Why Mizu is Broken - Therapist Analysis and Reaction to Blue Eye Samurai! 

Omg Georgia! I'm so happy that you are finally looking at the show I worked on! Mizu is a wonderfully complex character that I really like! I hope you enjoyed the show 😁

Absolutely. The mother and daughter were still alive at the gate when Mizu left them the hair clip. She isn't heartless; she's buried her heart.

I don't think she lacks empathy, she just lacks an ability to express empathy in small interactions and in a way which other people understand readily.

I definitely hope you do more from this series! You don't get a full understanding of Mizu until episode 5.

Id agree that the bullying definitely made Mizu stronger to a point, but the Mizu we follow through the story is tempered with glimpses of kindness and happiness in between the harsh reality. The blacksmith and the horse tamer. Those times allowed her to 'come up for air' just long enough to not truly become heartless.

The one big theme the series seemed to have is (self)-loathing. Mizu hates who she is, she hates one side of her heritage. The main villain is likewise broken despite incredibly smart and competent at whatever craft he wants to master, he hates himself with passion and lots of survivors guilt on top of that and indulging in every possible perversion just to dull the pain for a moment.

To answer the question. I would say Sword Father made her stronger not the bullying. The bullying made her put on a cold face to the world. Cornered animals will strike out. Even if we say the bullying created focus by removing distraction. What was chosen to focus on was still self destructive. Which I notice happens without a mentor of some type.

I think Mizu is the best character we’ve been given in the last few years. In the show, we don’t see her defining moments until they are relevant to the given episode, but it all tracks.

As someone who was born with a physical disability, I loved Mizu because I completely understand her struggle with the world.

Your costume is absolutely perfect. I love Mizu so much, such a badass and a great character to analyze.

YOOOOSSSS, Mizu is such a fascinating character

Sublime cosplay yet again, Georgia. You make my heart happy! I don't have blue eyes. My Dad did, though. I'm a card carrying aboriginal, who had a tuft of blonde hair. = ) Several boys threw rocks at me in the first grade. (Got my first stitches) Second grade, five boys tired to beat me up. They failed. I can also relate because I have trained with katana. Dual wielding now. = ) My experiences led me to have MORE empathy, though. Not less.

9:47 the way you tilted your head down just to see better made me laugh lol. I love how you pointed out all these small details like how she only intervened in that gun scene because she recognized the gun. "Mizu suppresses empathy, not lack it" is a very good analysis which is why I can't wait for more!

People has called me annoying so many times when i was little since I was five, it became a trigger word. A middle schooler on the bus telling a five year old over and over to shut up, you're annoying. Imagine being so angry at a five year old.

As a huge fan of Ninjas and Samurai, this show was everything I wanted and had a lot more than I knew I wanted. It’s just magnificent and beautiful. I loved seeing Mizu grow from a stoic and hardened warrior, to a more open and emotional woman willing to accept who she is and when faced with the man who ruined her life, let him live to face true justice. This was absolutely the best thing I’ve seen from Netflix since Arcane and Rise of the TMNT. I’m definitely looking forward to Season 2

Blue Eye Samurai!!!🤩 Thank you Georgia for making a video on Mizu.🙏🏼 She’s amazing and a badass. Her origin is very emotional, since she’s been treated like an outcast throughout her entire life. Also, I love your glasses! You’re totally rocking it as Mizu.😍

Very excited to see your reactions for this series. It was easily my favorite Netflix animation since Arcane

I hope you do more on Blue Eye Samurai, I'm watching it for a second time right now. Soooooo good.

Im so here for more Blue Eye Samurai. Both the antagonists and protagonists in the series are written so well character-wise. SO GOOD

blue eye samurai is my favorite show 😭

Ohhh, thank you for reminding me to watch it. Saved it as a bookmark but forgot to watch. 😅 As for Mizu and her empathy. Ehhh, I can understand her. Sometimes you feel like "why should i care while no one cared about me?". Then you realize that you can't ignore it. Then you help and eventually feel angry at yourself for that afterwards because "you are too good and people abuse it".

Your analysis aren't in-depth enough, feels like a missed opportunity, but I can't expect you to know without experiencing it. Mizu's self hatred is very relatable to those who live between worlds. Like Mizu, they fixate on individuals responsible for their predicament, likely their parents, because cultural change on an individual level is impossible. Even if their parents are no longer alive, they still have to live with the problem. Mizu needs to find her place in the world, in countries or groups that are more like-minded to her or live in solitude.

I’ve never seen your videos before, but this was great to watch! Not sure if you finished this series yet, but it has been approved for a second season already. I put my sister on to the show and we’re excitedly waiting for season 2 even though it’s gonna be a while. I binged it in one go, this show is not only worthy of but deserves all the hype, praise and attention it’s gotten.

