Anime Get Ready for the Battle/Season, hopefully
This series was really fun, like Castlevania and Arcane it stands as a shining example of how great video games can be adapted and adapted well, something that is very satisfying after seeing Resident Evil (2022) which like the Anderson films took a crowbar the source material it clearly had little interest in actually adaptating.
I really liked the Jin's stuff living with Jun and then growing up with Heihachi something the games gloss over and gave real weight to a character I didn't particular care for. The fights themselves might turn some people off being 3D instead high end 2D but after Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, I am much more down for 3D mixed with 2D anime if done well, so I liked it. Berserk (2016) has scarred a lot of people when it comes to the style which I can totally understand. I also really apperaicted Nina Williams being portrayed as evil like she is in the games unlike say Tekken: Blood Vengeance which softens her into a Anti-Hero, becuase god forbid the hot blonde woman be actually evil amiright?
My gripes are mostly around how great characters like Yoshimitsu, Steve Fox, Anna Willaims and Craig Murdock were treated i.e not shown fighting or talking at all. Eddy Gordo getting Adapted Out completely truly sucked, you could've give him Leroy's role in the story and it would be perfectly fitting.
Anime It's better than the live-action movie, at least
As far as faithful adaptations of the Tekken series goes, this may be the best yet in that regard, as Bloodline provides a great synopsis of the events of Tekken 3 which saw Jin Kazama come into his own as the series's antiheroic protagonist. That aside, though, this series has several rough spots that are hard to ignore. While the character designs are great, the animation is mid-tier, and the weird angular shadows that cover each chartacter are hard to ignore. The dub voice actors do a good job, but the script has a lot of stilted delivery that feels weird and unnatural. And of course, this series falls into the common pitfall of fighting game adaptations: failing to give adequate focus to most characters, with some, such as fan-favorite Yoshimitsu, being reduced to a brief second-long cameo.
This series is worth a watch, but I don't see myself rewatching it for a very long while.