I am BEGGING You to Watch BLUE EYE SAMURAI 

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I love how in episode 5 you're watching the puppet play and you're asking which one Mizu represents, the Ronin or the Bride. Only for the end to realize that they both represent her, and it's the Onryo who she eventually becomes. Such amazing storytelling!

I think making Fowler Irish was also an interesting choice. He mentions how his own family suffered under colonialism, and he's decided to make others suffer so he never has to again. And he also has that Disney thing where he's so much fun to watch be evil, and therefore it's even more fun to see him get beaten into a pulp.

I was so relieved to see it getting renewed. Nothing has hit me as hard as this show in a long long time.

I was really floored at how the show handles disability, esp in how Ringo's disability is just normalized. It's very cool to see that kind of representation.

It's always a relief to watch a show with such dark themes but still treats women with respect. Admittedly, I've been burnt by a lot of shows using a world hostile to women as an excuse to make them all victims and brutalise them without taking the time to make them characters. BES never shies away from how horrible women are treated, but they're still their own people reacting to the world they live in. The contrast between Mizu and Akemi's arcs of accepting and rejecting the role of a woman to empower themselves and find what freedom they can is a great way to set up parallels between two main characters. It started slow, but Blue Eye Samurai only got more engaging as it went on. The artistry is incredible and detailed, the culture of Edo period Japan feels real, and the characters are human in the best and worst of ways. Even Heiji Shindo and Abijah Fowler are allowed human reactions to their situations and it never diminishes what utter garbage people they are.

the ronin and the bride is legit some of the best media i've ever watched. i come back to it so much, it's MASTERFUL

This series is exceptional. A pretty straight-up revenge story with so much more going on under the hood, it took me completely by surprise and I’m so excited that it’s been renewed already. It just shows how big the fan base is for work like this.

If Netflix cancels this show early, I vow to devote my life to getting its vengeance.

I was really impressed by the villain. It would have been easy to make him one dimensional but he had some depth to him. He's not what i'd call sympathetic but he is compelling.

This came out exactly when Everything Great About came out with a video for Blue Eye Samurai at the same time. Thats perfect timing

season 2 has been confirmed and I'm so happy! I cant wait to see Mizu start the Great Fire of London!

Two things I've wondered: 1: What if there was a 5th white person; what if Mizu's mom was white. We don't really have a solid fact that her father is the white one. 2: Will Season 2 be the hunt down of Violet, or picks up after Fowler.

Everyone knows revenge stories dont end well but we can understand Mizu's desire for revenge (which almost makes her seem supernatural) because in the puppet show episode we see that the only chance at a normal happy life she had was ruined due to her being Biracial

Fantastic show. Between Arcane, Nimona, and BES, I'm hopeful that Netflix is gonna give the support needed to keep these works of art going and thriving 💛

The key indicator is if it gets MORE than 2 seasons as Netflix is usually happy to pick up a series for 2 seasons unless it’s an absolute dog. Very few Netflix shows make it past season 2.

I like are how much Mizu loses and is injured while showing they are the best and most deadly. I don't feel like they have plot armor like with other protagonists. It truly works, you feel the danger.

The puppet show alone was better than a lot of entire shows

ALWAYS a treat to see you spread positive word on new gems like this. And the fact this managed to beat the odds and get a renewal is something else entirely. I need to check it out.

I feel like the modern songs, and especially the Japanese cover of "for whom the bell tolls" are good choices. It fits with the theme of the show. The modern west clashing with feudal Japan

3:50 - “vague, revenge-driven path” i love the revenge motive. compared to the effective but simplistic inciting incidents of revenge plots like Kill Bill or John Wick, wanting to kill your creator because you hate yourself is fucking epic; it’s it’s Freud, it’s Nietszche, it’s Paradise Lost - it has the durably compelling metaphysical drive of a biblical parable

Finally you are talking about blue Eye samurai. This was such a shockingly great series that exceeded every expectation I could have asked of it. Season 2 couldn't come sooner.

I almost didn't watch it, I scrolled past the miniature on Netflix. But then my classmates started talking about it. I study 3D animation cinema and everyone was impressed on every level

I was very much not ready for the emotional gut punch I received from the Ronin and the Bride episode, its gonna stick with me for a long time I think

I loved the show. When The Ronin and The Bride came on I was wondering what was going on, I want to see the epic fight against the claw army. But, at the end of that episode I just kind of sat there stunned and thought this is one of the best shows I've ever seen.

I’m so happy to see more people talking about this masterpiece of a show!!

“This series BLUE me away…” I see what you did there xD

I appreciate you calling out episode 5 specifically in this review. It is top tier television, sitting at the very top with the likes of Ozymandias, Plan & Execution, and the Sopranos finale. Everyone should watch this show, even more people should watch that particular episode.

