Harada Wrote:

Wow this is great, and I like the fact that you can tell it's the KING even though he's not wearing a mask.
The KING 2P costume from TEKKEN 3 is still very popular, even though a quarter of a century has passed.

This costume started with my concept in the 90's that 2P should wear the Armor King mask and be a Heel wrestler. 
Then... The artist assigned to the project uploaded texture data with the kanji for "悪 (Heel / Evil / Villain)" as a joke at first.
One day, when I launched the development test build and saw "Evil" written on the back of the KING, I laughed out loud.
The artist grinned and said, "See, now that's Heel, right?" He said.
And this was very popular with all the development team members, so we officially adopted it.
I felt it was a little sad to use only one kanji character, so I asked the artist, I asked the artist to put "Mishima Heavy Industries" in the design, and this design was completed.

However, The question of whether this "kanji for evil" would be understood in countries other than Japan crossed my mind for a moment.
In the 90's, the awareness of language localization was still very limited, so I left it as it was.
At that time, arcade cabinets were still in operation worldwide and TEKKEN3 was released in arcades all over the world, but one of the most common questions among the letters (real letters, not e-mails) we received was "What does the King's back say? was the question.
At the time, Namco's sales team pointed out that this would be difficult for people overseas to read, but conversely, I believe that it was because it was written in kanji that it became an iconic costume (or so I like to think).