Kazuya Mishima Character Retrospective & Story
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2018
- The Kazuya Mishima story is one of the most compelling narrative threads of the Tekken fighting game series. In this character retrospective I explore what sets Kazuya's evolution apart from other protagonists of the fighting genre, and also consider aspects of gameplay, story and aesthetics that show his considerable character development and moral downfall over the course of the games from Tekken 1 through to Tekken 7.
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Fun fact: Kazuyas hobby is collecting sneakers as stated in the Tekken 1 manual and its still canon so he is still a sneaker head.
Yeah Kazuya in his classic Purple suit and a pair of Jordans on! lol love it!
I hope he’s not a holocaust denier like ANOTHER sneaker head who turned to the dark side.
@@akiraasmr3002 If by Wematanye. . . .You mean Kanye, then yeah.
😂😂
@Markov Chain "What do you mean my Yeezy's are dropping in value?? What did he say?? Holocaust?? Fake?? The hell is he talking about?? I saw those shoes in that museum! I know damn well that shit happen! Why?? Why Kayne??"
"Kazuya? Is there a problem?"
"I just lost tens of thousands of values in Adidas stock."
"You mean those Yeezys sir?"
"They were first edition! Now I gotta toss them away to ensure people don't see me as evil."
"Besides that one time people say your Devil Form sir?"
"Hey, I may be the literal demon but I ain't a fucking monster. Get somebody to sell those shoes and then get me Jordan's to recuperate the lost."
"Right away sir. Should we also talk about your son, Jin Kazama."
"That brat can wait. I gotta first worry about my babies. Daddy's gotta keep you safe from the bad man. It's gotta be okay."
"Sir. Maybe you should consider worrying about running the company as well as your sneaker collection."
"Fuck that. Strength is absolute. And nothing is stronger than Drip!!"
Kazuya Mishima is a legend
Shemarlos Scott Like his dad, granddad, son, mom, half brother and step brother
The most legendary of all are definitely by far Heihachi and Kazuya,they started it all
The true King Of The Iron Fist.
The devil gene aspect of story makes it easier for me to feel sorry for kazuya as it's made obvious that kazuya never sold his soul as a kid,combined with all the losses and betrayal he's suffered from. family means nothing to kazuya because his father has tried to kill him multiple times, his mother sent someone to kill him,his grandpa was resurrected and he too was gonna kill him,his gf jun left him when he needed her the most,lee backstabbed him,lars has got issues with him and jin is planning to kill him.He probably wants to become the most powerful man in world because that way he feels safe,as he couldn't do anything as a child because he was weak.The ultimate tragic figure in tekken💔
Honestly that couldn't be more true in my eyes. Behind the devil gene and the villainous attitude is just someone who is taking the role that Heihachi told him by example that he should have. When your father brings up to a mountain and tells you that you're weak and pathetic before throwing you off a cliff, obviously that's gonna send a message. Message being strength is all that matter or, a better way to phrase it, "Power is everything."
Oh my God, finally some legitimate discussions about the actual characters! How is it that you're seemingly the only one taking the time to look at the narrative behind the Tekken games when it has such fascinating and complex characters, primary or otherwise!
I strongly hope we can expect more discussions on Tekken in the future of your channel, you're doing God's work!
Thanks man. Yes I managed discussions on Paul and Kazuya but this series fell by the wayside. I may pick it up again once I've wrapped up some FF stuff.
I've came across plenty of videos discussing kazuya.
There's a serious lack of people like this in the FGC, people spend hours discussing the properties of a character's basic jab and yet hardly anyone discusses their storyline.
Because Harada couldn't give less of a fuck about the characters. The characters went to shit, and development is replaced by cheap comedy gags.
The ONLY characters that get proper development are Heihachi, Kazuya, and Jin. And Jin's is weaker than the first two.
This is honestly some great insight into Kazuya Mishima, as I've always hoped people would talk about him into more detail. I'm glad you made this, really shows how different he really is from other protags and the real symbolism behind the devil that holds him..
And hell yeah he's in Smash Ultimate now!
Thanks, yeah big fan of Kazuya and his story arc, looking forward to Smash Bros too 😁
i feel if tekken 8 came out it should focus on kazuya and his changes throughout the series and maybe get jun kazama back and try to end the whoule devil gene thing that going on with jin and kazuya
No the devil line will live on always Mishima for life
Nope impossible it has to end with someone getting thrown off a cliff
Tekken 8 has been announced and it seems to be a Jin and Kazuya arc 😂😂
They should do it through flashbacks bringing jun back for real would be so hard to pull off
Jun is coming back
Tho it seems there is no redemption for Kazuya
Kazuya under Seichii Ichii was very compelling protagonist due to his resentment leading to his loss of humanity. I'm a little disappointed at Harada's content of keeping him a pure evil character when his childhood is the most tragic of any Tekken character. It's kind of disgusting that he's being vilified as nothing more than a demon simply for the circumstances of his birth while his father, the man responsible for betraying his father and being generally ruthless, gets painted in a more sympathetic light. Heihachi is great for being the object of hatred in Kazuya's story, and beginning the dark cycle which plagues the Mishima bloodline. His character becomes weaker to me if you attempt to brush that in a more positive light. Nothing wrong with humanizing him, but his actions up until now haven't been ones of a hero. Neither has Kazuya's, to be fair, but there is that greater level of tragedy in his background compared to his father.
