Katsuhiro Harada

Katsuhiro Harada
Biographical Information
Birthplace	Osaka, Japan
Birthdate	June 10, 1970
Age	50
Status	Alive
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Weapon Information
Fighting style	Devil Jin style (Mishima Style Fighting Karate and Kazama Style Traditional Martial Arts)
Series Information
Appears in	Soulcalibur V
English voice actor	Kyle Hebert (CAS: Cold-Hearted Assassin)

Katsuhiro Harada (原田 勝弘 Harada Katsuhiro), also known as Harada_TEKKEN is a producer from Namco Bandai. He is best known as the producer of both the Soul series and Tekken series.

He makes an appearance in Soulcalibur V as a bonus character in a Quick Battle challenge. He uses the Character Creation exclusive Devil Jin style, which derives from the character Devil Jin from the Tekken franchise.

Harada maintains a fairly active Twitter account.

Theme Music

Soulcalibur V

• "Antares"

Quotes

Soulcalibur V

Quotes are taken from the Cold-Hearted Assassin CAS voice.

• Your time has come.
• You will die!
• Hmph!
• Just a scratch...
• Fool!
• Is that all?
• This is... your grave!
• You... are weak!
• Your life... ends here!
• It's time.
• It can't be! - spoken during Ring Out
• How dare you! - spoken during Ring Out
• Are you scared? - Taunting
• What, I've failed? - Time's Up
• Given up, already?
• See you in Hell... just watch! - spoken during Critical Edge

Trivia

• Harada loves tequila.
• His theme music is that of the Cathedral stage from Tekken 5.
• He uses the Cold Assassin voiceset from the character creation.
• Harada's costume in the character creation highly resembles the clothing of Heihachi Mishima from the Tekken series. Also, Heihachi Mishima is Harada's favorite Tekken character.
• Strangely, Harada's thumbnail shows him having a sleevless gi (possibly the Spy Robe colored black) but in battle he has a longsleeved gi. The same happens with other Quick Battle opponents having different weapons in their thumbnail and in battle.
• Beating him in Quick Battle will unlock the "Pursuit of Obsession" Trophy/Achievement.
• Harada is co-director of Soulcalibur IV.
• During an incident relating to the cancellation of certain Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour tournament, Harada is appointed as the leader of eSports strategy team.^[source?]

Gallery

Soulcalibur V

Screenshot of Harada_TEKKEN from Soulcalibur V

Screenshot of Harada_TEKKEN in Soulcalibur V

External Links

• Harada's Twitter account.