Tekken Anime Series Set For Netflix Later This Year

thegamer.com:

The famed fighting game Tekken, which debuted in the mid-1990s, is to get an anime series that will launch on Netflix this year, with the streamer releasing an official teaser trailer alongside the announcement. The new Netflix anime series is called Tekken: Bloodline.

The debut entry in the Tekken game series landed in arcades all the way back in September 1994 before making its way onto the PlayStation. Since then Tekken has become a marquee fighting game title for Namco and is usually associated with Sony's consoles. The series has gone on to phenomenal success, shipping more than 53 million units, yet strangely it hasn't spawned too many movie or TV adaptations.

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As The Verge noted, there was the 2010 live-action movie that happens to be one of the worst-reviewed flicks on Rotten Tomatoes. The producer and director of the games, Katsuhiro Harada, has basically disowned this film, and has said that the movie was not supervised by the makers of the games and that he is "not interested in that movie". However, Harada did link to the new trailer for the anime so fans might expect something more faithful to the games.

It certainly looks like that'll be the case as the teaser shows Tekken: Bloodline focusing on Jin Kazama, who was introduced in Tekken 3. Fans of the games will know that Jin is the grandson of Heihachi Mishima, boss of the Mishima Zaibatsu corporation and host of the King of Iron Fist Tournament.

The games certainly have a complicated but compelling story arc with the King of Iron Fist Tournament attracting fighters from around the world; intrigue with the power struggles and machinations of the Mishima Zaibatsu, and dastardly