[TW: SEXUAL ASSAULT] The response to Tekken 8 adding a rapist as DLC is frankly disheartening
Tekken 8 announced the character Yujiro Hanma from an anime called Baki as the latest DLC character. The character is canonically a serial rapist and yet the reaction to this has either been jokes or downplaying when people are concerned.
When I've expressed discomfort at this, all the replies are "he's a villain, it's just fiction" or "there's plenty of Tekken characters who do bad things like kill people" (not the same), even in progressive spaces.
I don't want a serial rapist in a series I like and this is genuinely enough to make me want to quit the series entirely. I don't know why Bandai Namco thought adding this character was a good idea and it feels like fighting games are just never going to slip free of the whole "boys' club" mentality as long as shit like this gets a pass.