Shin Kamiya

**Shin Kamiya** is a character exclusive to the *Tekken: Blood Vengeance* movie. Shin later made his appearance as a playable free DLC character in *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*.

## Biography

Unconsciously falling into Hell after his death, Shin Kamiya survived the fall due to his M-Cell activating and causing his M-Cell powers to awaken. Shin later explored around the Pentagram City until ended up meeting Ling Xiaoyu for another time, then Shin asked about her past times after his disappearance for several years. Much later, Xiaoyu offers him to meet one of their friends named Jin Kazama. Unbeknownst to Shin Kamiya about the Hazbin Hotel, he was told that Jin is currently in there. Shin then followed Xiaoyu's path to the hotel. After their arrival, when Shin was looking around the Hazbin Hotel, Xiaoyu asked Vaggie where Jin is, while Charlie Morningstar, who's the owner, explained Shin about it. Shin suddenly met and asked Jin about his past times after Shin's disappearance. However, some of the other Hazbin Hotel staffs also greeted Shin until ended up becoming friends together. Speaking of rumors about the King of Iron Fist Tournament and the Overlords, Vaggie explained him about the Overlords and told him to be careful with them, then Shin follows her order. About the tournament, Shin has discovered the one who killed him along with Sir Pentious and Darth Vader opens it. Shin then joins the tournament to get revenge on Heihachi as what he has done on him. Furthermore, Shin also has to confront Sir Pentious and Darth Vader for being allies with Heihachi.

## Tag Alliance Partners

* Alisa Bosconovitch
* Charlie Morningstar
* Cletus
* Collin
* Darth Vader
* Heihachi Mishima
* Keenie
* Ling Xiaoyu
* Niffty
* Sir Pentious
* Steve Fox

## Character Relationships

### Hazbin Hotel Staffs and Visitors

* Jin Kazama - Formerly friends when in school, later reunited during their time at the Hazbin Hotel.
* Niffty - One of new good friends with her.
* Ling Xiaoyu - Sent to track him down and became his friend.
* Charlie Morningstar - She always attempt to free him from his M-Cell power.
* Alisa Bosconovitch - Sent to watch him by Nina.

### C.H.E.R.U.B.

* Cletus, Keenie, and Collin - Just like Charlie, they always attempt to free him from his M-Cell power.

### Mishima Zaibatsu and Galactic Empire

* Heihachi Mishima - Gets revenge on him for what he has done at the events of *Tekken: Blood Vengeance*.
* Sir Pentious and Darth Vader - Exaggeratedly dislikes them for being Heihachi's henchmen.

### Others

* Anna Williams - Ordered Ling Xiaoyu to track him down.
* Nina Williams - Ordered Alisa Bosconovitch to track him down.

## Trivia

### General

* His given name Shin (真) literally means "The Truth", his surname Kamiya (神谷) roughly means as "Valley of God".
* Shin shares a number of similarities with Steve Fox.
	+ Both were experimented on by the Mishima Zaibatsu.
	+ Both have markings on their left arms due to the experiments done on them.
	+ Both hate being called by their test subject names.

### Tekken X Hazbin Hotel

* Despite Dai Sato had asked Harada to include Shin in the roster but his line lost in translation during the interview, he is ultimately added in the *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel* roster instead.
* The following of Shin's sub-boss that he will face:
	+ **6th stage:** Steve