This new round of marketing introduces more of the ever-growing Tekken crew to the adaptation: we see Julia Chang, Nina Williams, Ling Xiaoyu, Jin, and Hwoarang all present… along with Tekken 7 newcomer, Leroy Smith. In the first trailer for the show, we saw Paul, King, and Kazuya – and not much else. If JoJo’s can do it, so can Tekken! Heihachi goes in with an uppercut. I hope the writers draw deep from Tekken’s most idiotic plot points and crafts something absurd, and compelling. Tekken producer and long-time face of the series, Katsuhiro Harada, claimed Tekken has the “longest-running storyline” in a recent video – and he’s probably right, at this point. Go wild! Show me a bear fighting a devil with laser eyes. It’s not like the streaming company has much to butcher Tekken’s storyline is over-dramatic nonsense as it is. But that’s fine, because Tekken is big, dumb, and full of fun, anyway – Netflix running with its over-the-top violence, fan-service, and intergenerational trauma is fine. I’m thinking “wow, OK, this might be a Netflix anime that doesn’t totally undermine its source material”.

So in the latest trailer for Netflix’s adaptation of Tekken – Tekken: Bloodline – when I see King doing his trademark Lasso Kick and smash Jin’s head in, I’m hyped.

To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Mixing up throws and making people rage in lobbies as I spend about 60 seconds breaking all their limbs, one by one, gives me a dopamine hit.

Clotheslining a J-Pop icon, repeatedly kicking a bear in the shins, or slamming the soles of both feet into a geriatric sociopath feels good. There’s something about parading around as a towering slab of hardened meat, topped off with a jaguar mask, that does it for me.

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