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Anime Talk: Blue Eye Samurai Review · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny.
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  To Talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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  And today, today, I'm going to be talking about a new animated
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  series on Netflix called Blue Eye Samurai.
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  Now, Blue Eye Samurai just dropped in the last week or so.
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  Like I mentioned, it's on Netflix.
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  It is 8 episodes long and episodes run roughly 40 minutes
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  to an hour, give or take. You know, kind of varies from
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  episode to episode. Now this series was in my eyes
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  phenomenal, super awesome and I don't even even really know
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  where to start. But but but I guess I kind of
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  start with this so the series is Co written by let me get the
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  right names or Co created by I believe it's a husband and wife
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  duo. Michael Green and Amber Noisumi.
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  Now Michael Green, he worked on or he was like a writer or Co
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  writer on both Logan and Blade Runner 2049.
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  He also, back in the day, worked on one of my favorite series
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  back in the day, which has a tie in with one of the voice actors
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  for this Heroes. I don't know if many of y'all
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  remember that TV show from the early 2000s, but yeah, So when
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  this was kind of first put on my writer a while back, I was like,
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  OK, I love my samurai stuff. This looks kind of cool.
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  From the little bit I saw on the trailers with us, I'm like, OK,
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  you know, I'm, I'm gonna give it a shot.
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  And immediately at the gate in that first episode I was like,
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  yeah, this, this is my jam. This is what I like, this is
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  what I like. And so with Blue, with Blue Eyed
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  Samurai, we basically follow our main character Mizu, who I guess
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  in in in this setting of Japan. This takes place during the Edo
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  period, I believe it was during the, was it the Tokugawa era in
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  the 17th century. Yeah.
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  To where basically Japan's borders were more or less
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  closed. Kind of like a Wano for my for
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  my One Piece fans to where basically all outside
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  interactions with any foreign nations, people, whatever, were
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  super restricted and pretty much forbidden to where pretty much
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  nobody, nobody from outside of Japan is coming in and nobody
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  from Japan is leaving. But the Shogun still kind of
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  secretly had some dealings going on with four white European men
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  who were still able to kind of illegally do stuff within the
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  country from, you know, drugs, sex trafficking, all those
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  different things, weapons, all that stuff, whatever.
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  And that is kind of how our main character was came to be because
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  she was born, she's born half blood, so she's half European,
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  half Japanese and pretty much seen as a monster, as a mixed
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  breed demon by most of the people that she encounters and
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  stuff along the way and through. But because of the
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  discrimination is the fact that or whatever she spends most of
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  her life dressed up like a man just kind of just to help
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  disguise herself. She has these very dope glasses
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  that she wears that kind of give me some some good old Trigon
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  vibes for for my or vesha Stampede vibes for my Trigon
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  fans. But but yeah so this story is
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  pretty much a story of vengeance as she is on a journey to
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  basically trying to find the people who trying to track down
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  these four men. Trying to figure out who is her
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  father and who is also responsible for the death of
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  family and people close to her, whatever and just all the pain
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  and torment that she's gone through her whole life.
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  And so from start to finish, I would say this show had me
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  engrossed the whole way through. Like something about the like
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  the visual style, the art style of it was truly stunning and
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  something like very unique looking.
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  I saw somebody mention that the art style of it kind of made
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  them think about the the game that came out I believe last
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  year called seafood, which is kind of like a martial arts
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  style of game. So it's kind of kind of like
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  like like like that kind of our style a little bit kind of
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  painterly like some little bits of kind of like some like
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  watercolors sometimes, but just just truly like like the colors
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  are popping in this show. And also just made me miss
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  playing Ghost of Tsushima. For anybody to play that game
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  last year it it just really put me in the mind frame of like
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  man, I would love if they turned Blue Eyed Samurai into a video
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  game. Cuz man just just the whole time
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  I'm watching it or whatever. I'm like this would be so dope
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  to play because aside from how visually stunning it is, the
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  action scenes were fantastic. The action scenes were off the
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  charts and how they did the fight choreography was truly
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  something special. Like this is a video that they
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  put together kind of showing some of like the fight
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  choreography and stuff and how the actors and stuff did it and
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  like, it is super cool, super dope, man.
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  Yeah, it like the action. Like every time there was action
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  going on, man, it was just like, yo, like, I don't know my my my
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  jaw was just stunned every time I saw the fight season stuff.
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  And so all of that mixed with also another very key important
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  element of stuff that I enjoy the story and the characters.
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  Because a lot of the characters that you, that mizu encounters
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  along the way, all are interesting.
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  All have their own different struggles and journeys and goals
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  and dreams that they're trying to achieve.
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  And seeing how their paths intersect with measles and how
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  they might, you know, clash with each other or help each other or
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  whatever the case may be was really awesome to see.
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  And just watching the growth of everybody across the board was
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  super fantastic to to get to watch.
