Check out these pics of Nina and Jin Kazama! Granted they look like they were taken by a crew member’s phone camera but it puts many of my fears to rest. Tekken has never even really had a much of a storyline to stay true to: A bunch of badass lookin’ people get together for some sort of “Iron Fist Tournament” thing to get whipped by an 80 year old man and his demon son. From the looks at those cell phone pics the character costumes look like they pulled every stitch straight out of the video game.

There’s absolutely no reason visual faithfulness and serious storytelling have to be mutually exclusive when it comes to adapting properties like video games and comic books. My unending gratitude to the costume designers of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Watchmen, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat and now Tekken.

I’m a long time Nina Williams and Bryan Fury fan. Here’s a bonus pic from a Maxim pictorial of Candice Hillebrand who’s playing my girl.