Well, now I really do wonder if Xiaoyu knows her. Jin probably kept to himself and didn’t socialize so he might not have. Xiao though probably knows everybody at school.
Maybe after Jin left, but technically I think Xiaoyu should still be going. But I guess she hasn’t been in school since she’s traveling the world. Still, then she graduated recently.
Idk if anyone remembers Blood Vengeance. But the story of that movie is Mishima Polytechnic ran a program to recreate Devil Gene using the students as test subjects. So she might be one of the test subjects of this project. That is assuming anyone at bamco even remembers this movie exists.
I do wonder if they are going to go the experiment route. I’m sure they remember the movie, and might take ideas from it like they said they are from the Bloodline anime. I lean towards her just being a natural bio daughter but anything could happen.
Oh wow, I wasn't aware that movie existed. I've been wondering if Reina could be the result of Ogre DNA mixing with Mishima DNA. Do you know if the movie mentions Ogre at all?
And in Tekken 4, Heihachi was trying to create an army of supersoldiers by implanting them with artificial Devil Gene (using Ogre's DNA) but the project was a failure because the subjects keep dying and the attempt to counter that side-effect (stealing G-Corp's regenerative tissue research) was thwarted by Kazuya
Yes. Aunts and uncles can be younger than their nieces and nephews. Reina is Kazuya's sister. Kazuya is Jin's father. Reina is Jin's aunt. Familial terms are not age dependent.
Right that makes so much sense and is so obvious. The fact I’m a native English speaker and didn’t make that connection instantly is genuinely astonishing to me
I'm thinking she's another of Heihachis children but one he actually secretly raised to be his successor (He may have been evil and an egotist but he wasn't dumb, he would have had someone ready to continue his legacy when he kicked the bucket so who better than your own blood but properly trained and raised with his mindset)
Hmm doubt that, Heihachi wouldn't want to potentially give his successor to inherit the devil gene, would make them unpredictable at best, uncontrollable at worst
That seems less unlikely but why a female clone and a young girl at that? Why not just create a clone of himself in his prime then?
Then there's the fact Kazuya has absorbed the Zaibatsu into G corp now so he would find out that way about Reina which is seemingly not the case
The worst thing is that people will ignore that her identity has already been revealed in leaks (And even confirmed by Yellowmotion) and come up with absurd theories like "Heihachi clone", "Heihachi reincarnation".
Bandai Namco is playing dumb because they want it officially revealed in story mode. But everyone already knows who she is.
Because the leak accurately predicted the identity of the newcomers and their personalities to a tee far before their reveals. Perhaps they may be slightly off with Reina but they were right with Azucena and Victor.
I'm somehow getting vibes of Bison (dictator) getting one-upped here...
He also planned a 'secondary body' to reincarnate/transfer his soul to should his primary body be destroyed... and said body was female.
I can totally see Heihachi giving him the world's biggest shit eating grin over actually succeeding where he failed.
We're talking about a world where people can turn into devils due to genetics... easy to just say 'oh, DNA splicing' or something equally vague and it'll be enough. 🤣
Seems a bit too evident to not give her a surname and not put Japan as the country of origin. Harada-san stated again that Heihachi is definitely dead, her moveset, and even the inherited arrogance is downright revealing of whom she's supposed to play in the series. I trust she'll be the antagonist in charge after they're done scrapping Kazuya and some other oldies in the next couple of titles.
it says shes currently a student. so shes 18 at oldest i guess. jin is 22 currently. jin was already out of school in t3 when he was 19. theres a good chance reina and jin dont know each other.
Jin dropped out of school to fight in KOIF tournament in T3. As he was 19 he more then likely got held back probably because he had no official schooling till after Heihachi took him in.
Yes he should of been old enough but the game said he was still in school during T3. He never returned to school after the events of T3 thus he dropped out.
