Harada mentioning years ago that without the armor Yoshimitsu is basically a modest Japanese man in a suit is pure gold. It really suits someone as kind and humble as Yoshi.

Yoshimitsu: The descendant of the great Yoshimitsu who wield his demonic blade named Yoshimitsu.

No one deserves a Visual History video more than Yoshimitsu design-wise.

It's funny how if you changed almost any fighting game character's design as much as Yoshimitsu's changes, people would LOSE IT; But with Yoshi it's not only acceptable, it's expected-in fact, it's everyone's favorite part!

Fun fact: Yoshimitsu's alternate costume in SFxTK is stated to be him channeling the spirit of the very first Yoshimitsu, so, in a way, you're playing as SoulCalibur Yoshimitsu when you pick that costume.

Yoshimitsu has always been arguably the oddest/most interesting looking Tekken character ever.

This might be my new favorite Dood series.

Ah, Yoshimitsu. My favorite MK character.

For those that don't know, Tekken and Soul Calibur take place in the same universe. The one from Tekken is a long descendant from the Soul Calibur's Yoshimitsu who started his own clan; in fact, the Yoshimitsu from Soul Calibur V was the first descendant refering as Yoshimitsu II. But that game got retconned, we should be getting another Yoshimitsu II another time.

Yoshimitsu's constantly changing designs feel like an "organic" counterpart to Jack. I'd love to see Max do a visual history on the various Jack models sometime down the line.

T7 Yoshi is actually one of my favorites, its one of the only designs to lean into the space or alien theme and I like the tentacle/mask combo

YOSHIMITSU IS A GOAT, easily one of my favorite tekken/ soulcalibur characters

I know I'm in the minority, but I personally LOVE his default design in Tekken 4. Making him a japanese horned beetle is just sooooo badass!

What I love the most about Yoshimitsu is that you can see how he started as a clear human being in weird bodysuits in the first two Tekkens, which also carried over to SoulCalibur, his most human look being Tekken 2's 1P, we can even see his hair, but after 3 they went ALL OUT. Many people think he's a demon or alien or robot because of how he looks and sounds but he is, in fact, an actual human being in weird body suits. Only his sword-wielding arm is mechanical, a gift from Dr. Bosconovitch. Shout-out to Yoshimitsu and Athena Asamiya, the two fighting game characters to feature a completely different look every single game, possibly the two most redesigned fighting game characters ever!

"This isn't even my final form!" -Yoshimitsu in every new Tekken entry

This series is so awesome, And Yoshi is a great character for it!!

Yoshimitsu is the best character you could ever choose to do a Visual History

7 Yoshimitsu is amazing. The only problem is that out of all his designs, it's the LEAST recognizable as him. But if it was its own unique character it would be an extremely creative, memorable, and badass character design.

Yoshimitsu has always been my favorite tekken character. After all the character reveals I was really worried and pretty much sadly accepted that he wasn't going to be in Tekken 8 but after seeing that new trailer and concept art I swear I shed a tear. Not only is he back but he's looking the absolute best he's ever been!

Im excited to see Max do more of these. Ive been enjoying them alot more than i woypdve thought

I always loved how Yoshimitsu is a cinnamon roll, but consistently has some of the most badass/intimidating designs

I feel like Yoshimitsu in Tekken 8 looks like a mix of T3 and Soul Calibur 6 and Im loving it a lot. Definitely one of his best designs.

I'm seriously loving these videos!

Yes, we love visual history. Not just MK series. This is very good. Thank you Maxi.

I don't play the Tekken games but every time a new one comes out I immediately check out the Yoshimitsu design.

This is my favourite series of yours right now. Fantastic.

The visual history has become one of my favorite series now on the channel. Love it! I don't always agree with the ratings, but comparing my rating with Max's is half the fun of these videos.

😢thank you Max, for being someone who finally shows alil love for T2 Yoshi.

