Tekken: Bloodline

I was expecting it to be as bad as the other Tekken movie adaptations, but was surprised. This lore manages to be close to the real storyline presented back in Tekken 3, adding more original scenes as an extra.

If you are a fan of the franchise, you'll most likely enjoy the animation during the various battles (the moves and special effects look like they were taken straight out of the actual games).

Although I disliked some artistic choices (e.g. triangle shadows, drawings/CGI used sometimes felt cheap), the episodes kept my attention and didn't feel drawn out just for the sake of it.

Hoping for another ... season where they'll expand on Kazuya and Jin's backstories starting from Tekken 4.

Another video game anime adaptation bites the dust.
The curse of bad adaptation of video games continue.

The usage of 3D or 2.5D animation is improving over time, compared to what was seen in the Berserk remake days. However, referring to the foundations of animations it has a long way to go before it can be considered good.

Voice acting is below average. Everyone speaks in a slower than average cadence for some reason. Not sure if other language dubs have similar experiences. But man the dialogue and monologue just feels so stiff and slow.

Story. Took a huge nosedive. After the 1st episode. We dedicated one entire episode ... on training montages on top of training montages of one character. Who we just got introduced to one episode ago. I had no time to get to know him as a person or as a character, long enough for me to be invested in any of his development. We do get bits and pieces of glimpses of his life outside of training and they look far more interesting. Pacing definitely feels weird, on one scene MC would be brooding over the past, then the next scene exposition on characters unrelated for example.

At the end of the day, it is impossible to properly adapt a fighting video game story. Why? There's so much characters, and the game has such a long franchise history. What story gets adapted, what gets cut? Do the characters get an ending of their arc? Unfortunately, Studio Hibari and Larx Entertainment failed at doing any of this good enough.

I personally don't recommend this show to anyone. Even the hardcore Tekken gamers. When a harem ecchi show have more substance than a fighting show with tons of material to adapt, that's when you know somethings wrong.

Get ready - for the comedy of the year.

I've never held out much hope for animations/TV series/movies based on games, especially fighting games. However, even with such mental preparation, it is an awkward, absurd viewing experience.

I don't think the story needs to be told in more than six episodes. On the contrary, I don't believe the length of it is used well, which leads to the details being rushed through (how did Jin meet his friends?) and the main storyline making people feel lengthy.

Another intuitive feeling is that the creator did not refer to other animated series with similar themes when writing the script. The ... tournament can't make people feel their blood boil at all, even if the moves of many characters are restored to the episode, and there are many familiar faces of players here. In fact, the tournament is not valued; it is only a part of the process, a necessary step to reach the end. As for the ending, I can't even feel how our protagonist has grown, and I can only say, "yes, you should choose ***** *** instead of *** because the former is stronger." Oh, maybe the story is as straightforward as the Tekken 3 story? OK, how much is 2022 minus 1996?

In summary, the series failed to break the spell and wasted much potential. If you are not a Tekken fan but are interested in Tekken, please watch a Tekken tourney or buy a Tekken game to play. If you are a Tekken player looking for some fun outside the game, I suggest you read the patch note of Ver 5.00, which is way better than watching this.

By the way, Netflix's translation is hopeless, I really hope they at least hire Google Translate.

I played Tekken 1, 2, 3, and Tag back in the day. I always dug Tekken (and Soul Edge/Calibur) more than the Street Fighter because it was more realistic for a fighting game. Fireballs and flaming kicks, I dunno. But jabs and roundhouses, yeah I can do those. And then Tekken had stand-ins for Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, a WWE wrestler, and a bear. How cool are those? And the soundtrack for Tekken 3 was funky as hell. Those baselines killed it. I still have the Jin, Hwoarang, and Nina tracks on my playlist. Tekken was always so damn cool.

So how about the ... latest anime? It was ‘right. Not great. Not even good. But alright. I made it through all 6 episodes and only got a little bored along the way. There are worse things to watch out there.

