{"id":14382,"date":"2026-06-30T08:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/tekken-8-roger-jr-trailer-inspired-by-viral-kangaroo-punching-clip-was-prompted-by-former-tekken-director-katsuhiro-harada\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:09:11","slug":"tekken-8-roger-jr-trailer-inspired-by-viral-kangaroo-punching-clip-was-prompted-by-former-tekken-director-katsuhiro-harada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/tekken-8-roger-jr-trailer-inspired-by-viral-kangaroo-punching-clip-was-prompted-by-former-tekken-director-katsuhiro-harada\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken 8 Roger Jr. Trailer Inspired by Viral, Kangaroo-Punching Clip Was Prompted by Former Tekken Director Katsuhiro Harada"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-page\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/06\/30\/roger-jr-tekken-8-1782806785919.jpg\" \/>\n<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\"><\/section>\n<p>On the back of Bandai Namco\u2019s announcement that Tekken\u2019s much-loved, martial arts marsupial Roger Jr. will be coming to Tekken 8 as part of a salvo of \u2018Season 3\u2019 DLC characters, former Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada has confirmed that he had a hand in the kangaroo\u2019s clever reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Debuted at EVO 2026, Bandai Namco aired a brief teaser for Roger Jr.\u2019s upcoming arrival that was clear homage to a 10-year-old viral video out of Australia of a man punching an aggressive kangaroo right in the snout. For context, it was in the process of rescuing a dog \u2013 which the kangaroo had in a headlock at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in September of last year, when we decided to bring Roger back, I sent the team a YouTube link to \u2018that famous video\u2019 because I wanted us to recreate it,\u201d wrote Harada <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/harada_tekken\/status\/2071716786354143683\"><u>via his personal social media<\/u><\/a>. \u201cSome of the younger team members had never seen it before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t personally involved in editing this video, but I heard yesterday that around springtime the team was actually hesitating over whether to include the recreation because they were running out of time. Apparently, [Tekken 8 game director Kohei Ikeda\u2019s] final direction was, \u2018We absolutely have to do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harada conceded he had actually given up on the idea himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, \u2018They probably won\u2019t do that gag anymore. They\u2019ve probably forgotten about it,\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cSo when I saw it yesterday, it genuinely made me smile. I thought, \u2018Ah, they actually did it!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roger Jr. last appeared in 2007\u2019s Tekken 6, but was absent from Tekken 7. 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