Is Tekken Bloodlines The Best Fighting Game Anime Adaptation?
On-screen adaptations of video games have a long and strange history filled primarily with grim failures. Though the past few years have provided a few solid standouts, there are still far more bad than good. One consistent standout, however, has always been the anime adaptations of popular fighting games. And here comes a new challenger.
Street Fighter, Blazblue, Virtua Fighter, King of Fighters, Darkstalkers, Samurai Showdown, Fatal Fury, and many other classic fighting game series have been adapted into anime films or series. Most of them were swiftly forgotten, a few were genuinely terrible, but a couple of big names have stood the test of time.
Tekken: Bloodline: 6 Things Only Die-Hard Fans Noticed in the Netflix Series
After four terrible adaptations, the beloved Tekken franchise has made it back to the small screen in the form of a six-episode anime series. Tekken Bloodlines is the best adaptation of the franchise without question, but that is a very low bar to clear. It's a fairly accurate take on the story with a unique art style and plenty of well-handled fight scenes. The last anime take on the franchise was over 20 years ago, during the late-90s heyday of this style of film. Anime adaptations of fighting games are far less common in the modern era, while fighting games based on anime have become fairly omnipresent. Bloodline is the newest adaptation to enter the once weirdly prolific subgenre, and it is one of the medium's strongest entries.
The high watermark of the anime about fighting games trend is unquestionably Gisaburō Sugii's 1994 Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture technically came first, but it was Capcom's classic that inspired plenty of other classic fighting game
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