From a marketing standpoint, Capcom is busy promoting Street Fighter 5, we are starting our campaign for Tekken 7, and it just isn’t the right time to release Tekken X Street Fighter. Harada was quoted as saying “Regarding Tekken X Street Fighter, as I have said in the past, we actually progressed to a certain point some time ago. Harada comments on precisely why they decided to include Akuma into the Tekken world.
The other aspects of his regular outfit are unchanged his prayer beads are still dark brown and the ropes on his hands and waist remain black.Why did Bandai Namco choose to introduce Akuma to Tekken 7?ĭuring an event held at Bandai Namco’s newest Santa Clara studio, creator of Tekken 7, Katsuhiro Harada spoke and confirmed some key details about the inclusion of the popular Street Fighter character in the upcoming Tekken 7 game. His gi is now purple, while his hair becomes golden blond.His hair is white resembling his Shin form in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. His gi is dark red and the ropes on both his hands and waist are black, while his prayer beads are dark brown.His gi is now white and the ropes on his hands and his waist are burgundy red, while the prayer beads are black.His gi becomes a faded dark blue like in his crossover appearances, such as both Street Fighter X Tekken and SNK vs. The color palette changes are a reference to his main appearances in the Street Fighter series, where the characters outfits remain the same, with only the outfit color chosen by the player.
He no longer wears sandals, instead fighting barefoot while wearing this outfit.Īll of Akuma's outfits remain the same, with his gi, prayer beads and the ropes on his hands and waist changing colors between the 1 to 4-Star appearances.
He also wears a black half-mask to cover his mouth and white and red wristbands with a brown trim to match his outfit. He also has two flags decorated with demonic symbols on each side. This outfit later became one of his customizations in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution.Īkuma wears his primary outfit and gains dark brown genji armor and greaves, decorated with two red lines running down each side, to cover his karate gi. Akuma's hair also gains extra white spikes on each sides of his head. He either wears brown training gauntlets or wraps his hands with white rope, brown sandals and wears his deceased master Goutetsu's prayer beads around his neck, with a black "heaven" (天, ten) kanji visible on the center bead.Īkuma's Swap Costume is Heihachi's Player 1 outfit from Tekken 4, which is a white modified fundoshi along with both the hand and foot wraps and the rope from his primary outfit. This kanji is featured frequently in Akuma's appearance, most often at the end of a Raging Demon attack, where it burns itself onto the back of his gi top.Īkuma wears a dark blue karate gi, similar in style to those worn by both Ryu and Ken. He wears prayer beads around his neck, and the "heaven" (天, ten) kanji is typically seen on the back of his outfits. Akuma is muscular and tan-skinned with red hair tied in a small top knot, sharp pointed teeth and crimson eyes.
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