The Missing Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Character Is…

By Spencer . July 27, 2009 . 9:50am

The Missing Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Character Is...

All of the playable characters from Tatsunoko vs. Capcom will be in the North American version except for one. Who got cut?

 

“I guess it’s OK to tell everyone this now,” Ryota Niitsuma, Producer of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom said in an interview with Siliconera. “He’s [Hakushon Daimao] not in the game. We had some licensing issues with him so we weren’t able to obtain him for the American version.”

 

Hakushon Daimao is a genie and the lead character in a 1970s anime series. Capcom added him to the home version of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Unfortunately, Daimao and his math mini-game will remain in Japan. New characters will replace Daimao, but Niitsuma was careful not to reveal them at this time.

 

Look for the full interview with Niitsuma, which includes details about the network mode and answers to many of your questions later this week.


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  • shadowakiho

    Honestly, I couldn't care less. He is the only one I didn't have any knowledge of and he also seemed the most out of place. ^_^; here is hoping the loss of one character gives us a, or many, awesome new combatants.

  • http://mmv-wii.proboards.com/index.cgi Hero of Legend

    I really liked him because he WAS so out of place and wacky looking. :P

  • http://www.myspace.com/Juan_Rod bluejuan85

    Yeah I for one am happy that he got cut he just didn't fit in with the rest of the characters.

  • http://myanimelist.net/profile/Kuronoa Kuronoa

    We are getting new content so I think it's a fair trade to actually have the game brought over.

  • http://www.cosmosgaming.com cosmosgaming

    Looks like Tingle if he put on a ton of weight, no great loss.

  • http://shoryuken.com/ the voice of reason

    Um. We actually knew that months ago. Sorry to burst your bubble. What we really wanted to know was who was replacing him…

  • Roto13

    It's a fair trade because he'll be replaced with a new character. :P

  • ElTopo

    Yeah could really care less about this guy.

  • http://www.myanimelist.net/profile/Hraesvelgr Hraesvelgr

    Why could you care less?

  • Jay

    I'm not exactly happy about it but I'm glad it was a console exclusive character like him instead of one of the people that actually mattered

  • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

    Make that characters.

  • http://meikiyou.deviantart.com meikiyou

    let's bet who is gonna be the new additions
    i'm betting for capcom:
    zero
    dead rising
    tatsunoko:
    speed racer
    shurato
    soul taker

  • ElTopo

    Its a random unappealing Japan only character that will probably go right over 98% of the western audience, and I doubt many people will be fretting over a math mini-game (yawn).

  • Rocketujuiso

    Tingle's not that bad of a character.

  • Rocketujuiso

    it should be Miles Edgeworth from Capcom. He'll throw books at people, and everyone will wince at the stupid pun.

  • AQuatermain

    ¡Noooooo! ;_; I saw the original anime several years ago.

  • Suzero

    stay in school, kid~

  • Anonymous

    UGH THANK GOD
    I saw him in gameplay and I really didn't like him for some reason.

  • Gerwalk

    Man, what a shame! His anime has quite a bit of a fanbase here in Europe, due to it being shown between various countries' morning cartoons ten years or more ago.
    He was called “Bob der Flaschengeist” in Germany. I even remember his German themesong…

  • thaKingRocka

    that character is filthy and disgusting. the american consumer wins!

  • CrisSpiegel

    Wow, I thought this character was famous in the West. I have good memories of me watching the cartoon as a kid. This Hakushon Daimao guy is well known in Brazil. Many japanese shows we had here until some time in the 90's were mostly unknown to Americans, so I understand that.

  • thaKingRocka

    yeah, japan and brazil have a very interesting relationship. when i was living in japan, i was really surprised to find such a huge brazilian population. it was just in time for the 2002 world cup though, so it worked out nicely.

  • http://meikiyou.deviantart.com meikiyou

    apart from tv tupi (a enterprise from the 70s)broadcasting the anime along with many other tatsunoko production mostly because they share the style with the great hq that there is here wich is called turma da mônica and is published even in japan… the character isn't very famous here =.=

  • CriticalFury

    it kinda saddens me he couldnt be in it. i loved his music when you fought him.

  • SoulStraw

    Then what series are that robot girl with the broom and that blue armored kid with the machine guns from?

  • SoulStraw

    Then what series are that robot girl with the broom and that blue armored kid with the machine guns from?

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