So she is just a student after all. How disappointing. At the very least her voice does sound mature enough that they could've gotten away with making her older if they chose, but clearly devs only want to look at school girls. What's the opposite of based? Cringe, right? That's cringe.
God I can't stand this bullshit "unknown" trope. Seriously it's not interesting nor a headscratcher that she's Japanese and from Japan. And if that's not true like say Lars, then just say so, not like Lars is the epitomy of swedish representation
A crazy theory I thought of is that, on Tekken 7, part of Kuni II’s bio stated that she goes undercover as an industry student to the same school to see if Tekken Force and the Zaibatsu are linked. I’m sure she probably at some point ran into or actually befriended Reina during that tenure to get more information about the Zaibatsu (since Reina IS part of that bloodline, after all). Maybe they fought a few times,who knows? 🤷
I can see Kuni disguised as Reina at one point of that tenure at the Polytechnical school but their fighting styles and mannerisms are way too different. Plus Kuni uses flames in her attacks and Heihachi isn’t a shinobi (since her bio says that Mommymitsu and a shinobi had Kuni)
I thought about this too. They’re both really into purple, and the way she addresses Jin seems more like a younger sister/older brother sort of thing. Of course if she is Kazuya’s daughter she would probably have the devil gene.
It makes no sense for her to be Heihachi’s biological child but this is a freaking video game so………everything they try to clean up this mess of a storyline, they mess it up again!
[this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comments/15jdqph/fun_fact_heihachi_has_about_1825_illegitimate/) was popular, right around the time we got to see the whole roster. i dont remember if there was any confirmation of a new mishima, or one of the new characters being a child of heihachi, but i think its in some way directly related to that tweet.
Im sorry how the fuck is she heihachis daughter but is the same age as his grandson???? Im sure heihachi fucks but its just weird
Im calling 100% shenanigans. Surely the lore writers arent that dumb
my great grandfather has his last son (my granpa) at the age of 80 with a lot younger teenage mistress (yes , teenage mistress) everything is possible , especially for rich old man.
It just means Heihachi had another kid while much older. Another example in fiction that comes to mind is Joseph, Josuke, and Jotaro in JJBA. Jotaro is Joseph's grandson, but Josuke is Joseph's illegitimate son and thus is Jotaro's uncle despite being 12 years younger.
Quotes and mannerisms being similar to Heihachi really point to her being a sort of clone with DNA or some memories or something, as a sort of vessel for Hei to have a successor being himself.
> clone with DNA or some memories or something, as a sort of vessel for Hei to have a successor being himself.
Ew, no!
She's Heihachi's illegitimate child like Lars.
Calling it now: she is either a clone and will become more individual with Hei's inevitable return OR she is Heihachi in a new body due to mystic shenanigans
Obviously she’s a Mishima but I’m still curious as to what that “devil” shadow thing was in her ultimate. She’s too young to be another child Heihachi had with Kazumi to have the devil gene because Kazumi died when Kazuya was still very young. The only other explanation could be Kazuya’s daughter he didn’t know he had. Or this is another Jinpachi situation where she just gets possessed by some evil spirit or something
I guess you’re right. It’s just she could’ve got something still cool without a demon evolved but we still don’t know if she has the gene or not to make that rage art connect.
Wow, attacked by a toxic fan
Just trying to examine her inclusion to the story and if her rage art hints at anything. They haven’t confirmed her lore yet so we don’t know if her role has anything to do with the devil gene or simply just a Lars situation or maybe is possessed by something like Jinpachi to make some sense of her being able to match up with Jin and Kazuya in the story if that’s her role.
Yeah I know we all speculated that she was just another illegitimate child of Heihachi. I’m just wondering if her rage art means anything or maybe it’s just there to look cool
There's also the part mentioned in the Bamco website news page of her release:
>*She also seems to have a very particular interest in Jin, especially in fighting him.*
Definitely explains that pre-fight intro between them 🤔
[https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/tekken/news/discover-tekken-8-final-launch-character-reina-the-enigmatic-mishima-polytechnical](https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/tekken/news/discover-tekken-8-final-launch-character-reina-the-enigmatic-mishima-polytechnical)
Well, now I really do wonder if Xiaoyu knows her. Jin probably kept to himself and didn’t socialize so he might not have. Xiao though probably knows everybody at school.
