Netflix Announces Tekken: Bloodline Anime for 2022

Having already efficiently introduced League of Legends, Castlevania, and The Witcher to tv, the subsequent online game on their listing is…Tekken? On Saturday, the streaming service revealed a trailer for his or her upcoming anime sequence primarily based on Bandai Namco’s profitable combating franchise.

Tekken: Bloodline places the deal with fighter Jin Kazama. First launched in 1997’s Tekken 3, Jin needs revenge for the loss of life of his mom Jun by the hands of an obvious demon (Ogre, additionally from Tekken 3), and the one approach to get it’s to hunt out coaching from his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima. Longtime followers know that Heihachi is in the end the massive unhealthy of your complete franchise, however he’s greater than prepared to assist his grandson grow to be highly effective by beating the residing hell out of him.

Jin’s quest for revenge will ultimately lead him to the King of Iron Fist Tournament, the competitors that underpins your complete Tekken franchise. It’s there on the match the place he’ll brush shoulders with a wide range of characters throughout Tekken’s historical past, together with the jaguar-masked King, Paul Phoenix from the unique Tekken, Tekken 7’s DLC fighter Leroy Smith, and Jin’s father Kazuya Mishima.

Tekken was one of many first combating video games to make use of 3D animation in 1994, and later video games included the power to maneuver away or in the direction of the digicam to create the sensation of actual 3D environments slightly than transferring vertically throughout the display. The trailer manages to seize the sensation of the video games because the digicam pans round characters making ready to battle, or swings in the direction of somebody proper as they’re about to be hit within the face. 

Like fellow combating franchise Mortal Kombat, Tekken’s dabbled into non-video recreation mediums a number of occasions all through its 28-year historical past. The first anime was a two-part sequence referred to as Tekken: The Motion Picture in 1998 that tailored Kazuya’s revenge quest towards Heihachi from Studio Deen and directed by Kunihisa Sugishima. In 2011, the CG anime movie Tekken: Blood Vengeance launched and served as an alternate retelling of Tekken 5 (2005) and Tekken 6 (2007). And after all, there was the 2009 reside motion adaptation that additionally spawned a 2014 prequel, Kazuya’s Revenge.

Tekken: Bloodline will launch on Netflix later this yr.

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