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  Overall, like I'll say, this season did a fantastic job of
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  having a overall arc, but I will say for sure is that they set up
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  more to come and I'll touch on that in a little bit when I dive
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  into specific spoiler spoilers. But right now I'm keeping the
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  spoiler free. But there's definitely more to
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  come and that is very exciting and I hope that it gets greenlit
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  for another season. It seems like it's doing, at
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  least it's getting a a decent amount of buzz.
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  That is one of the reasons why I am doing my review and
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  impressions of it, because I want to do my part to try to
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  help spread the word of how great and how fantastic this
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  series is. Another important element of
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  this is the antagonists and people that Mizu have to fight
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  and clash with along the way. One of the main ones, his name
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  is Fowler. That dude, every time, every
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  time he has an encounter or meeting with somebody, he is not
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  afraid of the smoke for he's not afraid to get his hands dirty.
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  He's not just one of these dudes that just like sits behind the
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  scenes and just watch stuff play out or whatever is like not if
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  if he has to get in and scrap and get his hands dirty.
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  He is a fishing with the sword. He's a fishing with the pistol.
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  Like this dude. He is big, strong.
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  He ain't afraid to smack you around.
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  He don't care if you man, woman, child, he'll smack you around
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  and laugh at you the whole way through.
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  But but yeah, But All in all, I feel like this was a really
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  solid package. Like I said once again, visuals
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  on point, the music super dope. Like, I love the kind of like
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  reverberating sound from her sword because her soul was kind
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  of made out of this kind of like special metal is all I say on
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  that. And every time they kind of like
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  gets like bang, it's like a like a reverberating sound and even
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  just just like just like all the sounds of like the sores and
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  stuff in general when they get a shift.
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  Just like the little slight vibrations in the sound effects,
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  whatever. And like I said again, the fight
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  choreography and stuff with his top notch and the overall story
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  was well told and kind of kept me on my toes and kept me on the
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  edge of my seat. Because there were plenty of
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  times where I was like, OK, you know, this storyline is done or
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  this character is done or whatever, or this person is
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  going to go this route. And they end up exceeding my
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  expectations and you know, changing it up, doing something
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  different than expected and everything in between along the
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  way and in a fantastic way. And so that is one of the
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  reasons why I highly recommend Blue Eyed Samurai.
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  Like I said, it's on Netflix, 8 episodes long, 40 minutes to an
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  hour a piece. Do not let us this one miss you,
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  pass you by. Like I said, especially if
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  you're into like Edo period style samurai stuff with sword
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  fighting and stuff like I feel like you're going to love it.
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  So highly, highly, highly recommend.
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  Now I'm going to touch on a few, just a few slight spoilers, just
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  like I just because it's like a few specific things I want to
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  touch on. So there's your chance.
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  Now if you don't want to hear any specific spoilers, I'm going
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  to keep it kind of short and as light as possible.
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  Skip ahead to the very end or hey, thanks for watching.
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  I'll catch in the next one, make sure to subscribe, support me,
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  yada yada, yada. So this show overall, like, I
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  don't even know you know what, I'm a start at the end.
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  So that final fight and stuff with Mizu versus Fowler was so
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  freaking cool. Just seeing just constantly
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  throughout this show the lengths sometimes stupidly, Misu would
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  go through to try to get to her goals and stuff regardless of
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  the collateral damage she is causing along the way.
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  Because like the very end was like the biggest example of this
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  to where and and and and. I'm so happy I got these
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  screenshots to like perfectly illustrate this with like this
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  beautiful shot of like how the castle and everything is so lush
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  and green and beautiful looking. And of course I love the shot of
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  this, that kind of showdown between Mizu, Tizen and Fowler.
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  And then I love the split shots where Tizen with the kind of
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  like greenery behind him, and then shoot what is the
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  princess's name? Akimi, with the flames and stuff
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  behind her. And this was another great
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  moment. And then just like seeing this
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  whole great city just reduced to embers and ash and flames but
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  yeah but that that whole final fight and confrontation was
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  super dope super cool and I love how and and and it it's it's as
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  expected cause Fowler is the type of dude that of course hey
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  he is going to smooth talk his way out of the situation or out
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  of his own death to where he's like hey all right hey OK all
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  right you you the one out who took our old dude.
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  Well hey if if if if you want to find the other two you need me
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  because they they went out here all out here in the spotlight
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  flashy like me and the other one they kind of underground behind
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  the scenes they doing worse stuff than we doing.
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  But you know I I got a special word for you that that you
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  probably not familiar with because of, you know, you only
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  being here and that word is London.
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  And so when we see the final kind of shot of mizu with Fowler
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  and kind of like like a like a holding sail on a boat going
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  across the ocean. Oh my yo, I cannot wait.
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  And like, seeing how Fowler was moving and how he was like, I
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  can't wait to see how these other two characters go and
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  stuff. So yeah, so that that was a very
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  dope set up, kind of going back a bit.