Story
This is a retelling of the story from Tekken 3. Being a fighting game and 6 episodes long, there is not much to it.

Our boy grows up in a forest because that’s how you raise well-adjusted young men. His mother trains him in martial arts emphasizing honor, compassion, and the noble values. And then he decides to crash his grandpa’s and learns the ass-hole version of karate. There is a fighting tournament and people fight. Along the way, they touch on archaeology, mysterious disappearances, and the family business.

Art
The animation was not good overall. It looked cheap. They took every shortcut to save on the budget – slow pans over still frames, still character models with only their mouth moving, and low frame rate.

The artwork was okay. The faces and the animation style looked off but could pass for the characters I know and love.

The fights were pretty good. They modeled the moves from the game - Paul and Hwoarang had their unblockables, Xiaoyu did her AOP, and Jin & Heihachi had their godfists. They animated the impact effects faithfully too. I loved the impact effects from the game – the energy balls when you hit, the mixed colors of the counterhit, and the ice dust on block. In the anime, there were times when critical strikes were thrown and they would turn the image black and white to amplify the impact. Those were cool.

They tried to highlight the strengths of the strikes rather than speed and fluidity. That’s a minus in my book. High level Tekken play looks amazing. You get the characters dashing, sidestepping, and feinting in between landing pokes and counters. And then there are the juggles. I was hoping to see some of the classic Tekken movement in the anime but was let down. And then the director went a little crazy with the camera angles. Not a fan.

Sound
Not great but not awful. I watched it in Japanese and the voice acting was competent. The voices sounded like they belonged to the characters and they were dramatic where they needed to be.

The music was below standard. Tekken 3 had one of the most kickass game OSTs of all time. They got that 70s funk guitar sound and the groovy-af baselines. I was hoping for that in this anime but got none of it. Instead, it’s just the standard electric keyboard orchestra.

The opening and closing themes were uninspired. Just boring wannabe dramatic orchestral music. I will mention that the OP featured the arcade cabinets. They honored the roots.

Characters
Yeah, they were there. Jin, the angry anime devil boy. Jun, his noble mother. Heihachi, the abusive granddad. Some of the other popular chars were there too. Nothing special. No surprises. We get a little bit of an arc with Jin but nothing interesting.

Enjoyment
I made it through 6 episodes on the strength of nostalgia and okay fight animation. They play the story straight forward. There was a little bit of the flashback-induced-finding-inner-strength power up at the end that reached for the next level of drama. In those moments, the music and the animations were flat and they didn’t reach the level of anime drama that I’m used to.

Overall
This anime didn’t crap the bed but wasn’t as cool as I had hoped. I liked it because it was about a video game that I remember fondly. If I hadn’t played Tekken, I would not have stopped halfway through. Tekken Bloodlines is average 5/10 but I’m giving it +1 for nostalgia. 6/10.

I haven't posted a review for a while, not because I haven't been watching anything, but because after been bothered by a friend of mine to watch it, I finally started Naruto: Shippuden. Currently 162 episodes in and have paused so we can watch the upcoming fight together. So, as I can't go any further until next week, I watched Tekken: Bloodlines.

I have to be honest, I'm a massive Tekken fan, of both the games and the lore. Also, anything Tekken that isn't the games is generally shit. So I hoped it would be amazing but expected it to be shit.

Amazingly, it was great. ... Really great in fact. Story wise it sticks to the lore pretty well, it portrays Jin as a bit of a wet lad in the beginning but soon we see the Jin we know and love from Tekken 3. This is where the story begins, utilising a plain journey to skim over the events of Tekken 1 and 2. It still seems noone dares to do a proper Tekken adaptation that doesn't center around Jin. Also, not sure why they needed to bring Leroy in here but doesn't really matter, we still get sight of Steve and Marduk who weren't in the story at this point too. It made no impact on the story. Ultimately, though it was short, it told the story well. Would have been nice however to see more fights from other characters. Maybe we will get another with Lee as Violet, and Jin reapearing in his badass hood. Maybe just maybe, it would actually be better than the shit game that is Tekken 4. 7/10

