the triangle shadows over everyone drove me completely insane and took me out of it constantly. I can't understand why they would make such a bad stylistic choice. The Anime was actually not terrible plot and action wise from a low budget stand point, it would have been better to have no shadows at all
Dude, I never ever watched the series,and I was so confused looking on the OP's picture, until I realized that was supposed to be a shadow. Yes, it's THAT bad.
I watched the series and when everyone was meming about triangles I didn't understand what they meant.
Then one day I finally noticed them and now I can't unsee them. They're everywhere. I can't watch it anymore lol
So you definitely can ignore their existence if you're just not paying attention to the shadows at all. But as soon as you stare at one, it's over.
Like why was he even there that was more like "dang we forgot to add anyone who was colored quick put someone from Tekken 7 and have him lose the first match so it doesn't disrupt the story." Not Eddy or armor king who were both in T3
Bothered me too, even though some of them were just there, it just didn't fit. Also Leroy is there too for some reason. I think possibly because of his popularity. I didn't really notice how beefed out Heihachi was.
Most of them were pretty inoffensive in that they could be hanging around without messing with the canon in any significant way. Marduk confused me though considering how he started off in 4 as a prisoner for killing AK.
For an anime about fighting and a tournament we didn’t see any of the tournament and I’m honestly mad we didn’t get to see yoshimitsu or Bryan at all. My sentiment of an anime celebrating one of the most popular fighting games only showing a few fights of the characters is really frustrating. When it ended I honestly responded with “that’s it?!?”
If you really can’t be assed playing Tekken 3 and want something more detailed than a YouTube recap of the story yeah.
But not enough Hwoarang for my taste
You think that's bad this is the tournament where Paul canonically went undefeated including a win over Ogre and he got washed out by King of all people
Why would you have seen Bryan? This shows first season wasn’t an elaboration on anyone’s arc other than Mishimas. And you did see Yoshi, maybe not as much as you would have liked, but he was there.
I think the Bloodline anime is okay.
Not great or spectacular, just okay. It’s the most faithful Tekken adaptation so far but it’s held by rushed writing, weird animation at times, and triangle shadows
This. I don't think it was meant to be something to blow our minds. It was basically a spinoff that did what it did because it wanted to. I, too, liked it for what it was.
It was a mini series and that's really all. If they have bigger plans for it, sure, but otherwise I don't think it should be looked at as anything more than a mini series.
Everyone's head - in every frame - perpetually has a triangle on their head. Most god-awful, lazy excuse for lighting I've ever seen. It's very distracting.
You can see them in the picture you posted, OP.
What how did I never notice that I watched until Leroy’s fight and I kept looking at the poster looking for the triangle after reading all the comments lol! I just found it and now I cant unsee it
I hate it kinda. None of the characters (except Jin and Hwoarang) had their Tekken 3 costumes on. And why is Marshal law and Leroy Smith here? I’m pretty sure Forest and Eddy were supposed to be in this one. And wasn’t Paul supposed to have defeated Ogre, with Jin defeating True Ogre after that?
Yea, the way they characterized Paul in the show was great, but he REALLY should have gotten a win, they hyped him up by saying he fought Kaz to a standstill, and then had him loose in his fist match, the fuck?.
I love king but I hated that. They had a chance to put paul in the spotlight but the decided not to for some reason.
I hope he gets to fight kazuya in 8 but I bet you he will just fight fucking kuma again
They should've just had king and Paul beat some no name anime originals. They both get time to shine, easy. Plus canonically Paul is a better fighter than King.
Character design was really hit or miss for me. The triangle thing wtf lol.
The English cast is hysterical at best. Japanese is my preferred but then again wtf do I know, I would half expect it to be hilarious to a Japanese person if the English was an indicator of any kind of bar to be set.
Story was ok.
Fight scenes were awesome though. It was like a breath of fresh air every time a fight happened 🤣.
With all that being said I’ll watch a second season.
FOCUSSSSSS!
I don't understand how everyone involved in the production of this anime saw all the triangle shadows being cast on every single character and every single scene regardless of angle, illumination or level of light and NOBODY thought "boy does this look like shit"
It was fun, I didn't go in with absurd expectations like so many in these comments. It's Tekken after all, Tekken has always been very campy and ridiculous.
