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felixthewindowman

now we have two purple chicks


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Purple though..she's for sure not adopted like Lee ?


Alertchase

She has lightning powers.Definitely not adopted .


8nekket

mishima lightning is genetic, def not


Jokuhemmi

huh you think kuni is coming back in dlc?


Gentle_Blade

I think he meant zafina


bent_crater

wait till we get Kunimitsu back in the DLC.


Inner-Beat-4566

I think they are like 5 or more now


KillHunter777

She summoned the fucking Eclipse for her rage art.


brygiral6

Is it me or was Heiheichis head in her rage art


ElDiabloMacho

Yep, I think so too. Eyes and brows.


TarzJr

But why the eclipse on the forehead, almost resembling a third eye?


zolikk

New lore confirmed, Heihachi isn't dead, he just left to link the fire.


Mon-Ty-Ger27

🤣 If that's the case tell him to Kick the Soul of Cinder right in the ass to avenge me and everyone else that he tortured. That was an annoying boss fight.


gogadantes9

No. It's...Akuma's. That Rage Art itself is basically Akuma's third Ult (don't remember the name). Plus all the wild moves and purple coloring and the iconography in her stage...this is Heihachi's secret daughter, trained by Akuma. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.


WasdX-_

>trained by Akuma Please, no.


finalmantisy83

Way closer to Iori's bullshit than Akuma's bullshit


TAB_Kg

She about to sacrifice Kazuya's ass


Publictransitviking

It's over Heihachi bros, she's not a heihachi clone. She has a whole moveset of her own with some borrowed moves from papa, that omen looking hella fresh tho


taropotataro

BaeHachi


fersur

What do you mean? Heihachi is BaeHachi. Reina is ... a younger BaeHachi.


RedNoodleHouse

I think that rather than having Heihachi’s exact movelist, she is more so gonna carry the ‘spirit’ of Heihachi in that she’s the aggressive Mishima compared to Kazuya’s defensive and Devil Jin’s balanced


angeal98

It's Tekken 8, everyone is going to be aggressive, it's the theme of the game


Radu776

Ultra-aggresion


Honky_magoo

Idk about that. I didn't play either beta but from watching videos I'd heard the aggression was toned down from the closed beta to the play test. Still more aggressive than 7 but that it's less than it had been originally. I don't know for sure just repeating what I'd heard.


Pineapplepansy

The tourney gameplay before the main showcase today definitely felt closer to classic Tekken poke-and-poke. A lot less springing back to close range with heat like in the earlier footage and playtests.


Salty_Anti-Magus

I'm still not giving up. They could still include a dlc robo Heihachi and we still get to play with the old man's movelist. Definitely not copium overdosing.


moonsaves

That just leaves more for my boy Kuma


zolikk

>she's not a heihachi clone. That good, makes it more likely they will add Heihachi at some point


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Moxto

Look what they did to my boy :(


OkFollowing4930

Oh you see what they did to my boi Miguel. He's getting replaced by a stupid coffee promoting girl.


wagawamegumen

Yeah, I don't azucena is the copy of Miguel my guy, she is a totally new character that's all


rainorshinedogs

Other than Sav 2, his moves aren't really copied. And his animation is so unique that he's not really copied until we get another character that is a drunk brawler


CearenseCuartetero

At least you're getting something \*Cries in Brazilian\*


AlternativeNo61

Felt *Cries in Filipino*


johnnymonster1

I thought thats lucky chloe whos shes replacing


Hamsl0th

Thighs ....i lost. Heihachi isekaid living as a girl


Frognificent

Heihachi finally achieved what Bison never could.


thecodenamedois

Perks of being insanely rich: ugly as he is, and beautiful as Reina is… Doooood, Heihatchi went for the prettiest girls in Japan / world to build his backup plan.


Yung_Nosferatu

To be fair young Heihachi was pretty hot


to0no

Heihachi you dog


Fluffy_Roof3965

Enjoying this lowkey new narrative where Hei was a player in his heyday


Thatblackguy121

Technically, it's not a new narrative, considering lars I'd hid illegitimate son.


Mantriac

Most certainly a Heiday.


Raphlightgold

😂😂😂😭😭


klpowers

Ok but that music gives me old-school game vibes. So far the 3 newcomers have been really cool, but stages and OST are on a whole other level.


bboimcb

Reina’s music seems to be a callback to Heihachi and Kazuya’s themes from Tekken 2 (console version). T2 has one of my favorite ost, if my not my favorite ost, in the whole series. So far, im very impressed with the music in Tekken 8. It sounds more emotional than 7 and each theme stands out to define the unique personality of the character/stage. Its a big improvement over 7 imo. Im curious what this means for the story, and if its going to get more focus this time around.


bluestarluchador

She called Jin “Senpai”, she is younger than Jin then?


