How canon is this?

CursedFein said:
Since this is the first show so far that was actually revised and promoted by Harada, I think it's fair to say that is canon. Obviously with some chances here and there compared to how things happened in the original game, but still meant to be the way it is. As for characters that weren't supposed to appear in Tekken 3 like Leroy, they can easily dismiss this as just because we didn't plan or show the character yet it doesn't mean he didn't participate. After all, many of the characters that appear playable in Tekken 3 didn't really participate in the tournament, and you would expect for a tournament like that to at least have the number of participants it shows here. That said, seeing Nina losing so easily against Xiaoyu was very disappointing, not gonna lie.

On the other hand, since it was confirmed only by words that Jun didn't actually die when she confronted by Ogre but we never knew what exactly happened until now, I guess it's same to assume they are going to put another "I was actually blown up and launched into the skies in a explosion but I still survived like it was nothing" like they did with Heihachi in Tekken 5.

EDIT: It is also worth to remark the strange "lights" we see around Ogre for a brief moment before the explosion happened. Maybe it was a teleportation technique he used to escape from the explosion since he couldn't move from Jun's grab, and that also teleported Jun in the process.

RobertBobert said:


Okay Leroy, but what about Steve, who is actually a son-like clone of Nina?

CursedFein said:


You're right, I forgot about Steve since he only appears from a brief moment. In the original game Nina was possessed by Ogre if memory serves me right, and we never saw anything of the sort happening here, so the whole cold-sleep thing either happened before the events of the tournament here, or it just didn't happen and they got the eggs from Nina from other means.

RobertBobert said:


He appears immediately in the next part, so I hope this gets a sequel. I think Violet subplot or Eddie Christie subplot would be a great addition to the story.

CursedFein said:

Yeah, because the whole cold-sleep thing happened during the end of Tekken 3 and with that leading to the events with him being introduced in Tekken 4. So the fact that he appears here participating in the tournament can't be justified other than them changing the storyline completely to more than just not being Paul the one who defeated Ogre.

As for Violet, I've always loved Lee and his endings, so I would definitely like to see him as long as they make him justice. It was also a pity with that in mind that we didn't get to see Forest, but then again he didn't participate in the tournament in the original game either. Eddie did nothing in Tekken 4 so considering they did Tekken 3 with only 6 episodes and it still felt short, I wouldn't even expect of them bothering with Christie other than show her participating like they did with Anna here.

In any case, I'm sure they will release a sequel. This show was literally called Bloodline Season 1 after all. As for when it will be released, I've no idea, but I guess they will wait until they release Tekken 8 first.

RobertBobert said:


Season 1? This gives hope. Also, did you notice Marduk? He is supposed to have a serious feud with King due to Armor King's death, but the anime ignores this. The same goes for Feng, who should have made his first appearance as a favorite only in the 5th game.

CursedFein said:

Marduk was actually in prison until his sentence was lifted in order to make him participate in the tournament in Tekken 4. That is to say, during the events of Tekken 3 he was in prison, so... In the anime he might as well never killed Armor, since I'm not even sure if that happened during the events of Tekken 3 or more years prior to that.

As for Feng, yeah, it was kinda silly the show did revolve a bit around Julia but we saw nothing of him. I would like to believe we'll get to see him properly if they ever get to animate Tekken 5, although then again they did bother with Leroy being from Tekken 7 even when they should have just focused with the characters from Tekken 3. I can understand they wanted to put some of the newest characters to motivate new Tekken players to watch the show, but come on. I don't think Leroy is even that popular as a character anyway.

RobertBobert said:


Well, I haven't played Tekken 7 much, but I'm not at all sure that its new characters were particularly popular. The 5 or 6 part characters were a lot more hyped.

CursedFein said:

Not even surprising since the design of most of the new characters are average at best, and they don't especially contribute to the story either. Asuka on the other hand was and is still among the most popular characters in the franchise. As for Tekken 6, I guess Alisa and Lars to some extent for being the main characters, and that's about it.

E2sembler said:
canon but not in deeply detailed one. Still counted as canon, though having leroy smith there instead of eddie, because of netflix' politics to include blacks, well at least he doesnt invade the lore. And the final battle is more like not the same as ingame tho, ogre used heihachi to transform, but here we have weather change. Still I dont think it's really huge change.

RobertBobert said:


Inclusion of blacks? But Eddie is POC too lol.

E2sembler said:

eddy is brazilian, none cares about them.
leroy on other hand is an american black, so we know how good netflix at putting blacks in the shows they dont belong (death note, resident evil etc).

RobertBobert said:


This is speculation as both characters are still POC.