Visually, it's stunning. Beuatilly choriagraphed, true to the move sets of the characters and as smooth as you like. From the very beginning you can see it's going to be smooth. It also had it's own style. Even the expelled energy from the fights mirrors that seen in the games. There isn't much more I can say about it to be honest. It delivers perfect service to the games. The characters look perfect. 9/10

On the music front, well, it's Tekken. It just can't be bad can it. Just like the stage music contributes to the fighting in the game, in its presence, purpose and quality, the show is the same. It's not a score, it's just a veriety of great track to compliment the action and it does it well. 8/10

In summary, finally! A great Tekken adaptation. Though, I'm not sure how great this would be for a non Tekken fan, it certainly is if you are. Overall 8/10

First I wanna say that it's hilarious how Jin basically turns into a surprised Pikachu whenever another character starts talking - the director clearly didn't know what subtlety means.

As for the show itself, its a decently animated adaptation that doesn't live up to its full story potential. Though the biggest failure is easily its characters - the supporting cast especially.
It's just really sad to think that Tekken has one of the biggest, most diverse rosters in video game history... and this series does so little to develop any of them not named Kazama or Mishima. Yes, I understand that they are the primary focus ... of the franchise and you can't give EVERYONE a spot light but that's no excuse to not even try with most of them.

Hell, the least mishandled of the supporting cast were Xiayou and Hwoarang who acted as Jin's cheerleading squad and even then, we don't know why they're friends or, in the case of Jin and Hwoarang, how they even met. And if we don't know that, then we have no reason to care about his relationships with either of them no matter how much the show tries to tell us they care for each other.

We don't even know about the extent of Jun's relationship with Kazuya - did he rape and impregnate her like the live action movie? Or did she actually fall for him - if so, why would someone so pure of heart and calm of mind like her fall for someone so sinister like him? Because if you go by the timelines, she would have had to have been knocked up DURING the tournament when he was long corrupted by the Devil gene. It's a question fans have been pondering for over 2 decades and this would have been a perfect time to show us - considering the older games told the story through instruction manuals, adaptations like this should be used to actually SHOW the story.

In the end, it's clear that this show didn't have the time to do everything and so needed at least 3 more episodes to establish other characters, going more in-depth with their backstories and why they are entering the tournament rather than relying on exposition dumps. And hey, maybe SHOW their fights and use them to develop the characters involved by having them learn something with each fight? Maybe cut down the roster to only use Tekken 3 combatants instead of bringing up others from later games? Just a thought.

If you are Tekken fan, its will be fun to watch seeing some of the characters, their moves and the story animated.
For anyone else it will be hard time finding it interesting as the show is mediocre at best.

Its animated using mix of 3D/2D which is honestly quite good, just lacks some polish. Would have preffered 2D any day, but it feels like this was really low budget animation which can be also seen in music as it really didnt bring scenes live.

Only few characters were shown from the games and even fewer of them were actually animated which leaves bad taste in your mouth. ... Why sneak peak dont even show a single action scene?

The story is adaptatiom from games. If you have played games you already know their are not famous for their story so dont expect much.

Overall enjoyment was 7 for me as tekken fan, I dont think I could have watched it if I wasnt.

I am a massive fan of Tekken and have been playing the games since I was like 3, so I was looking forward to this a lot. Unfortunately this show did not reach the levels I was expecting from it.

This show is a loose adaptation of Tekken 3 but it follows the same basic storyline, so if you have played or are familiar with that game, you will know how this will end. However, they did make changes here and there, some alright and some questionable. The characters are not fleshed out at all and their relationships are completely skipped through. The show kind of ... expects you to be familiar with the pre-existing lore. A newcomer to the Tekken franchise will have no context on why Jin and Xiaoyu and Hwoarang are suddenly friends, or why any of the characters are even competing in the tournament in the first place. In fact, what the King of Iron Fist Tournament is isn't even explained properly.