Agreed
You know who else had a rough childhood? Hitler.
Kazuya is one of the most fucked over characters in media, his Mom planed to kill him, his father threw him off the cliff and all he had to do was earn everything from nothing. At this point, it's no wonder Kazuya turned out the way he did, yet no matter how much he tries, he can't ever be free of his suffering, in fact, he even started to think he needs in order to have a purpose as even he got his revenge against Heihachi, Kazuya probably felt more empty than he thought as his father was not only his greatest enemey, but his most worthy opponent and without him, there is no one left to challenge him. Coupled with his Mother revealed to plan kill both of them, it only furthered shattered Kazuya's world even more, realizing he would be betrayed either way.
Exactly, I totally agree with you. I playing Kazuya since t2 and I really hope that t8 will still have a devil gene deliverance arc or at least redemption before death. Making him another laughing villain would be extremely stupid.
On top of that, it also reflects in his style of karate that I've noticed, and how he ran the Zaibatsu in Tekken 2 and G-Corp onwards from Tekken 4:
He was always a whiff-punisher, unlike his dad who had weak lows but a TON of stomp-out-mids that made him safe on block and were meant to crumble the foe under frame-trap pressure.
Kazuya though, as you've noticed, does a TON of back-swing blows given his unsafe frame data in general, which basically shows he doesn't like to show-off a subtle side like his father. He's completely shameless since then to basically show how much of a threat he himself can be, and in his fighting style he saves those big swinging blows for when his opposition does something stupid so he can force all that power down their throat at their most vulnerable.
Kazuya has not been one to waste power like how Heihachi stamps out his foes with his attacks, he instead just waits and throws out everything in full force instead of wasting power to form a showy wall of sorts.
Exactly, I totally agree with you. I playing Kazuya since t2 and I really hope that t8 will still have a devil gene deliverance arc or at least redemption before death. Making him another laughing villain would be extremely stupid.
You forgot to talk about the "angel" side of Kazuya which surprisingly only appears when Jun is around. The reason of why Kazuya lost fo Heihachi in Tekken 2 was because of his confusion while been with Jun. His personality was splitted between his good side Angel and his bad side Devil. In the official handbooks of T3, it is said that Jun and Kaz were attracted to each other and this lead to Kaz to have a good side so he lost because of that. Is so sad how Harada has mistreated Kaz so much, he had a good side and now he is "all evil". We´ll see in T8, I hope to see Jun again and spell Devil once and for all.
Any links to read this online?
@@tyranmcgrath6871 Here, Harada interview
m.ruclips.net/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/видео.html
I wonder will kazuya will merge g Corp and the zaibatsu together or jun who's status is unknown (😉) appears out of nowhere and becomes first female head
Now Angel is retconned and non canon anymore since the devil gene thing now.
Hopefully they implement that in 8.
I loved it cause now we understand Kazuya’s character and how the story is about family loss pain rage and sorrow And tekken 8 will probably rap
Up the final battle of father vs son Kazuya against Jin.
Yeah I think the revelations for Kazuya's character was great. I also feel like T8 will resolve the Kazuya/Jin feud, which will be interesting to see!
@@AlleywayJack i got my money on kazuya
I never liked the retcons of devil gene and Heihachi's motivation
Agreed
What did they retcon? I haven’t played since Tekken 5
@@nivekm95 The earliest Tekken games had the Devil as a separate entity. Tekken: The Motion Picture shows Kazuya selling his soul to the devil to defeat his father, Tekken 2 had Angel/Devil characters which battled for Kazuya's soul, and the T3 intro shows the Devil confront Jin... by T4 this retconned so that the 'Devil' was a genetic issue and was passed down through the bloodstream from Kazuya's mother.
Eh, I would have agree, but after realizing it, isn't "selling soul to the devil" just a stereotype for a plot at this point?
@@michaeldunlap1032 Yeah I guess it depends on what you like. Selling your soul to the devil is pretty stereotypical... but unlike most other stories where it's done for personal gain or profit, I quite like that Kazuya does it primarily so he can kill his father. It's pretty ruthless and says a lot about his character.
Awesome analysis. I think the tragic hero was spot on. When you look at his Tekken tag ending, he appears sad at first to fight his son but then resolved. I wish the writers had gone that route.