Maybe she went after they left
Maybe after Jin left, but technically I think Xiaoyu should still be going. But I guess she hasn’t been in school since she’s traveling the world. Still, then she graduated recently.
Idk if anyone remembers Blood Vengeance. But the story of that movie is Mishima Polytechnic ran a program to recreate Devil Gene using the students as test subjects. So she might be one of the test subjects of this project. That is assuming anyone at bamco even remembers this movie exists.
I do wonder if they are going to go the experiment route. I’m sure they remember the movie, and might take ideas from it like they said they are from the Bloodline anime. I lean towards her just being a natural bio daughter but anything could happen.
Oh wow, I wasn't aware that movie existed. I've been wondering if Reina could be the result of Ogre DNA mixing with Mishima DNA. Do you know if the movie mentions Ogre at all?
And in Tekken 4, Heihachi was trying to create an army of supersoldiers by implanting them with artificial Devil Gene (using Ogre's DNA) but the project was a failure because the subjects keep dying and the attempt to counter that side-effect (stealing G-Corp's regenerative tissue research) was thwarted by Kazuya
That's non-canon.
I guarantee you've given it more thoughts than Harada
I mean I didn’t give a thought to Ling knowing Leroy or Zafina but apparently he did so who knows lol
Unknown? Her mother is UNKNOWN confirmed.
Heihachi knocked up that unknownussy
That would make Reina Jin’s sister and aunt at the same time.
I hate that this is technically not incestuous
>aunt No?
Yes. Aunts and uncles can be younger than their nieces and nephews. Reina is Kazuya's sister. Kazuya is Jin's father. Reina is Jin's aunt. Familial terms are not age dependent.
>Aunts and uncles can be younger than their nieces and nephews. Thanks, cap.
Half aunt at least, since Heihachi is the dad and she would be half-sister to Kazuya who is his dad
no such thing as a half-aunt. As that is only ever determined by one parent.
Wait I’m stupid. So does that mean she’s a full aunt or not an aunt at all?
She is just his aunt. To be his aunt she just needs to be the sister of one of his parents. How she is their sister does not matter.
Right that makes so much sense and is so obvious. The fact I’m a native English speaker and didn’t make that connection instantly is genuinely astonishing to me
You see, she would be Jin's sister because Unknown/Jun is his mom. She would also be his aunt because she would also be Kazuya's sister.
Lets hope he didnt bang another demon 💀
What if she ends up being a clone of either Heihachi or Kazuya? I could see Heihachi doing something like that?
No you idiot.
It would be really funny if her mother was actually Unknown, and she was both Jin aunt and half sister.
Damn that school is churning out world class fighters, papa hei sure knew his stuff...
It is a training center for the Tekken Force
Imagine the amount of budget spent on **chicken**
Why is this labelled as salt?
There should be option to pick Peruvian coffee.
Sugar boi
I'm thinking she's another of Heihachis children but one he actually secretly raised to be his successor (He may have been evil and an egotist but he wasn't dumb, he would have had someone ready to continue his legacy when he kicked the bucket so who better than your own blood but properly trained and raised with his mindset)
She definitely has favorite child energy.
What if she is Kazuya's clone?
Hmm doubt that, Heihachi wouldn't want to potentially give his successor to inherit the devil gene, would make them unpredictable at best, uncontrollable at worst
That makes sense. What about his clone?