Now the animation and music. This is an adaptation of a fighting game after all so these are the main focus. Unfortunately, both are pretty disappointing overall. The art style looks off and does not match well with the backgrounds. The sharp triangle shadows, once you notice them, are very distracting. The fight animations look stiff and very low intensity, and the fights themselves are way too short. The music is also not very exciting and sounds incredibly generic. However, props to them for including real combos and the flashy hit markers from the games. Those looked very good.

And here are some nitpickings. There is a huge lack of character interactions. For example, Nina and Anna. Their whole story in the game revolves around each other but for some reason, Anna appears just in a character portrait and never even shows up in person. Paul also mentions Marshall Law but Law's son, Forest, is in the tournament but they never meet. Many iconic characters are used as filler material and never show up. The inclusion of anachronistic characters, Leroy in particular, also makes no sense and they make no effort to show why they are even there. And I hate how they did King. He's a guy who wears a jaguar mask but makes real jaguar noises. Instead, they made him like he has a real jaguar head but makes human growls. How the hell do you mess that up?? Oh and couldn't they have used the original announcer or even the Tekken 7 one? That would've been so much better.

After Netflix's massive success with Arcane, I was expecting something even half as good but I guess Arcane will always be the exception, not the norm. I hope, if this ever gets a second season, that they expand more on not only the Mishima trio but the entire rest of the cast as well.

I could not bare this travesty and the emotional pain it struck in me, seeing Heihachi’s phone be bigger than a laptop but still not big enough for his monster claws, Paul Phoenix is overdriven with beef and a wojak coomer face voiced by none-other than Jamieson Price, who voiced Heihachi a decade ago, and these magical triangle shadows that cover half of everyone’s heads even when the sun is pointing at them and on the front cover clear as day, these are legendary. Everyone looks like plastic steaks and physics were not accounted for whatsoever. The CGI is worse than Kengan Ashura’s arguably. The ... line between real animation and the god-awful CGI is so blurred I don’t feel like I’m watching anime, I’m watching pre-generated gobbitygook made by an AI. And the studios responsible for it are capable of much more. Some of these dub actors too have decades experience as some of the most recognizable characters in the industry and it still sounded so disjointed. Only watch for laughs. Every moment is a boon to be enjoyed while writhing in pain.

I'm a huge fan of Tekken games, their lore, and characters. Not a pro-player at all (hate those), but a loyal follower of the franchise for around 25 years. That said, I know the original stories... and they're a -lovable- mess! Somehow, "Tekken: Bloodlines" manages to be even messier! And not in the good way. For starters: it is nowhere near "canon", but more like a tribute to the classic trilogy. It mainly takes Tekken 3's story (my favorite) with little drops of 1 and 2, and retells everything from the perspective of a zoomer Jin Kazama (yeah, smartphone and all...) It even dares to ... add some -very unnecessary- Tekken 7 elements. And that's the best and worst part of the show: it tries hard to appeal to veteran and "younger" fans alike. Does it succeed? Partially. It's a fun watch if you forget about the games (they really do whatever with the characters!) and try to enjoy it silly, but the questionable character models, mediocre 3D animation, and aggressive cliffhanger ending might be enough to scare half of the viewers away. It's only 6 episodes, 2 of them -the first ones- very good! So you can give it a try if you have nothing else in your watchlist.

This is only worth watching for the laughs, if you're very bored, or if you're very invested in Tekken already and just want to see it all.

Firstly, the animation is cheap and inconsistent. The show switches between 2D and 3D throughout, though focuses on 3D. However, putting the two side by side is very jarring as the 2D animation is actually very beautiful and well stylized, whereas the 3D is stiff and makes a lot of the characters look much uglier than intended. It had a few small moments of beauty in the fights still, but they were few and far between.