He’s in bois!!
Why am I just seeing this now? This is great work.
Glad you found it. Glad you enjoy it :)
This man is now in Smash tossing people down cliffs.
Tekken 8 should benefit from Kazuya defeating Jin. So Jin can grow his character arc. Then have Lars/Lee save Jin and one of them is sacrificing the self to save Jin. And give some side characters more serious story arc, for example Paul, both kings and so on.
I didn't really care for Tekken until I decided to look into its story when Kazuya was put in Smash. I was really fascinated by Kazuya's seemingly endless rage and I really wanted to know how he didn't just.. get tired. Ya know?
Yeah dude these games are great and kazuya is badass😎
Still annoyed at how Harada wants to paint Heihachi and Jin as simply misunderstood villains worthy of sympathy while painting Kazuya as pure evil.
Like one is responsible for destroying his family and starting this whole mess and the other decided that world war III was the best solution for riding the world of the devil possession/gene. But Kazuya was screwed from the beginning and Harada goes "nope, he's pure evil"
Also I agree, the constant retconning of the Devil/devil gene is annoying. First it was just a demonic entity. Then it was part of the bloodline. Then Jinpachi was the source of it. Then Azazel. Now Kazumi. Like, I love Tekken in all of its goofiness, but Jesus Christ.
I agree with this. Kazuya has gone from tragic anti-hero to villain with very little exposition. His relationship to Jun has been a missing aspect of the games and clearly this came about through some aspect of him being good. I hope its explored in Tekken 8 now the Heihachi arc has concluded.
@@AlleywayJack I somewhat doubt it. They really tried to present Jin starting WWIII and being a dick as a noble effort on his part at the end of scenario campaign. Harada favors Jin and even said in an interview that he'd apologize to Jin for everything he put him through if he somehow met him in real life.
Like, not that Jin's life wasn't rough, but he didn't have it nearly as bad as Kazuya did. Jin had his mother for most of his life and then had friends/rivals who cared for him in Xiaoyu, Miharu and even Hwoarang to an extent.
Who did Kazuya have? Dude lost his loving mother and grandfather before the age of 6, his dad tired to kill him and he was alone until he met Jun. The closest thing Kazuya has/had to a friend in the entire series is Bruce Irvin of all people.
Love the vids man keep em coming
My fav character. So bad-ass and fly (Even though he's now evil)
Kazuya is the best Tekken character ever. May he continue to be the King of Iron fist champion.
The two different devil origins fit together just fine. If Jin can resist his devil genetics then it makes sense that another person might choose to embrace it.
All the scenes of Jin and Kazuya meeting a separate devil entity might be symbolic of a spiritual battle. Another explanation is that the devil gene marks you as being compatible with actual demonic entities.
Ever since being hoodwinked by TEKKEN 1 into thinking he was the generic poster boy, main hero guy, only to watch him throw his own father of a cliff, I've been fascinated him.
Superb vid
Mishima style Karate!
Great video, you really drive home just how awesome Tekken 2 was thematically (also because of the amazing soundtrack), it sucks the series kind of lost a lot of that originality which was in the first couple games' story arc with Jin getting introduced and having him win nearly ever tournament afterwards.
My theory is that Jun has some association with angel and unknown... from her endings in tekken games, see seems compassionate and a good person but from tekken tag 2 she transforms into unknown and has the backwards tattoo of jin who was marked by devil at the end of the opening in tekken 3... which tells me that devil maybe corrupted Jun and unknown is her dark alter ego but angel is her light side from her ending in tekken tag 2... which is why jin can be good and bad hence when he is normal (besides tekken 6's storyline was ridiculous) devil jin is evil from tekken 5's story... kazuya is the key here being the evil and succumbed to his devil gene which infected Jun I think. Though it's just my theory.
To comment your take on Heihachi beating Kazuya's devil form, I think Heihachi was the more experienced and if the fight didn't drag on, he would've defeated him.
Similar to Star Wars, Kazuya on the other hand was the strongest fighter by raw stats. It wasn't about can Kazuya kill Heihachi, it was about whether or not Kazuya could survive survive Heihachi. Given his relative youth and far superior stamina, that's exactly what happened which lead to Heihachi's death by heart failure. I think Kazuya's final statement on who remains standing supports this claim. He too realized why he won in the end despite it seeming hopeless.
Dude.Heihachi was desperate times 10 against True Devil Kazuya,he broke his limits twice and lost his own form while reverting Kazuya to his normal state,that's how desperate it was,he lost his form while HE was hitting Kazuya.In the end yeah,it clearly came down to stamina and Kazuya being younger won.