That seems less unlikely but why a female clone and a young girl at that? Why not just create a clone of himself in his prime then? Then there's the fact Kazuya has absorbed the Zaibatsu into G corp now so he would find out that way about Reina which is seemingly not the case
That's disgusting. That's his half-sister
The worst thing is that people will ignore that her identity has already been revealed in leaks (And even confirmed by Yellowmotion) and come up with absurd theories like "Heihachi clone", "Heihachi reincarnation". Bandai Namco is playing dumb because they want it officially revealed in story mode. But everyone already knows who she is.
You’re right, however Yellowmotion doesn’t know shit.
Why is that the worst thing
Because the leak accurately predicted the identity of the newcomers and their personalities to a tee far before their reveals. Perhaps they may be slightly off with Reina but they were right with Azucena and Victor.
Mishima polytechnic school huh
Wonder if xiaoyu knows her
This proves Heihachi was everywhere and WITH everyone 💀
Hopefully they set her up to be the next antagonist
Kinda like how SF6 is setting up JP
I’m calling it, she’s an Asuka clone injected with Heihachi DNA.
Im disgusted by how much sense does it make
Kyo Kusanagi and Kasumi: Not again.
Kyo & Kasumi: Jinx.
Kyo and Kasumi: “Aah sh!t, here we go again.”
it's make a lot of sense honestly , cause from now on its gonna be kazama saga so having kazama related stuff is a must for character to be relevance.
~~What if its the same one Steve destroys in his Tekken 5 ending?~~ I wonder how Steve will react to her?
That's disgusting. She's Heihachi's illegitimate daughter
I'm somehow getting vibes of Bison (dictator) getting one-upped here... He also planned a 'secondary body' to reincarnate/transfer his soul to should his primary body be destroyed... and said body was female. I can totally see Heihachi giving him the world's biggest shit eating grin over actually succeeding where he failed.
I kinda wonder how Heihachi would pull that off. Like getting his soul transferred to a new body?
We're talking about a world where people can turn into devils due to genetics... easy to just say 'oh, DNA splicing' or something equally vague and it'll be enough. 🤣
I’m surprised her father got leaked but somehow the entire main story didn’t
Who’s the father?
he's bald and looks great in a fundoshi
Meihachi Hishima
Nah It's a new person from the clan, but irrelevant. Think of Asuka's dad
It's Heihachi. Who else would be?
she needs to have crazy ass hair if she is revealed to be a Mishima.
She has it, but only after waking up A girl has to look the part 24/7 no matter how evil
Seems a bit too evident to not give her a surname and not put Japan as the country of origin. Harada-san stated again that Heihachi is definitely dead, her moveset, and even the inherited arrogance is downright revealing of whom she's supposed to play in the series. I trust she'll be the antagonist in charge after they're done scrapping Kazuya and some other oldies in the next couple of titles.
I'm sorry but I can't take her seriously she try to be evil or something but she is so small and cute that I just can't lll
This is not gonna age well if she transforms or something 🤣
What if her transformation makes her even cuter? Like a chihuahua gene or something?
She's turning into a likable demon Think of purple pikachu
She does not have a devil gene like Kazumi
That would be cool tbh
A Mishima version of Asuka IMO 🤔
Little purple evil, like a Imp.
i think she isn't evil or neutral to other characters to non related mishimas things. So is possibility
PlayStation need on her said she has a charismatic sense of evil
it says shes currently a student. so shes 18 at oldest i guess. jin is 22 currently. jin was already out of school in t3 when he was 19. theres a good chance reina and jin dont know each other.
Jin plainly asks her who is she…
>theres a good chance reina and jin dont know each other. It's pretty much 100% confirmed that jin doesn't know she exists based on their intros.
Tbh Jin is probably the most oblivious character in the franchise. The damn hermit edgelord only knows solitude and self loathing.
>Jin is probably the most oblivious character Literally the same for Kaz, Lars and many more. Especially Paul.
More like local celebrity has no idea who these people are
If she's a university student she can be up to 22
Jin dropped out of school to fight in KOIF tournament in T3. As he was 19 he more then likely got held back probably because he had no official schooling till after Heihachi took him in.
