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Jonathan Bolding

Tekken director asks why Americans want Waffle House to be a stage in Tekken 8

An image of a waffle house in Alpharetta, Georgia with Tekken fighter Paul Phoenix overlaid on top. Paul Phoenix is wearing stars-and-stripes shoulderpads in the colors of the American flag.

Katsuhiro Harada is a lifelong creator of fighting games, serving as director on the Tekken series since Tekken 3 and right up to the recent Tekken 8. Harada often has a lot of interesting or helpful stuff to say on social media, and is quite responsive to fans—which means people often reach out consistently with ideas, concepts, memes, and downright jokes.

Recently, Harada has been getting one request for a new Tekken stage: The American Southeast's 24 hour a day, seven day a week diner Waffle House.

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