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 probably the good exit ever, with an hour-long DJ combine. Harada’s 30-year profession has most carefully been concerned with Tekken and he is a well-recognized 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 grew to become a director for the collection. He has labored on different Bandai Namco titles as a producer, each out and in of the combating style. “Every challenge was full of latest discoveries and studying, and each one in all them grew to become an irreplaceable expertise for me,” Harada wrote on X. “To everybody who has supported me, to communities all over the world, and to all of the colleagues who’ve walked alongside me for therefore 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 Last Combine’ to SoundCloud. Which is simply probably the most swag transfer I can consider and a enjoyable technique to shut out this chapter for followers of the franchise.