Tomonobu Itagaki, the outspoken former Tecmo creator of Useless or Alive and trendy Ninja Gaiden fame, handed away earlier right now, October sixteenth, 2025. The next message was left by considered one of his family members, was posted on his Fb.
The following message was posted right now on Itagaki’s Fb web page:
The sunshine of my life is lastly about to fade.
The truth that this message has been posted implies that the time has come finally. I’m not on this world.
(This last message was entrusted to somebody expensive to me.)
My life was a sequence of battles. I stored on successful.
I additionally brought about plenty of hassle.
I take pleasure in having fought via to the top in line with my very own convictions.
I’ve no regrets.
Nevertheless, I’m stuffed with sorrow that I used to be unable to ship a brand new work to my followers. I’m sorry.
That’s how it’s.
So it goes.
—Tomonobu Itagaki
Not lengthy after, Katsuhiro Harada, Tekken director and very long time pleasant rival of Itagaki, posted his emotions concerning the information on Twitter. The reason for Itagaki’s passing is, on the time of this writing, at the moment unknown.
