You couldn't beat me in a hundred years

Image credit: Bandai Namco/Akita Shoten

The main selling point of Tekken 8 's Season 3 DLC pass, alongside veterans Kunimitsu, Bob and Roger Jr, is Yujiro Hanma, the main antagonist of fighting manga Baki and father of its eponymous protagonist. Yujiro was initially revealed in May through a trailer made up entirely of panels from Baki, leaving it in question just how a character that looks like that would be adapted into the Unreal Engine 5 hyper-realism of Tekken 8. The answer, apparently, is that Bandai just said fuck it, and let him look inevitably grotesque.

The first look at Yujiro in-game arrived during Evo France (where Marvel Tōkon also revealed a bunch of new fighters ), with a trailer featuring just a quick tease of his intro animation. Inexplicable flexibility, absurdly huge musculature and horrifying grin on show, Yujiro is horrible to look at. Which, I guess, is the intent?…