What The Hell IS Yoshimitsu? Part 1 | Tekken Theory and Lore 

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I think Yoshimitsu deserves his own videogame.

He’s a good guy, that’s all that matters

The yoshimitsu story would make a banging anime

"he tells the sword to shut the FUCK up"

I honestly think each Yoshimitsu is a different person. Being that Yoshimitsu is a title, the actual person who takes the title probably changes with time and they keep all the same characteristics.

Let me tell you what Yoshimitsu is - he was a flesh and blood ninja until he lost his arm and met Dr Bosconovitch. The doctor became his friend and cybernetically replaced his arm in Tekken 2. Now, Dr. B then became a member of the Manji Clan, upgrading their tech and enhancing Yoshimitsu's body with robotics. As the Tekken games progressed, Yoshimitsu became more and more cybernetic as he needs the upgrades to fight his nemesis Bryan Fury.He is NOT an alien, hes a CYBORG. The sword he carries is magical in nature, passed on through the leaders of the clan since the first Yoshimitsu founded the clan in Soul Calibur 1.

His character is actually inspired by two Japanese folk legends Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Yorimitsu who were both legendary swordsmen and is why his name is Yoshimitsu. He’s also probably my favorite Tekken/Soul Caliber character.

Yoshimitsu is a sword.

Soul Calibur 2 is still the shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"No Eye. No Ear. No Nose. No Hand. No Body No Mind. No Shape. NO SHAPE."

Yoshimitsu was always one of my favorite characters in video games. I though it was impossible, but now I love him even more!!!

but the real question is... what the fuck is voldo in soul calibur

Yoshimistu does loads of charity work, nice bloke 👍

The Yoshimitsu is a blade that surpasses even the Soul Blades through time and space. If it wasn't, then Devil Jin would be swinging the Soul Edge around.

Yoshimitsu is IMO one of the most morally righteous fictional characters ever created.

Wow the story telling in soul caliber is so much better than in Tekken. I love how you explained his hand was cut off by a lord. I misremembered and thought his hand was destroyed by a cursed sword

6:50 it was at this moment i realized you're one of the best story tellers giving me the greatest story of all time 😎

Someone needs to make a movie series on Yoshimitsu

back in the day the answer was just "Forest Spirit"

Good shit, you've just earned yourself a new subscriber

I thought Yoshimitsu was a Villain. After I search about him, he is a true hero

6:01 You're not FLYING~! You're.... _falling_ with style!

Had no idea Yoshimitsu was in the first 2 Soul Calibur games. Remember I played Tekken 3 and Soul Calibur 1 at an internet café long ago. To think that fact went right over my head while I was playing.

This was quite hilarious and very informative, great work.

Yoshinitsu is Summoned Skulls father.

What is Yoshimitsu? Answer: He is a Ninja, that's all you need to know.

3:34 - 3:40 Really love the editing you did for this part tbh, really made me imagine a scenario like this

I always had a feeling looking at the soul calibur version of yoshimitsu, that he is an alien who lives by the rules of samurai, as a hermit guardian of a Japanese village, shrouded in mystery. He always shows strict traditional, play by the rule attitude.

"a village hidden in the leaf" "Yoshimitsu is that ninja" I see what ya did there lol

6:45 that was funny as shit. Subbed!!

I named my doggie Yoshimitsu. Trained him in the way of the iron fist as well. I miss him.

honestly this is the coolest story i've heard about a video character, i can't imagine any sane person (it's all about preference my ass) who would dislike this. The amount of time and effort put into this is just astounding. No really i am subbing to this channel.

So tekken and soul caliber is in the same universe

Man I gotta say this was a great way to tell the story of yoshimitsu the first, you make it alot more bad ass than in the games abbreviation of everything. Gonna go watch part two :D

AwpWilliams: "come on guys... aliens..." me: *sees jin become devil in the game*

"Yoshimitsu ain't nothin' to play with." He's always been a Favorite Fighting Game Character of mine.

Nice job on the movie, I enjoyed it :) P.S. On his bandages at the end of the movie, there's written "shiki soku ze kuu" (色即是空). It's a part of Heart Sutra and it means literally "Form is itself emptiness". A very popular sutra, and a very deep one.

Thank you for these 2 videos!

Excellent reading, love your delivery 👌👌

Dude...that hurts, SCIII is my favorite game out of the series. The shots man, the shots!!! Awesome video by the way, keep it up.

God I loved fighting Yoshi in the older Soul Calibur games, his A.I would always find some way to make him Sword Helicopter himself out of the ring. When I'd fight him in arcade mode, I wouldn't even attack him just because of that.

Dude, I learned a lot here. Excellent research. It's like the evil of the blade/energy is akin to the warp concept of 40k and thus explains his dimorphism, corrupting, moulding the body of the wielder.

Absolutely great. Excellent research job, Awp. Your video's pace was very well done and the storytelling, hilarious. Thank you.

SC2’s Nightmare design is def the best of all versions to date...that was my best character, in 3 I had so much trouble using since the moves I knew how to use were divided between him and Siegfried

FINALLY! A Video about talking Yoshimitsu and his origins. For a character that's been around so long, there hasn't been too much discussion on him. AFTER ALL HE IS IN TWO DIFFERENT FIGHTING GAME FRANCHISES! Yoshimitsu needs a game of his own or something to dig deeper into his character. Thanks AwpWilliams! p.s. SUBSCRIBE - "click"

One of the best videos on RU-vid!! I can't wait for part 2.