This show is a goddamn masterpiece. Mizu might be my favorite protagonist of all time. A tragic, hardened, flawed, human, badass. What's so unique and interesting about her revenge story compared to others, is the reasoning behind her revenge. Is it to avenge her mother? Well, no, because she meets her "mother," who is still alive, and she turns out to be a self-serving, largely uncaring woman, and ends up reinforcing Mizu's view of other people, but more importantly her view of herself. Because of her life experiences, Mizu considers herself an unlovable monster, a mixed breed who was never meant to be born. And that is what drives her revenge. She resents the fact that she was ever born, and wants to punish the one responsible for bringing her into the world as she is. It's her own self-hatred turned outward, and its just so damn tragic and beautiful and I love this story so much...

There's barely a single frame in the entire show that you couldn't turn into a poster. It's stunning.

The creator went to the animation studio dressed in traditional Japanese women’s clothing to show how the clothes move on the body when it’s moving.

I am on my third watch-through (and I've probably watched "Hammerscale" five times). It is by far the best animated series I've seen in years, and absolutely the most beautiful. It's just tremendous.

In a world where even live action can't follow the rules of physics (cough *Fast & Furious * cough), it's amazing they took the time to animate around actual live scenes, in order to keep it realistic. This show was an absolute gem to discover.

This is anfucking awesome show, and I was fucking flabbergasted when they played enter sandman by metallica out of nowhere, at a crucial scene. Amazing stuff

I need more videos on the Blue Samurai 🫵😡‼️

Pantheon, this, Scavengers Reign, Pluto...really a great year for animation

The fact that Critical drinker and Johnny 2 Cellos recommend this show already tells me this is a banger.

Vic thank you so much for making these interview with Jane and Brian!! I love how you have this natural flow of the conversation, yet still having structure and picking up the points on the spot. Jane is so wonderful and envigorating with her bursting energy about the projects, the craft she’s mastering for so long. This is trully inspiring to see! And the industry insights are very cool too! I also wanted to notice how ironic nowaday industry is to be honest. From hearing the stories of both Jane and Brian they have worked on so many things and different artistic fields (Jane mentioned her comics, clean up, character design, live-action vs animation storyboarding; Brian was talking about storyboarding, character designing, fanarts, he also wrote and illustrated his own books). And having it all come together in their leading positions where they have an upper-hand not only in the industry but also in good communication and management skills, which is sounds very multipotential to me. And yet the multipotentiality of new artists today is still viewed as a con. Everyone wants the new artist to fit in properly to the industry standard that changes faster than a speed of light, when all most artist want is to work on their craft and be excited for the project. Gosh the irony here

I just finished it, it was amazing. Entered "the bests" list with Arcane!!!

Great review! I love this series so much - so relieved it's been renewed! :D

As for people questioning the choice of modern music i honestly think its thematically fitting that theres some modern western songs. Since the main conflict at the end of the show is "modern" western influences on traditional Japanese culture. Also i liked all the choices the training montage being a bit of a call back to Japanese inspired Kill Bill, Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie by Black Cats was just fun in that fight scenes, and the Japanese cover of Whom the Bell Tolls was bad ass too

more blue eye samurai appreciation?? well, don’t mind if i do!

I know I'm late to this video but I just finished the show and man this second season will be peak. Also very happy to see you bring up Scavengeres Reign that was one of my favorites from last year but it got like zero publicity, hope you're still working on a full video for that

I totally binged this in like 2 days. I liked the violence and the drama of it. It was also cool to see characters with disabilities be fleshed out and 3-dimensional. Not just the token character with xyz thing. It did suffer from one at a time bad guy syndrome, but the fight choreography was epic. And as a D&D nerd, I totally want to steal the multi level tower from the end and make it into a dungeon crawl

I’m so happy you reviewed this. I absolutely loved this series!

It’s so hard for me to watch an entirely new show because I HATE waiting for the next season (if it ever happens), but I’m so happy that I did! This show is so complex that it’s impossible to sum up in a singular video. I look forward to your character studies!

Thank you so much for making this video! I had never heard of the show and as soon as you dropped the spoiler that its not just another man out for revenge story I spent the day bingeing it and am utterly in love! ❤ on a hunt for more analysid and discussion of it now.thanks for the new obsession!!

This show was so good it made me feel guilty for watching the pirated version

This video really helpd me feel better about my bare-bones animation desk. It works well with my current skill level and I wanna keep using it until I eventually outgrow it

Finally more people making vids on this I saw it the day it came out I was just super bored knew nothing about it and then binged the whole thing lol

Words cannot explain how much I love this sho. Johnnys review is one of the better reviews i've seen out there. Thankyou for the vid

the more modern needle drops are just straight up 4th wall breaking Kill Bill references and its great, plus the Japanese cover of For Whom The Bell Tolls, its just straight up the rule of cool. it may be a little out of place, but who cares, rock on!

I’m so glad ur covering this show. Been watching it since it dropped not understanding why.

Johnny, I just finished it and I think you’ll really like it: please watch (and maybe make some content about) Carol and the End of the World. It feels really really special and I think you’d like it (based on your content, at least) Either way, great video as usually. Keep it up!

Just finished the show yesterday!!! Incredible show!!!

I can’t remember the last time I’ve been this invested in a show. It’s riveting and so masterfully put together. I hope it gets all the seasons it needs to tell it’s story, it has the potential to be an all time classic.

I saw episode 1 today. I’m so excited.