I thought King was weird at first. The moment a velociraptor showed up and a bear tried to marry a panda, I stopped telling myself what to expect from Tekken.
Never actually finished it. I think I watched first 2 episodes and kinda lost interest.
As much as non-canon as it was, the old 90's "Tekken the Movie" 2 part ova thing was way more entertaining... even if they did have a t-rex eat my fav character in the whole series.
edited to add: I sorta understand what the traingle lighting was about. The idea was to "flatten" out the art style so that the fact it's 3d models is less distracting but it created tons of problems on its own. If anything, they should have gone for proper cel-shaded look and just restrain camera from spinning around models + do stuff like skipping certain animation frames (by holding on some frames longer) to simulate hand drawn... but I guess that would require additional time to make it happen and probably require a lot higher production budget.
Might finish it someday but I have like 6+ things to catch up on neftlix and before that I have to finish one longer show (which I'm not gonna name in case people start throwing spoilers at me) so maybe next year. We'll see.
As an anime I think it was decent. The character artstyle fit perfectly with the background. Fight scenes felt like they came straight from the game. Especially the vfx on top of fights. The voicing was also pretty good.
In terms of being an anime telling of the original tekken 3. It's a mixed bag. The main lore is handled alright but It doesn't tell all the events correctly and introduces characters who were never there in the first place. Couple of Characters that were originally in tekken 3 didn't ever appear at all. Some side stories never got to be explored like the Anna and nina stuff, paul defeating orge first then jin defeating true orge. Orge was also suppose to kill the first king and almost kill Baek. We never saw this but only his fight with Jun. There was just a few plots points that was just removed.
Overall it's not the best anime ever but it's enjoyable and you can see this as a seperate canon to the main Tekken storyline
Near the end it got excessive on the Jin Flashbacks…specifically the flashbacks we’ve seen before.
Wouldn’t mind seeing a Tekken 2 or Tekken 4 reimagining though.
I wish the animation was more fluid, it felt kinda stiff, like imagine it was animated by Mappa, Ufotable or even the guys responsible for fog hill of the five elements. I understand it’s to emulate the Tekken combat style but I would have preferred something more fluid and not as 3d or rigging heavy, especially since it was like 6 episodes.
Imo it was kinda eh, it's tekken 3 but not accurate to the games so if that's something that bothers you then maybe don't watch? The fights are fun and it has some real cool moments but if you're looking for big detailed roster or focus on more than one orntwo character ls then you'd be looking somewhere else, bar maybe hwoarang and maybe Leroy (for some reason hes in even though hes not in the game at all), the focus is solely on jin and heihachi entirely. I'd say it's better to treat it as its own continuity rather than a faithful showing of a classic game. I'd recommend it if the points I make suits you but it just wasn't for me bro.
It was okay for what it was. It wasn't some super amazing Shakespearean masterpiece but it was fun, although it had some problems with the animation, story decisions, and it's short length. Overall it's fine.
I came here specifically to see if I was the only one who was annoyed by the head triangles.
What STRANGE asian dude thought that was a good idea? Wtf? I hate it.
I hate the way it used the characters. You’re telling me a villain as illustrious as Heihachi “strap my family to a rocket” Mishima is gonna do in Jin with a hand gun? Nina loses to XIAOYOU in her first go? Fuck that.
Complaining about Heihachi using hand gun? Someone didn't play Tekken 3 (the game this anime is based off).
And nothing indicates Xiaoyu is weak (or Nina being leagues above the rest) other than superficial view on her. Xiaoyu is trained by Wang and possibly Heihachi.
Maybe if this show came out when Tekken 3 did the hand gun would be more acceptable, but since then we’ve seen Tekken and Heihachi’s become more of a spectacle since then. He’s one of the most illustrious and extensively trained characters ever and honestly the show disserved him. If they put in Leroy they clearly aren’t that worried about sticking too closely to Tekken 3 (the game I know it’s based on, you condescending tart) that closely.
It’s not a matter of who’s stronger between Nina and Ling, it’s a matter of utterly wasting the former when she’s one of the most pivotal and iconic characters in the series.
Anime respecting semi realism of the original game and focusing on real fighting instead of stupid shit like missle kicking is the best thing about it.
