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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Once Taigen and Mizu begin actively cooperating, they continue to bicker and argue as their relationship deepens.

Been There, Shaped History: In the final episode the battle between Mizu and Fowler indirectly results in (a version of) the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657.

In return, he will spread Christianity throughout Japan. He goes into a chapel, proclaims that he's never had much use for Christianity and won't pretend otherwise now, but says that if he does succeed in toppling the Shogun he will take is as a sign that God has favored him.

Bargain with Heaven: Abijah Fowler, on a lark, offers to make a pact with Jesus.

Tomoyasu Hotei's theme from Battles Without Honor and Humanity plays during Mizu's Training Montage in the first episode.

A Japanese-language cover of 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' (originally by Metallica) kicks in when Mizu is fighting Heiji Shindo's gigantic henchman in episode 6.

Ask a Stupid Question.: When one of the students at the Shindo Dojo boasts that Taigen has won 24 duels and asks Mizu how many duels she has won, she gestures at the beaten bodies that litter the floor around them and asks if she should have been counting.

In 1657, the inventor of the piano was still in diapers, and the oldest known piano to be sold in Japan was made in 1823.

Anachronism Stew: Fowler ships in a large shipment of pianos to conceal that their legs are gun stocks.

Ambiguous Situation: It is never made clear who actually sold Mizu out to her enemies: her husband (who grows terrified of her due to her combat skills and lust for battle), her mother (who is addicted to opium and needs to fund her habit), both, or neither.

History diverges further in the first season finale, which sees the Shogun killed by Fowler's invaders and his heirs proclaiming an even tighter embargo on any foreign contact. While the show is very accurate on details of Japanese life at this time, it makes three major changes to history for the plot: the Itoh clan rule instead of the Tokugawa, the highly limited Western trade of the period is done through four British criminals rather than the Dutch East India Company (who operated openly, if under strict restrictions, from the island of Dejima off the coast of Nagasaki rather than in secret), and Japan has never adopted firearms for any of its armies.

Alternate History: The show takes place in the early Edo Period, with the main action in 16.

In real life, the Sakoku isolation lasted until the arrival of the Perry Expedition in 1853 (the show is set in 1657, almost exactly two centuries before).

Allohistorical Allusion: Fowler comments that Japan might have managed to keep the rest of the world at arm's length for 'a couple of centuries' were it not for his presence in the country.

īlue Eye Samurai contains examples of the following tropes: Netflix also released a Deliberately Monochrome 'Special Edition' of Episode 6 on YouTube here. The entire first episode can be seen here on YouTube. Its first season premiered on November 3, 2023.Ī trailer can be seen here.

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One by one she will kill them.īlue Eye Samurai is an animated series from Netflix, and created by husband and wife team Michael Green and Amber Noizumi. There were four white men in the whole of Japan when Mizu was born. Now, she seeks revenge on the men responsible. All her life she has been shunned, despised, and feared. Mizu is the child of just such a union, the half-breed offspring of a Japanese mother and a white European father, something anyone can see just by her distinctive blue eyes. A child born of mixed race would be considered less than human. Citizens would never see a white face, nor any face that was not Japanese. In 1633, Japan closed its borders to the outside world.