Netflix broke the news over the weekend and released a trailer to let fans of the legendary fighting game know what to expect. The anime series will be called Tekken: Bloodline, will star Jin Kazama and will hit the streaming platform this year.
Netflix he’s not messing around and it sounds like he saw a huge opportunity with video game adaptations. Since the success she had with Arcane, Castlevania, Cuphead and The Witcherthe giant of streaming He already has two more series to launch this year: Resident Evil and Tekken Bloodlines. This last one was a surprise for many, since several fans of the 3D fighting video game bandai namco they did not see the adaptation coming.
Along with the announcement of the next anime series, Tekken: Bloodline, Netflix released the first trailer and shared its synopsis: “Power is everything. At an early age, Jin Kazama learned from his mother the family self-defense arts, traditional martial arts in the style Kazama. Still, he was powerless when an evil monster suddenly appeared destroying everything he held dear and changing his life forever. Angry with himself for not being able to stop him, Jin swore revenge and began searching for the ultimate power to achieve it, leading to the ultimate battle on a world-class stage: The King of Iron Fist Tournament.”
Tekken: Bloodline will follow the story of Jin Kazama, whom we saw as the protagonist in the third installment of video games. With the passing of the chapters (which is not confirmed how many there will be or how long they will last), Jin will want to avenge the death of his mother, Junat the hands of a demon, and the only way to achieve it will be under the training of his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima, with whom he has a rather complex relationship. From the events we see in the trailer, the series seems to take place between Tekken 2 (1995) and Tekken 3 (nineteen ninety six).
The thirst for revenge Jin will take him to the King of Iron Fist Tournament, the competition on which the entire saga is based Tekken and where you will meet many of the well-known characters from the video game. In the trailer we saw Ogre, Paul Phoenix, Ganryu, King and Leroy Smitha character who joined the saga as DLC from Tekken 7.
This series would not be the first adaptation that fighting video games had Tekken. Since 1994, the year the first game was released, we have seen series and movies that tried to show parts of the history of the game, although they were not very successful. In 1998 an OVA came out (Original Video Animation) of two parts: Tekken The Motion Picturewhere he recounted the desire for revenge of Kazuya against Heihachi.
In 2009, a movie live action from Tekken did not have the approval of Katsuhiro Harada, the creator of the game. However, there was a direct-to-DVD sequel in 2014 called Kazuya’s Revenge. On the other hand, in 2011 we had Tekken: Blood Vengeancea 3D anime film that served as an alternate version of the events we saw in Tekken 5 (2004) and Tekken 6 (2007).
Yes OK Tekken: Bloodline will come to Netflix this year, there are still not many details of the series. We don’t know what its specific release date is, how many episodes it will have, or who is involved in the production. However, with the trailer already before us, we have the most important thing.