Katsuhiro Harada has had an illustrious 31-year career in the video game industry, and is well-known for his work as a creator, director, and voice actor for TEKKEN and Soul Caliber, two fighting games that were massively influential in Western culture, but thanks to a slight language barrier and misinterpreted slang, Harada once thought Americans wanted to beat him up.
Harada, who is now the CEO of the newly-founded, VS Studio, recently shared some hilarious and heartwarming insight into what it was like getting familiar with American slang.
Katsuhiro Harada Shares Funny Interaction With African-American Community
In 2019, when Harada revealed the African-American Tekken character, Leroy Smith, also known as the GrandMaster of Drip, the Black community attempted to show Harada their appreciation for the well-designed character by inviting him to a cookout—a gesture that signifies you are now considered a close friend.
Tekken fans also started spamming the goat emoji, and telling Harada he was indeed the G.O.A.T for helping bring Leroy Smith to life, but unfortunately, Harada wasn't familiar with these terms yet and began to worry that Americans were instead insulting him: "Even though I thought I knew America pretty well,...