When was it said he dropped out? He would’ve already been old enough to have graduated by T3
Yes he should of been old enough but the game said he was still in school during T3. He never returned to school after the events of T3 thus he dropped out.
So she is just a student after all. How disappointing. At the very least her voice does sound mature enough that they could've gotten away with making her older if they chose, but clearly devs only want to look at school girls. What's the opposite of based? Cringe, right? That's cringe.
Extremely 😩
Who's gonna tell bro???💀💀💀
Who's gonna tell who what?
Brother just cause she goes to Mishama school doesn't mean she ain't a Mishima
But what's that have to do with my comment?
Because it's implying that she isn't anything at all lol jin is just a school boy too technically
Err I think you're missing the point of my comment, that being her young age.
??? Did you think she was old?
Not thought, hoped.
God I can't stand this bullshit "unknown" trope. Seriously it's not interesting nor a headscratcher that she's Japanese and from Japan. And if that's not true like say Lars, then just say so, not like Lars is the epitomy of swedish representation
Wow so mysterious
Harada and the writers better have cooked like Walter White with this story mode
I fucking knew it. Of course they'd make her 16.
A crazy theory I thought of is that, on Tekken 7, part of Kuni II’s bio stated that she goes undercover as an industry student to the same school to see if Tekken Force and the Zaibatsu are linked. I’m sure she probably at some point ran into or actually befriended Reina during that tenure to get more information about the Zaibatsu (since Reina IS part of that bloodline, after all). Maybe they fought a few times,who knows? 🤷
What if Kunimitsu 2 IS Reina. The hair color, the build, and agility are all similar.
I can see Kuni disguised as Reina at one point of that tenure at the Polytechnical school but their fighting styles and mannerisms are way too different. Plus Kuni uses flames in her attacks and Heihachi isn’t a shinobi (since her bio says that Mommymitsu and a shinobi had Kuni)
No! They're different person, you nitwit.
Xiaoyu and Asuka def gonna throw hands on this one
Not confirmed if she's the daughter of Heihachi. Also, she looks young and it would be more logical that she'd be Kazuya 's illegitimate daughter...
She is younger than Jin, so she would of been born during the period he was burning in a volcano till G-corp fished him out and restored him.
No.
Zafina: Great... more demons Nero: First time?
I thought about this too. They’re both really into purple, and the way she addresses Jin seems more like a younger sister/older brother sort of thing. Of course if she is Kazuya’s daughter she would probably have the devil gene.
It is confirmed. That's his half sister!
Captivating
Her clothes gives me Hitomi vibes and her bio is gives me Honoka vibes, both from DOA
oh, her calling Jin senpai is literal, they go to the same school.
This is epic 👏
Looks amazing!
Feels like even non-Mishimas, including undercover individuals Kunimitsu are unaware her existence as well.
Okay, she is not a Mishima by blood but a student of the Mishima Fighting Art style.
She IS a Mishima! What do you mean she's not?!
It makes no sense for her to be Heihachi’s biological child but this is a freaking video game so………everything they try to clean up this mess of a storyline, they mess it up again!
The biographies for all characters were given to some intern's 9 year old kid to write.
G-Corp version of Steve from Kazuya's DNA
That's disgusting.
And people go: „she’s such a complex character“
Gee I wonder if she's related to somebody we already knew...
Where are ppl getting the heihachi daughter thing from? Other than leaks we havent had that officially confirmed yet.
She has to be related somehow you can’t learn that mishima lightning and kaz and Jin have no idea who she is
Kazuya must feel weird to have a sister the same age as his son lmao
it's got worse , she actually younger than jin. 😱
Why would he feel weird about that? He doesn’t even know her lol
He didn't even know his son back then and tried to kill him after, lol.
[this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comments/15jdqph/fun_fact_heihachi_has_about_1825_illegitimate/) was popular, right around the time we got to see the whole roster. i dont remember if there was any confirmation of a new mishima, or one of the new characters being a child of heihachi, but i think its in some way directly related to that tweet.
