#tekken lore

[flailingdorkusgirl]

tekken lore explained

[iluxurycruisedthatship]

The Kazama & Mishima’s naming traditions and the Next Gens of Kazama’s children!

Alright so I've been cooking this for a while since they dropped Jun's parents name on T8. Bear in mind, I'm in no way fluent in Japanese nor I'm a native, but I have google on my side to educate me better about Japanese naming systems and the kanji they used for naming the child (jinmeiyo and joyo).

I just want to named XiaoJin’s future babies so bad, kay?! Lol. Even though I know Jin is opposed to any plan of continuing the lineage (which is heartbreaking 😭💔) but the XiaoJin's shipper in me cannot be extinguished!! 🔥🔥🔥 I still want to named them! Lol.

Anyway! Feel free to correct me with your information! I'm open to any kind of knowledge 💖

Psst! If you don't want to read these longass founds and explanation, you can jump right away to the bottom of this post, there’s a pic that summarise these texts, lol.

Alrightt! Without further ado, let's deep dive into Kazama/Mishima lore!!

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Tekken 8 has finally dropped some lore about Kazama family, and it's about Jun to be exact. There, we can get a glimpse of Jun's parent name:

Soon after, a Japanese KazuJun's fan dropped this tweet :

Assuming a native Japanese able to decipher those characters correctly, now we finally have Jun's parents name kanji:

純一 the father, and 恵 the mother.

As we all know, kanji has several way of reading. Cited from pon-navi, there are two typical ways of reading kanji, kun-yomi and on-yomi. In addition, there is a reading system called "jinmei kun" which is used only for names.

"Soo?? What's their name?! How do we know the correct reading?!"

Here's the thing!!

Tekken has giving us hints that Mishima family has a tradition to give their children with their kanji name, following a common practice in Japan. Let's take a look at their kanji.

仁八, Jinpachi

平八, Heihachi & 一美, Kazumi

一八, Kazuya

Notice the similarities? You’re right! The Mishima child inherited their parents' kanji! The sons inherit '八' kanji, with Heihachi inherited '八' from Jinpachi and Kazuya inherited both kanji from Heihachi (八) and Kazumi (一).

As it is a common practice, the same can be said with the Kazama family! Although in their case, they might not be inheriting the kanji but instead with the reading of the said character. Or maybe phonetically similar would be correct here.

For example, this is Jun's kanji: 準

This character '準' can be read several ways, some of them are : Jun, shun, setsu, taira, toshi, narau, nori, hitoshi.

And one of her father kanji is: 純

'純' can be read as : kito, Jun, atsu, atsushi, aya, itaru, ito, kiyoshi, sunao, sumi, tsuna, to, makoto, yoshi.

Have you noticed it? That's right! '純' and '準' can be both read as Jun! It means that Jun's kanji has the same reading as her father's kanji, although they have different kanji characters.

From here, we can assume that Jun's father can be called Jun____ as well.

As for the other kanji, '一' can be read as: hito, hitotsu, hajime, ichi, itsu, i, osamu, kuni, susumu, tada, chi, nobu, hajimu, hajime, hi, hiji, hide, hitoshi, makoto, masashi, moto, ka, kazu, kata, atsu.

Looking from the lists, together his name could be read most plausibly as : Junichi, Junitsu, or Juni. Imo, Junichi sounds the best, so yeah, I completely agree with the KazuJun's fan.

Now we all know that Kazama has similar sounding name with different kanji.

On the other hand, the mother has '恵' that can be read as: megumu, megumi, kei, e, aya, sato, satoshi, shige, toshi, yasu, yoshi.

While it could be anything, I think it's either Megumi or Megumu. Why? Because I found out that '恵' has the same reading as one of Jin's kanji reading! lol. Let's take a look at Jin's kanji!

This is Jin's kanji: 仁

It can be read as: Jin, ni, nin, kimi, kimu, sato, sane, shinobu, tadashi, to, toyo, nobu, nori, hisashi, hito, hitoshi, hiroshi, masa, masashi, mi, megumi, megumu, yasushi, yoshi.