People will literally carve a blood-soaked path of revenge across medieval Japan instead of going to therapy

I was bullied quite a bit when I was younger, and it truly has made it very difficult to trust people. Strength is a complicated concept; is someone who is emotionally open stronger because they can bear their heart to someone, or is it the person who can keep their emotions under lock-and-key? I've come to believe the former is true, that vulnerability is strength, but it's very hard to fight against that deep-seated distrust and fear of ridicule and betrayal.

I was waiting for you to react on this series!!! Thank you so much!

This opinion is underrated but i love hearing the gagaku no uta (the traditional instrumental music in the beginning of mizus theme and when they show any royal castle). It's so lifting, soo meaningful and sounds so heavenly

I am excited that you are taking a closer look into this series. I really love that story.

As soon as I finished this series, which I only haphazardly clicked on only to be completely be sucked into and enthralled by, I immediately went to check if you had done a video about it, so I am very happy to see that you are covering it now. I'm very excited to see what thoughts you have about the show. It is, imo, absolutely amazing. Doesn't help that mizu's story hits eerily close to home for me, to the point that it almost feels like this show was tailored for me specifically. Looking forward to more video's!!

It's not the bullying that makes you stronger, it's thw will to move on; even just to keep moving in spite of the added pressure, and weight of it all. Some times you must carry it with you for a while, but eventually one must find a way to move on, particularly when a much heavier burden comes along. One must know what is required, and what is worth striving for. Her drive isn't a "GOOD GUY GOAL" but, it is a net good in her mind, even though she sees collateral damage (in any case) worth it; this is clearly not at an healthy amount for her. She does learn from those whom she meets along the way, but ultimately has to accept herself as herself before growing in an significant way. So no, the bullying didn't make her stronger, she chose to become tougher in order to survive thw harsh reality that left her alone, independent, and in the cold. . . Until she wasn't.

Been waiting for this video, thank you!!! Great job as always.

I am so happy you are finally reacting to this show I can't wait for you to dive into everything, especially in Episode 5, please keep them up

I'm so amazed you did this series! I already saw it weeks ago and wow didn't expect you to do this one!

I am so glad you are covering this series!!

Loved this video and can't wait to see more of you talking about blue eye samurai!

I'm so happy that your channel has grown so much! Please continue the awesome work. And you make a great Mizu. 🙂

This is why your video are great. A fantastic analysis of Mizu and your great cosplays.

This makes me so happy to see haha! The glasses are perfect. 😄

Thanks for sharing. Blessings on your day!

Georgia, thank you!!! I’m obsessed with BES and your channel so it’s a perfect match

Oh my god, the glasses. They're perfect 😂 i love the cosplay in your videos

THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS SHOW! Extremely underrated so deep. Great job

omg yaaas i love this series and i love this creator!

IT’S HERE!!!!!!! YES!!!!! I adore you and this show

😆Yeeesss, so happy you’re covering this 💙Netflix show. 🤗And I really love your videos as well.

Been waiting for this

Amazing cosplay as always and also accurate analysis as always.

Was waiting for blue samurai !

Thank you for introducing me to this show, I'm definitely gonna catch this one on Netflix with family 😁

This video made me want to check out Blue Eye Samurai, because Mizu is a relatable character. Being bullied throughout my adolescence and being bullied about being Autistic, made me very anxious and angry. It also took years for me to be comfortable with my Autism diagnosis, because I hated how I got treated because of it.

Your cosplay is inspiring, I’ve been trying to get a Mezu cosplay together and you’ve given me an epiphany on how to do it!

I cannot wait for your video on Ringo!

Thank you, very good video

I gave this show a try on a whim one Friday evening. I watched them all. It was about 2AM Saturday morning when I finished the last episode. Worth it. Amazing show. Mizu is an amazing character. Morally grey I guess might be one way to describe her but that may be too simple. She's laser focused on her goal if nothing else. I also liked how the show displayed how her physical conditioning enables her to be a great fighter. Her apprenticeship with the blacksmith, her martial arts training and her wearing the training weights probably make her considerably above average, if not exceptionally, physically fit. Even with all that, she takes her lumps. She gets really roughed up a few times. If nothing else, I'm just saying I don't think she falls under the "Mary Sue" trope.

Are you okay?.. Your voice trembled during most video. It trembled when you talked about bullying. I know what tremble. My voice trembles same way when I talk about my bullies. I hope you have ones to help with this scars💛

LOVE THE GLASSES!!!

