{"id":402627,"date":"2026-01-12T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402627\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:32:25","slug":"kakeru-releases-statement-about-whats-next-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402627\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakeru releases statement about what&#8217;s next for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n       &#13;<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/justin-gordon.jpg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" alt=\"Justin AdaptiveTrigger Gordon\"\/><\/p>\n<p>       &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">&#13;<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/11_kakeru-statement-bnr.webp.webp\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"\/>&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n     &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Kakeru had quite the run during the time in which he was competing. He was able to secure the $1,000,000 grand prize by winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventhubs.com\/news\/2025\/mar\/03\/capcom-cup-11-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capcom Cup 11<\/a> with JP.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n               &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n      &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Soon afterwards, Kakeru seemingly disappeared from the competitive scene until he finally announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventhubs.com\/news\/2025\/oct\/23\/kakeru-retirement-health-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sudden retirement<\/a> that came about due to serious health issues. Since then, we haven&#8217;t quite had a player push JP to the level that Kakeru was able to.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n     &#13;<br \/>\n          &#13;<br \/>\n     &#13;<br \/>\n     &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>During the time in which he competed, Kakeru&#8217;s achievements resulted in him getting nominated for the <a hrefd=\"https:\/\/www.eventhubs.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/17\/best-fighting-game-nominations-tga2025\/\">Best Esports Athlete<\/a> award at The Game Awards 2025 presentation. Of course, he ended up not winning the reward in the end (neither did MenaRD who was also nominated).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventhubs.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/25\/capcom-cup-qualified-players\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kakeru would relinquish his qualified slot for the Capcom Cup 12 Finale<\/a> that&#8217;s scheduled to take place in early March of this year. Once again, $1,000,000 is up for grabs for whomever takes first place.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Kakeru recently posted on X to provide everyone with an update on his future plans. It would seem that he&#8217;s committed to not competing, but will continue being a fan of Street Fighter 6.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Kakeru&#8217;s status update:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Since time has passed without me making any clear statements about my future specific activities, I&#8217;d like to talk about my approach to activities going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>First, I have no plans to get involved with games as a job or to work as a full-time streamer in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue to enjoy Street Fighter 6 as a single player from here on out too, but if I turned it into work, it wouldn&#8217;t align with the way of engaging that I truly value.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll resume streaming once things settle down, but I also have no plans to make streaming my livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As for YouTube videos, the ones from my pro days are currently set to private across the board due to complicated rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As for me right now, during this hiatus from activities, I&#8217;ve been spending time reading books in various genres and doing research, and in the process, my desire to revisit the programming I did back in my working professional days has grown stronger; there are also many other genres where I want to learn and take on new things.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I plan to keep posting on SNS and in other formats, but due to changes in my own mindset and lifestyle, it seems like there will be a lot more posts unrelated to games.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve left things unsaid and ended up giving the impression of expecting a pro comeback or full-time streaming activities, I&#8217;m truly sorry.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll keep this in mind as my own way of approaching things.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n     &#13;<br \/>\n      &#13;<br \/>\n\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t  &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Kakeru had quite the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[793,39805,74],"class_list":["post-402627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-general-news","tag-street-fighter-6","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}