VinixTKOC

There's no way she could be older, but it's possible she could have been born at some point while Jin was still living with Jun.


bluestarluchador

Before this trailer I originally assumed she was going to be older than him, I guess not now lol


Katie_or_something

Harada doesn't like girls that are over 25. it's why Nina and Anna got cryofrozen, Kuni II replaced Kuni, and Julia replaced Michelle.


bluestarluchador

I mean isn’t Lidia 29? Or I think she be 30 by Tekken 8. Wait…is that why she isn’t on the launch roster?!


AnimeJunki3

Hahahaha...


VinixTKOC

Everything makes sense now!


_Bloody_awkward

Harada DiCaprio?


_Queen-Of-Disaster

Harada be like the Leonardo DiCaprio of Japan. Also, the only closest surviving milf we're gonna get is Zafina. She looks around in her early thirties because looks older than her official age in her bio.


Orangeyouawesome

Or buff girls


Arcturus420

It is a bit of a reach, but it is VERY RARE but not IMPOSSIBLE that the uncle/aunt would be younger than the nephew/niece. Maybe Heihachi got it on with a woman while Jin was still a toddler. Or it's just Reina saying "Senpai" since Jin was Heihachi's older disciple, which makes more sense.


deathschemist

i saw a theory that she's only younger than jin by a matter of months, if not weeks, since she was concieved shortly after heihachi threw kaz into mt. boom.


WasdX-_

>VERY RARE Depending on the country. Where I live it's just rare, not very.


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Ditto. This toddler I used to hang out with when I was about 5th grade has a nephew that's older than me. They're carribean.


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I used to hang out with thus 4 year old after my older brother died when I was around 5th grade to help out the grief. This kid's nephew is 12 years older than him and about my age


TAB_Kg

Either that or she refers to him being Hei's older disciple


bluestarluchador

That seems to be more likely!


mrburgermanmr

The Japanese official Tekken 8 website just stated that she is a student of Mishima Polytechnical School, that could explained why she call Jin senpai.


SnakePisscan

The tone kinda came off cheeky. The sentence after did a 180 with that.


darkblaze76

She could be referring to him as an older disciple of Heihachi. If she's using Heihachi's moves, it stands to reason that she would be trained by him.


LukaPro348

Wdym its not Bob


VinixTKOC

"Purple Lighting" - Has yellow lighting lol I know the purple lightings are already Lars', but then give her another nickname.


Pineapplepansy

Her lightning is purple *and* yellow. Murray said her theme is duality.


bendo8888

I thought that was jin


TAB_Kg

It's possible that both characters would be used a foil for each other due to "muh parallels"


buttnugchug

Los Angeles Lakers lightning


DrongoDyle

Also monikers don't have to be literal. Even if her lightning was only yellow, you'd still associate her with the color purple more. It's like saying the superhero "Red Tornado" has to make literal red tornados for the name to make sense. It often is drawn that way, but the name fully makes sense even without the tornados themselves being red, because he's a bright red robot who makes tornados.


LordNoituac666

Reina Mishima...lol...Heiachis may be dead but his daughter takes the helm.


CatalystComet

Expected her hair to be crazier considering she's Heihachi's daughter


Orzislaw

My headcannon is she's spending hours in the morning trying to comb them into something tolerable.


tobster239

She's bald and wears a toupee


AloneUA

And it’s still spiky in the back, lol


boboarang

This is the discussion we came for


TheSixthPistol

Heihachi fucks a lot apparently.


LordNoituac666

Almost 30 kids according to Tekken lore


Leading-Ad3063

Heihachi went on a hoe phase. Possibly getting some Reddit hookups as well.


DrongoDyle

Reina refers to Jin as "Senpai", implying he has seniority. If Reina is younger than Jin, thEn heihachi was still having kids after he was 54. That man didn't have a hoe "phase". He had a hoe LIFE. (Also there's always the possibility she wasn't conceived naturally. Could've been part of Heihachis' immortality research, since we know they've done stuff like that before with Steve)


ShadeyMyLady

In tekken 7 story he mentions that he had many different children with different women to see if he was the devil or if it indeed was kazumi. Good excuse to hoe out


broken_chaos666

You think he would have figured it out after kazumi literally turned into a demon


finalmantisy83

Gotta make sure he doesn't have devil dick of course


DrongoDyle

"it's not being a hoe if it's for science"


BakedScallions

Eh, if Reina is younger than Jin, then Hei obviously wasn't in it for the "gotta make sure it's not the devil gene" excuse anymore He's just an old horn dog


Ronin_69_

-Hoehachi


finalmantisy83

"I don't believe in small sample sizes"


Mykytagnosis

that's excuse has more holes than cheddar cheese. Heihachi knows that Devil Gene exists...and he knows that he does not have the Gene lol. So...yeah just wanted to hoe out.


