13 Best Anime Shows Like Tekken: Bloodline You Need To Watch
Tekken: Bloodline is a successful adaption of the Tekken fighting game, mainly focusing on the events of the game Tekken 3. With the cooperation of Bandai Namco in collaboration with the producer Netflix, it is an interesting series focused around Jin and his revenge.
While fighting scenes are the focus, as well as the tournament-style organization, if you’re wanting more of this but don’t know what to watch next, let’s jump into a list of other amazing anime shows that you might also like if you’re into Tekken: Bloodline.
1. Vinland Saga
Following a Viking named Thorfinn, he is trying to avenge the death of his father who was murdered. Full of intense Viking warfare and melee fighting that involves pitched battles versus pirates across the area of Iceland, Denmark, England and many other areas.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
While Tekken is more about supernatural fighting, the underlying quest for revenge via fighting and killing your sworn enemy are strong themes throughout both.
Vinland Saga sees Thorfinn join the crew of his father’s murderer, allowing him to get close and find out about why it happened, while also getting the chance for revenge via an honorable battle.
2. Hunter x Hunter
Pitching different fighters using different styles against others, it is similar to a large paper, rock, scissors game.
This gives them the ability to excel in certain situations, with victories seemingly coming out of nowhere.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
Hunter x Hunter doesn’t have the tournament feel like Tekken: Bloodline, but story arcs like the Hunter Exam and Heaven’s Arena feature tournament-style fighting.
Like Tekken: Bloodline, it is learning about each fighter’s unique fighting style and finding the eventual advantage over their opponent.
3. Yuyu Hakusho
Yuyu Hakusho follows Yusuke Urameshi who becomes an underworld detective after dying in an accident. Tasked with investigating cases involving demons and ghosts interfering in the world of the living, it eventually becomes important for him to learn to fight.
After taking part in a series of different tournaments, Yuyu Hakusho has to track those who have killed others, taking it upon himself to do whatever it takes to repay the kindness shown to him by characters like Koenma, the son of the underworld’s king.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
If you enjoyed the fighting and tournament tropes of Tekken:Bloodline, as well as the supernatural elements, then Yuyu Hakusho ticks all boxes.
4. Dragon Ball Super
Focusing on a martial arts tournament that pitted all the best fighters from around the universe, with the prize giving them Super Dragon Balls. These will allow unlimited wish-granting, meaning Goku can restore the destroyed planet Earth.
The Tournament of Power puts Goku and his friends against seemingly unbeatable champions from the other universes. Taking place in the multiverse, Goku has to develop his powers to even more extremes than ever before, eventually gaining Ultra Instinct.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
Tekken: Bloodline’s tournament aspect is seen in spades in Dragon Ball Super.
The existential threat facing Goku is slightly different from Jin’s quest for revenge, although it is the case that Frieza destroyed Earth originally and it could be thought of as a massive quest to get the world back, with the responsibility on Goku’s shoulders.
5. My Hero Academia
Being born without a superpower, Izuka Midoriya nonetheless dreams of becoming a superhero, and through a twist of fate, Japan’s greatest hero All Might bestows his power to Midoriya
All Might’s choice seems like a good one, as Midoriya uses this new power for good, taking down villains that abuse their power for evil. The series seems focused on what is good and evil, as well as what makes someone heroic.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
Thematically, Tekken: Bloodline is very similar to My Hero Academia, as there is a fight to be victorious despite facing incredible odds, particularly in the realms of the supernatural when it is hard to know what you’re up against.
A side storyline follows a tournament between all the hero training high schools with lots of fighting.
6. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Following the Joestar family, the focus is on characters with powers called Stands, which act as a sort of avatar, allowing them to fight other people who have Stands.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
In the Stardust Crusaders arc, the characters of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are put against specific opponents in gauntlet battle, needing to defeat villains one by one.
