Unfortunately, we’ll also be able to see the tragic day Jin lost Jun. Now, we’ll be able to see Jun’s teachings and her time with Jin. This is something that’s always been a part of his story, but we’ve never really gotten to see the bond he shared with his mother because she’s gone when you start Tekken 3. Jin is a character who struggles between the devil gene he’s inherited from his father (Kazuya and Jin turn into demonic entities, just go with it) and the kind, angelicness of his mother (there’s a literal angel in the game, again, just go with it). With Tekken: Bloodline being an anime series, I’m hoping that gives us a good amount of time to flesh out these plot threads that have only been talked about but not fully realized on screen.

While she does have an interesting story in those games (she’s confirmed to be the final boss, Unknown, in Tekken Tag Tournament 2) those games are, technically, not canon to the ongoing storyline of Tekken. In fact, she’s not a playable character in any games past Tekken 2 besides spinoffs like Tekken Tag Tournament (which is still one of my favorite fighting games of all time). That being said, Jun Kazama, who we meet in Tekken 2, isn’t in the third game. It’s a fantastic mix of “old meets new” as a younger generation of fighters (such as Jin, Hwoarang, and my girl Ling Xiaoyu) joins a roster of veterans like Paul Phoenix, Yoshimitsu, and the always feuding Williams sisters, Nina and Anna. Despite there being two games prior to Tekken 3, the third one is when I really started to get into the franchise. The anime looks like it revolves around Tekken 3, which is when we’re first introduced to Jin Kazama, who would go on to be a major character in the video games.

“Those are really my favorite scenes,” Harada says, and as a longtime Tekken fan I can understand why. One big thing that looks to include is Jin’s time with his mother, Jun. During his interview with Netflix, Harada revealed that parts of the story that had “only been written in words” would be seen in the anime.

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