The voice ... acting throughout the show is also subpar. I'm unsure if it's bad directing, cheap pay, or poor organisation, but there are some decent names to this show who while normally wouldn't do so badly, were consistently stifled and emotionless throughout. This applies to both the English and Japanese dubs, as I switched between when I was questioning these issues. One particularly glaring issue was weird pauses in almost every sentence spoken. It was as if someone... wrote the script... like... this. Sometimes I thought it was for dramatic effect, but it would happen even during inane moments of the show.

Finally, the plot was extremely rushed because of the short run time and included strange character switches, and almost no time for any true emotion or drama to be felt. It was also not particularly friendly to anyone new to the lore of the series, as only a few characters are ever properly introduced and randomly picked pieces of lore are often thrown out with little to no context provided. (eg. The characters saying King wasn't actually King, then never saying or showing who he really was aside from an ominous allusion to his strength and vague description of who it likely was later on)

All-in-all, there were definitely some fun points and nice shots of animation, but they were so few and far between that the experience doesn't feel very worth it. If you think you can deal with the above or make some fun out of it by watching with friends, by all means give it a go, but otherwise don't lend it your time.

I'm a big Tekken fan and the trailer made me excited to be getting a new show. And it seemed to be covering Tekken 3 which was the game that got me into the series, with some updates from later games in the series.

Animation- For most of the show it doesn't look bad. The animated versions of the characters look nice and the line work has a distinct look to it. The 3D models don't look bad either, and they do good job of translating that style into 3D. Unfortunately, it's when they start to move that it shows some issues. Not every scene ... of the models moving is bad, but there are some noticeably awkward moments when they're running. It's not terrible, but it's hard to overlook.

Voice Acting- I watched the show in English, switching over to Japanese for a handful of scenes. The English Cast was never bad, especially Jin's actor Kaiji Von Tang. He was acting his butt off in some of those scenes... I wish I could say the same for the others. No one was bad, but most of the characters felt lifeless. It just felt like they were there to get a check a lot of the time. Heihachi's actor didn't quite feel like a fit and he took a lot of pauses in his speech. I get that was probably done to match the lip flaps, but it just made his speech feel long and drawn out.

Fights- The fights do feel fanservicey in a good way. They had a nice way of including the hit sparks from the game to convey damage vs. blocks. And we do even get to see Rage Arts/Drives at a point. We even get to see some characters in their stances during their bouts. But I found myself bored with the fights after episode 2. It felt like the impact was just lacking in places and it was hard to gauge a character's sense of damage. Their model gets scuffed up, but I never really felt like they were really hurting each other. Additionally, there's a few fights that we don't get to see. Like I said earlier, they bring in characters from later games to fill out the tournament roster, but aside from leroy we never actually see them fight which makes the whole thing seem pointless.

Overall the series had potential, but it felt hollow. The tone was overly serious and the fights just weren't all that interesting to watch. I felt like Tekken is seen as a serious fighting game, but it's also goofy at times which is what I enjoy most. Without that balance the series came across more like Tekken from the perspective of someone who looked at the roster and watched the series recap from Tekken 6. Again, not a terrible show, but I personally don't recommend it if you're not interested in the series already.

While I believe it's a perfectly watchable anime from beginning to the end, I recognize that it fails to live up to its full creative potential at every turn. You hear mention of characters from the Tekken game series, but you never get to see them fight or play any role beyond catalysts to drive Jin Kazama's story forward. It also doesn't help that the action sequences are fine, but lack originality.

Jin's character development and the stunning 3D animation are enough to recommend, but don't expect much from anything else about the anime. Good enough to pass the time, bad enough to make me forget ... about it as soon as it's over.

The story is a retelling of Tekken 3, and I enjoyed this show as a short afternoon binge because I played a bit of Tekken as a kid but never really knew much about the story. But I don't recommend this show if you have no interest in Tekken and just want a martial arts tournament like God of Highschool, Kengan Ashura and Megalo Box.

The fights are decent, but short and simple. The short 6 episode length also makes it impossible to get invested in most of the characters. Despite half of this show being a martial arts tournament, I don't recommend watching this ... for the fights alone. Most fights are off-screen anyway.