I saw a KZfaq comment which described it best: Yoshimitsu always looks totally different in every game, yet every time you see him, you instantly know who it is!

I can't play him for shit but I love Yoshimitsu. T2's opening video with the robot hand spinning and making the fist made me immediately interested in the character.

Yoshimitsu has been my favorite fighting game character ever, I love his wacky elements

Loving this series keep it up Max!

Hi max. Thank you for doing these series. I really love it

Now that's my favorite fighting games character. Can't wait his gameplay trailer for T8 and Max's reaction.

Wow talk about a character that's super interesting to do a visual history deep dive on! I remember playing Tekken for the first time (Tekken 3) and he was by far the most cool/weird looking character of any thing fighting game related that I've seen. Even by today's standards he still holds up as one of the weirdest and most interesting characters in general.

Seeing the new Yoshimitsu design is my favourite part of any new tekken.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 was my first Tekken game, and as a kid I swear that Yoshimitsu’s design in that game was so cool that it immediately made him my favorite Tekken character. The way he fights was also so weird and ridiculous. He’s a great fighting game character. Cool samurai in heavy armor doing twirls into the opponent.

I remember being a kid playing Tekken 3 for the first time and instantly being drawn toward Yoshimitsu. He’s always looked the coolest.

I've been waiting for this day!

I've really enjoyed the visual history vids. Looking forward to the next MK one.

Love when you kinda stumble into a new video series, like with rate the super. Yeah Yoshi is perfect for this

Its been alot of guyver shoutouts lately just across youtube in general .. I'm loving it !!!!

Every time Max's videos are over and the outro comes on, I get emotional

Tekken 3 and 8 of Yoshimitsu are the best outfit design. 10/10. Great job Namco.❤

A really neat bit of lore for Soul Caliber/Tekken, is someone was asked how Yoshimitsu can be in SC even though they're in Tekken, and a very simple answer of SC Yoshi being the ancestor of Tekken Yoshi helps a lot

I love that SC6 Yoshimitsu is like a mix of SC1 and Tekken 1 (and 4, to some extent) designs.

9:37, This costume of T5 Yoshimitsu plus the arrows piercing his body customization is dope.

I was quite suprised by some of Max's takes on what are some of my personal favourites. The traditional Yoshi look is the Oni Samurai (Soul Calibur 1 & his alt in SC4 being the best examples in my opinion). I do also really enjoy the undead models too- Tekken 5/6 alts. My favourite Tekken styles are 6 alt & tag 2. And for Soul calibur- 4 & 5 alts.

God I love this series and Maxs knowledge of all things fighting games makes this S+ Tier content !!

I must admit my favourite costumes other than T3 Yoshimitsu was Soulcalibur 2 Yoshimitsu. I'm definitely biased because it was my first Soulcalibur game, but holy shit the purple outfit stuck out so much to me that I HAD to play as him. I really do love the wooden mechanical look, it fits the time period imo.

Was waiting for this

I personally still love the design for him in T7. It's out there and weird and alien, but it still gives off some crazy wierd ninja vibes and a cool silhouette.

Thanks ermac/reptile for bringing this series to fruition

OG YoshiM was so awesome back in the mid 1990s when Tekken 1 came out. Then Tekken 2 took him to the next level. Ever since he’s just a legendary character to enjoy the character art. Plus his Ninja/Samurai move set is just so badass. Best Tekken character of all time.

Having only been familiar with Tekken Yoshimitsu but being aware that Soul Caliber also has a Yoshimitsu, I was kinda intrigued in how this was gonna be done. I like how both SC 6 Yoshimitsu AND Tekken 8 Yoshimitsu are effectively evolved and revamped versions of their previous designs (Ironically sharing similar color palettes as well, not sure if that was intentional or someone on both teams just converging on the same idea). One thing thats interesting is that it sounds like Tekken Yoshimitsu's voice wise is moving much closer to Soul Caliber Yoshimitsu's voice, just something that caught my attention.

surprised this hasnt been a series on the channel before

Was always my favorite character in tekken, he looks so badass in tekken 8 compared to his last couple of versions in the last couple of tekken’s. Can’t wait for tekken 8!! 🔥

I was looking through his costumes last week. My favourite ones are his T5, T7 alt and TT2 outfits

Yoshimitsu was a playable character in "Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis" for the PS1 (Heihachi, Eddy Gordo and Pacman too)

Need more of these, its better than rate the design imo

My new favorite series from the dood

Tekken 3 Yoshimitsu cemented him as my main in basically any fighting game he's ever appeared in.