👍👍👍Great job on video loved it now on to part 2 👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥

"Although details of the character's biographies have varied in different games and other media, each Yoshimitsu is consistently portrayed as the leader of the honorable Manji Clan, a practitioner of ninjutsu, and a master swordsman with a mechanical prosthetic arm. The characters have been well received by both fans of the series and critics alike" He's everything xD

So Yoshimitsu is a title, not a name. Interesting.

This was both informative and hilarious

Nice of you to post fan material like this that explores the characters. It's infact stuff that this that make me a fan tekken and before I even could do my first 10 string.

I love his design in T3

This was deep I like it subbed.

AWESOME Can't wait for the 2nd one! Sweet job!

Didnt expect this to be funny as hell and well written, you got a sub from me sir

Just turned into Skeletor towards the end there

Yoshimitsu is a human with a cybernetic left arm and fancy armor, THATS IT!!!

Yoshi's 10 hit combos are the first I learned. King's 10 slam combos were fun too

Great video. Can't wait for part 2

5:41-6:12 Whoa, that's cool how you tied that altogether 😧

why i didn't heard of you before ? subbed, mate

This video is so well done man

wow..awesome video man! i love tekken and your video was so perfect :D

welcome back to the stage of history....

Nice work on the Soul Calibur end of things! Yoshimitsu has always been a favorite of mine in the Tekken/SC series, even if he hasn't always been my main. A few things to consider for Part II, perhaps. In the comments below, some folks are mentioning the booklets for earlier Tekken games that refer to Yoshimitsu as the "Mechanized Space Ninja." This is indeed accurate, and along with Yoshimitsu's truly bizarre transformation from Tekken 2 to Tekken 3, it's probably one of the biggest contributors to the "Yoshimitsu is an alien" theory. A key question, of course, is what "space" is actually referring to. The original description, "karakuri uchuu ninja," translates to "mechanized space ninja," but I'm not sure if the word "uchuu" refers just to outer space or the cosmos. There are some discussions out there that state "uchuu" refers to a void, or emptiness, though I don't know how credible those are. It's basically a question of whether "uchuu" can mean more than one kind of space -- something to look into, to be sure. Anyone have a good Japanese dictionary...? This, I think, is somewhat difficult to reconcile, but very important anyway! Yoshimitsu definitely looked VERY human in Tekken 2 -- behind the mask we can see clear outlines of human ears, hair, and lips. Maybe there are a few possibilities here, then. Tekken 1 and 2 Yoshimitsu could be an alien, disguised as a human. It's also possible that "uchuu" does indeed refer to a void or emptiness, rather than cosmos, implying Tekken Yoshimitsu could be a human... A third possibility, though: how do we know that the Tekken Yoshimitsus are all one person? In the 19 years between Tekken 2 and Tekken 3, perhaps another successor came along, and even another after that. We also have to consider another bit of conflicting evidence -- according to the Tekken Wiki, in the Tekken 6 artbook under Yoshimitsu's history, it states: "Fans often say he looks inhuman, but the character setting is that there actually is a human in the armor." Add it all up, and you have an issue almost as confusing as Poison's gender...

I knew almost the whole story of Yoshi, but had no idea on the SC1 and 2 parts! great vid!

1:45 solid mlp reference, subscription earned, plus I love lore and your vid was the second in the suggested vids under the history of Yoshimitsu from Tekken 1-7 and TTT 1 and 2

He has been confirmed by Harada to be human. Finally after so long. I also had a feeling he was human. He reminds me if Decker from power rangers samurai. Yoshimitsu according to Harada is human with battle suits. Everything on top of Yoshimitsu is non human but everything inside him is xD He's human no doubt, makes sense. :)

the editing on the video was on point. awesome vid as always ^^

He's always been one of my favorite characters, so this was interesting.

kewl more to learn about my fav character

8:37 - If you didn't make a female version of Voldo in underwear, are you really playing Soul Calibur?

Shame...most of you don't even know what "Soul Blade" is...

LOL The title cracked me up so much because I never thought to think that

Awsome storytelling man. U nailed it. 😂🤘

Well ur right he's no alien but only a strange human warrior

From 700 to 8k good job man, that hentai reference killed me 😂😂

7:39 THE SWORD OBEYED

Your edits and narration are awesome!

not even one minute into the video and I laughed at the hentai joke, I like you man I'm subscribing bruh

Used to beat everybody with him

awesome video dawg love the way you put random references like naruto and hearthstone in the video real funny and informative

Great video 👍🏻

7:33 HAHAHAHAHA🤣 That’s Right.

This video made me laugh hard

Nice narration! 😆 subbed!

great video! funny and informative

I dunno who you are, haven't even watched the vid but u got urself one like just for that title, sir

Why so many dislikes ? Awesome video

Freaking awesome research! Thanks!

your channel is so under rated.

He’s literally a ninja with a love of really elaborate costumes

it literally says robot space ninja in tekken 1 or 2 booklet......

Your videos are amazing keep up the great work man:)

I’m impressed. Nice work with this research.

Yoshi: "I want to take down normal humans, let me acquire some Demon-Type Sword from supernatural Motherfckers for this first."

He's basically a samurai Joker

Lol!!! That hidden in the leaves joke did it for me!! You have earned a sub my man!!!

Great video dude. I like the little clips from diffrent animes they add some comedic scenes :D