Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco after 30 years

Katsuhiro Harada is departing Bandai Namco on the finish of 2025. He introduced the information each with a farewell note shared on X and, in presumably the good exit ever, with an hour-long DJ combine. Harada’s 30-year profession has most intently been concerned with Tekken and he is a well-known face within the combating recreation group.

He started as a voice actor within the unique Tekken recreation and continued to take action at the same time as he turned a director for the sequence. He has labored on different Bandai Namco titles as a producer, each out and in of the combating style. “Every mission was full of latest discoveries and studying, and each one in every of them turned an irreplaceable expertise for me,” Harada wrote on X. “To everybody who has supported me, to communities around the globe, and to all of the colleagues who’ve walked alongside me for thus a few years, I provide my deepest gratitude.”

He closed by saying that over his profession, he by no means DJed at a match occasion. So to mark his departure, Harada posted a full set titled ‘TEKKEN: A 30-Yr Journey – Harada’s Closing Combine’ to SoundCloud. Which is simply probably the most swag transfer I can consider and a enjoyable method to shut out this chapter for followers of the franchise.