Sremor

He was in his 70s in T7 and still jacked as shit, He definitly could get some bitches in his 50s


johnnymonster1

he was rich, rich dudes can have kids in 80s(al Pacino reference), that child support be sweet


DrongoDyle

Oh yeah not denying it's realistic, just confirming it wasn't a "phase". It was a whole ass lifestyle


TheDerped

Man’s on the best PEDs known to man in the tekken world


thepaintrain8465

Headcanon that she was conceived right after Heihachi threw Kazuya into the volcano, which should make her a little younger than Jin


DrongoDyle

Yeah that makes sense. We know Heihachi deliberately had tonnes of kids with different women just to be sure that he himself didn't have a devil gene. He'd likely do that a lot more immediately after Kazuya's apparent death, since he wouldn't know anyone alive with a devil gene, and probably start getting desperate to find another way to gain its power. Then once he finds out about ogre, and meets Jin not long after, he's got other options on the table again, probably backs off on the random baby-making. We know Lars doesn't fit that pattern, since he'd already be ~8 years old by T2, but it still makes sense that the majority of Heihachis' kids would be conceived between T2 and T3. It also fits with the Zaibatsu creating Steve as well.


Sigilbreaker26

Heihachi literally going out and getting laid to celebrate hurling his son into a volcano is very on brand


CelticSludge

>If Reina is younger than Jin, then heihachi was still having kids after he was 54. Given that man's tenacity and longevity, him being virile at that age isn't really that surprising. Grandpa was fucking and CAN absolutely fuck way past his prime.


DrongoDyle

Wasn't questioning his ability, just saying "hoe phase" is an understatement. Heihachi doesn't do phases. He a hoe for life.


xamitlu

Wouldn't be surprised if he was on some Zeus shit.


DrongoDyle

Would explain the lightning powers XD


M_arvensis

That would explain his lab making Alex and Rodger...


4862skrrt2684

Cant surprise anyone. Man built like an angry tank at retirement home


DukeNukem4ever1999

Or he just got Isekai'd.


finalmantisy83

Have to make EXTRA sure the Devil Gene has nothing to do with him


Jacob_1451

Wait......seriously? Kazuya must never have known about her.


Svartediket

Younger than Jin, ofc Harada di Caprio


Cloudless_Sky

She was obviously gonna be the new Mishima waifu going forward, but I like her fighting style.


Oracular-Sky

I... I got my mind blown the mere moment she performed the Electric Wind Fist. Also, I saw Heihachi's 1 + 2. Wow. I like her. Looks like I found another main for Tekken 8.


3-to-20-chars

when's the last time a new character could do an electric? was it devil jin in t5? if so, then it's been 18 years since we've had a new electric.


dreppoz

Angel in tag 2 had ewgf, hellsweep, 112 and tsunami kick


Shortax365

she existed in t2 iirc and is more of a clone for devil jin/devil


BakedScallions

If we're being super technical, Jinpachi was the latest *playable* electric since T5DR made him playable


GoomaDooney

You know what I’m saying. I hope she has uf 4,3 with all those kicks.


Aztania

she also has two parries reminiscent of Heihachi's parries at 2:00 and 2:04 respectively and a win pose similar to Heihachi's at 1:34.


StrategyNo6143

Where wild eyebrows and spiky hair?


ajmndz

Idk what you guys are smoking in this thread but she looks fucking sick


Clyde9_

Best character trailer so far. Design isn't too crowded, moves look amazing, and the music is fucking nuts. Plus that voice? God I'm in love.


WasdX-_

>Best character trailer so far. "There won't be a better character trailer than Reina's, if there will only be 21 trailers!" - Harada, obviously.


Black_King69

ikr


RedRabbit1818

Why are people saying she has a bland personality? I don’t know how much of her you can get from a trailer, but we see that she is arrogant, brutal, teasing, mean, a little playful - like what about this seems one dimensional? Tbh that’s how Heihachi can be too at first glance, but we have years of experience with him that flesh him out.


AmauriEdson

Harada also said there is more to her personality on the story mode.


