While browsing around, I caught this article from Kotaku.com giving out more details of Jin Kazama's new, spiffy costume - designed by famous manga group CLAMP as their contribution to the upcoming console version of Tekken 6. Incidentally, I happen to be a Tekken player and a HUGE fan of the Jin Character, so what's my take on this new look? Read on and hear my thoughts about it, folks.
The first thing I noticed when I saw the costume for the first time in sketches a few weeks back that it was, in true CLAMP fashion, ALL WHITE. Many of their animes seem to revolve around using this color with their costume designs, with notable examples being found in Card Captor Sakura and X. It's not ususual also since CLAMP is composed entirely of female manga artists who have a charm in designing eloquent and stylish looking costumes that remain popular among fashion designers to this day. Seeing how Jin IS one of the popular characters with handsome looks to match his emo attitude, it's kind of flattering that he gets an outfit exclusively from one of the most popular Manga/ Anime groups in Japan (I can hear the female fans screaming and nodding in acceptance already).
Game-wise, one will notice that Jin's new outfit is similar to one of the costumes of Lars Alexandersson, with the exception that Lars is predominently composed of red/ black. It's kind of fitting when you look at it, especially since Lars IS Jin's uncle, Kazuya Mishima's step-brother, and Heihachi Mishima's illegitimate son. One has to wonder if CLAMP intentionally made it as a contrast to Lars, or just designed it since Jin needed some Mishima fighting armor duds while he was trooping around the globe as part of his campaign for world domination. We won't know til Tekken 6 officially comes out on consoles this October, so here's hoping there'll be more costumes aside from Yoshimitsu and Jin in store for the game with awesome looking designs in mind.;) - Timster
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