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		Tekken developer and Executive Producer of Tekken 6 Katsuhiro Harada
said, "The number of playable characters will be bigger than Tekken 5
and be the largest roster in the series. I've been on the Tekken
series for over 10 years, and one thing we have particularly focused
on after Tekken 3 is making sure each character is unique and doesn't
overlap with other characters. They all are unique not only in their
appearance but their personality and techniques as well."[14]

Harada has stated that Tekken 6 will boast the greatest number of
characters ever seen in a Tekken game with a total of 42 characters,
including virtually all of the characters from Tekken 5: Dark
Resurrection and the two new Bloodline Rebellion characters. According
to an Update article in the PlayStation Gallery section on page 40 of
the May 2009 issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine players are
able to customize the characters and take any non-customized or
customized character online.

Eight new characters are introduced in this game. The first
character, Zafina, is a female who enters the tournament to prevent
the clash of the "two evil stars".[9] The second character, Leo, is a
German fighter who is intended to be a character which can be played
by beginners and experienced players alike. The death of Leo's mother,
presumably at the hands of Kazuya Mishima prompts Leo to begin
investigating the Mishima Zaibatsu.[9] The third character, Miguel
Caballero Rojo, is a Spanish matador with a passion for fighting, but
no real discipline. Miguel wants to exact revenge upon the death of
his sister at her wedding. The fourth character, Bob, is an American
who was known as a martial arts genius. Due to being unable to defeat
larger opponents however, he disappeared from the fighting world,
determined to increase his weight and power while still maintaining
speed. Bob enters The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 to test his new
skills and size. The fifth character, NANCY-MI647J, is the bonus boss
of the game. NANCY is a giant robotic creation of Mishima Zaibatsu
similar as the Jack robots. The sixth character, Azazel, is the final
boss of the game. Azazel's story is said to be related with Zafina and
Julia Chang's story in Tekken 6 and the confrontation between Jin
Kazama and Kazuya Mishima (presumably the 'two evil stars' from
Zafina's story). In the console version, the seventh character is
Alisa Bosconovitch, a cyborg with jet wings and spinning limbs who may
be the cybernetically-enhanced daughter of Dr. Bosconovitch, and can
also use her own arms and head as weapons, she was created to serve
Jin Kazama. The eighth character is Lars Alexandersson, an unknown
descendant of Heihachi Mishima, presumably an illegitimate son.[15]