Asuka Kazama

"皆、ちょうどショーです."

- Asuka after beating some of her bullies

Asuka Jachapa Kazama is a character in the Tekken series who was first introduced in Tekken 5 as a new character and has returned for every subsequent game so far. Other than being his descendant, she is known to be mysteriously connected to the fallen angel, Jin Kazama.

Biography
Ever since she was a child, Asuka received training in Kazama-styled traditional martial arts from her mother. Asuka was well known around Osaka and Tokyo for breaking up fights in the neighbourhood or starting them.

Upon returning home one day, Asuka found her mother dead on the ground. She learned from a detective that a Chinese assassin named Feng Wei, under her own father's orders, killed her.

Several days later, an Interpol detective from Hong Kong came to investigate the incident, mentioning that the suspect is most likely planning to enter The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Upon hearing this, Asuka decides that she will also enter the tournament.

Another day later, her great grandfather Jinpachi Mishima thanked her for entering the King of the Iron Fist Tournament, saying he hopes she will put an end to the Devil Gene corrupting his body.

Asuka entered The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 in order to avenge her mother, who was killed by Feng Wei under orders of Daiko Mishima, but to her dismay, they were nowhere to be found, and, as the tournament ended with Jinpachi's death, she returned to her calm and normal life, disappointed.

However, her life didn't stay peaceful for long, as Asuka discovered that Jin Kazama was the being responsible for the terrible bloodline her family has. She enters trough a portal leading to the Never Never Land order to capture Kazama.

She fails however, as Kazama escapes her wrath and she is overwhelmed by an army of Onis, but luckily she escapes back to Earth trough a portal to avoid death.

Since they first fought at the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Asuka felt that her younger sister Xiaoyu Mishima was taking the whole "I'm granddaddy's fav" thing too seriously. Asuka recalled Xiaoyu out of the blue a few days earlier when she texted her all high with weed: "Hello, Asuka. I am sure you have heard the news that our granddad, Heihachi, will soon open up a new Tournament of the Iron Fist. I have already been chosen as one of the best things that ever happened to him and I am ready as hell for the competition. No trying to weasel out of it, you hear? You WILL. BE. THERE. I am ever so looking forward to fighting you and beating you, k?"

As Asuka let her rage toward Xiaoyu's presumptuousness be by throwing down phone, Xiaoyu laughed from afar, her name isn't Jafar, there's a bomb in my car, Allahu Akbar. Fed up of being treated like granddady's girl's plaything, Asuka thought that maybe if she let Xiaoyu win, the cute lil Jap gal would leave her alone. But then again, maybe not.

Asuka wondered how she could resolve the situation but came up with nothing. Eventually, when the 6th Tournament was cancelled by Heihachi, she and her lil' sister met up in an abandoned parking lot.

After defeating Xiaoyu, Asuka is shocked to find that her rival is laughing like mad and not giving any fakhs at all. As Asuka shouts at her to explain herself, Mishima waltzes around saying that no matter what Asuka ever does to her, she will one day succeed her grandfather and rebuild the Mishima Corporation, making it powerful enough to either take over the entire world with one stroke or destroy it whole. Asuka can only shout in protest, saying Xiaoyu is insane and that the Devil gene in the Mishima and Kazama bloodline has to stop flowing, only for Xiaoyu to laugh directly at her face, saying that she should embrace the powers of the gene rather than fight against it. Asuka leaves the lot, sad and disappointed.

Personality and traits
Asuka is rather brash and arrogant. Though her profile states that she breaks up and makes fights regularly, she is rarely seen in that action. Her pre and post-match quotes also demonstrate her confidence, as she has it way too much. As stated by Daiko, Asuka was also known as being a "nosy kid" who likes to solve other people's problems - "usually by knockout".

Asuka has a cheerful personality and gets along well with the locals and the other students at school. She is a typical brash hot-headed Japanese teenager. By nature, Asuka believes very strongly in justice and devotes much of her free time being a vigilante of sorts, breaking up fights near by, however, she is nowhere near being a cool vigilante such as Batman or Gregory McCain. Asuka enjoys fighting in tournaments and dislikes people being angry, violent, offended, upset, hateful, bullying and cocky, ironically. Asuka is a arrogant hot-head who wants her town to be peaceful and have everyone who lives there be friends under any means necessary. She fixes the problems with her Kazama-style of martial arts which makes people listen to her by forcing them to eat some sandwiches (knuckle flavour).

Asuka is the biggest rival of Xiaoyu Mishima, but surprisingly, she hasn't had much interactions with the other members of the Mishima Family.

Trivia

 * Asuka speaks in Osakan Kansai dialect.
 * The kanji word for Asuka's name individually means: "wind".
 * It is unknown what is the cause of Asuka's and Jun's abilities to not be corrupted by the Devil Gene.
 * Asuka claims one of her idols is the Shokan warrior, Sheeva.
 * When Asuka first came to America (Concord, New Hampshire to be exact), she wanted to serve in the army and join the Shepherd-Dixmor Preparatory School but decided to work as a paramedic and switched her school the last second when she found out about Daiko Mishima's connection to the school's owner, Maxwell Morris Shepherd.