I don't think it's fair to call this show "horny" in places. Nudity is much more normalised in Japanese society and many period pieces (Western and Eastern) treat sex as a tool for negotiation on top of romance. I didn't ever find the nudity or sex in this to be particularly "sexualised". In some cases it's just a character being nude through necessity (bathing or the nude/awakening festival), other times it's woven into narrative devices, especially Akemi. I didn't ever really feel the sexual/nude scenes were for any reason other than to supplement the story (e.g. Mizu's vulnerability, Akemi establishing her control)

This show was such a treat to watch, the style and story telling was amazing!

Yes it is! Its amazing! You're awesome too man!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤

Thank you for this recommendation, this show is incredible and I would not have started watching it without this video

The animation and art is beautiful. The sound design and music choices are spot on. The writing and character development is exemplary. The setting and attention to detail, and the respect for history is laudable. BES is a truly excellent show, made well, by really talented people. Can’t wait for the next series.

"Blue Eye Samurai seems to be the first one to not only have hit and found success, but also found studio support..." Arcane?

I would love to see a deep dive into Carole & the End of the World. I got into it blind and it really sucked me into the characters. I want to see it continue until the very end of the world depicted in it. It contains such a fantastic character study as well as an incredible what-if scenario.

YES! Primal and Pantheon in the first few seconds of the video. It genuinely upsets me that no one is talking about these shows. It's a brief reference but I'll take it

Grabs you from the very start...one of the best series currently out there. Just as enjoyable on the repeat.

This has become one of my favorite adult animations. I stumbled across it by pure accident.

Thank you for recommending this show. I loved it.

I would love to see you do character studies on Blue Eye Samuri! I would really love to see that!!

I put this on my list the other day. I’ll check it out

that questionable needle drop is a reference to this show's biggest inspiration KILL BILL. and no review i have seen yet brings it up. not only is the music a reference but mizu's incredible will to push on despite the odds and blinding mindset of revenge is pretty much taken from the character the bride in kill bill. and the action scenes were also inspired from that movie. i knew we were gonna get a wilhelm scream somewhere in episode 5 as i was watching it cus that episode's big fight was based on the big crazy 88 fight in kill bill. We're getting to a point where people are not old enough to remember kill bill or are starting to forget about how influential it is. kill BIll's the bride was a strong female lead protagonist, long before that term was widely use on the internet. But not the first either.

I just finished watching Blue Eye Samurai and I love it

I seen the hole thing when it came out it is the best I’ve seen in a good minute

I just finished it and will say it was gorgeous and the writing, character development, and overall story is amazing. It is more of a work of art than it is a netflix series you feel

The character development is amazing

What an amazing show! Couldn’t stop until it ended

This show was so emotional, the main character, Mizu, really hits home with how much life kept putting him/her down. The writing was so good, kept me on edge because it really feels like any of them could die or get wounded badly, wad so gruesome

This show blew me away. One of the best animated shows of the year, if not ever. The characters and their motivations were so well defined and believable, the world felt real and lived in, and the animated combat was so well done (in a behind the scenes video they showed that they filmed the combat irl then animated over it). I did not expect this show to be as good as it was.

Pretty sure the choice to use that particular music during the "training montage" is a reference/tribute to Kill Bill. It made me laugh and kinda roll my eyes when I first saw it, and I saw what they were doing, but I do agree it's not for everybody and could have been avoided in favor of other, more subtle references (the duel with Tegan and the fight in the pleasure house).

Yes yes yes!! I have recommended it to everyone!!

I love this show so much it reminds of Vagabond and I'm so happy it got renewed for a second season

I'm pausing your video half way in to go give the show a watch. This is like Charlie recommending Vinland Saga all over again. Thanks for pointing me towards another animated show!

Its crazy how immediately i recognized all the shows you flung through in the opening of your video lol Blue Eye Arcane Invincible Midnight Gospel Pantheon Primal all these are great

Can't wait for season 2 🎉

Where's the pantheon season 2 review 😢

Omg you have to watch captain fall, it's pretty great as well and none has talked about it.

I loved this show so much I finished it in one sitting 😂 I’m so excited for season 2

Taigen will have a zuko type redemption arc

this was such a great show and I am stoked for season 2.

I want them to take their time with season 2 cause season 1 was phenomenal

Thank you for reviewing this masterpiece, such an underrated series.

It sounds good, but after inside job I think I'll wait to hear that this got a full run and finale without getting canceled at a cliffhanger before I get invested

As someone who has also wached blue eye samurai I am also begging people to watch this

Blue Eye Samurai blew me away. It’s gorgeous and amazing.

Watched the whole thing and I’m obsessed

Showed this show to my mom (40s) & dad (50s) who both don't always like new shows or films. They love it.

This is an amazing show and god knows I am a difficult person to impress. Thanks to my ADD. I always seem to anticipate the outcome of any storyline, which makes most series or films a bit boring to me. This series kept surprising me. It was such a treat. Art at its finest. Love it.

For the first time I have already watched the series before you have recommended it to me 😂

I do appreciate you letting us know about these cool shoes that don’t always get advertised properly 😅

I am now dying to see character videos from you!