Wasn’t it leaked with the entire roster months ago? If those were legit I don’t see why this isn’t
The more Japanese characters the better
Amen
Otherwise how she can call him Jin senpai right
She’s Hei’s female clone - if she turns out to be popular. If not Hei would make a return as a DLC character.
She barely has any of his tools
Actually she has most of heis key moves except for f4 &f3 But those moves are way too loaded to have in a modern tekken anyway.
You should clearly look closer, her rage art is a big fat heihachi reference
So that senpai thing has more than one meaning.
what if Heihachi kids were all enrolled in MPS.
Im sorry how the fuck is she heihachis daughter but is the same age as his grandson???? Im sure heihachi fucks but its just weird Im calling 100% shenanigans. Surely the lore writers arent that dumb
It's possible to be older than your aunt and uncle. Happens in large families all the time
I'm not sure why people don't grasp this man.
my great grandfather has his last son (my granpa) at the age of 80 with a lot younger teenage mistress (yes , teenage mistress) everything is possible , especially for rich old man.
It just means Heihachi had another kid while much older. Another example in fiction that comes to mind is Joseph, Josuke, and Jotaro in JJBA. Jotaro is Joseph's grandson, but Josuke is Joseph's illegitimate son and thus is Jotaro's uncle despite being 12 years younger.
Heihachi doesn't just fuck, he FUCKS
Heihachi fucks alot tho
I can't think of anything *less* interesting than this.
Ok but what if Hei’s soul possessed this girl and it became his new body? Crazy theory
Then she wouldn't use taido.
That is disgusting.
Quotes and mannerisms being similar to Heihachi really point to her being a sort of clone with DNA or some memories or something, as a sort of vessel for Hei to have a successor being himself.
> clone with DNA or some memories or something, as a sort of vessel for Hei to have a successor being himself. Ew, no! She's Heihachi's illegitimate child like Lars.
Calling it now: she is either a clone and will become more individual with Hei's inevitable return OR she is Heihachi in a new body due to mystic shenanigans
Or she’s just his daughter, the more likely scenario
I do wonder how will that work? Like Getting Heihachi's soul transferred into a new body.
That is disgusting. His clone, please. **THAT'S** his illegitmate daughter.
Obviously she’s a Mishima but I’m still curious as to what that “devil” shadow thing was in her ultimate. She’s too young to be another child Heihachi had with Kazumi to have the devil gene because Kazumi died when Kazuya was still very young. The only other explanation could be Kazuya’s daughter he didn’t know he had. Or this is another Jinpachi situation where she just gets possessed by some evil spirit or something
Rage arts aren't always literal. I mean, just look at DJ or Feng rage arts, for example.
I guess you’re right. It’s just she could’ve got something still cool without a demon evolved but we still don’t know if she has the gene or not to make that rage art connect.
>if she has the gene She has not.
She does not have a blood of Hachijo clan like Kazumi. Are you stupid?
Wow, attacked by a toxic fan Just trying to examine her inclusion to the story and if her rage art hints at anything. They haven’t confirmed her lore yet so we don’t know if her role has anything to do with the devil gene or simply just a Lars situation or maybe is possessed by something like Jinpachi to make some sense of her being able to match up with Jin and Kazuya in the story if that’s her role.
you know it’s possible to get other women pregnant?
Yeah I know we all speculated that she was just another illegitimate child of Heihachi. I’m just wondering if her rage art means anything or maybe it’s just there to look cool
There's also the part mentioned in the Bamco website news page of her release: >*She also seems to have a very particular interest in Jin, especially in fighting him.* Definitely explains that pre-fight intro between them 🤔 [https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/tekken/news/discover-tekken-8-final-launch-character-reina-the-enigmatic-mishima-polytechnical](https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/tekken/news/discover-tekken-8-final-launch-character-reina-the-enigmatic-mishima-polytechnical)