Do you find it? Both '恵' and '仁' can be read as Megumi/Megumu! lol.

One of the speculation is that Jun named her son Jin as a sign of respect to her father in law, Jinpachi (仁八). Even though Jin is a Mishima by blood, he doesn't inherit the '八' character as he was raised in Kazama family. So he inherited just the '仁' character. Besides, it also sounds almost the same. Jun.. Jin.. It's phonetically similar, right? And if Jin were born a girl, I bet he would be called Megumi/Megumu instead just like his grandmother, lol.

Thus, we can safely conclude that the Mishima has the habit to inherit their kanji characters while the Kazama inherit the reading of their kanji's name.

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AND NOW! HERE COMES THE MAIN DISH!!!! 💖💖💖

What about the future Kazama kids?! Let’s move on to that and do the real cooking here for the XiaoJin's babies name! :D

We have seen Jin's kanji, but what about Xiayou?? Xiaoyu is Chinese by birth, and her hanzi (Chinese characters) are 凌曉雨 and リン・シャオユウ is how it's written in Japanese katakana.

凌, Líng: surpass / リン (Rin)

曉, Xiao: dawn / シャオ (Shao)

雨, Yu: rain / ユウ (Yu)

Now, I'd like to think that they would combine or use either their character or its reading for their baby! Also! They might use some of Jin's family name's characters :D

Here are some of my ideas for the babies name :

For boy:

晨一, Shinichi, a portmanteau of Jin and Xiaoyu's nickname and kanji inherited from Junichi/Kazuya.

Explanation: the first kanji '晨' means Dawn, which has the same meaning as Xiaoyu hanzi '曉'. The kanji reading is also the combination of Xiaoyu's nickname and Jin. Shao+Jin=Shin. It also sounds similar. Jin, Shin, it's rhyming, right? Just like Jun and Jin!

For the second kanji '一' I'd like to think the story behind it was that Xiaoyu wanted to preserve Kazama/Mishima naming practice but Jin was reluctant to do it. In the end, they decided to take the kanji '一' which was present in both Kazama and Mishima, that's in Junichi (純一) and Kazuya (一八).

For girl :

凌, Shino, a portmanteau of Xiaoyu's nickname and Jin, same character as Xiao’s hanzi that could also be the feminine ver. of Shin.

Explanation: it’s rather simple, I use the same character in Xiaoyu’s hanzi that has different reading while also the combination of Jin and Xiaoyu’s name. In Chinese ‘凌’ read as Ling but in Japanese, ‘凌’ has several reading. One of them is Shino. Shino could be the sister or the twin sister of Shinichi, in case XiaoJin have two child or twins in the future :)

琳, Rin, a kanji that has the same reading as Xiaoyu’s name and phonetically similar with Jin.

Explanation: I think this one is easy to understand! Rin and Jin, phonetically similar like what Kazama would've named their children. It’s also Xiaoyu’s surname in Japanese. The kanji ‘琳’ itself means ‘beautiful jewel’ and in Chinese the hanzi means 'beautiful jade’, and it reminds them of the greens in Yakushima forest, Jin's home.

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Alright, now that I’ve spilled out all of the stuff inside my chest and calmed down, I’ll give you a simple name chart for those who don’t want to read wall of texts, lol. Hope this helps!

I guess that’s all for now, lol. I’ll add my thoughts if I had any later on. Thank you for coming to my TED talk! 😂🙏

[suzakucastle]

Mishima Zaibatsu: Employer Ranking

[alexr-fightgames]

Extended-story-mode spoilers for Tekken 8, for the story that just got released. Discussion of completely inhuman story implications.

So Reina is from the Hachijo family, it seems like we've confirmed? This is a clean explanation for why she has the Devil Gene.

