Netflix’s Tekken: Bloodlines anime is coming later in 2022

One more title has been announced for the library. The series will be revealed with a one-and-a-half-minute trailer. There is no exact date or mention of episode count, but the summary states that it will focus on Jin Kazama, who joined the series as a character in Tekken 3.

The Tekken series has only had a few attempts at translation, unlike other late 90s game franchises that had sales of more than 50 million copies. The 2010 live-action flick that was the most notable for being one of 43 movies to get a zero percent rating from critics was included in those attempts. Katsuhiro Harada, the producer/director of the Tekken games, said that the movie was a cruel contract and that they were not able to supervise it. I am not interested in that movie.

Harada invited fans to check out the new trailer for the adaptation. If it follows the games, the show will tie together The King of Iron Fist fighting tournament that includes control of a powerful corporation as its prize, the intergenerational power struggle of the Mishima family that runs the corporation, and the supernatural powers/corruption of the Devil Gene.

The trailer shows Jin being trained by his mother when they are attacked by another boss from the games. He will enter the tournament full of familiar faces, faces that may or may not wear jaguar masks the entire time, and flashes during the trailer show of at least some of the characters we can expect to appear.

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“Power is everything.” Jin Kazama learned the family self-defense arts, Kazama-Style Traditional Martial Arts, from his mother at an early age. Even so, he was powerless when a monstrous evil suddenly appeared, destroying everything dear to him, changing his life forever. Angry at himself for being unable to stop it, Jin vowed revenge and sought absolute power to exact it. His quest will lead to the ultimate battle on a global stage — The King of Iron Fist Tournament.

Even after failing to deliver a live-action Cowboy Bebop that it deemed worthy of a second season, the company continues to focus on adapting games for new content. The live-action TV show has done well enough to earn a third seaso n, a second movie, and it received a rave review here. The One Piece live-action adaptation began production earlier this year, as well as Scott Pilgrim and the Terminator series, which are also in the works.

The series is being produced by The Verge.