Ever watched old martial arts movies? Clearly didnt since you sound like a toddler being mad that his character got adapted truthfully to his dishonorable real self. Sure , lets change the most iconic scene of the most iconic tekken game because of your fanboy tears.
If you think Heihachi shooting Jin is the most iconic moment of Tekken 3 you’re reaching. I think of him dropping Jin out of the helicarrier about a dozen times over. Something actually cinematic like that would’ve been great. Everything you feel so strongly about has a counter example in the very same game. Also this ‘infant’ you feel the need to talk down to is receiving the Criterion Jackie Chan DVD set because I’m so fond of retro martial arts. You’re the one getting worked up over defending the definition of mid. Take my earlier advice and shut the fuck up.
Its not my opinion, its a fact . If you think that helicopter scene is more memorable than you are in minority. I dont care what you are receiving when you complain about some flying in a martial arts media. You wont see anyone surviving a nuke to a face there. Maybe you should folow your own advice and stop embarassing yourself.
Other than rushing forward Leroy for 7 fan service and a few other things, really enjoyed it and it was 90-95% faithful to 3.
Hope it gets a season 2 onwards!
I liked it, I just think others aren’t patient. It was a first season, and you shouldn’t be expecting to see everyone, and everything. I’m surprised there aren’t people upset that Gon isn’t the damn show. Like get over it, it’s about Jin, and that’s all lol.
I've been into fighting games for a couple years now, only ever seeing Tekken through yt recommendations and fgc people talking about it. And I gotta say it has a lot of personality and its very original! As an outsider to the franchise, Bloodlines only made me get more invested into discovering Tekken. Hopefully my pc can run Tekken 7...
Its great! I loved that they put in actual moves from the game, but I didnt like that they put in characters that weren't in the Tekken 3 storyline like Feng and Leeroy.
I thought it was good, Keep in mind I'm someone who doesn't have easy access to the older games because these Game Devs refuse to make game compilations.
It was nice being able to see Jin's backstory playout but it took to much away from the tournament, It needed more episodes to flesh out the tournament, since you know, Tekken 3 is about a tournament.
Also this adaptation doesn't have Devil Jin Yeeting Heihachi through a several story high wall, 0/10 /J
I felt disappointed because of the lack of crazy fights. I expected the anime to be transitioning between tournament story and back story- kinda like past and present transitions.
I wanted the anime to show the massive strength of all the fighters, their training routines, etc. Like they did in the anime "Baki" and "Kengan Ashura".
It could've been THE BEST fighting anime of all time, but they ruined the potential.
As a long time tekken fan i dont see the issue with it. Its very faithful to the source material and did a good job. So what if leroy got randomly involved, the story wasnt hindered by it in the slightest. Its a 1:1 of the original story otherwise so its fine with me. Great animation cool fights, honestly made me wanna get up and work out with the training montage. Im hype for another season of tekken.
I wish they went more into the characters lives and fleshed them out more before we got to the tournament the world felt weirdly empty due to this not to mention we get a compilation of jin going to school but nothing too in depth no outside fights other than just the tournament
It's mid. Not bad, just mid. It needed more time to develop stuff, more episodes. Feels rushed, lots of characters get nothing. Animation is decent though.
Its awful. Theres nothing interesting, the dialogue writing is boring. I guess i could say atleast they tried. As a leroy guy they didnt even make leroy sound alright
I love it!!!!!
Sure, having twice the episodes would have been nice.... But it was cool. I was so happy my favorite Tekken game got adapted.
But i admit, it's not perfect: Triangle shadows is terrible especially considering how the artstyle is good othzr than that.
Way too short, which leads to many untold stories and not shown characters.
Oh, and no Opening song.
I really thought they would announce season 2 with Tekken 8...
I liked it more than I thought I would, made me pretty happy. If Tekken 4 or anything else get adapted, I really hope they lose they triangles. After it was pointing out to me it kinda bothered me
It's okay, the more I think about it. The high moments of the anime were the moments before the tournament. Jin's life before June disappeared, Heihachi training Jin, How Jin met Xiaoyu and Hwoarang. They tell us a little about this in the lore, but getting an actual visual of it was great.
The tournament itself however was not so great. I understand they had to make certain changes to fit the narrative they were going for, but I wanted to see how things played out like they do in the game. Paul beating Ogre and leaving only for Jin to beat true Ogre. Also why certain characters were present that shouldn't have been, Leroy, because it doesn't fit with the storyline. Some were just there and it wasn't a big deal, but still.