She has to be a genetic Heihachi kid, right? Nobody else but the Jinpachi lineage (Jinpachi, Hei, Kaz, Lars, Jin...) has the Mishima lightning. If it was learnable, then Kazumi would have had it since she spent a lot of her life training with Jinpachi.

Does this mean that Heihachi intentionally sought out another woman from the Hachijo family (Kazumi must have been dead for 20-odd years at this point), got her pregnant, and then waited until the kid was born to waste the rest of the Hachijo family? ... he let them live until they (presumably unknowingly) gave him one more kid to raise as his own?

That's monstrous. That's outta control.

Or is there some other interpretation here? Reina could possibly be a clone, but we know that he spared a single Hachijo baby girl. That has to be Reina, right? How else could she have the Mishima lightning?

[stephemcd]

TEKKEN: The New Mishima Family Member

[shippingexpressinc]

Welcome to Tekken Lore Everyone wherein there's all genre of stories you can look from!

So today I learned that Tekken lore exists and it's wild. There's stuff like a "devil gene" in a yakuza family, bears in love proposing with fish, resurrection spells (?), parents fighting children, grandparents fighting grandchildren, wolf demons, ww3, UN super spies, an official-art-confirmed massive cock, coma "broodmares", air conditioner repair, cannibalism and a boxing kangaroo who is somehow integral to lore.

The most normal part is probably the robot ninja assassin.

Great rabbit hole, 10/10 recommend.

[yuzuna123]

Jun is for us lonely girls who want to find love and acceptance...

[theartistaslisalee]

I used play a bit of Tekken back in the day but don’t think I was ever really into it. Still I know pretty well of its crazy lores and this was taken from the finale of Tekken 8s story mode, where it appears Jin will finally have a chance at a happily ever after considering the hell he went thru ( half of which he caused of course ). He is lucky that a girl like Xiaoyu was still waiting for him even after seeing the worst of him. But I believe he still has a little unfinished business with the one called the Red Knight ( his surname in Spanish ). For context you have to look up the story for T6 & 7.

[kazamajun]

regular normal family beach fun 😌 ft. @scalproie

[alexr-fightgames]

Hard agree, yesssss. I was cheering when I saw that clip, and Kazuya just calmly laughs at Jin and calls him a monster for starting the war and killing millions. After walking out of a crashed helicopter and the associated conflagration, completely unscathed.

Starting the war didn't even get rid of Devil like Jin thought it would. They both still have Devil. And Azazel is in Zafina's body now...

Lars looks like a putz. How could he trust Jin at this point? Lars tbf is not the cleverest Mishima child.

... I think the real story here has to be about Jun and perhaps Zafina and/or Claudio.

Hiii! So, since you know and write about Tekken's story a whole lot, I'd like to read your opinion on that snippet they showed during the Tekken talk At TGS. I personally am not very impressed with it. I'm not the kind of person who who easily gets blinded by big cinematic and dramatic music. I need substance and I barely see any in that clip. But maybe I'm too demanding and I've missed something. So, here's your signal to write an essay if you're inspired xd

Hi, thanks for the ask.

I'm cautiously optimistic. The fact that they're showing us Jin and Kazuya fighting so early on suggests that there may be more to the Tekken 8 story than just their conflict.

The aggression that we see in the clip all comes from Jin's side, which is more fitting given their lack of personal conflict. Kazuya is calm and uninterested in initiating the fight. He also isn't shying away from detailing Jin's warmongering and pointing out that he's the one to blame for all this, while Kazuya opportunisticly filled a vacuum Jin created.

There are more concerning elements of the clip, like Lars calling Kazuya evil incarnate, which is odd given that his conflict has always been with Jin as his ex-boss who forced him to participate in these attrocities. But given that he's had time to reconcile with Jin, while Kazuya has needlessly perpetuated conflict for goals of world domination, it's not that surprising.

