Tekken: Bloodline is one of those shows that if you don't already have some knowledge on the background of it, it might seem very bland and sometimes even completely out of place.

welcome to my review on the newest Netflix anime original (Spoiler Free)
_it's my first review on any series to date so keep that in mind and bare with me. ^__^_

as I said before, the more you have knowledge of the series the more you gonna enjoy it.
as of myself, I barely have any knowledge of this series (characters, story, lore .etc) and the only information that I have is from tekken 3 game that I played on mobile about 10 years ago. So I just familiar with some of the characters, even if it's just by their looks.
So I'm gonna breakdown some aspects of the show mostly based on the anime itself.

animation

first of all i'll start with the animation so that I don't waste any time if someone want to leave here.
The characters are mostly CGI and it's because most of the show is about hand to hand combat but there is a feeling to it's action that don't really throw you off the show because there are some elements in the visuals that seems like 2d animation and combined with camera movement makes it kind of unique on it's own.
for instant the animation on the faces are mostly 2d (I think cause it seems like it)
and cgi makes it way more like the games and fans of the games will most likely love it.
(to add to it, it feels like a completely justified artistic choice and not because the lack of budget)
i'd say background art and camera work is one of the strongest aspects in the show.

story

i'm not really going to talk about this section cause it's a spoiler free review after all but i'll say don't expect too much from it
the show mostly want to get to the fights as soon as possible and therefor it's really fast paced for showing the events.

characters

characters are mostly here for people to recognize them and this only works for people who played the games.
sometimes it feels like they don't introduce new characters properly and we don't really sympathize with them or they're in some of the shots that you might or might not know them.
the show mostly focuses on the main character and tries to characterize his ideals and therefor there's no room for developing other characters.
and if I had to specify it I would've said, 6 episode of anime with 20 minute runtime is not nearly enough for it to have this many cast of different characters at once.

overall it's a solid show if you don't expect too much from it.
maybe sometimes the cgi looks wacky but it really helps the camera movement in the fights to be way more impactful to watch.

I hope you all enjoyed the review.
have a nice day. ✪ ω ✪