You have a very soothing voice
Greatest Video Game Character
I loved your video, I would love to see analyze for Jun or Nina, these girls has potential and deep personality if Tekken team take story seriously
Thanks! Yeah Nina is one of my favourites so I'll cover her soon. Next will be Yoshimitsu.
I feel like tekken has an almost masterpiece story conceptually and could easily be redone but amazing
My theory for the Devil Gene sort of combines it's dynamic presentation throughout the games. In Kazuya's story in Tekken 4. After beating Heihachi once again and being led into Honmaru, we see Devil overtake Kazuya, implying they are two entities, but Kazuya manages to regain control and absorb Devil's power into his own, gaining complete control over it.
Jumping to Tekken 7's story, we hear a Hachijo family nursery rhyme passed down the generations, telling of a demon playing in a red river, symbolizing a bloodline. I believe that one if Kazuya's ancestors was given the power by this demon, who continued to live through each generation. Maybe the power of the devil IS an external force and the Devil Gene is the generationally developed ability to master and absorb this power.
Yes but that secret was also lost when the Hachijo disappeared. The specifics of that is unknown, but it is implied that after the incident at the Mishima dojo, Heihachi decided to destroy them in revenge; for using Kazumi, and poisoning his life later on.
The Best!!!!!!!
Kazuya was still struggling with the powers of the Devil Gene in the first Tekken game. I guess it was in between the events of the original entry and Tekken 2 that he eventually started losing control over his powers and alongwith that his self-consciousness as a human little by little, being coerced by his Devil side to give in to the corruptive powers...
No more tekken character analyses ?? These were great
Glad you liked them. I fell behind with these big time, and then started playing something else entirely. I may return to them - honestly haven't decided yet.
Redcoat hopefully you do!
Going straight for the big guns with Kaz huh? Nice. I like it. By the way, do you fancy a match on Tekken 7 sometime?
Yeah man, big fan of his story-arc. I'm always keen for a game of Tekken, doing a lot of Tournaments lately. How are you currently ranking?
Likewise. SnoopyvsSooty is my PSN name. Hit me up. Kaz's story is always one of the most compelling and interesting ones for fighting game protagonists out there because it defies expectations. And so-so on the tournaments haha Been doing more quick matches and what not than anything.
Thanks man, I'll add you when I'm next on.
Well said my friend 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I'm sure the Hachijos took hold of the Soul Edge at one point to create their line of demon assassins. We already know Soul Calibur and Tekken are connected through Heichiro Mitsurugi and Yoshimitsu. Hell, Sophitia, Taki and Maxi are all contaminated by the Soul Edge and could pass its influence to their children so who knows.
Kazuya's final devil form all but confirmed it to me, by having the literal Soul Edge eye appear on his chest.
honestly people in video game commentary could learn a lot from your more classical analysis style
Thanks for the comment and taking the time to listen, I appreciate it :)
Where did you get that Tekken 1 Character Profile for Kazuya?
That's the instruction manual for the first game
The retcon to the nature of the devil in kazuya is comfortably fixed by saying he pleaded for survival and the devel in his blood awoke
Do Jin Kazama next plz
Did kazuya mishima existed in real life was there someone by that name that resembles the guys character and personality
Vegeta
@@kazuya2200 so a Character with vegeta personality did existed in real life
do one for jin
When Kazuya kills Heihachi it isn't with demonic power or the laser blast, it's with his bare hands as a punch to the chest. This has two meanings: the first is that the final blow was emotionally and literally heartbreaking as son kills father, the second is that all Kazuya had to do was be the bigger man. He didn't have to go that far to emerge victorious in his life and instead he's let it slip between his fingers and filled his life with wrath and vengeance. He could've been the stronger man and left
I think you could edit the video a bit more like when you talk about outfits you should use video of it instead of b roll gameplay against a character you aren't even talking about.
I wonder how they will finally end Kazuya. 🤔
It would be cool if Casio and Jen just ended up knocking each other out and sharing their stories of Revenge going to separate ways occasionally meeting each other and just testing each other's strength I would prefer that than Jen just straight up killing kazio because he finally got his revenge against tehachi after all these years Jen got his revenge against ogre so you should have been done and over with he was just pissed at hey Hachi so I don't understand why they should kill one another they would seem interesting if it branched off that way or if taken eight had branching story spots like Black Ops 2 did which would also give Tekken 8 a bit more depth and replayability
educate yourselves kiddos
We all know why we’re here
wait Faust like guilty gear
like he was a doctor. is that how he does all his goofy stuff
Handra or whatever his name is sure did mess up the story with all the recon he did, he just added plot holes man i wish he is not Tekken director anymore
Ngl kinda hope kaz gets redeemed at the end of Tekken 8 of course after jin beats him to a pulp. But then like Jun shows up or some shit and heals him idfk.
I hope he kills Jin in Tekken 8. Jin is overrated.
Here because of Smash Bros