Yoshimitsu

Yoshimitsu, also known as Space Ninja, Mechanized Space Ninja and The Inheritor of the Demon Sword, is a character from the Tekken series.
== Charactah Account ==
Yoshimitsu is a ninja that wields a soul-rending sword and oddly resembles a samurai much more than a ninja. He has a rogue-like highwayman's personality in that he steals from the rich (Heihachi) and gives to the poor (Marshall Law as confirmed in an official guide). While this was the extent of his characterization at the end of T1, his maiming by a security system while attempting to rob Dr. Bosconovitch's lab, and subsequent prosthetic spinning arm which was given to him by said doctor after he got him out of there, flowed into his purpose for the second tournament in rescuing the doctor again after his kidnapping by Kazuya.
Post-timeskip, Yoshimitsu is hunting Ogre for his blood in order to help Bosconovitch cure his ailing daughter, and then in Tekken 4 he returns to his Robin Hood ways to forge a Manji political party. During this tournament he gains a sworn enemy in Bryan Fury, and has to use a new sword later on due to his merciful ways getting in the way of the sword's desire to kill evil people.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Tekken: Bloodline
* Tekken: The Motion Picture
=== Video Games ===
* Tekken
* Tekken 2
* Tekken 3
* Tekken 3D: Prime Edition
* Tekken 4
* Tekken 5
* Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
* Tekken 6
* Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion
* Tekken 7
* Tekken 7: Fated Retribution
* Tekken Advance
* Tekken Card Tournament
* Tekken Tag Tournament
* Tekken Tag Tournament 2
* Soulcalibur
* Soulcalibur II
* Soulcalibur III
* Soulcalibur IV
* Soulcalibur V
* Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny
* Street Fighter X Tekken
== Trivia ==
* Like Heihachi Mishima, Nina Williams, Paul Phoenix, King (If you count both), and Kuma (If you count both), Yoshimitsu has appeared in all of the main games in the Tekken series.
** Despite appearing in the home release of Tekken 7, Nina and Kuma were not present in the initial arcade release.
* Yoshimitsu's name translates to (yoshi) "propitious"; (mitsu) "shine".
* Yoshimitsu has never taken off his mask to reveal his true face (this is the same case with Soulcalibur's Yoshimitsu).
* In Tekken 2 through Tekken Tag Tournament, Yoshimitsu has secret win poses. In Tekken 2, he only has one, but in Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament, he has two. The same exact inputs can be used in all three games.
** To view these win poses, the player can press and hold either 3 or 4 during the replay when they win while using Yoshimitsu. If the player holds down 3, he will somersault into the air, land, and do a pose similar to his (Shiki Soku Ze kuu) pose. If the player holds down 4, Yoshimitsu will perform a Japanese kabuki dance, which was one of his original win animations in Tekken.
** It should be noted that 3 only works with Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament, 4 works with all three games.
** The "4" pose is also used in Tekken Bowl when he gets a strike.
* Yoshimitsu's appearance in Tekken is based on Taira no Kagekiyo, another one of Namco's characters who appears and is the main character in Genpei Toumaa Deen and its sequel, which were games released only in Japan. It can also be noted that in Tekken 6, Yoshimitsu can be customized to resemble Taira No Kagekiyo. And in Tekken 4, Yoshimitsu's P2 costume looks almost exactly like Taira No Kagekiyo.
* Yoshimitsu was inspired from the 1988 Japanese-produced live-action film titled Cyber Ninja, which even states the fact that Namco was one of the production companies, making it as one of the first Namco-backed live-action films. 
* Yoshimitsu's sword is strong enough to cut stone in half (as seen in Kunimitsu's Tekken 2 ending).
* Yoshimitsu was one of the first characters in the Tekken series to actually speak. In one of his Tekken 3 victory poses, he is heard chanting a fragment of the Heart Sutra: (Shiki soku ze kuu).
* Yoshimitsu and Kunimitsu (along with Mokujin, Tetsujin, Unknown, and Combot when mimicking either of them), and also Master Raven later, are the only playable characters who use a weapon.
* Yoshimitsu has been made into figures and models for every game in the series except for the very first Tekken game.
* Poison's win quote against Yoshimitsu in Street Fighter X Tekken states that he reminds her of Sodom.
* Yoshimitsu was seen without a sword in Tekken: The Motion Picture.
* In the Tekken 6 art book, Namco answers the question about Yoshimitsu being a human in his 'history page'; "Fans often say he looks inhuman, but the character setting is that there actually is a human in the armor". Harada has also confirmed Yoshimitsu is human in numerous tweets.
* In the manuals for Tekken and Tekken 2, Yoshimitsu is never referred to as a ninja (with the exception of his title, Space Ninja) and the manual refers to his fighting style as "Manji style jujutsu".
* Excluding customization items, Yoshimitsu has the most different costumes of any Tekken character, gaining a completely new default costume for every game besides Tekken Tag Tournament and Street Fighter X Tekken (which both use his iconic Tekken 3 default costume).
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yoshimitsu at Tekken Wiki
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