Kutaragi-san is like a father figure to me as well. Many game publishers and companies still have anecdotes and sagas about him, and many people are afraid of him. But for us at the old Namco, and especially for the TEKKEN Project, he was like a kind father... Whenever we finished the master roms for TEKKEN, he would show up with a big keg of sake and serve it to us. He talked to us about the concept of the PlayStation2 even when there were no rumors about it, and gave us prototypes of the development equipment (we were astonished at the surprisingly large size of the initial PS3 development machine, and even debated whether it could fit in the size of a video game console). One of the great things about him was “Who are your rivals for Kutaragi-san?” he could simply say, “The future is always my rival. Today, cloud servers and other online infrastructures are commonplace, but Kutaragi-San was already telling us at the old Namco in the late 90s that “everything will eventually melt into the network, even PlayStation. In that era, we didn't clearly understand what he meant by “melting into the network,” so what was he referring to? But he was already looking ahead to the current online age in the 1990s. I had a drink with Kutaragi-san about two months ago, and when I discussed with him the huge development costs and long development time of today, he presented me with ideas and future projections that overturned existing concepts. I asked him, “But Kutaragi-san, by the time that time comes, won't you have reached the end of your human life?” I asked him, but he replied with a glint in his eye, “No, no, we don't wait, we do it! You do it too! Most things at the level of human expectation can be achieved", He said powerfully. Oh, I realized that this is a man who is always excited to overtake the future, instead of thinking about the time he has left. He's like a powerful Heihachi, I call him “Heihachi from the science background not evil.