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  Akimi, her arc was super cool to watch and fall because she was
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  definitely a character to where I was like, OK, I'm going 11
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  way, 'cause she, she kind of talked to her father and to let
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  her marry the samurai guy. Of course Mizu messed up that
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  situation with with her beating him in a duo or in a fight or
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  whatever, and then seeing Akimi and the I think his name was
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  Siku was the old guy that was kind of looking after Seki.
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  Kind of. They're going them going on
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  their little journey and stuff with her trying to find tiging
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  and stuff, and then her about to marry the shogun's son, and then
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  her finding that fiery passion to want to actually be a ruler,
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  not to run away, to finally to make her own choice.
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  Whatever. Her arc was super cool.
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  Tigen's arc was super cool as well.
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  Still kind of wondering OK, is is is him and Mizzou grind up
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  together at the end. You know when this is all said
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  and done, it's kind of set up for that way potentially.
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  Speaking of Mizzou, I love how at first you kind of think that
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  she more or less after her mother quote UN quote, died when
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  she was a child and supposedly died.
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  That she just that, you know spent those years alone with the
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  swordsmith and stuff being raised and then that was it.
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  But learning that she found her who she thought was her mother
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  again and then got married and had this life for similar some
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  at least like some years or whatever.
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  And then watching that fall apart and then seeing her
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  husband after after she gets ambushed at the house.
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  And then seeing the husband kill the mom and then she killed and
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  then Mesa killed the husband and it was just like, yo, the
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  tragedy and how they kind of parallel that moment with this
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  kind of like telling of this stage play along with the
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  current day situation to where she had to take out all these
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  dudes. They was trying to attack the
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  the broth or whatever it was that that whole episode, I think
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  it was like episode 5 was just like super fantastic.
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  Of course I got a shout out Ringo.
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  Super fun character, super interesting character and
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  insightful. And the thing that made me love
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  him even more is one I discovered that his voice actor
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  is Masi Oka, who is the main one of the main characters and the
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  TV show I mentioned earlier, Heroes.
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  He's the For those of you who don't know who he is, he's the
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  Asian guy and heroes who is kind of like like like the main
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  character, like the main person you're following around.
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  But but yeah, but All in all, like the the forecast, all the
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  characters that you meet along the way were super dope.
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  There were so many just like twists and turns and
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  jaw-dropping moments and stuff, just like too many to count.
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  And like I said, I hope that Mizu hopefully has learned from
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  this experience and maybe especially going to a foreign
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  land. Hopefully she learns some more
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  caution not to be running head first into all these situations.
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  And of course I also got to shout out the freaking the sword
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  maker, her sword master who they also called the sword father,
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  and how he knows he was blind and all he cared about was the
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  work she put in as a child and growing up.
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  And I loved how he used, you know, him making swords for
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  different people. How he always had to learn how
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  the people moved and used their sword techniques and stuff
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  before he could force them a weapon.
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  And how Mizu was always lurking in the bushes or hiding to
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  study, to learn. And then she would take those
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  sword techniques and learn them and stuff.
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  And so over all these years. She learned all these different
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  sort and fighting styles, whatever.
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  And so, yeah, but All in all I I can keep going on.
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  But you know, like I said, I I want to save something for for
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  y'all to to to go and watch at the show.
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  But like I said, All in all, I am like, I am just so happy that
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  I gave this show a shot and then I, you know, I circled back to
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  it and stuff, 'cause like I said, it was truly, truly
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  something fantastic. And like I said, I truly hope
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  that it's not a super long time before we get confirmation of
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  another season because I said this show definitely deserves it
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  and I look forward to it whenever that happens.
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  And so, so yeah. So that's going to do it for my
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  thoughts on this review discussion.
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  I hope you enjoyed it. I, I, I wish I would have
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  mentioned up top another disclaimer with the show too is
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  that it is very adult and I don't mean just in the blood and
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  violence, but in the sexuality, nudity and stuff.
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  Like they show full nudity both men and women.
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  So you seeing everything from the top down.
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  So you see the you see the Peaches as they call them and
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  you see the the the sausage downstairs.
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  You see everything. You see them having sex the
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  whole shebang. So just know that going in, like
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  I said, it's not just a oh, it's a bloody show or whatever.
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  I can watch this out in the open.
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  No, just in case. Hey, if you know if you got kids
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  around or you know, you just never know.
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  I just relax. I forgot to mention that
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  disclaimer of Todd, this is definitely very mature rated.
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  But but like I said, one that I hope that Y'all will take a look
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  at and check out and so yeah, so let me know what you thought of
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  this review. Let me know what you think of
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  Blue Eye Samurai. Have you checked it out?
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  If you did, did you enjoy it as much as I did?
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  Do you have any credit, critiques or anything you want
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  to praise about it? Let me know.
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