When it comes to the most productive and binge-worthy screens on Netflix, Blue Eye Samurai takes the lead for me in a million other ways. Although a second season is on the cards (which you’ll be able to watch with a Netflix subscription whenever it premieres), a Blue Eye Samurai sequel wasn’t originally guaranteed, especially when Netflix’s underrated streams are canceled so frequently. – that is, until the tweaks started arriving, for which the creators are grateful.
Of course, I’m talking about how social media helped this Netflix series, which follows a mixed-race Japanese warrior. Blue Eye Samurai exploded after tweaks to the main character, Mizu, and several other characters, began to spread through media like TikTok. , Twitter and more in December 2023 and the beginning of the new year.
After the adult animated series was nominated for the 2024 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, I had the chance to speak with co-creators (and the real-life married couple), Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, and I knew I had to ask questions. about the effect of social networks on the program. Noizumi is quick to say that they are very “grateful” and that there is no greater achievement than being able to “capture the attention” of the younger generations of those days:
Well, we’re grateful for that. We are very grateful to the other people who make those adjustments. Our daughter showed us some modifications. She’s like, “Oh my God, it’s on my For You page! And it’s amazing some of the adjustments those other people make. . . Is there any greater compliment than grabbing the attention of other young people like this?”
Green agrees, saying that while the two are “not on social media,” they love seeing their children’s edits and what other people “are attracted to” by the show. Of course, some of the edits can be a little tricky to decipher, so much so that she felt like asking her kids if it was a “compliment” or if it was about “making themselves laugh” at the show, jokingly saying “it’s both” sometimes. :
It was actually fun to see what attracted them to their dates. They were necessarily two characters who knew or fought with each other, and they also did not agree on which quote was more important. That was amazing. It’s one of the funniest engagement bureaucracies, but it’s something that I find very strange. We’re not really on social media. Our children did, and we had to ask them to assure us of things. One of my favorite questions to ask: “Is this a compliment or are they laughing at us?”I can’t say. And they are both.
Green has also written for films like the X-Men feature film Logan, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner 2049 (which will have a sequel to the Blade Runner 2099 TV series), and more, but I think Blue Eye Samurai is one of his works to date with his Noizumi, and the enthusiasts’ tweaks are transparent proof of his love for it.
The second season of Blue Eye Samurai is expected to appear on Netflix’s TV schedule at some point. While it may not be part of the 2024 TV premiere schedule, there’s hope that it will arrive sometime next year, and when it does, I’ll be prepared with my TikTok algorithm.
Alexandra Ramos, a self-proclaimed nerd and Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire lover, is a content producer at CinemaBlend. She began working in December 2020 as a freelance editor after graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in English. He basically works on feature films for film, television and video games. (Please don’t debate her in The Last of Us 2, she was awesome!) She is also the primary user who manages our daily newsletter, The CinemaBlend Daily and our ReelBlend newsletter.
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