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TEKKEN 6
RELEASE DATE:
In arcades by the end of 2007. No PS3 date yet.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Tekken 6 is now official! Slated to come out by the end of 2007, the latest installment will hit arcades boasting the biggest cast of characters the series has ever seen! Three new characters have been introduced Miguel, Leo and Zafina.
MEDIA:
- Official Tekken 6 AOU 2007 Trailer (YouTube Video)
- Tekken 6 Screens (SDTEKKEN.COM)
TEKKEN LINKS:
- Tekken Official (JPN)
- Tekken Zaibatsu
- SD TEKKEN - TEKKEN 6 NEWS BLOG
UPDATE LOG:
06/06/07 UPDATE
Namco Bandai offices in Shinagawa area of Japan will be holding a private show that will showcase Tekken 6 and a new custom arcade cabinet on the 19th of June. Stay tuned for more information!
06/01/07 UPDATE
New Tekken 6 Screens courtesy of Gemaga ! Click each thumbnail to view picture at full size. SCREEN SHOTS HOSTED AT SDTEKKEN.COM !
05/25/07 - UPDATE
Here are higher quality scans of the Famitsu Tekken 6 Feature:
05/24/07 - UPDATE
Special thanks to Sunlight Yellow for the original text & TeNSaikUn for translation!
Character profile stories for Miguel and Jin Kazama…
ミゲル / Miguel
支配されることを嫌い、一匹狼として生きるミゲル。
厳格な家庭に生まれながら、喧嘩っ早く破天荒な性格で周囲から疎まれる存在であったミゲルは、両親とのあいだに生じた確執から15歳で家を飛び出し、顔なじみのバーに身を寄せるようになる。
そんなミゲルの身を案じ、両親に内緒で会いに来てくれる心優しい妹の存在は、ミゲルにとって唯一心を許せる特別な存在となっていった。それだけに、妹から「結婚する」と打ち明けられたときなど、本気で相手の男を殺してやろうと思ったほどであった。
結婚式当日、両親がいる手前、表立って式に参加するわけにもいかず、ミゲルは教会の外から遠巻きに式の様子を見守っていた。どこまでも青く晴れ渡った空の下、ヴァージンロードを歩くふたりを祝福するかのように、上空を飛行機の編隊が通過していく……その直後、熱を含んだ猛烈な爆風が吹き荒れた。
大きく飛ばされ、全身を貫く激しい痛みに気を失いそうになりながらも、妹の姿を求め必死に教会へと向かうミゲル。しかし、そこで見たものは、ドレスを鮮血に染め息絶えている妹の姿であった。炎と煙に包まれたガレキの野に、ミゲルの言葉にならない絶叫が虚しく響き渡った。
その後、爆撃が三島財閥によるものであったと知ったミゲルは、激しい憎悪に身を委ね、三島財閥頭首である風間 仁に復習を誓うのであった。
Despising the thought of having his life in the hands of others, Miguel sought to live his life on his own. Even after being raised strictly by his parents, the blood thirsty personality of Miguel found him starting fights with the people around him and caused him to be seen as a rebel amongst everyone he knew. After countless arguments and disagreements with his parents he decided to leave his home when he was just 15. He found sanctuary at a bar he visited often. Miguel trusted no one, except his kind-hearted sister, who he cared about more than anyone. She visited him secretly without their parents knowing about it. Some time later, Miguel’s sister told him that she was to be married. Miguel was outraged and seriously thought of killing her fiance. On the day of the wedding Miguel watched the ceremony from outside of the church, not wanting to be seen by his parents. Under the clear blue sky, almost as if it was a blessing, a line of planes passed by the wedding… when just a moment later, a violent, burning inferno covered the scene. Miguel was blown away, although he was in great pain and almost collapsed, he tried desperately to look for his sister inside the remains of the church. When he finally found her, Miguel saw that his sister was dead and her wedding dress soaked in her blood. Miguel’s screams echoed throughout the ruins. Some time after Miguel discovered that the air raid was ordered by the Mishima Zaibatsu, and with furious hatred he vowed to get revenge on the Zaibatsu’s leader, Jin Kazama.
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風間 仁 / Jin Kazama
三島 仁八を倒し、三島財閥の頭首となった風間 仁。
仁は特殊部隊”鉄拳衆”を使った巧みな工作活動によって世界中を混沌の渦に巻き込み、各国の軍事力を無力化したうえで、油田基地やスペースコロニー等エネルギー供給源を占拠する。そして、世界に対し独立と宣戦布告を宣言するのであった。
以来、破竹の勢いで世界を掌握していく三島財閥であったが、時が経つにつれ、次第に三島財閥に対抗する勢力が顕在化し始める。
その急先鋒であるG社を裏から操っているのが、三島 一八であるとの情報を得た仁は、自分の首に報奨金を掛けるというG社の発表を待っていたかのように、The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6の開催を発表するのであった。
Upon defeating his great grandfather, Jinpachi Mishima, Jin became the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Jin brought chaos and suffering across the globe using the Tekken Forces to get rid of each county’s military power and take control of their energy resources, even their space colonies. After all that was done, the Mishima Zaibatsu declared itself an independent nation and declared war against all who opposed them. It seemed that the Mishima Zaibatsu would conquer the entire world until another power finally opposed Jin’s organization. G-Corporation, led by Kazuya Mishima, puts a bounty on Jin Kazama’s head. Almost as if Jin was expecting that G-Corporation would get involved, he immediately announced “The King of the Iron Fist Tournament 6.”
