Blue Eye Samurai

A Thing I’ve Watched 06/24: Blue Eye Samurai

A very much adult animation piece about a mixed-race japanese outcast on a quest for revenge against the four white men who were in Japan around the time of their birth.
It is stunningly beautiful and well told, but at least for me not at all binge-able: I needed a bit after every episode to let it sink in before going to the next. It is also bloody, brutal, and occasionally explicit, which might be related to the previous statement.

And while I have gushed about it before, I will do so again: E05, The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride, is a marvel, weaving several narrative strands including a bunraku-play together to form what is easily my favourite episode of the season.

I am very much looking forward to Season 02 of this.

The poster for Blue Eye Samurai. It depicts the protagonist, Mizu, a japanese person with blue eyes, a katana in hands, in a wide stance at the end of a swing. The blade draws a splatter of blood, and all around Mizu the drops integrate themselves with red blooming twigs of (what I assume to be) cherry trees. On the twigs several miniature-Mizus are engaged in fighting scenes with another minature characters. In the lower background Mizu faces an opponent across a chasm, with a group of armed dark figures with antlered helmets surrounding the cliff. Further in the background a pagoda with several outlined figures can be seen. Mizu's upper body is superimposed with three of the other primary characters: Princess Akemi in the front, Taigen to the left, and Abijah Fowler to the right.

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