It definitely is so interesting to see Yoshi's different designs over the years. Between Tekken and Soul Calibur it really is so cool

Tekken 8 Yoshimitsu design literally looks like he's in like a Devil May Cry devil trigger form and I fucking love it

Tag team 1 was my game growing up, and I played as Yoshimitsu because he looked like a cool undead samurai.

makes me happy to see a video from max of my favorite ninja character

I love his designs so much, Yoshimitsu is always fun to play as well 👏

t6 is how i learned about yoshi and I like it. i also used the pirate alternate costume half the time.

Brilliant video 🤙🏼

I think a Seigfried and Nightmare visual history would work. I for one love SC2 Nightmare

Love this series of videos

Yoshimitsu's designs are similar to Zeiram in 1991 and I still love them

With Tekken 8 now out, my favorite is his default armor but with the multi-faced Asura helmet.

Please Maxxxxx keep doing this series also for Tekken characters!!!!

Yoshimitsu history in tekken and soul calbaur is so awesome in all video games. Can't wait to see his own trailer soon bro. 😊

My friend and I was just talking about this cool samurai dude for the past couple of days and we still stand by the fact that his best design was 3. After that he never had a cooler design until we got to 8 which man does it feel good to see him back!

''we're not gonna do rate the yoshis'' also max: 1:43

I first encountered Yoshimitsu in Soul Caliber, thanks for reviewing both

One of my favorite fighting game characters of all time, I've known him (or them) a very long time and the new T8 look is so cool and sleek. (8

I'm really liking this new Visual History sub-series 🤟🤟🤘🤘

The blue extra costume from 5 and the bug 4 are among my favs, fav one being tekken 3. Kinda interesting how peoples sensibilities can be so different haha.

Oh man is visual history a thing now thanks big bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I hope he does more of these kinds of videos

One of my all time favorites!

Nothing gets me more excited for a new Tekken game than finding out what the hell they did to Yoshimitsu's design each time.

I love Yoshimitsu and Tekken 3 so fuckin' much. Very excited about the T8 design.

My fav Yoshi is still Alternate SC3 Yoshi, I just love that squid mask, plus you could make your own palette, so the default colors I don't count

I agree that Yoshimutsu was that one character in Tekken they experimented the most with in terms of design.

Tekken visual history? Let's fucking go!

He’s got some other alternate skins for tekken 7 too. I spent forever trying to get the shark one haha. There’s also another cheese head one you’d enjoy.

Can't wait for his take on KOF's Athena Asaymia.

He's a rhino beetle in TK4 his alt was a remake of his traditional oni ninja from TK1

Yoshimitsu's Alternate Costume from T4 has always been ny favorite out of his entire designs.

OMG I remember playing this character when I was a kid!!!!! The memories

I could watch these forever.

I love this series and Yoshimitsu is the first character that got my attention in Tekken / SC2 (I was a kid so of course i would love the weird samurai dude).

I am only able to play tekken 3 to 5 and one of the things I look forward to is what will be Yoshi's new design!

Can we have a whole video on the Cardboard Tube Samurai, please? That hit the nostalgia button hard lol

i first got into tekken through tekken 3 ( pirated arcade emulated copies were sold near me) and yoshimitsu became my main because of the cool design

Reptile's design in MK1 is so for that made Max change his content. Yoshi is a cool concept, by the way. A futuristic kabuki samurai ninja. That was awesome!