05/23/07 - UPDATE
Thanks again to mukumuku on TZ Forums
Leaked images from the newest issue of Famitsu Magazine have surfaced… and the character that was widely referred to as “Manly Man” is now officially known as “Miguel” ! Miguel is a bullfighter who has a unique style of fighting. It is noted that he hasn’t studied any martial arts. More news as it comes in, stay tuned!
04/27/07 - UPDATE
Thanks to Hamstar on TZ Forums
The Tekken 6 story has been posted on the popular Japanese Tekken resource site, Sunlight Yellow. The news cited is from the June issue of Arcadia Magazine’s Tekken 6 feature. Here is a brief synopsis of the story and character profiles that were posted on the TZ thread:
Story:
The 5th “King of the Iron Fist Tournament” has ended with Heihachi Mishima missing and the eventual winner being Jin Kazama.
Jin Kazama then assumes the role as head of the Mishima Zaibatsu and beings using the special Tekken force units for propaganda and manipulative acts all over the world. Eventually many people become upset by this and it starts riots and eventually war amongst nations.
With the world now at war, many nations lose their power and the Mishima Zaibatsu declares itself as an independent nation.
The Mishima Zaibatsu is intent on conquering the world with only G Corporation to stand in its way. People around the world see G Corporation as a savior and G Corporation offers a price on Jin Kazama to anyone that can bring him in alive.
Just as anyone could have expected, the announced for the 6th “King of Iron Fist Tournament” was under way.
Those that want to make a name for themselves, those that seek money, and those that want revenge. Many different ideals and goals gather while the Tekken 6 tournament is unveiled.
Leo:
o Leo’s father is a world famous detective. Leo wants to become just like her father. Her father ends up missing before the tournament is announced.
o Leo is of German ethnicity and practices Hakyokuken style of martial arts.
o Leo’s mother works in the same G Corporation division that may have betrayed Kazuya. Leo lived happily with her mother until she is murdered.
o The murder investigation ends abruptly and after mourning Leo decides to take matters into her own hands.
o Upon further investigation into the murder, Leo notices that a name, “Kazuya Mishima” keeps showing up and then decides to enter the next Iron Fist Tournament to get her revenge.
Zafina:
o Zafina is a guardian to the tomb of a royal family at a village that has been around for centuries. The sealed grave is believed to protect the well being of the tribe.
o Many martial artists have tried to enter the tomb but Zafina has single handedly defeated them all.
o Zafina follows the ideals of astrology and finds out that something very bad is going to happen, something that could possibly lead to the end of the world.
o One day the village elders prophisized that when two “evil stars” meet, the seal on the graves will be broken and the world end.
o Zafina leaves the village to see if the world is really going to end.
Heihachi:
o After being assaulted by the Jack force, Heihachi wakes up only to find out that the “King of Iron Fist Tournament 5″ has already ended.
o He goes back to Zaibatsu headquarters only to find the Tekken force blocking his way.
o After the next Iron Fist Tournament is announced and Heihachi finds out that Jin Kazama is the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, he is enraged and declares that he will get everything back.
Yoshimitsu:
o Trying to avenge his fallen Manji clan comrades, while going after Bryan Fury, Yoshimitsu realizes that his sword is weakening.
o His sword is a cursed blade. By killing evil doers and villains the sword would retain its power, otherwise the cursed sword will make the user go insane.
o Yoshimitsu realizes that he can no longer use his old sword and decides to use another blade that seals the properties of the cursed sword. He then decides to enter the King of Iron Fist 6 Tournament.
Kazuya:
o Kazuya Mishima has figured out which division of G Corporation was the one that betrayed him and viciously killed them all.
o Kazuya has now risen to the head of G Corporation in the shadows.
o The world is now against the Mishima Zaibatsu and Kazuya fuels the fire by leading G Corporation against it.
o Kazuya can’t stand anyone else conquering the world other than himself so he decides to go against Jin Kazama and the Mishima Zaibatsu.
o Kazuya realizes that G Corporation is very influencial amongst the people of the world now and he announces that anyone who captures Jin Kazama alive will receive a handsome cash reward.
o Immediately following his announcement, the King of Iron Fist 6 Tournament is announced by the Mishima Zaibatsu. Kazuya predicted this would happen and began to laugh hysterically.