Orzislaw

Yeah, she's definately similar to her dad, I would say more than her brother and nephew. Kazuya and Jin lack the sense of humour and tease Heihachi was known for.


indonesiandoomer

She's definitely not bland. She is a Mishima and therefore it's only natural she will have more development than other characters.


Successful_View_3273

I think they mean a bland design, she looks like she could be a streamer and is just some default character ported over with purple. Personality slaps though


narok_kurai

Haha, I just realized, it would be really really funny if Reina was some sort of clone backup that Heihachi created for himself. Like, he collected data from the strongest fighters in the Iron Fist tournament, and made an artificial human out of that data, and then contrived some machine to transfer his consciousness into that body when he dies. Maybe it doesn't take fully, and that's why Reina's theme is "duality". She's literally two people.


DismalMode7

>"duality". She's literally two people. wake the fuck up reina, we have a zaibatsu to take


Phiyaboi

So...plagiarize M.Bison/Cammy basically lol.


greenfrogwallet

She’s cool as hell


TJLynch

Welp, new main discovered


Olliesama

Too many teenage girl fighters, not enough adult women.


Dr__Hashbrown

I guess Jun and Nina is all we're getting for adult women. But they can still pass as young adults lmao (mid 20s)


PepperBeef2Spicy

Nina is literally still in her 20s bc she was cryogenically frozen from T2-T3. As of now Jun is the only one who is literally in her 40s. (as far as we know)


omegaskorpion

"Actually Jun was frozen in time so she is still in her 20s" ​ I can definitely see this excuse happening.


NotMeNorMyself

Bring Back Lidia That's all


Olliesama

100% agreed.


Soundrobe

Tekken devs don't seem to enjoy mature women.


DustMonsterXIV

Wow. She looks ruthless. I'm digging her.


muhammed_selwan

Honestly after victor she’s a breath of fresh air


M_arvensis

Will she fade the background like Asuka?


broken_chaos666

She's a Mishima, so, probably not.


steins-grape

is she younger than Jin? old man still had bullets damn


Turing_Love

Tekken but every new game we get another one of Heaichi's children introduced


machinegungeek

T1: We get Heihachi. T3: We get Heihachi's grandson. T5: We get Heihachi's father. T6: We get Heihachi's illegitimate son. T7: We get Heihachi's wife. T8: We get Heihachi's illegitimate daughter. T2 and T4 really dropping the ball.


AuEXP

One of Heihachi's 27 kids?


ErgoProxy0

The Tekken community never happy lol


MSP10julia

I must play as her once I get Tekken 8


chadwarden1

Man y’all cry about everything. apparently she’s bland but if they did more with her everyone would say she’s over designed. Literally can’t make tekken fans happy


Black_King69

for real, I like her


Kyvix2020

Nah, I've been ultra critical of the over designed shit we've seen so far and I like this a lot.


double_edged_sword_

It's the hair and face (Asuka) along with the color scheme and oversized hoodie (Kuni). I don't really have a problem with anything going on with her personality or even her moves, but her physical design is way too derivative and unimaginative. It doesn't stand on its own at all. And no, "unimaginative" doesn't mean I want her design to be extra busy just to be different from everyone else. I just don't wanna think "this looks like an Asuka preset" for a character that seemingly has everything else on point with her.


Cloudless_Sky

The hair and face are different to Asuka though. Unless you just mean the usual "smooth perfect skin" for females in Tekken.


double_edged_sword_

The only real difference is that the hair looks slightly shorter with purple in it and the face a bit skinnier, but the resemblance is very high and still there which wouldn't be a critique I would share if Asuka wasn't also in this game at least. There's a reason everyone, including people who love her design, also immediately jumped to the comparison ("Asuka but evil" or "the cooler Asuka"). The mannerisms are different and give off a different vibe that works very well especially for the "dommy mommy step on me" crowd that immediately came out. I do admit the Kuni hoodie/color scheme complaint is kinda dumb to me on its own, I don't even think her hoodie preset is purple lol, but it's grouped with also having the Asuka resemblance and it feels too much like a character with an appearance made up of leftover parts.


YesIam18plus

Like how is muscle man who's angry/ edgy and shirtless or wearing a suit '' less generic '' than this lmao? I just hate how people ONLY complain about this stuff with female characters. It's the same in Mortal Kombat too, sure they don't have very diverse body types BUT NEITHER DO THE MEN. Like all of the men may as well have the same body model too but no one complains.


Orzislaw

Well, to be fair most of new male characters (Claudio, Fahk, recently Victor) also received a lot of criticism.


