Blue Eye Samurai Trivia | 45 facts about the adult animation show

“Blue Eye Samurai” is an adult animated action series streaming on Netflix and is one of the better streaming series in the platform.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the series.

1. Blue Eye Samurai is an American adult animated action streaming television series
2. It is created and written by husband and wife team Michael Green and Amber Noizumi
3. The series is animated by French company Blue Spirit
4. The series is set in 17th-century Edo-period Japan
5. Blue Eye Samurai follows Mizu, a mixed-race master of the sword who lives a life in disguise seeking to deliver revenge.
6. In 17th-century Japan, when borders are closed to the outside world, citizens would never see a face that was not Japanese
7. Except in rare cases of illegal trade
8. Our hero, Mizu (Erskine), knows there were only four white men in Japan at the time of her birth and sets off to kill these men
9. One of whom might be her father, who made her a “creature of shame”
10. But revenge is not an option for women
11. So Mizu must forge her revenge quest while hiding her gender as well as her blue eyes
12. The series was released on November 3, 2023 on Netflix
13. The series consists of 8 episodes
14. The first episode was released on November 1
15. The episode was released two days earlier, on Netflix’s YouTube channel
16. A special version of episode 6 was released on November 15, 2023 on the Netflix YouTube channel
17. It features a largely black-and-white palette
18. It also has an altered soundtrack
19. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% critic rating
20. With an average rating of 8.10 out of 10
21. Based on 13 reviews
22. The website’s critics consensus says: “Visually dazzling while paying deft attention to character, Blue Eye Samurai is a masterfully rendered animated adventure”
23. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 86 out of 100
24. Based on 5 critics
25. Indicating “universal acclaim”
26. Mizu is voiced by Maya Erskine
27. Mizu is the titular blue-eyed samurai, she is a half-Japanese, half-White swordmaster who has sworn herself to a quest of vengeance
28. Mizu was born in Japan around 1637-38 to a Japanese woman who was raped by a white Western trader
29. Shortly after her birth, Mizu was targeted by an assassination attempt, which claimed her mother’s life instead
30. She was given to a maid
31. They posed as her mother, by an unknown individual, and taken into hiding at the fishing village of Kohama
32. As a child, she lived with her ‘mother’ in a hut at the edge of the village, forbidden to go out or the ‘bad men’ would find her
33. Though they had moments of warmth, her ‘mother’ became Increasingly addicted to opium at the brothel she worked at
34. Hitting and reprimanding Mizu if she even went near the windows
35. She eventually shaved Mizu’s head to make her resemble a boy
36. Since she claimed the ‘bad men’ would be looking for a girl
37. Her most notable feature is her rounded blue eyes were usually only depicted in oni or other dangerous supernatural beings in Japanese folklore
38. Her hut was set aflame
39. She escaped, but having heard her ‘mother’ screaming and unable to find her afterward, assumed she was dead
40. The town children, led by Taigen, mercilessly bullied her
41. Eventually chasing her to a cliff’s edge during a rainstorm and tearing off the mask
42. Comparing her eyes to a dog’s and calling her ‘mother’ a whore who killed herself for bedding a “white devil”
43. That night she met the blind sword-smith Eiji
44. He later became her mentor
45. Her regular attire, a male disguise consists of orange tinted spectacles with round frames, to mask her blue eyes, dark grey arm warmers, a dark blue haori tied with a lighter blue obi, baggy black trousers, with darker black stockings and sandals, a white scarf tied around her neck to disguise her lack of Adam’s apple (which she later exchanges for Taigen’s orange scarf) and a plain brown kasa (large hat) with a dark blue cape