Here are some translations of both Leo’s and Zafina’s profiles courtesy of Kurichan from TZ Forums:
Leo’s Tekken 6 Profile
Leo is the child of world-renowned male spelunker, and a top female executive of the biotech firm, G Corporation.
Leo’s father, whom she respected, disappeared during an exploration when she was a child, but even so, she strove to become an explorer like her father. She grew up to be a straight and narrow person with her kind mother, but her happy days came to an abrupt end when someone killed her mother.
Saddened by her mother’s death, she shut everyone out of her life, but the unexpected and inconclusive end to her mother’s murder investigation, prompted her to continue the investigation on her own. Not too long after she started her, she came across the name of a man named Kazuya Mishima, G Corporation’s very own. And as G Corporation was praised as the world’s savior, all attempts at approaching had ended in failure.
News of the Mishima Financial Group opening a martial arts tournament called The King of the Iron Fist Tournament was spreading, and knowing that Kazuya was going participate directly in the tournament, Leo too followed suit, believing this would be her only chance to avenge her slain mother.
Zafina’s Tekken 6 Profile
Zafina, who has great spiritual powers, was born to a group of spiritual warriors with an ancient past.
Since childhood, Zafina was raised to be a protector of an imperial tomb. Several years ago, a foreign army attacked the imperial tomb she and her group were protecting, and Zafina single handedly wiped every single one of them out. Since then, the group’s guru appointed her to be its sole assassin.
In her public life, she uses her spiritual powers as an astrologist, but recently she can only see evil omens, and her premonitions grow more and more intense day by day. Seeking to understand the meaning behind all of this, Zafina sought the advice of her guru, and he began to tell her an ancient tale passed down from generation to generation only to a select few. According to the tale, two evil stars will shake the world when they come into contact, and, inevitably, the two will unite with the sealed ancient evil being protected by her group, destroying the world. Zafina considered the meaning behind the guru’s tale and her premonitions well.
Setting out on a course that took her far east, to the place the evil stars were believed to be gathering, she journeyed with the intentions of destroying them.
04/12/07 - UPDATE
Thanks to Mukumuku on TZ Forums
New details from Tougeki Damashi Vol. 5 indicate a massive overhaul for many of the returning characters in Tekken 6. Some of the highlights from the interview include:
o Animations have been changed for every character!
o All characters have an “item move”, like the Bryan shotgun we saw at the AOU trailer. Although not all of them will have the same effectiveness.
o An example of an “item move” will be Anna throwing her high heels at her opponents.
o Harada officially stated that Leo IS a girl.
o So far Yoshimitsu has gone under the most drastic change. Harada notes that it will be much more difficult to use Yoshimitsu this time around and they consider him an “Expert” character. Part of his story includes the fact that his sword is now losing power and he must take a new fighting style, Kenjutsu from the Manji clan, this includes both dual sword fighting and pure fist fighting!
o A lot of Lei Wulong’s laying down stances have been changed. They look more like Lei Fei and Shun Di’s laying down stance from Virtua Fighter 5. They also changed the properties where Lei can be counter-hit and juggled out of his laying down stances.
o Many changes were done to Marshall Law. It is noted that fans of Bruce Lee and those that know of Jeet Kune Do will be very pleased.
03/28/07 - UPDATE
Turns out Jin won Tekken 5.
And it also turns out that the 3rd character aka “MANLY MAN” showed up in the AOU2007 trailer, but most ppl didn’t notice it!
Also, the new character’s fighting style/movement is something COMPLETELY new to the Tekken series…
03/23/07 - UPDATE
アルカディア 5月号
3月30日 680円 鉄拳6New issue of Arcadia coming out next week? The May issue will feature something about Tekken 6!
News next week!
:bangs head on floor:
02/19/07 - UPDATE
Lastly, a Tekken 6 tidbit… according to many sources Leo is actually a female character. The developers did not specify her gender however when asked about Zafina they had no problem confirming that she was a new female fighter. This would likely explain the VERY feminine look and voice coming from Leo. Also we’re sure you saw Bryan Fury showing off his new artillery towards the end of the Tekken 6 trailer… sources say that the shotgun is actually part of a customization item. By having certain items it will expand your move list and give you exclusive moves based on that item. By no means are these items meant to be powerful but more of a stylistic change. Remember these are all rumors and mumblings at the moment, more news as we get it!
02/15/07 - UPDATE
Tekken 6 is now official! Slated to come out by the end of 2007, the latest installment will hit arcades boasting the biggest cast of characters the series has ever seen! Two new characters have been introduced, Leo and Zafina.
OTHER INFORMATION
o Evolved Fighting System
o New Characters
o New Visual Customizations
o Improved Graphics
o Largest Cast of Characters Ever
o Coming in 2007
o Tekken 6(Tentative Title)
o There are more new characters on the way!
o You haven’t seen everything yet!
More news as it comes in!
, that's rad as shit!"