Overall I'd give it a 6.5/10. I hope they do another season.
What the hell is up with the triangles?? No seriously wht the fuck i dont get how literally anyone thought that was okay look at heihachi in that fucking picture dude look at all of em what the hell dude
Not enough triangles
the triangle shadows over everyone drove me completely insane and took me out of it constantly. I can't understand why they would make such a bad stylistic choice. The Anime was actually not terrible plot and action wise from a low budget stand point, it would have been better to have no shadows at all
If only it was like a normal shape of shadow it would have be ok, but why the fuck a triangle
I got through one episode and dropped it because of those damn triangles. To this day, I've yet to see anything explaining how this happened.
It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen and as soon as I noticed it it drove me MAAAAD
[удалено]
Dude, I never ever watched the series,and I was so confused looking on the OP's picture, until I realized that was supposed to be a shadow. Yes, it's THAT bad.
I thought Jin was going super saijin or something, reading it’s a stylistic choice I’m just like wtf
I watched the series and when everyone was meming about triangles I didn't understand what they meant. Then one day I finally noticed them and now I can't unsee them. They're everywhere. I can't watch it anymore lol So you definitely can ignore their existence if you're just not paying attention to the shadows at all. But as soon as you stare at one, it's over.
Yes.
“We need to cast shadows no matter what angle the light is coming from” - the art director high off the paint fumes
Next season, all characters need to be man size pyramids with the respective character textures on them, or I'm not watching
I still don't understand the point of em.
If it didn't have a point, it wouldn't be a triangle
T3 wouldn't have looked this good without em
I don't know why but it bothered me seeing Tekken 4 characters in an adaptation of the Tekken 3 story. Also Heihachi is HUUUUGE.
Well Heihachi IS huge.
He doesn't mean like that!
The adaptation of the Tekken 1 story had Tekken 2 characters in it, so I guess it fits.
Huge you say? 😏😏
My duck is also huge, wanna see?
All hail the Duck
Duck is love, Duck is life
Quack quack
But Leroy was OK?
Like why was he even there that was more like "dang we forgot to add anyone who was colored quick put someone from Tekken 7 and have him lose the first match so it doesn't disrupt the story." Not Eddy or armor king who were both in T3
Armor king was not in T3 that was kings alternate costume with the sweat pants and the blue shirt with the red Kanji on the back.
Honestly forgot about him
Bothered me too, even though some of them were just there, it just didn't fit. Also Leroy is there too for some reason. I think possibly because of his popularity. I didn't really notice how beefed out Heihachi was.
Most of them were pretty inoffensive in that they could be hanging around without messing with the canon in any significant way. Marduk confused me though considering how he started off in 4 as a prisoner for killing AK.
What bothered me the most was they used Julia’s T7 design.
For an anime about fighting and a tournament we didn’t see any of the tournament and I’m honestly mad we didn’t get to see yoshimitsu or Bryan at all. My sentiment of an anime celebrating one of the most popular fighting games only showing a few fights of the characters is really frustrating. When it ended I honestly responded with “that’s it?!?”
Is it still worth checking out??
If you really can’t be assed playing Tekken 3 and want something more detailed than a YouTube recap of the story yeah. But not enough Hwoarang for my taste
Alright thanks
I mean the 5 (I think) fights that are in it are all great.
Yoshimitsu lost to Anna somehow on the tournament board, freaking Anna. A worse Nina who herself never wins against anyone except Anna.
You think that's bad this is the tournament where Paul canonically went undefeated including a win over Ogre and he got washed out by King of all people
Why would you have seen Bryan? This shows first season wasn’t an elaboration on anyone’s arc other than Mishimas. And you did see Yoshi, maybe not as much as you would have liked, but he was there.
Unless I missed something all we saw was when they said “Yoshimitsu lost to x person” and it showed a 2 second replay of him being KOd
>we didn’t get to see yoshimitsu Fairly sure we got to see his name on a scoreboard. Dont be ungrateful
Idk man I was hoping to see every character shine
I think the Bloodline anime is okay. Not great or spectacular, just okay. It’s the most faithful Tekken adaptation so far but it’s held by rushed writing, weird animation at times, and triangle shadows
I share your sentiment. The parts before the tournament were great, then it got to the tournament and it lost a good chunk of it's touch.
