Blue Eyes Samurai

It’s that time of the weekend when you arrive home and feel the urge to search for a series that makes you fall in love with it. So, you make the coziest room at home (obviously with snacks and blankets), but, all of a sudden, a problem appears: you don’t have any idea about what to watch. Therefore, you sit down and eagerly start to search for the best piece of audiovisual art. Nevertheless, Netflix only has one good thing: their animation studio. And then, the module of the new series emerged on the screen. Your eyes make contact with the trailer, the title is interesting too. 

Completing all the process will take you a big amount of time, so I wish to help you choose an enjoyable Netflix series. I need to be fair and to put a trigger warning since this series is not apt for everybody -it contains explicit contents like gore (a lot of violence and blood) or sex. You can figure out with whom to watch it. 

Blue eyes samurai is a story that talks about Mizu’s revenge, a swordswoman from Japan that was born of a Japanese woman and a white man. Mizu bears all the shame of being mixed-race, because in the Edo period the gates were closed again and the white men were supposed to have escaped from there. All our anti-hero wants to do is to kill the four white men that were on the Island when she was born. At first, we can understand the reasons why she wants revenge, the main one is the way people treat her as they see her as an Onryo. An Onryo is a demon from Japanese mythology that has blue eyes, like her, and seeks for revenge (the show has a chapter devoted to this ghost and its story making parallels with Mizu). Summarizing all and adding the harsh life she had to face makes the plot too good to be true just when new characters show themselves off like Princess Akemi and her relationship with her father and Taigen. Each one develops themselves in a unique way that can make you sympathize with them or, on the contrary, make you hate all the interactions they have.

This series only has one season launched, so all the viewers are waiting for the second one. Hopefully, Netflix put in some news and concept art for us to see the masterpiece they are making, because, like a little kind of artist, the work and effort they are putting in it is astonishing. Even there are such slight details like the colors of each chapter that make sense with the plot (talking about color psychology). The composition and harmony of the piece makes you capable of taking a pause and thinking that on the screen there is a separate illustration, nothing compared to other series.

I don’t want to spoiler you about the show. Even if you think you don't like it, give it a chance, because it was made so smoothly that it became one of the most popular shows on Netflix in weeks. And if you want to know more about it, Netflix has posted more information on this web:

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/features/edo-period-japan-guide-blue-eye-samurai

 

Alexandra Dragomir Lupascu (2º BA)