Final Fantasy XIII Gets Afro Chocobo Handler: Sazh Katzroy
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 15, 2009 15:21 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Character Design, Final Fantasy, Marketing, Shonen Jump
The latest issue of Shonen Jump reveals an amusing new character in Square Enix’s upcoming Final Fantasy XIII, an afro-donning, dual pistol wielding man whose hair is apparently large enough to serve as living space for his pet chibi chocobo: サッズ・カッツロイ / Sazh Katzroy.
The full sized scan from the magazine is below:
Not much in the way of details are given, but it is apparent that the dual pistols he carries will probably be his main weapon type in the game, and he does have a chibi chocobo that he carries around with him.
The magazine suggests that the chocobo, Hina, might be carried around in the unnamed character’s hair, which definitely does seem large enough for the task.
Above are Final Fantasy XIII’s more traditionally designed characters. Perhaps Sazh looks somewhat out of place?
A response to the new character design:












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Oh lawd.
I can has watermelon wif dis chikin?
i see why he has a gun around him all the time...
about time they post a brother in FF.
They HAD one, in FF 7. Remember Barret?
And before you say 'No', he walked the walk and talked the talk.
So, bruthas in FF aren't anything new. It's just more apparent this time around.
Yeah, f*ck that. We had one 12 years ago. That's plenty.
No. Bad. Shut the f*ck up. Please.
Black main character next time, please.
It's Japan, there are no black people, what can you expect?
pfff u guys forget another brutha already: Kiros from FF8. He wants to have a word with you.
Thankfully the Japanese do not like black people for other things then comic relief. I always laugh like hell when they have some random nigga named Bob who does something ridiculous in j-dramas.
Regarding characters with pets, one has to remember Minsc from Baldurs Gate!Big white guy with shaved head and a raging passion for justice. Alawys with his partner, the hamster Boo. Who actually is a SPACE HAMSTER.
You would always get irritated that the damn hamster was stealing one of the three quick-slots, but then you would press him and hear *squeek* and immediately forgive him. :D
"A den of stinking evil. Cover your nose Boo! We will leave no crevice untouched!"
"Take heart fellow adventurers, for you have curried the favor of Boo, The only miniature giant space hamster in the Realm. My friend and companion ever since my h-h-head wound, he will lead us to victory! Onward to the Gnoll Stronghold to the west! Tarry not! We must go soon! "
Well, I'll be damned! I *forgot* about Kiros. I stand corrected.
Minsc set the standard of all WRPG heroes. Shaved heads is now all the rage when you to kick ass.
I love it when people like Narcissist talk with out thinking. Bob Makihara ring a bell, How a bout Bowie Grant, Afro, Nadia, Sado Yasutora? Get out more fool, stop being a slave to other peoples ideals. It's a big world out there and most Japanese are not as close minded as you.
There was no white men in Fresh Prince either, you don't find me complaining. Nobody should feel obligated to put a certain race in a game.
fuck black people. power to the kkk's! white america FTW!
You do realize that the majority of characters in this game franchise are modeled after asians right?
Japaneses don't like Blacks? I thought that was Koreans...
Google "Raymond Johnson", he's one of the most beloved 'staff' of the Pokemon franchise.
Another bunch of idiots playing the racism card , bah shut up i dont get why people expect special treatment in video games. It was this behaviour that caused such a comotion in resident evil , having to change the african zombies to white people. You guys shoot white people in games all the time and u dont see us complaining. This character looks awesome in my eyes, he looks like he'll be the one to add humour into the dark storylines.
Actually when you think about it. it was a black person in every FF game that was on PS1 or Ps2. now it's Ps3 :P the list being , Barret , Kiros Seagill , for FF9 i'm gonna call Amarant Coral , black (even though he's not. he's a random race) , then for ff10 it's the summoner Dona , and ff12 fran. These were a good group of people , although they're not part of the main cast. This new guy though XD omg he's such a joke...his "humour" is just..... annoying. Personal i think it would be cool to see a Black main character...but i dout that'll ever happen XD . it's a Japanese game , so why would it be any other race than Japanese as a main character? But Actually i saw someone say this "You do realize that the majority of characters in this game franchise are modeled after Asians right?" HA!! yeah right XD they are SO modeled after white people. Dude look at cloud. when was the last time you saw a Japanese man with Blondie hair and blue eyes? And his facial structure is from NO Asian origin XD . not only him but Tidus (even though in cinema mode he looked japanese , but at no other time) , Zidane , and Vaan , had that same look. squal was the only difference and even so i DARE anyone to say he looked Japanese LOL XD . Even if they were supposed to be made after Japanese , they sure didn't look it. Actually if you go down the line of main cast members , it's only a hand full of ones that look Japanese anyway. But yeah XD just had to say that , Cause yeah , the race this is dumb :P
lol. Black main character? What is this a blacksploitation game? I think not. Watch Turn A Gundam to get your fill of a kinda black main character(..or at least colored that way)
I'f you want a black main charcter watch Afro Samurai, a samurai anime.
ah man! that one was awesome. How could i forget that one.
give it to the japanese. they successfully made chocobo loving, stereotypical, gun toting, afro samurai wannabe black dude. BREAK YO SELF FOOOOO!!!
I'm going to laugh if he turns out to be the intelligent caring level headed guy and everyone's misconceptions turn out wrong. unlikely but a bit more funny. i guess were all guilty of racial stereotyping in one way or the other.
That one major downfall of the internet ananimity, It allows people to feed their insecurity's and stereotypes.
You Neo X Alucard,are my hero ;__;
Final Fantasy just can't seem to break away from the negro stereotypes. First Barret, now this.
...and the vast majority of America can't?
Agreed. Wow they just had to add him in there when it makes absolutely no sense.
OMG, THAT IS SOOOOO CUTE!!!... I mean the chocobo of course... it's like a little chicken in a nest!
Hmmm as for the character itself, I bet that he's gonna act like Zell from FF8... just another comic-relief =P
The face looks familiar...
chocobos are closed.
is the story for this FF different from any of the other ones?
It's about Crystals. What else? ALWAYS the crystals.
*looks at the character portraits* Guess, who will be left out of the active party most of the time?
Duhhhhhhhh
Cait Sith?
nope.
its gotta be the minority.
its always the minority.
I can dig it.
This game better have some pools to stand in front of, or I'll have to write them an angry letter.
If he can summon Samuel L Jackson, Final Fantasy XIII will be awesome.
Improbable? Yes, but the protagionist is a pretty-looking girl this time, not a boy/lad/L'Oreal ad. SquareEnix is going a different pitch which hopefully includes lesbians.
Personally, I think in the ero version of this game, Pippi Longstocking (sp?) is gonna get some dark meat from Chocobro. ^_-
hope chris tucker be the afro man's voice, he like whoop out the "jackie" in this FFXIII.
Shaft is in Final Fantasy lulz
I'd hit it!
count me in!
POOLS CLOSED
But seriously, he kinda reminds me of Chris Rock with an afro. Does anyone notice that?
This game is now a must.
jajaja, from the expression of his face i'm almost sure hes the comical-type character. now he just needs a B-Body car and its al set.
whats this? Hollywood?
when you look at him closer and compare him with the other FFXIII characters... he kinda look real and not CG... well probably the effect of bieng printed in a JUMP page, find it pretty cool though... and btw any video game character of any race or any color is always cool as long as they can kick ass! who knows? may they'll have a famous "black guy" to voice act on this one... an actor or a singer or a rapper or an athlete... or whatever
maybe they'll have a hobo to voice him over lol!
He's a complicated man, who noone understands but his chocobo.