Katsuhiro Harada asks fans to &quot;leak&quot; 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