Blue Eye Samurai - Season 1 Review
Blue Eye Samurai is a beautiful series from Netflix, a very good and beautiful animation series that feels so much like a second coming of Arcane. I would say these both are definitely the light that shines bright inside the darkness that is Netflix.
At first I didn't like the style of the animation, and usually that means I would skip the series. But with the news being this is one of the best animated series ever, alongside with the simple plot of revenge, actually hook me in, and I'm glad I did not skip this one. Mizu as the main character who is filled with revenge, is not just an onryo or a monster. She's a person, a human, and throughout her journey we see that side of her. It feels like Kill Bill but with a much more serious, political, and traditional twist to it. It actually feels like watching an old Japanese samurai movies turns into an animated series.
At first I didn't like the style of the animation, and usually that means I would skip the series. But with the news being this is one of the best animated series ever, alongside with the simple plot of revenge, actually hook me in, and I'm glad I did not skip this one. Mizu as the main character who is filled with revenge, is not just an onryo or a monster. She's a person, a human, and throughout her journey we see that side of her. It feels like Kill Bill but with a much more serious, political, and traditional twist to it. It actually feels like watching an old Japanese samurai movies turns into an animated series.
The fight scenes are well done and animated, it's akin to old samurai movies, fast and tactical moves, one strike just death. Most are just like that, and the "Hollywood" fight scenes where it is prolong and feels like "John Wick" is rare and only happens when the characters are fighting an army of enemies. It's cleaned and beautifully animated.
The characters are great, with their own stories. Abijah Fowler as the main antagonist of the first season is also great. He's not some antagonist who just all bark and no bite. He gets his plan going, and is a formidable foe towards Mizu. Mizu is the most fleshed out, Taigen kind of get some story arc as well, and I really enjoyed those two bickering. I wonder if those two will be together at the end. Ringo at the start is an annoying character. He is the over optimistic character who always talks, and just will not shut up. But even though he's annoying, towards the end he actually gets better. He knows when and where is the time to be serious. I just hope that at the next season, he is not as annoying as in this one.
The other part that I don't like is some of the writing. One of the characters died at the end, and weirdly enough it's only this character who gets killed, but besides this character there's another one. Why is the bad guys didn't kill this other one? Instead it just kill this one character which is clear from the get go, that this character is the old cliche of, mentor needs to die. It's a lazy send off to a pretty good character. There's also still some mystery that hasn't been shown, maybe forever or maybe for the next season, kind of sucks. Akemi's character is an obvious female empowerment of "women can be free and not become slaves to men", which I thought was just overdone and fell flat alongside other arcs. Which in one season, eight episodes, are just too many arcs and stories that they want to share.
The characters are great, with their own stories. Abijah Fowler as the main antagonist of the first season is also great. He's not some antagonist who just all bark and no bite. He gets his plan going, and is a formidable foe towards Mizu. Mizu is the most fleshed out, Taigen kind of get some story arc as well, and I really enjoyed those two bickering. I wonder if those two will be together at the end. Ringo at the start is an annoying character. He is the over optimistic character who always talks, and just will not shut up. But even though he's annoying, towards the end he actually gets better. He knows when and where is the time to be serious. I just hope that at the next season, he is not as annoying as in this one.
The other part that I don't like is some of the writing. One of the characters died at the end, and weirdly enough it's only this character who gets killed, but besides this character there's another one. Why is the bad guys didn't kill this other one? Instead it just kill this one character which is clear from the get go, that this character is the old cliche of, mentor needs to die. It's a lazy send off to a pretty good character. There's also still some mystery that hasn't been shown, maybe forever or maybe for the next season, kind of sucks. Akemi's character is an obvious female empowerment of "women can be free and not become slaves to men", which I thought was just overdone and fell flat alongside other arcs. Which in one season, eight episodes, are just too many arcs and stories that they want to share.
Final thoughts, go watch it, absolutely recommend. I heard there will be a second one, I just hope it's still good. This and Arcane is amazing!
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