New here! Your breakdown is AMAZING. I see 2 videos hidden… i’m hoping you’re able to psychoanalyze other characters like Taigen and Akemi! Would love to hear your thoughts on Akemi’s shift in focus from her love/intense infatuation with Taigen to self realization! Can’t say enough good things about this show. I’m watching your vids until the next season is released!

10:27 I dont know if I ever made the connection that the comb Mizu drops is the one Akemi gave to Teigan. Like, I recognized it as if not the same comb, very similar but because the way she aquires it isnt BLANTANTLY obvious, I guess I convinced myself that it wasnt the same comb. BUT IT IS, MIZU GOT IT FROM TEIGAN'S TOP KNOT!!! I wonder if she cut the top knot off to get the comb, or if it was a happy coincidence...

I'm so glad you're going down the rabbit hole that is Mizu! As the episodes went on, I grew more and more in love with this character. All her actions are justified, to a degree. She is a man and thus must act as one. Especially at that gate scene. Would another man help? Most likely not. But once there was no crowd, she helped. Something like this happens again in later episodes, though some characters around her disagree on the decision. Man, I hope you do more insights about this show. It's amazing!

Oh I cannot wait for you to analyze Mizu in episode 5.

Love your Mizu cosplay!

LOVE the glasses. 👓

I want to be a psych np so bad! And Mizu is my favorite character! Thank you for doing this it’s motivating me to study in nursing school lol ❣️❣️❣️

omg did you make those glasses yourself?? They look fantastic!!!!

Nice cosplay! Simple and to the point, matching the vibe. What's your favorite cos so far? I plan on watching this show.

Excellent ❤

This i a realy delightfull video, i realy enjoyed this show and cant wait for session 2 I would be very interested in seeing your analysis of the character Amos from the expanse show or evan miller, one can dream haha. Well regardless amazing video all the same cant wait for then next one

People have started comparing Mizu and Caitlyn Kiramman in my Arcane groups, since they look similar I guess All I can imagine is how they'd react if you fell down and skinned your knee Cait: "Oh! Don't move, you're hurt! Let me kiss it and make it all better" Mizu: "YOUR PAIN WILL END WHEN YOU ARE DEAD"

I was hoping you were gonna jump into Blue Eye Samurai! Love your videos, and with this good of a show, it would be impossible to avoid it. XXXD Thank you for the quality content as always. Mizu is a woman who was cold and opened up once before only to be spurned yet again. I think she wants a lot more out of life but simply doesn't believe she's worthy of it anymore after the thing that was revealed in a later episode. Society treated her as lesser and she believes it now, so she's just on a warpath for revenge against the person who "tainted" her blood and made her suffer this way. Just my opinion on her actions.

I love your videos! Please react to The Brothers Sun especially for Charles!

Please tell me how you did your scarf like Mizu!!! Please! I love your videos on this series

TIL I'm probably anxiously attached. I can be friends with someone for years, but still have that voice in the back of my mind telling me I can't really know if they're being honest or just polite...

About the scene with the mother and child at the gate I want to add that although her face doesn't betray any emotion, the fact that she does look at the pair for a long moment shows that something MUST be going through her head and that she might be conflicted. Otherwise she would have walked past without a second glance

I love your cosplay! I have thought about your channel a few days ago, wondering if you'd make a video about it.

I was looking forward to this episode before you even dropped the community post hahaha

Best cosplay haha love it.

4:37 And Teigan was abused at home by his drunk father. So he took that out in the world. To Mizu, and probably others.

9:20 EVERYONE gets this wrong. Mizu felt empathy, wanted to help, but couldn't. She couldn't drag the woman along with her all day. But yet she thought about how she could help and found them some money to make up for not being able to sell at the market. it was one her mind the whole time. I'm speaking as someone who grew up a bit too much like Mizu did (not nearly as severe, but almost). I am so much like Mizu for the same reasons Mizu is the way she is (including events and moments in my life that paralleled the events in episode 5). And people don't get it.

mizu 🤝 vi arcane 🤝 my gfs

When I first watched the episode I couldn’t really see the mother and child clearly in the end. When I saw them I couldn’t tell whether the mother was breathing with how her face was positioned. Initially I thought that she had passed away due to exhaustion from traveling combined with hyperthermia, and that her child was left to just sit there and cling to her body.

