{"id":75634,"date":"2023-12-11T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=75634"},"modified":"2023-12-11T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:38:43","slug":"netflix-announces-2nd-season-for-blue-eye-samurai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/12\/11\/netflix-announces-2nd-season-for-blue-eye-samurai\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Eye Samurai Renewed for Season 2 From Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Netflix has announced today that Blue Eye Samurai<\/em> will return for season 2.
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\u201cWe are thankful to our entire team and to our viewers from all over the world who have shown such passion for Mizu and her path of revenge,” creators Amber Noizumi<\/strong> and Michael Green<\/strong><\/span> (also the show’s executive producers and writers) told Netflix<\/a>. “Mizu has a lot more blood to spill! We are deeply grateful to our incredible partners at Netflix for letting the journey continue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Season 1 of Blue Eye Samurai<\/em> was released on Netflix on November 3. The Edo Japan-set samurai tale features a 2D-3D hybrid animated style and follows Mizu (Maya Erskine<\/strong>), a “mixed-race master of the sword who lives a life in disguise seeking the deliverance of revenge.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erwin Stoff<\/strong> is the show’s other executive producer on the Blue Spirit<\/strong>-produced series, while Jane Wu<\/strong> took on supervising director and producer duties. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from Erskine, the cast includes:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/b> George Takei <\/b>as Seki<\/span>
\u2022<\/b> Masi Oka<\/b> as Ringo<\/span>
\u2022<\/b> Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa<\/b> as The Swordmaker<\/span>
\u2022<\/b> Brenda Song<\/b> as Akemi<\/span>
\u2022<\/b> Darren Barnet<\/b> as Taigen<\/span>
\u2022 Randall Park<\/b> as Heiji Shindo<\/span>
\u2022<\/b> Kenneth Branagh <\/b>as Abijah Fowler<\/span>
\u2022<\/b> Stephanie Hsu<\/b> as Ise<\/span>
\u2022 Ming-Na Wen<\/b> as Madame Kaji<\/span>
\u2022 Harry Shum Jr.<\/b> as Takayoshi<\/span>
\u2022 Mark Dacascos<\/b> as Chiaki<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anime Trending writer Nico Monterosso offered effusive praise for the show<\/a>. “Blue Eye Samurai<\/i> is a fantastic series that shows care in all aspects of this show,” Monterosso wrote. “There is an understanding of the elements that embody itself and the artists involved to form a visceral blend of \u201cEast meets West\u201d in this beautiful, action-packed series. It is that artistry that showcases the blend between life and death, adding so much life into this series that makes the tension of death captivating for the viewer.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monterosso also discussed Blue Eye Samurai<\/em>‘s creative challenges with Noizumi and Green, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source:<\/strong> Netflix YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netflix has announced today that Blue Eye Samurai will return for season 2. \u201cWe are thankful to our entire team and to our viewers from all over the world who have shown such passion for Mizu and her path of revenge,” creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green (also the show’s executive producers and writers) told Netflix. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":72463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,137,10],"tags":[2054,3100,7579,448,1384],"class_list":["post-75634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-feature","category-anime","tag-animated-series","tag-animation","tag-blue-eye-samurai","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-anime"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BLUE_EYE_SAMURAI_u_S1_E2_00_37_26_13-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-jFU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75634"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75658,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75634\/revisions\/75658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}