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Katsuhiro Harada, the director on Tekken 8, has addressed suggestions that the development team isn’t all that keen on Anna Williams, stating that this is not only completely untrue, but also went into detail about the character and her relationship with her sibling, Nina.
Both Nina and Anna appeared in the original Tekken way back in 1994, although Anna was an unlockable sub-boss and essentially a palette-swap of Nina. Both Williams sisters returned in Tekken 2 and 3, although in the latter Anna was made more unique and has continued to gain her own identity ever since, up until her DLC appearance in Tekken 7.
Writing on X, Harada-san offered some insight into the character and made it clear that she’s actually popular among the development team.
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By the way, there is a small group of people who believe that Anna is not loved by the development team and they even say that Anna is hated [by the] dev team. Well, it doesn’t matter, Because it’s NOT true at all, but the Anna portrayed in the story of TEKKEN is filled with a lot of thoughts and feelings from me and the animation staff.
Originally, Nina was very popular with players since the beginning of Tekken. There is a yin and yang to things, and Anna’s popularity was often contrasted with Nina’s. Back in Tekken 1 and 2, many mid-boss characters were ‘convertible character’ to other characters, but we wanted to make Anna from Tekken 3 as unique as possible to gain popularity.
Anna hasn’t been confirmed for Tekken 8 yet but there’s still years worth of support to come from the game, so she has every chance to appear down the line.
[Source – Katsuhiro Harada on X]
