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 best 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 preventing sport neighborhood.

He started as a voice actor within the unique Tekken sport and continued to take action at the same time as he grew to become a director for the sequence. He has labored on different Bandai Namco titles as a producer, each out and in of the preventing style. “Every venture was full of recent discoveries and studying, and each one among them grew to become 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 supply my deepest gratitude.”

He closed by saying that over his profession, he by no means DJed at a event occasion. So to mark his departure, Harada posted a full set titled ‘TEKKEN: A 30-12 months Journey – Harada’s Ultimate Combine’ to SoundCloud. Which is simply essentially the most swag transfer I can consider and a enjoyable option to shut out this chapter for followers of the franchise.