The art and animation are fine. The CGI was not an issue, most of the time I could not tell if a frame was 2D or 3D.

The music has to be one of the most forgettable soundtracks I've ever heard in anime.

Martial Farts.

I used to play a lot of Tekken back in the mid 2000’s in the arcades. Although I’m not an expert on Tekken lore I do remember enjoying the games and characters. It’s not everyday you get to play a fighting game as a karate wielding Grizzly Bear, so I was looking forward to the anime and reintroducing myself to this series.

Single player story campaigns are always a fighting games biggest challenge and usually their weakness, and unfortunately this anime is no different. With only 6 episodes to work with the story feels like a speed run through a single player experience of ... Tekken. This is a shame because the genuinely cool supporting cast (the fighters I actually recognise) aren’t really elaborated on. I would’ve loved just an extra episode of Jin Kazama meeting and establishing rivalries with Xiaoyu and Hwoarang instead of lightly brushing over them during a training montage with Heihachi. I also would’ve loved to have seen more of the tournament bouts which don’t involve Jin. By the time episode five came I was taken a back at how quickly the whole thing was over.

The reason I wanted more is mainly due to the incredible shell shaded CGI animation that made the fights pop. It’s impressive how the animation team took the real, recognisable combo strings unique to each fighter and translated them into real fighting scenarios without making it look silly. The only time I noticed it felt silly was when Heihachi was training Kazama, but the rest of the time I was shocked at how cool it looked and how much weight and impact each punch and kick thrown felt.

The voice acting is a bit sus in both Japanese and English dub. I think this might be a fault with the animation team, but the line delivery felt very disjointed and unnatural despite what the voice actors had to work with.

Though overall I enjoyed most of what Tekken: Bloodlines had to offer. It does feel a bit random watching a loose adaptation of Tekken 3, but theres some really cool stuff here if you’re willing to give it a go. Plus it’s only 6 episodes so it’s not that much of a time sink.

6/10 It’s Okay *Thumbs Up*

Tekken: Bloodline is not the worst show ever made, but it isn't a particularly good show either. I think that if you aren't familiar with Tekken, then your enjoyment is going to be severely affected.

Story: 6/10

The story is pretty much Tekken 3, with some minor alterations to fit more to Tekken 7 and jam some more of the more popular characters into the plot. That being said, Tekken 3, and honestly all of the Mishima side of the Tekken story is pretty god damn generic. They basically all are bloodthirsty and have daddy issues. That's like, the story of every Tekken installment in a nutshell.

Art: ... 3/10

The art is not great. Not quite at the level of Berserk 2016, but kind of close, and you do not want to be getting compared to that level of garbage. Fortunately, it is definitely better than it could've been, and as a Tekken player, I loved the fight scenes because they were remarkably faithful to the movesets in-game. Those god damn triangle shadows though... the trailer doesn't do it justice, it just gets worse when you actually watch the show.

Sound: 4/10

The voice acting in Tekken: Bloodline is not great. It's not the worst, but it's not good. Heihachi's VA is goofy in both English and Japanese, but in kind of an endearing way. I think that Tekken: Bloodline is a show where the Japanese VAs just eek out the English ones, but not by much. I don't remember any of the music in the show, so it probably wasn't that great, but it wasn't actively bad either.

Characters: 5/10

It's Tekken 3. The characters are all pretty one dimensional, and the short runtime makes things seem pretty rushed. The one character who is kind of interesting is Jin, but it's unfortunate that Jin is the most annoying piece of trash ever thought up. Stupid haircut, edgy as hell, but still portrayed as a good guy with demons (literally). Ugh. Get me away from him please.

The rest of the cast is decent enough that I'm not annoyed when they're on screen. And Jin isn't really *THAT* bad, I'm kind of biased.

Overall: 4/10

Tekken: Bloodline is better than I expected it'd be, which isn't saying much. Similarly, the show isn't really much to write home about. If you're interested in Tekken lore, or if you play Tekken, then I think that this show is definitely worth your time, since it's a measly 6 episodes. However, if you aren't interested in Tekken then you're probably not going to enjoy the show much at all.