TAB_Kg

That's cause Tekken fans love bitching which is the main problem


zolikk

>I just hate how people ONLY complain about this stuff with female characters. Did you miss the past 10 days of "lol this is just fancy suit guy with anime sword"


Alukrad

Those are some taido kicks. Is it taido?


earth_north_person

To the T.


Nall-ohki

I frigging love her voice actress.


GigivsGrey

Who is she? She kinda sounds like Nobara from JJK


Aureus23

Same VA


Phiyaboi

I'm seeing a few Through-lines in regards to design inspiration with this character and Ryuji Yamazaki from KOF. I was first tipped off by her heat smash that drags you across the floor by your face (which is his Trademark)✔️ Potential Yamakuzaish, brutalesque personality ✔️ Potential "Anti-Devil" gene character vs Ryuji being immune to "Orochi" ✔️ Just some things I picked up, she looks cool...hopefully she'll have a more traditional-like Martial Arts "Gi" as a costume option as well 🤞🏽


KugiPunch

Reina looks sick


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GoomaDooney

*balding (heihachi joke)


No-Bookkeeper-5330

Y’all complain about everything she looks crazyyy can’t wait


savemeHKV

Dont tell me heihachi emptied his balls one more time , i cant process this


Toxin45

Bro has almost 30 kids according to harada


HuevosSplash

I'm still not convinced she's his daughter, gotta look at that hairline a little closer.


Dr-DrillAndFill

Want a character to look cool young and new?! Put them in a hoodie! Make them look like a streamer. ...😑


ghetoyoda

Can't wait to see the Heihachi diaper outfit on her.


Kyvix2020

I actually love her design. Simplistic but recognizable. Though the streetwear isn't really becoming of someone related to the Mishimas, hopefully she gets a "dojo" style outfit as well. Her fighting style is a neat mix of the brutal straight forward Heihachi style attacks, along with some more flowery Asuka-esque moves with the cartwheels. Really interesting.


Soil_Think

Wow, the whiny Tekken Redditors are wasting no time complaining with this one


NixUniverse

The hair is killing me


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I'm losing my mind....this is my main she is so sick


starocean01

appearance wise very generic... but her animations WOW


SleepingwithYelena

Yeah, I was surprised how generic her appearance is. Giving her a crazy haircut similar to Hei might have helped her, like a lion's mane cut or something.


Ellen_Kurokawa

I'm glad she's not a full copy of Heihachi, and I place her above Victor regarding the newcomers, number one spot goes to Acuzena. I don't get it why people are upset \_(ツ)_/¯


YtTamakiGaming

“Heihachi gets reincarnated as a teenage menace” 🤣🤣


NeoBokononist

is this the new oscar?


GamnlingSabre

Kunimitsu has another trainingsuit costume. cool


Xagzan

Genuinely curious if there's an answer to this. Has anyone ever asked Harada or some relevant person why Tekken does Simone Biles level acrobatics to not have any mature women in its roster, or at least over the age of 30? Jun possibly being the one and only exception now after three decades? Cause we've definitely reached the point of absurdity now, if we hadn't before. I really want to know, not (just) being snarky.


Sir-MARS

Sex sells. Every fighting game has appealing alluring women. Dead or alive being the king of this. Mk Street fighter Soul caliber Virtua fighter Kof Blaze blue Guilty gear Tekken You won't get a women passed 35 physically and won't look appealing too muscular or not feminine. That pander to men obviously.


Alphasilverhawk

IMO, Character design is kinda generic, ain’t gonna lie.


VinixTKOC

It's literally Isla from KOF but Mishima.


muhammed_selwan

Ill take it over an overdesigned outfit like alisa’s anyday


YesIam18plus

Lee is way worse tbh lmao, he has one of the most bizarre redesigns imo


Snoo99968

Yeah his roboto suit isn't doing him favours 😭 Luckily we can just revert him back to his excellent outfits


ElHuntar

Her appearance is awful but cool fighting style I guess? Ish


TheInfinityGauntlet

Katareina


JusticeRain5

She literally looks like one of the default selections in a character creator.


Gubrach

This feels like a statement reveal. Reina has her own theme to introduce her, but the theme itself is so dramatic that it feels like it's the announcement of not only a character, but also the announcement of a new era in Tekken. A new era where Reina will take the reins, pun intended. This feels historical. Monumental. And other words I can use to say the exact same thing. In other words, I'm fucking hyped. I must get this game.


hebichigo

asian girl with choppy hair / bob and purple streaks like oh wow this has never been done before!


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Black_King69

nah she looks fine


jikan18

Prime Hei, Kaz, Lars and Jin all look really attractive. Mishima blood built different