It would be very remiss of the marketing of this game to show the main plot of the game this early on, and very boring if it's just another father-son destruction mimicking Tekken 7. We already know Jin loses one fight against Kazuya from the first story trailer, and that he's going to need to get in touch with the cleansing mindset of his Kazama heritage. Maybe this will just make him stronger and allow him to defeat Kazuya, but I personally hope it will allow for nuance and talk of cleansing, exorcism, or redemption for Kazuya, especially if Jun turns out to be present and alive rather than consigned to Yakushima flashbacks.

I do agree with you that the cinematic orchestral scoring is a bit annoying and over the top, and I'd much rather a return to some early Tekken beats. Sweeping symphonic scoring has become a bit of a go-to in media for creating dramatic conflict so I guess it's understandable.

It's too early for me to have strong opinions on the game's story, so I'm going to remain hopeful and just see what comes. Cheers for the ask.

[y-rhywbeth2]

I had forgotten about the thing where aasimar can shoot laser beams out of their eyes:

Eyes of Light You can focus the holy power within you to create a beam of destructive light energy. Prerequisites: Aasimar, Celestial Bloodline. Benefit: Once per day you may fire a ray of searing light from your eyes as a spell-like ability. Your caster level for this ability is your character level. Using this ability counts as your use of light (or daylight, if you have the Light to Daylight feat) for the day. - Races of Faerûn

Truly, why is this a feature locked behind 3.5e pen and paper? Why doesn't every pc game that gives me the choice to play aasimar let me do this?

Aylin, by all rights, is too directly related to her celestial ancestor to actually be an aasmiar (if she had kids they'd be aasimar), but I still want to see her do this in combat.

[scalproie]

"Heihachi did nothing wrong by throwing that kid off a cliff" MAX I KNOW (AT LEAST I HOPE) YOURE JOKING BUT HEIHACHI LITERALLY KICKSTARTED THE WHOLE THING BY THROWING THAT KID OFF A CLIFF

[siramay-the-showgun-dragon]

I HAD A VERY WEIRD DREAM!

ok so It was a DDLC X TEKKEN X DANGANRONPA X my stuff crossover ask blog, dating sim, au story thing as in it was like Monika,

kazuya,

Junko,

I think some others and siramay

all in a thing it was so weird Like one part I DM the owner like "why do you have my OC, I'd be ok if you credit I just wanna know" And their was a shooting game with targets on a chalkboard and depending how you do it affects the ending And for some reason I knew if I got kazuya he'd kill me Also yes you can turn the gun around and shoot at the characters heads I think Junko dodged the twat I shot at Monika Big mistake she still self aware Then Gabriel started Running guess I was him And then he found soulbound and fused back to siramay and we/I went heeeyy buddy (cause as my lore siramay is friends with Monika) And she had no idea So now I was thinking I should magic people to not be able to tell Gabriel and soulbound are spit siramay unless I make em know Just in case situations like this And I think their was something else but I can't remember so that's it

[niuniente]

Tekken 8 - Sergei Dragunov Reveal Trailer

[magic-magpie]

Thinking abt the Mishima household when Kazuya and Lee were growing up like imagine your father kills your mother then throws you off a cliff and you haul yourself back up and vow to kill him but you're too weak rn and you still live under his roof and are still his son and he trains you ruthlessly and you're thirteen and burning with hatred too big for your barely-teen body and then he adopts a boy close to your age and it's clear what he's doing this boy is only here to threaten your status as heir to the Zaibatsu this boy isn't even given the Mishima family name and your father (and you) call him by his surname because although he learns the fighting style and learns the business he'll never be Heihachi's blood son, and by all accounts you shouldn't hate him it's not his fault he was adopted but you do hate him and he quickly realises what kind of household he lives in now and he grows to hate you too but neither of you hate the other as much as you hate your father and so maybe sometimes you'll smoke together after having bloodied your knuckles from beating each other bruised in training because beneath the rivalry and resentment is someone who gets it, who knows what it's like living on these grounds, who you don't need to keep up false pretences for because the shadow looming over the two of you is the same

[edgepunk]

oh an anime dating sim is fine but a fighting game isn't?