If you are familiar with the Tekken 3 story you will likely enjoy this. It's probably the best Tekken has ever been represented outside of the games in my opinion. The writing is nothing special. I actually think it was underwhelming especially in the first episode. It does improve but it's not winning any awards. Its leagues better than in the games at least. The real reason you're watching this is for the fights and the animation. The animation is very good. Even outside of the fights themselves. But in the fights they definitely excel. If you're a Tekken fan, the amount of fanservice here ... will have you smiling ear to ear. So many recognisable moves from the games are animated true to their source. From the Mishimas spinning demon to Kings Reverse special stretch bomb and giant swing. The same hit and block effects from the games are even represented when a character lands a hit or blocks an attack.

Honestly; I dont know how much enjoyment a non Tekken fan will find in this. It's a retelling of the Tekken 3 story from Jins perspective. As a big Tekken fan this was fantastic. But I can't speak for someone new to the series. I can say that it goes over way more than the games ever did, but the Tekken 3 story isn't really relevant to anyone wanting to start the Tekken series today.

Overall I do still reccomend it, but your mileage will vary depending on your experience with the games.

Even as a fan of Tekken i would have to say this was just incredibly disappointing. It's a proper 4/10 anime

I honestly thought it was plain mediocre. Yes, the story of Tekken 3 does stay intact and is very much faithful with only a few minor changes. (Leroy and Feng Appearance for example) but the anime just has too many issues leading to a very bad experience. It has awfully boring pacing and fights that are honestly not that impressive. The only reason why it catches my eye and probably most of you is because they use moves that we see in the games. ...

The music is also incredibly disappointing. Like damn Tekken already has such banger soundtracks, so why not use that? not even our main character Jin has his own banger Tekken 3 theme in it.

Obv if you're a Tekken fan, it's definitely still watchable. It's not atrocious like some would say, but definitely not good either.
Still though, if you really liked the show then good for you, everyone has a right to their own opinion.
But as someone who has watched a thousand movies and a shit ton of anime, it really isn't that good.

I don't usually do reviews, but seeing the average score of 6.6 I had to do it. If you grew up like me with Tekken video games, you will love this anime. Watching it is like playing an Arcade game of Tekken 3, through one of the most iconic characters, Jin Kazama. I finally understood who that green final boss was that I didn't know why I had to face at the end of the arcade.

The story is very good if one of your favorite characters was Jin and the combat scenes are simply spectacular, including all the super famous moves of several especially ... iconic characters and the particles and lights when hitting and even defending. Those impossible grapples and combos, combining ground and aerial attacks that you spent so many hours practicing are in the series, I love it! It's like reliving your childhood all over again in this anime! The animation, the setting, the drawing style, is really good, I was surprised.

The anime is a breath of fresh air and personality among so many anime that are clones of each other. Hopefully they release many more seasons and we can see and learn many more story arcs.

I could give it an 8, but I give it a 9 for nostalgia and to support the production of more seasons, since an average of 6.6 seems to me to be a very unfair mark that is not true to reality :D

Was looking forward to watching this since, its based a fighting game, is considered one of the best fighting games of all time. Personally I did play a bit of Tekken growing up but not a lot, so I am not 100 familiar with the story line of the game itself, I would just play the game in arcades with friends from time to time, so watching the anime gave me a better understanding of the story line of Tekken.

From what I understand its not 100 percent accurate as the game their is changes here and their and the story basically takes place from ... Tekken 3. The episode are about 20 mins long, and their is only 6 episodes so far.

I think it was a good anime, and was interesting however did felt it was a little rush, you do not get a full back story of every character, but you still some background base of certain characters. The anime, and the fighting is pretty good, but felt it can be better.

I would still recommend to watch it ( if your a tekken fan) or even if your not, its only 6 episodes, and was a fun quick anime to watch.