Netflix's 97%-rated drama returns after three years, and it looks outrageously sumptuous
Blue Eye Samurai has people hooked
Netflix has made a whole heap of original productions in the last decade, starting from a modest position and rapidly growing into one of the biggest TV producers in the world. Now it has its fingers in all sorts of pies, including the ability to make genuinely brilliant animated shows like Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Blue Eye Samurai.
With that first show getting a second season very soon, it's fitting that Netflix has taken this opportunity to also unveil a second outing for Blue Eye Samurai, one that takes the story in a really interesting new direction. The first teaser trailer dropped this week, and makes it clear that you can expect new things from the new material when it arrives in early 2027.
The show's taking a big swing by putting its main character Mizu in a whole new world – as she travels from Japan all the way to London, in search of answers and the continuation of her path of revenge. She continuing to hunt down the white men who ruined her young life, and this time she's going to have to do so in unfamiliar environments.
The teaser actually shows us very little of that, of course – it gives us a glimpse of the London skyline and confirms that Mizu is on her way there, but is more concerned with the harrowing voyage she'll take to actually make it. This will clearly involve a huge storm and a near-death experience on the high seas, but we can only assume she'll make it through.
While animated shows can sometimes be niche pursuits for the best streaming services, Blue Eye Samurai became a huge critical and audience darling – its Rotten Tomatoes scores prove that point. Critics gave it 97% on average, while audiences basically agreed, at 94%.
Those are the sort of numbers that Netflix executives probably dream about at night in their LA mansions, so it's perhaps not a huge surprise that we're getting more of the show more than three years on from its first run. Hopefully it can maintain that level of quality, too.
