Tekken Director Katsuhiro Harada Finally Takes a Trip to Waffle House

Tekken manager Katsuhiro Harada yet recovered the clip to instrumentality a travel to Waffle House.

If you're wondering wherefore this is the quality shaking the gaming manufacture today, you should cognize that fans person asked the warring crippled developer to see a signifier based connected the 24/7 meal associated for years. It's thing Harada's ne'er precisely been opposed to – helium mentioned trademark and rights issues arsenic a imaginable hangup successful 2024 – but the thought has remained conscionable retired of reach, regardless.

Harada announced helium would beryllium leaving his Tekken location astatine Bandai Namco precocious past twelvemonth and past went connected to uncover his caller company, VS Studio, conscionable a fewer weeks ago, but it looks similar the All-Star Special and a broadside of hashbrowns ne'er near his mind. Yesterday, helium fto his X/Twitter followers cognize that helium yet recovered the clip to halt by Waffle House, and helium adjacent bought a menu.

— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) May 24, 2026

"I yet made it to WAFFLE HOUSE," Harada said. "The unit are ever friendly, and erstwhile I asked if they would merchantability maine a menu, they sold maine 1 for $5. Next time, I’ll beryllium backmost astatine 3 a.m. for combat time."

The notation to a late-night brawl stems from memes that person consumed Waffle House for years. It's thing helium dug deeper into successful 2024, a clip erstwhile helium knew distressingly small astir what the edifice meant to societal media users online. Now, it looks similar you tin each telephone him an adept – and possibly adjacent a fan.

Katsuhiro Harada's Waffle House saga has gone connected for rather immoderate time. Naturally, Tekken fans reacted to his meal update accordingly.

Thank you for everything im gladsome you enjoyed your meal, this has a imperishable abstraction successful my support 🙂‍↕️ pic.twitter.com/j5ZVF0EISo

— doritobandito (@doritobndito) May 25, 2026

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— Darkbills (@Darkmaronette) May 24, 2026

A caller combatant has entered the arena. pic.twitter.com/bBrpeROzAe

— Jarvix McJarvy (@JarvixMcJarvy) May 24, 2026

Harada nary longer has the sway to bring Waffle House to Tekken, specifically, but the legendary warring crippled bid is precise overmuch inactive kicking. Just yesterday, it was announced that Bandai Namco would soon adhd Baki's Yujiro Hanma arsenic a playable quality successful Tekken 8.

Photo shared by Katsuhiro Harada via X/Twitter.

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