{"id":51328,"date":"2025-08-22T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=51328"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:50:23","slug":"stellar-blade-director-asks-tekken-producer-to-add-eve-to-the-game-after-a-nostalgic-exchange-of-their-storied-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/stellar-blade-director-asks-tekken-producer-to-add-eve-to-the-game-after-a-nostalgic-exchange-of-their-storied-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellar Blade director asks Tekken producer to add EVE to the game after a nostalgic exchange of their storied past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Though Stellar Blade director <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/shift-up-hyung-tae-kim-original-evangelion-designs-for-nikke-were-rejected-for-being-too-erotic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hyung-tae Kim<\/a> doesn\u2019t develop fighting games, he has a lot of love for the genre, and has previously cited Tekken as one of his big inspirations. Following the resurfacing of an old image \u00a0on social media, Kim and Tekken producer <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/tekken-producer-katsuhiro-harada-says-tekken-8-backlash-was-justified-and-a-natural-occurrence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katsuhiro Harada<\/a> recounted one of their earliest meetings and reflected on how far they have come since then.<\/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=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How nostalgic. He once told me that he liked TEKKEN Series.<br>I met him again backstage at The Game Awards late last year, and he had become a very calm and refined gentleman.<br>I\u2019m a fan of his work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WuXamhIrJ9\">https:\/\/t.co\/WuXamhIrJ9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1958510940007305336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The image in question was taken at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inven.co.kr\/webzine\/news\/?news=144163&amp;site=igc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inven Game Conference<\/a> on October 2015 in South Korea, during which Harada gave a speech on how to create realistic VR games and Kim talked about how he started Shift Up.. This would be two years after Shift Up was founded, and around the time of Tekken 7\u2019s arcade release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harada recalls how Kim expressed his love for the Tekken games, as evidenced by the young developer mimicking a classic Tekken \u201cfighting\u201d pose alongside him. Harada and Kim\u2019s most recent meeting appears to have been at the Game Awards 2024, where the former was glad to see how much the latter has evolved into a \u201cvery calm and refined gentleman.\u201d Given <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/stellar-blade-developer-shift-up-launches-large-scale-recruitment-for-new-game-project-spirits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the number of games Shift Up has developed<\/a> since 2015, and the great success of <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/the-biggest-reason-for-stellar-blades-success-is-its-combat-says-former-sony-chief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stellar Blade<\/a>, which received two nominations for Best Score and Music and Best Action Game at the Game Awards 2024, it comes as no surprise that Harada is also a fan of Kim\u2019s work.<\/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=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for remembering me. In truth, I have been devoting myself to real sparring in the shadows, preparing to continue entering TEKKEN!! If my own participation proves impossible, then I must ask you please allow \u201cEVE\u201d to take the stage in my stead.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TEKKEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TEKKEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EVE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/serious?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#serious<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O68I69sTNl\">https:\/\/t.co\/O68I69sTNl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9NHAFD0Ij\">pic.twitter.com\/q9NHAFD0Ij<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kim Hyung Tae, \uae40\ud615\ud0dc, \u30ad\u30e0\u30fb\u30d2\u30e7\u30f3\u30c6 (@jamm3rd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamm3rd\/status\/1958593084717244537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim thanked Harada for remembering him after all those years. Likely in jest, Kim revealed that he is secretly training in order to be featured in the Tekken franchise. While Harada has made several appearances in Tekken games, the chances of Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/tekken-lead-once-tried-to-put-a-muscular-pac-man-into-the-franchise-but-got-scolded-by-the-ips-creator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">becoming a guest fighter<\/a> seem unlikely. In the event of his rejection, Kim hopes that Harada will consider adding Stellar Blade protagonist <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/stellar-blade-director-hyung-tae-kim-unveils-protagonist-eves-first-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EVE<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of X posts, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada and Stella Blade director Hyung-tea Kim reminisce on one of their earliest meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":51330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-51328","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>Stellar Blade director asks Tekken producer to add EVE to the game after a nostalgic exchange of their storied past - 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