Netflix will release a Tekken animated series later this year

Having helped convey properties like  and  to TV, Netflix is as soon as once more turning to a historic gaming franchise so as to add to its content material library. On Saturday, the streamer announced it will launch Tekken: Bloodline, an animated adaption of Bandai Namco’s fashionable preventing sport sequence, in 2022.

Within the trailer Netflix shared alongside the announcement, we’re launched to protagonist Jin Kazama, who joined the franchise as a playable character in 1996’s Tekken 3. Within the present, Kazama embarks on a quest for revenge when his mom Jun falls to what she calls a demon. Kazama subsequently turns to his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima, for assist. If previous man Mishima provides off a sinister vibe, it’s as a result of he’s the principle villain of the Tekken franchise. Kazama’s quest finally leads him to The King of Iron Fist Event the place we see some acquainted faces.

Exterior of figuring out it’s going to come out later this yr, we don’t have an actual launch date for Tekken: Bloodline. Netflix’s observe report with online game variations has principally trusted the businesses it has partnered with to work on these initiatives. Productions like  and have been a hit for the corporate because of the involvement of studios like and Studio Mir.