The use of powers, magic and other abilities is similar to the crazy fighters and fight scenes that you get in Tekken: Bloodline, with a heavy comedic element being the highlight of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
7. Flame of Recca
The focus being a high school student who has control over fire, he is descended from a line of ninja who also could control the elements, leading him to enter into a tournament. On the other side of the bracket is his older half-brother, who also has the same ability.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
The supernatural and magical powers and abilities used by the different fighters has a Naruto-esque feel to it, with the tournament theme being key to how the storylines develop, much like Tekken: Bloodline.
8. Ao no Futsumashi
Rin Okumura discovers he is a literal son of Satan, and thereafter learns how to become an exorcist in order to purge his own father. After using the demon slaying sword kurikara, Okumura gains some demonic features as well as having power over immolation.
Ao no Futsumashi reveals that Satan is trapped in the demonic world until he can possess a human host, hence why he sent his son to the human world.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
Dealing heavily with the struggle between good and evil as well as featuring many fight scenes, Ao no Futsumashi is an enjoyable supernatural series.
Focusing on Okumura’s journey to learning about his family’s history, uncovering the mystery of his birth, and ultimately preventing Satan from using him as a vessel to wreak havoc, if you enjoyed Jin’s journey to ultimate victory, you will likely get a lot out of Ao no Futsumashi .
9. Noragami
Similar to Yuyu Hakusho, Hiyori Iki attempts to save someone from a traffic accident only to find out about the world of the Far Shore and Near Shore, becoming a half-phantom, meaning her spirit can frequently leave her human body.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
There is fighting aplenty in this series, often composed of unique and challenging enemies that can cause some real issues for Iki, due to her inexperience with the Far Shore and its logic.
As Yato mentors her, she grows in strength but finds it hard to deal with the competing evil forces. Jin suffers from similar issues in Tekken: Bloodline, as is in the dark about what exactly happened, and must put up with many trials to find out the true story.
10. Fate/Zero
Dealing with the Holy Grail War, a contest where via fighting the prize is the Holy Grail, a magical object that grants a wish to the winning duo, it is an ancient magical tournament where families from centuries ago compete in.
Seven mages summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete against one another, with the main protagonist, Kiritsugu Emiya, a ruthless assassin and someone who will do anything to win.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
The larger than life tournament in Fate/Zero has more at stake than what is facing Jin, but relatively the tournament in Tekken: Bloodline means everything to Jin, as it will give him a chance for revenge and closure.
The Holy Grail War is in its fourth iteration, and has caused widespread destruction that Emiya is hoping to stop, meaning he has to do everything he can for victory.
11. Dororo
Following an orphan boy, Dororo, and the son abandoned by samurai lord Daigo Kagemitsu, the son has no limbs, nose, eyes, ears, or skin due to a demonic pact.
A local man provides him with prosthetics and weapons, and he grows up to kill the demons that took him as sacrifice. The death of each demon restores part of his body taken in sacrifice.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
The lifelong quest to get revenge on those who have wronged him are common themes throughout the series, and in Dororo demons infest the world.
This forces the two of them to confront the evil. This single-minded goal and duty mirrors that seen in Tekken: Bloodline, while also sprinkling in epic battles along the way.
12. Bleach
With Ichigo Kurosaki obtaining the powers of a Soul Reaper, he becomes duty-bound to defend humans from evil spirits and also ensure souls make it to the afterlife.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
The sense of duty within Kurosaki is close to that of Jin: avenge the ones who have wronged you, and make them regret that they ever crossed you.
The themes of responsibility and duty feature heavily in both series, with Jin having to get back at the people who took his mother, and Kurosaki and his friends needing to fight the many nefarious forces around.
13. Kuro no Keiyakusha
Beings known as contractors starting coming out of a Hell’s Gate and Heaven’s Gate situated in Japan and an unspecified area of South America, but thought to be directly opposite the one in Tokyo.
A human known only as Hei, with his name using the character for ‘black’, takes on the power of a contractor and must fight to find his sister.
Why You Need To Watch if You Like Tekken: Bloodline
The mystery surrounding the origin of the gates as well as Hei’s quest to find his sister are very similar to the feel of Tekken: Bloodline. You find yourself hoping Hei will survive and win, much like you hope Jin finds closure regarding his own predicament.
