Jin Kazama

**Jin Kazama** is the main protagonist of the *Tekken* series. He fought Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive in episode 2 of Mini Rumble 2nd Round.

## Description

The son of Kazuya Mishima and Jun Kazama, Jin lived a peaceful life until his 15th birthday, where Ogre attacked his mother. Believing her to be dead, Jin swore revenge, went to his grandfather Heihachi and began training for the next time he met Ogre.

While Jin defeated Ogre at the Third King of Iron Fist Tournament, Heihachi betrayed him and was gunned down. However, his Devil Gene awakened, and he was able to escape to Australia from him. Angered by it, Jin swore to take down the Mishima family, eventually becoming the head of the Mishima Zaibatsu Corporation after winning the Fifth King of Iron Fist Tournament.

## Trivia

### General

* Whilst the character Jin was being created, the staff really emphasized that they wanted a "misfortunate character" for future games. The tragic side of Jin's character has been particularly prominent since *Tekken 6*.
* Before the release of *Tekken 3*, Jin was designed to be a character with "determination". At release, he became more of a character with a rather "dark side".
* During his time at Mishima Polytechnical School, Jin was registered in mechanical engineering.
* Jin uses the art of *Kyokushin* style of karate since *Tekken 4*. During *Tekken 4'*s EMBU, he can be seen practicing Yantsu and Pinan Sono Yon Kata.
* After Jin adopted traditional (Kyokushin) karate as his fighting style in *Tekken 4*, his motion actor became Ryu Narushima (成嶋 竜 *Narushima Ryū***?**).  Ryu Narushima is a 5th dan master of Kyokushin Karate and was supervised by Shokei Matsui, a student of Mas Oyama, the founder of Kyokushin-style.
* Isshin Chiba is Jin's voice actor in all of his appearances, even in the Japanese dub of the 2010 film.
* During the events of *Tekken 3*, Jin has a schoolboy uniform; this, with his age of nineteen years old should make him a senior at Mishima Polytechnical School (while Ling Xiaoyu, at sixteen, should be a junior).
	+ Since Jin is quite old to still be at school, and yet likely didn't attend school whilst he lived in the mountain wilds of Yakushima with his mother up until the age of fifteen, it is possible he was put back a year or two in school. It is also known that he didn't finish school, as he left his studies in order to train karate more intensely under Heihachi in order to prepare to face Ogre.
* In his *Tekken 4* bio, it states that Jin travelled to Brisbane, Australia to learn karate. At the time of *Tekken's* creation, Cameron Quinn – a well-known instructor of Kyokushin Karate, Mas Oyama's interpreter, and the author of *The Budo Karate of Mas Oyama* – was teaching students such as Garry O'Neill and Walter Schnaubelt at his well-known Kyokushin dojo in the city of Brisbane.
* In *Tekken: Blood Vengeance*, Jin's English voice actor, Patrick Seitz (credited as Darren Daniels), is also the voice actor of Bob since *Tekken 6*. Incidentally, Jin's stance in his *Tekken 5* CG is somewhat similar to that of Bob's *Tekken 6* CG.
* In *Tekken 6*, Jin is the only playable boss character. Even though NANCY is also playable, it is not playable in the PSP version and can only be played in Scenario Campaign.
* It is commonly established that Asuka is Jin's cousin, as is stated a number of times in *Tekken 6*/*Bloodline Rebellion* (and in the non-canon *Street Fighter X Tekken*). However, according to Katsuhiro Harada, it is not that simple.  Harada tries to state that Jin and Asuka, as well as Jun, are part of the same clan, and implied that Asuka and Jin are more distant relatives than first cousins, despite *Tekken 6* information saying otherwise.
	+ Alisa mentions at Kazama-Style Traditional Martial Arts Dojo that Asuka's father is the brother of Jin's mother in the canonical playthrough of *Tekken 6* Scenario Campaign and many similar references are made in other character playthroughs. This would make Asuka and Jin first cousins, something that Jin also believes when meeting Asuka in Scenario Campaign.
* Jin's hood can be knocked off when wearing a hooded outfit in Tekken 4, Tekken 5, and Tekken 7.
* The flame on Jin's pants has been 4 different colors. Red (*TK3*-*TTT*, *TK5: DR-TK7*), Teal (*TTT*), White (*TK4*, *TK5*), and Blue (*Tekken: The Motion Picture*), with the color of his gauntlets matching the flame in each of his appearances.
* In contrast to Kazuya Mishima who uses "kisama" as his second-person pronoun to anyone (save for Jinpachi), Jin's choice for the second person pronoun differs depending on who he is talking to. He uses either "kisama" or "omae" to Kazuya, but uses "kimi" to Xiaoyu.
* Harada stated that, unlike Heihachi and Kazuya who have a gourmet taste for food, Jin was never food-educated by his mother, so has no taste. Jin apparently said his mother's cooking was so bad it used to kill the ingredients twice over.

### XVX

Jin is the second Tekken character to appear, after Bruce Irvin.