#haven’t explored with any other playable characters (unless you sorta count zhao and joongi in y7)

[designernishiki]

Yeah I love Shinada but I miss Tanimura :( a friend of mine has a huge special interest in the rgg games and told me that there was some controversy surrounding Tanimura's Japanese VA, who they apparently based his design on in y4. Anyway the controversy apparently caused them to nix Tanimura from the series and change his design for the remaster. Which is interesting but still sucks :( maybe he'll be around in future installments. Hopefully

yeahhhh… it’s a bit more taboo than it is in the west to keep a character around who’s actor has had that kind of controversy, especially anything involving the law, even after changing his face entirely and all that and it definitely is disappointing and overall should be unnecessary. but it’s just a cultural difference and it can’t really be helped 😔

I seriously doubt he’ll make a reappearance on screen, but he does get mentioned in y5 if you get to the Amon fight (the Amons are all set up to fight the four mains from y4 and challenge the four of them, akiyama tries to call tanimura but he isn’t picking up the phone and they can’t find him. so when they meet up with the Amons and they see shinada there they’re just like. who the fuck is this guy. where’s tanimura. and akiyama has to say uhhhhh yeah we couldn’t find him so. shinada will have to do. sorry.) so I mean, I guess he’s not banned from being mentioned, so maybe there’s a slim slim chance he’ll come up again. but for obvious enough reasons I’m not too hopeful (I mean, they haven’t even brought back shinada which is especially sad becuase they had the perfect opportunity to do so by having kiryu call him up in y6 to ask if he’d mentor mitsuo, since mitsuo wants to go into baseball as a career and all that. we could’ve had uncle shinada…..we could’ve had Beach Shinada……. we were so robbed).