Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix Series)

So, there's a Netflix action show being made called Blue Eye Samurai. It's created by Michael Green and Amber Noizumi. The show stars Maya Erskine, George Takei, Masi Oka, Randall Park, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Song and Darren Barnet.

The show centers on a mixed-race master of the sword who lives a life in disguise while seeking revenge in Edo-period Japan.

https://deadline.com/2020/10/netflix-blue-eye-samurai-animated-action-series-michael-green-maya-erskine-george-takei-masi-oka-randall-park-lead-cast-1234594672/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

That synopsis reminds me of Sword Of The Stranger, but I doubt that's related to this.

I just watched the first episode and it was amazing

OH SHIT RIGHT IT CAME OUT TODAY

This show fucks. (Compliment)

Funny how there's some humor that wouldn't feel out of place in a Disney movie following F-bombs and dismemberment but that's actually my jam.

By the way, Netflix officially uploaded the one-hour first episode on YouTube, as a way of trying out the series.

Erm, am I the only one who feels that plot make no sence? Smuggling guns to Japan to owerthrew the Shogun... who, incidentally, have the largest gun-armed army in Japan, yeah. It seems that authors used a usual "noble samurai with swords against cowardly foreigners with guns", forgetting that in 16th century Japan actually crunched out muskets on the rate even surpassing European, and while Edo period isolation led to decline in firearms use (no major battles, most feudal armies seriously limited in size, and gunpowder is expencive), it remained the major military factor.

It follow the same sort of rules that Ghost of Tsushima does, where it is not period accurate worth shit but adheres more to the spirit of the genre to tell the story it wants.

Yeah I mean considering the other two animated chanbara Samurai period pieces Netflix sent out are Yasuke and Onimusha I don't see how this one should be singled out for historical inaccuracies.

Tbf that's more the genre as awohle. Like if you watch a western it's not going to be an actual accurate period drama about the actual wild wild west. Same with a samurai story.

Yeah, but it still ired me quite a bit when samurai are shown as honor-obsessed idiots, running with swords against gunmen. Especially appaling if its happening in XIX century; Boshin war was actually fought between mainly european-style troops of Shogunate and Tozama, and rifles and artillery were the decisive factor.

I think the more unbelivable thing is the amount of literacy amongst the cast.

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Yasuke even had mechs. Onimusha and this show aren't as egregious.

Edited by Cortez on Nov 7th 2023 at 6:35:02 AM

Just started the series. On episode two. Love Brenda Song getting more work but it’s always gonna be weird hearing Anne Boonchuy/London Tipton’s voice in a sex scene.

News from Variety: the show’s been renewed.

https://t.co/d81ehnxQ4H

Good it deserves it!

I’m not getting too excited… remember Inside Job?

Calling it now, none of the White Devils will have fathered Mizu. Her real mother will have been a white woman, maybe a wife or daughter of Skeffington or Routely, and a Japanese man will have been her father. There's been too much emphasis on Mizu's real mother vs the fake for the mystery of her identity to not mean anything. It would also emphasize how pointless Mizu's revenge ultimately was as it will all have been founded on a total lie beginning to end.

Edited by PhiSat on Dec 11th 2023 at 12:52:44 PM

Bold theory.

Maybe I’m being too cynical. Netflix made a video announcing season 2 to the world. They’re pretty much obligated to deliver.

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Dec 12th 2023 at 10:52:40 AM

With no footage being shown, it will probably take a long time to make. I'm guessing they'll need entirely new background environments and character models for London. Arcane is taking several years and they have the benefit of being able to reuse most of the environments and characters they already had from season 1.

Edited by PhiSat on Dec 12th 2023 at 10:32:22 AM

I have to ask, has anyone seen that one review of this show by that one guy, who ironically has "crtical" as his name? As I've heard it apparently takes the shows portrayal of the time periods horrendous casual racism and sexism, and tries to use it an example of why racial and cultural mingling is actually bad.

I have no idea which review you're referring to, but I could see someone getting the Accidental Aesop that white people are terrible and Japan was right to keep them out based on the very few white people in the series so far and Fowler staging a coup with a really Anvilicious speech about colonialism. Though my takeaway was that everyone is evil except Ringo, who is too dumb to be. Just like a supernatural creature, the White Devils were only able to operate because Japanese society wanted what they were selling.

London has the opportunity to introduce some nuance, though I'm guessing it's going to be portrayed as a Wretched Hive.

Edited by PhiSat on Feb 12th 2024 at 12:12:14 PM

It's this guy, and from the sound of it he was saying intermixing in general is bad.

Edited by Avenger09 on Feb 12th 2024 at 12:17:12 PM

I never bother paying attention to Critical Drinker…

Don't give that man a single solitary click or second of your time, he doesn't deserve it.