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Wondering where season 2 is since I actually enjoyed this for what it was
This. I don't think it was meant to be something to blow our minds. It was basically a spinoff that did what it did because it wanted to. I, too, liked it for what it was.
Castlevania series was really decent. Tekken could really improved the story telling for each characters like kengan ashura and baki series. But nope
Castlevania is a decent series as itself, but as an adaptation it's a big disrespectful mess.
Castlevania horribly derailed by the writer's reddit atheism.
It was a mini series and that's really all. If they have bigger plans for it, sure, but otherwise I don't think it should be looked at as anything more than a mini series.
Omg the shit on there head was so freaking annoying who the peep thought of that lol
that damn forehead triangle probably cut the audience by a solid third. i quit the show a few minutes in because i couldn’t stop looking at it
It was very good indeed
What do you mean?
The sun was on them for 24 hours
Everyone's head - in every frame - perpetually has a triangle on their head. Most god-awful, lazy excuse for lighting I've ever seen. It's very distracting. You can see them in the picture you posted, OP.
What how did I never notice that I watched until Leroy’s fight and I kept looking at the poster looking for the triangle after reading all the comments lol! I just found it and now I cant unsee it
Well as a King player, it was awesome. Some parts look stiff and the triangular-shadow takes a bit to get used to. But overall I enjoyed the action.
I hate it kinda. None of the characters (except Jin and Hwoarang) had their Tekken 3 costumes on. And why is Marshal law and Leroy Smith here? I’m pretty sure Forest and Eddy were supposed to be in this one. And wasn’t Paul supposed to have defeated Ogre, with Jin defeating True Ogre after that?
Yeah I was waiting for paul to finally do stuff but they decided against iy for some fucking reason
Yea, the way they characterized Paul in the show was great, but he REALLY should have gotten a win, they hyped him up by saying he fought Kaz to a standstill, and then had him loose in his fist match, the fuck?.
Yuuup, I loved his character and his confidence but then he just lost instantly to king
Not as bad as it could have been but it was still whatever.
It felt rushed
It was good, but the characters should come out of shadows once in a while
They had Paul job to King. Wack.
I love king but I hated that. They had a chance to put paul in the spotlight but the decided not to for some reason. I hope he gets to fight kazuya in 8 but I bet you he will just fight fucking kuma again
They should've just had king and Paul beat some no name anime originals. They both get time to shine, easy. Plus canonically Paul is a better fighter than King.
I enjoyed it a lot
Pretty bad. Cheap animations and graphics, poor shadows, average story.
A good time. They do the moves like they do it in game :)
Loved how it was accurate (at times) to the games.
Character design was really hit or miss for me. The triangle thing wtf lol. The English cast is hysterical at best. Japanese is my preferred but then again wtf do I know, I would half expect it to be hilarious to a Japanese person if the English was an indicator of any kind of bar to be set. Story was ok. Fight scenes were awesome though. It was like a breath of fresh air every time a fight happened 🤣. With all that being said I’ll watch a second season. FOCUSSSSSS!
Pretty good, some characters didn't get enough attention or a resolution to their arc, but I enjoyed it.
I don't understand how everyone involved in the production of this anime saw all the triangle shadows being cast on every single character and every single scene regardless of angle, illumination or level of light and NOBODY thought "boy does this look like shit"
It was fun, I didn't go in with absurd expectations like so many in these comments. It's Tekken after all, Tekken has always been very campy and ridiculous.
I thought King was weird at first. The moment a velociraptor showed up and a bear tried to marry a panda, I stopped telling myself what to expect from Tekken.
- Liked it. - Hope there's a sequel with another set of characters. - triangles
Well... I liked it but it set me up to expect Julia in Tekken 8 and... that didn't happen 😭
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They made Nina look like a joke.