I love the point about how, to some extent, being teased is healthy. Obviously victimizing someone is wrong but I know from at least my own experience growing up me and all my friends would tease each other all the time. We also cared about each other so when at any point we maybe went to far and hurt each others feelings, we were lucky enough to have a very good friend group where we all felt comfortable with expressing that to each other. And branching off from that, we also all felt very comfortable being able to apologize to each other if ever we accidentally hurt each others feelings, and I think that is one of the biggest things that allowed us all to be and remain such close friends. But at the same time I'm very happy that I got to grow up with a bunch of people who were not afraid to tease me, but at the same time never wanted to hurt me, because it allowed me to learn how to take criticism and at the same time advocate for myself if ever at any time something made me feel excluded or hurt. Bullying is obviously wrong, but I find the idea of teasing (so long as all parties involved understand that its just teasing and is not meant to harm) to be a very healthy thing because it offers a very low stakes opportunity for us to learn how to take criticism with grace and acceptance.

Great analysis as always. I would add one thing as a person that lived in Japan for 22 years, speaks the language, and even taught Japanese Society & Culture classes at uni there. Another reason that Mizu doesn't help Ringo or the girls could be that they are Japanese, and she has been outside of Japanese identity so long and treated so inhumanly that she doesn't see them as human. In Japanese, we call it 内外 (uchi-soto, or insider / outsider), and is a foundational belief in traditional Japanese culture. Especially during the 鎖国 (sakoku or Closed Country) period.

Nice

Such cute cosplays. ❤

When it comes to drawing the line between developing resilience and crossing that line into plain bullying, what do you look for to identify that line has been crossed?

6:16. That is definitely true.

My thoughts on this video are that I need more

YEAH

How to historically it's accurate too if you were a mixed race person at during the ancient China era yeah that's accurate

Cosplay cardboard aside, what is the point of the loop in the middle of the glasses? Does it allow them to turn upside down and hook into the nostrils? Because if the loop settled on the nose like a pince-nez, the lenses would be far too low for the eyes.

Georgia how can you forget her hat and sword?! I did watch all of the show. Mizu is pretty cool character. I can kinda to relate to her. I too was treated as a an outcast especially during my younger years. People say I look mean/hard to approach/walk like the Terminator. But that's just the end result of the nonsense I've dealt with. Sadlt(I guess), anyone who fits into that group I was rejected from, I no longer care what happens to them.

7:30 I actually thought that she was playing a double role i meant ,having more than one purpose for an action , i think she defend Ringo and cut the finger of that man ,because he improperly touched the girls or even to create a horror and fear in that man's mind to get to her next step , because if she was so self centred and focused she wouldn't give that gold hair pin she took from taigen after the fight, to a woman with her child she saw before she entered the town of shinto ,who were not sent to town because women aren't allowed to travel alone and mizu saw it and gave them gold so that they could survive in the brutal winters on that ,on her way back from the town. I personally think mizu is a kind of person who helps anyone who comes across or along her way but not the ones against her way so that she wouldn't get off her track .

So, here is something worth considering: According to the laws of genetics, BOTH of Mizu's parents must have non-Japanese blood. The gene for blue eyes is *recessive.* This means that a blue-eyed person MUST have received two copies of the blue-eyed gene, one from each parent. So, Mizu cannot be the child of a fully Japanese mother, and a European father: She is in error in believing that her eyes come from her father. They come from both. Because the gene for blue eyes is recessive, we know that Mizu must be the child of two mixed-race, Japanese-European parents. It is further possible, even likely, that both *carried* this recessive gene, but had dark eyes. If Mizu's parents were able to "pass" as fully Japanese, they might have sent away their child to be raised by a paid nurse, in order to preserve the illusion that they were full-blood Japanese. Regardless, Mizu's vengeance against her four possible fathers is not enough! She also needs to find her European-Japanese mother!

This is your best outfit yet.. you should keep it

Please check out Nimona too.

You end up on ALL the best shows. This show was damn near Arcane good.

somewhat understand the bullying because of the culture she grew up in, as stated kids are cruel. I understand her need to keep things close to her chest because she was bullied because of a physical trait, I understand her desire for strength because it allows her to never be helpless again. But I never understood the absolute hate she has for her father, or the need for revenge against him. and that is a pretty important part of the story...even at the end of this run, she is still going after her potential father. Her "father" was never in her life, nor did she wish he was, she blames him for her being born. She doesn't want any real revenge against her bullies, against the men that from her perspective left her mother to burn to death. No, she wants revenge against 4 men she has never met...because 1 of them is potentially her father. now it helps that the 4 men are hinted at being sh*tbags so one doesn't really care if they end up dying..but still..Mizu's world has a lot more of those much closer to home that actually have impact on her life, all of them being logical targets for revenge. instead she goes after someone...for being born.

Love and betrayal is what makes the Onryu.

The fact you have red hair and a similar jawline to Mizu but no blue eyes makes you look like a real life version of if Fowler was her biological father.

I have no idea if you have any interest in anime, but if you gave Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond journey's end) a chance, it would offer a lot of things to talk about.