Kazumi Mishima

**Kazumi Mishima** (三島 一美 *Mishima Kazumi*?) is a character in the*Tekken* series of 3D fighting games. She is the mother of Kazuya Mishima, and the wife of Heihachi Mishima. Kazumi is introduced in the upcoming *Tekken 7* as one of the new characters as well as the main antagonist of the game. She was originally one of unplayable bosses along with her grandson, Jin prior to the release of the Arcade version.

The existence of the character before *Tekken 7* was alluded to twice; the first time was in Heihachi's *Tekken 2* stage, in which their names ("Heihachi and Kazumi") are written on the floorboard of the temple in the style of Aiaigasa, a romantic expression to show love between couples (the floor carving mark itself was later seen again in the very first trailer of *Tekken 7*[1]). The second and last time was in the non-canon OVA film *Tekken: The Motion Picture*, where she was just referred to as "Kazuya's Mother" at the time. Her name was also briefly mentioned in Tekken 2's musical score.

### Appearance

In Kazumi's promotional art, her appearance resembles that of a white Japanese empress. She has a long black hair with a full fringe and is tied in a large Japanese bun and brown eyes. She also has a mole on her bottom right eye.

She wears a white short sleeved traditional kimono dress with a red rope tied in each side of her shoulders and a red ribbon attached on the back on her shirt which is connected to the red rope and a gray diamond designed obi which is tucked into her kimono dress. She has an off-white traditional kimono dress which is tied in a white karate belt on her waist and both sleeves of the kimono dress are hanging loose with flower designs in her sleeves and her skirt of her dress. She also wears a white and red fingerless gauntlets with a golden shell design tied in red ribbons in each side underneath her arm and wrists. The interior of her off-white kimono dress is red. She also wears white tabi which is tied in red ribbons and traditional Japanesegeta. She also has a Mishima Zaibatsu insignia at the center of her waist while wearing the outfit.

At the back of her hair which is just above the nape, she wears a kanzashi shaped like a gold phoenix. During her transformation to Devil Kazumi, her kanzashi can be seen and heard falling off after she was struck with a lightning strike while she was down on her knees and being engulfed with a white haze. It's possible that her kanzashi acts as a limiter device to restrain her Devil Gene.

**Customizations:**Kazumi's customizations are a combination between Nina's and Jun's customization in *Tekken Tag Tournament 2* which she wears modern outfits in her age instead of wearing traditional outfits. Her customization consists of an openly rider jacket with shoulder pauldrons in each sides of her jacket with elbow pads on her elbows. This rider jacket also shows her cleavage while wearing the outfit, high-neck midriffs, short dresses, leather jackets, warmers, gloves, rider gloves, pants, cotton shorts, fitted skirts, western style denim skirts, stockings, high heels, shoes, and boots. She is also shown to have a customized an Angel Halo on her head as this customization item comes from one of Devil Jin's customizations in *Tekken 6*and sunglasses*.*

## Personality

Kazumi is described in her introduction gameplay as being serious and very determined woman who is ready to fight her opponents along with her pet tiger but she is also mysterious, cunning and seductive as seen in her pre-quotes when she calls her ex-husband, Heihachi. Especially when she summons her pet tiger to attack her opponents. Another of her pre-quotes is shown that she was very sad and disappointed implying that she becomes very upset towards her ex-husband for his actions. In one of her win animations however, she becomes calm and a worrywart and sense other presence known to her probably her own son, Kazuya who thinks she was dead and she can't accept her fate because of her Devil Gene. Although when she faces her son in a fight, she convinces him to use his powers which is enough to wake up the city despite the latter wanting to gain more power as his own. Another one of her pre-quotes is shown that she formally bows to her opponent and kindly wants to accept her kindest regard. But in one of her win animations where she calmly wonders while walking away to her defeated opponent and becomes impressed to her opponent's moves.

An interesting note is that, Kazumi also shares her ex-husband Heihachi's likeness to train their pets to fight their opponents which both had an affinity to animals. In Kazumi's case, she trains her pet tiger which she can summon as she pleases as part of her combo moves unlike the latter who trains Kuma but not being summoned.

In one of her win animations, she is shown to pet her tiger happily after defeating her opponent. Same goes to her devil form, Devil Kazumi who happily pets her white tiger.

In *Tekken 7: Fated Retribution* during Akuma's reveal trailer, Kazumi is shown to have an antagonistic side towards her own ex-husband and her own son while she was talking to Akuma which she tells him to kill both of them for their absolute power as Akuma made a promise to "repay his debt" when she was killed.

## Story

### *Tekken 7*

Part of her backstory is revealed in the full version of the San Diego Comic Con 2014 trailer. The first scene shows a conversation between her and an unknown figure(later revealed to be Akuma), several decades prior to the events of *Tekken 7*. Kazumi states that she must stop Heihachi, as he knows that Kazuya, though young, was born with her powers, and that there's no telling what Heihachi would do to Kazuya and others.

She then stated that if she is killed in the process, Akuma must perform the act himself and notes that she doesn't have complete control of her powers. Regardless, she will still push through with the effort, even if it kills her. Despite stating all of this, she remarks that she still loves Heihachi, and that he still loves her.