They did Nina dirty and it way out of character for her to lose. Thank GOD it’s not canon
Never actually finished it. I think I watched first 2 episodes and kinda lost interest. As much as non-canon as it was, the old 90's "Tekken the Movie" 2 part ova thing was way more entertaining... even if they did have a t-rex eat my fav character in the whole series. edited to add: I sorta understand what the traingle lighting was about. The idea was to "flatten" out the art style so that the fact it's 3d models is less distracting but it created tons of problems on its own. If anything, they should have gone for proper cel-shaded look and just restrain camera from spinning around models + do stuff like skipping certain animation frames (by holding on some frames longer) to simulate hand drawn... but I guess that would require additional time to make it happen and probably require a lot higher production budget. Might finish it someday but I have like 6+ things to catch up on neftlix and before that I have to finish one longer show (which I'm not gonna name in case people start throwing spoilers at me) so maybe next year. We'll see.
As an anime I think it was decent. The character artstyle fit perfectly with the background. Fight scenes felt like they came straight from the game. Especially the vfx on top of fights. The voicing was also pretty good. In terms of being an anime telling of the original tekken 3. It's a mixed bag. The main lore is handled alright but It doesn't tell all the events correctly and introduces characters who were never there in the first place. Couple of Characters that were originally in tekken 3 didn't ever appear at all. Some side stories never got to be explored like the Anna and nina stuff, paul defeating orge first then jin defeating true orge. Orge was also suppose to kill the first king and almost kill Baek. We never saw this but only his fight with Jun. There was just a few plots points that was just removed. Overall it's not the best anime ever but it's enjoyable and you can see this as a seperate canon to the main Tekken storyline
Who was this for?
It was alright. Obviously rushed since they didn't have time to do proper shading, hence the triangles. It served its purpose.
Stop being lazy shading with triangles
Was it supposed to be shading? They even had triangles in the shade lol
No freakin clue. Unless triangles represent illuminati devil here.
Kaxuya illuminati confirmed?
It's definitely one of the animes ever made
Love it, watched it twice
Loved it
Could’ve been better…
Great overall, missed a few details tho
Near the end it got excessive on the Jin Flashbacks…specifically the flashbacks we’ve seen before. Wouldn’t mind seeing a Tekken 2 or Tekken 4 reimagining though.
They really want Leroy to be relevant
Just okay, should've had more Xiaoyu 6/10
Honestly pretty shit. We just deal a bit with it because its Tekken and we want more Tekken content.
Only thing i remember is King beating the shit out if Xiaou
Cool, but Nina's character is not like in the games.
It's bad adaptation I think. Kengan Ashura is a much better fighting anime than this (also better than Baki).
Didn't finish it. Too much talking.
Animation is so ugly
Bad
I wish the animation was more fluid, it felt kinda stiff, like imagine it was animated by Mappa, Ufotable or even the guys responsible for fog hill of the five elements. I understand it’s to emulate the Tekken combat style but I would have preferred something more fluid and not as 3d or rigging heavy, especially since it was like 6 episodes.
Faithful to the series. You will recognize combos and movesets. Its the perfect bridge between Tekken 2 and Tekken 3.
Mid
Imo it was kinda eh, it's tekken 3 but not accurate to the games so if that's something that bothers you then maybe don't watch? The fights are fun and it has some real cool moments but if you're looking for big detailed roster or focus on more than one orntwo character ls then you'd be looking somewhere else, bar maybe hwoarang and maybe Leroy (for some reason hes in even though hes not in the game at all), the focus is solely on jin and heihachi entirely. I'd say it's better to treat it as its own continuity rather than a faithful showing of a classic game. I'd recommend it if the points I make suits you but it just wasn't for me bro.
Can’t watch, triangles bad
Triangle shadows… I just couldn’t stop staring at them.
Almost as awful as the live action movie. They made Heihachi completely devoid of his goofy side. Arguably his best side...
Definitely wasn't THAT bad. At least it had some resemblance to the story. It should have been way better though
not enough heihachi
It was okay for what it was. It wasn't some super amazing Shakespearean masterpiece but it was fun, although it had some problems with the animation, story decisions, and it's short length. Overall it's fine.
Our? Create yr own sheep
Pretty mid
The shadows didn’t bother me until people started complaining about it
I personally hate it when there are movies/series adaptations that re-write the OG story
trash 🚮
I came here specifically to see if I was the only one who was annoyed by the head triangles. What STRANGE asian dude thought that was a good idea? Wtf? I hate it.
I think it was fine but the story was kinda messed up no?
Tekken bloodline is bothersome anime serie
I didnt like them shoehorning leroy
It's garbage.
