Jin's rage becomes the entire reason to watch, his signature moves hit with the precision and particle-heavy impact they actually have in the game, not some watered-down anime version. The animation stops trying to be something else and commits to what Tekken 3 already perfected: watching a fighter learn that raw power means nothing if you don't understand the person it's meant to destroy. By the time the King of Iron Fist Tournament arrives, you're not watching a tournament arc, you're watching a kid figure out that revenge costs more than the man he's hunting ever could.

Jin Kazama grows up learning his family's traditional martial arts from his mother, Jun. That life ends when a monstrous demon invades their home and destroys everything dear to him, and Jun vanishes along with the creature in an explosion after telling Jin to seek out his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima. Heihachi first treats Jin as an outsider, but once he learns the demon Ogre was behind the attack, he takes the young man in and trains him hard. Driven by anger at his own helplessness and a vow of revenge, Jin chases absolute power, a path that leads him to the worldwide King of Iron Fist Tournament in this supernatural martial arts action series.