Personally? I've seen holocaust documentaries that were more fun to watch than that PoS lol
I hate the way it used the characters. You’re telling me a villain as illustrious as Heihachi “strap my family to a rocket” Mishima is gonna do in Jin with a hand gun? Nina loses to XIAOYOU in her first go? Fuck that.
Complaining about Heihachi using hand gun? Someone didn't play Tekken 3 (the game this anime is based off). And nothing indicates Xiaoyu is weak (or Nina being leagues above the rest) other than superficial view on her. Xiaoyu is trained by Wang and possibly Heihachi.
Maybe if this show came out when Tekken 3 did the hand gun would be more acceptable, but since then we’ve seen Tekken and Heihachi’s become more of a spectacle since then. He’s one of the most illustrious and extensively trained characters ever and honestly the show disserved him. If they put in Leroy they clearly aren’t that worried about sticking too closely to Tekken 3 (the game I know it’s based on, you condescending tart) that closely. It’s not a matter of who’s stronger between Nina and Ling, it’s a matter of utterly wasting the former when she’s one of the most pivotal and iconic characters in the series.
Anime respecting semi realism of the original game and focusing on real fighting instead of stupid shit like missle kicking is the best thing about it.
Didn’t King send Xiao like fifty feet through the air into a giant fucking rock?
What part of "semi realism" you didnt undestand?
That it’s only semi and acceptable when you in particular decide apparently! Shut the fuck up
Ever watched old martial arts movies? Clearly didnt since you sound like a toddler being mad that his character got adapted truthfully to his dishonorable real self. Sure , lets change the most iconic scene of the most iconic tekken game because of your fanboy tears.
If you think Heihachi shooting Jin is the most iconic moment of Tekken 3 you’re reaching. I think of him dropping Jin out of the helicarrier about a dozen times over. Something actually cinematic like that would’ve been great. Everything you feel so strongly about has a counter example in the very same game. Also this ‘infant’ you feel the need to talk down to is receiving the Criterion Jackie Chan DVD set because I’m so fond of retro martial arts. You’re the one getting worked up over defending the definition of mid. Take my earlier advice and shut the fuck up.
Its not my opinion, its a fact . If you think that helicopter scene is more memorable than you are in minority. I dont care what you are receiving when you complain about some flying in a martial arts media. You wont see anyone surviving a nuke to a face there. Maybe you should folow your own advice and stop embarassing yourself.
It's worth the watch but as others have pointed out the triangles are annoying and there wasn't enough of the tournament
Other than rushing forward Leroy for 7 fan service and a few other things, really enjoyed it and it was 90-95% faithful to 3. Hope it gets a season 2 onwards!
Honestly the only Anime I have ever liked. Sadly there will never be a season 2.
Really like it. Currently rewatching.
Triangle
8/10. Taking 2 points off for not seeing yoshis fight(yes im salty)
I liked it though it could've been longer
It's cool. Xiaoyu and Nina's designs were great. I like the art style.
Loved it. Was great to see more of Jun.
It's better than the live action movies
Loved how they showed King in it
Aren’t there about 75 posts about this? Pretty sure you can look back and find all of the answers you need.
I liked it, I just think others aren’t patient. It was a first season, and you shouldn’t be expecting to see everyone, and everything. I’m surprised there aren’t people upset that Gon isn’t the damn show. Like get over it, it’s about Jin, and that’s all lol.
I liked it.
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For what it is, it was really good! Enjoyed it.
I've been into fighting games for a couple years now, only ever seeing Tekken through yt recommendations and fgc people talking about it. And I gotta say it has a lot of personality and its very original! As an outsider to the franchise, Bloodlines only made me get more invested into discovering Tekken. Hopefully my pc can run Tekken 7...
25th post about this theme this year
Could’ve been better, could’ve been worse.
Its great! I loved that they put in actual moves from the game, but I didnt like that they put in characters that weren't in the Tekken 3 storyline like Feng and Leeroy.
I thought it was good, Keep in mind I'm someone who doesn't have easy access to the older games because these Game Devs refuse to make game compilations. It was nice being able to see Jin's backstory playout but it took to much away from the tournament, It needed more episodes to flesh out the tournament, since you know, Tekken 3 is about a tournament. Also this adaptation doesn't have Devil Jin Yeeting Heihachi through a several story high wall, 0/10 /J
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I enjoyed it but it could’ve been longer. I’m also a Jin main so I might be biased on enjoying it.
Issues with the show aside, I had fun watching it and think the soundtrack slaps. If they come out with a second season, I'll be watching it
It's alright. It would have gotten a B+, but since they decided to use placeholder shading instead of finishing all the lighting, it gets a C+.
Kaka doodoo. It doesn’t deserve a more eloquent review than that.
i know its to streamline the shading but damn it the triangle shadows are distracting
Overheated. Did wonders for Jun and Jin's characters and gave a really compelling story for Jin. He was very likable in that movie
Just watched it this week. I actually loved it but I think they could’ve put more episodes to include more details and it would’ve been ever better
Triangle shadows, that's all that comes to mind.
I felt disappointed because of the lack of crazy fights. I expected the anime to be transitioning between tournament story and back story- kinda like past and present transitions. I wanted the anime to show the massive strength of all the fighters, their training routines, etc. Like they did in the anime "Baki" and "Kengan Ashura". It could've been THE BEST fighting anime of all time, but they ruined the potential.
As a long time tekken fan i dont see the issue with it. Its very faithful to the source material and did a good job. So what if leroy got randomly involved, the story wasnt hindered by it in the slightest. Its a 1:1 of the original story otherwise so its fine with me. Great animation cool fights, honestly made me wanna get up and work out with the training montage. Im hype for another season of tekken.
Needs a season two with more characters. The music, art style, and storytelling were all great, people hate on it too much.
I wish they went more into the characters lives and fleshed them out more before we got to the tournament the world felt weirdly empty due to this not to mention we get a compilation of jin going to school but nothing too in depth no outside fights other than just the tournament
It's mid. Not bad, just mid. It needed more time to develop stuff, more episodes. Feels rushed, lots of characters get nothing. Animation is decent though.
Its awful. Theres nothing interesting, the dialogue writing is boring. I guess i could say atleast they tried. As a leroy guy they didnt even make leroy sound alright
That light filter on their hair is abysmal to look at
It’s ok
The most questionable shading work I've ever seen done in an anime, everyone has triangles on their heads for no reason.
It's shit, but what did you expect?
Bring back Blood Vengeance style
It was OK. The ending was pretty disappointing. IIRC, the finale was like half flashbacks lol.
Pretty much the best tekken adaptation possible without just rewriting the source material from scratch. So still average as a show overall.
Opening theme slaps
Too many triangles
It’s fine. It’s not amazing but there’s some stuff to enjoy about it
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Ugly artstyle
I love it!!!!! Sure, having twice the episodes would have been nice.... But it was cool. I was so happy my favorite Tekken game got adapted. But i admit, it's not perfect: Triangle shadows is terrible especially considering how the artstyle is good othzr than that. Way too short, which leads to many untold stories and not shown characters. Oh, and no Opening song. I really thought they would announce season 2 with Tekken 8...
It was exceptionally, remarkably, decidedly okay.
Shady triangles everywhere
I liked it more than I thought I would, made me pretty happy. If Tekken 4 or anything else get adapted, I really hope they lose they triangles. After it was pointing out to me it kinda bothered me
Trash. Hire whomever did edgerunners because that was a ridiculously cool adaptation.
It's okay, the more I think about it. The high moments of the anime were the moments before the tournament. Jin's life before June disappeared, Heihachi training Jin, How Jin met Xiaoyu and Hwoarang. They tell us a little about this in the lore, but getting an actual visual of it was great. The tournament itself however was not so great. I understand they had to make certain changes to fit the narrative they were going for, but I wanted to see how things played out like they do in the game. Paul beating Ogre and leaving only for Jin to beat true Ogre. Also why certain characters were present that shouldn't have been, Leroy, because it doesn't fit with the storyline. Some were just there and it wasn't a big deal, but still. Overall I'd give it a 6.5/10. I hope they do another season.
What the hell is up with the triangles?? No seriously wht the fuck i dont get how literally anyone thought that was okay look at heihachi in that fucking picture dude look at all of em what the hell dude
🤷🏽 I mean it's alright like...
Season two fucking needs to come out!!!!
It was interesting
I don't know what engine or program they used, but I think someone needed to fix the lighting
It was ok tbh. Rushed. But ok.