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sad-endings-suck · 5 months

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I have seen exactly 1 episode of Blue Eye Samurai and I am gobsmacked by how amazing it is. Mizu is already my everything. I am almost never so deeply invested so quickly in any media. I am obsessed. If the rest of the show is consistent in quality with the first episode then this show is Arcane level incredible, and I do not say that lightly.

#please DO NOT spoil me #i am trying to savour the season #and i am PICKY about my shows #i can critique tv all day and that episode just has me amazed and enraptured #the characters the animation the lighting the perspective the scale the action the emotional impact the everything there is so much to love #blue eye samurai #blue eyed samurai #this is the also when I make my romantic subplot oracle prediction that a triad is on the way (hopefully small scale and slowburn)#and as of now it really only works if this show is at least 2 seasons long— howEVER … mizu x taigen x akemi #mizu x taigen #mizu x akemi #taigen x akemi #mizu x taigen x akemi #i don’t really care about taigen x akemi but add mizu to the mix plus a zuko type arc for taigen and akemi as a lord/leader and oop it works #mizu/akemi #mizu/taigen #taigen/akemi #mizu/akemi/taigen #mizu blue eye samurai #look at me #one episode in and so confident about everything #sigh

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unamedica · 4 months

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First time meeting their wives. Mizu: She was a magical forest creature. A sparrow, a caged princess, my crane.

Caitlyn: She was a convict I needed from maximum security. A Zaunite, a pain in the ass, my headache.

#mizu/akemi #mizu blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai #arcane league of legends #caitvi #Caitlyn Kiramman #Reincarnation?#I love them both #Time to work my fingers over time... writing fanfiction of course tehehe #Caitvi instantly judging each other while Mizemi are curious is the timed romance I needed haha

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erajmcouts · 6 months

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Full image on AO3

Kudos to Attki, on gumroad, for the fire brushes that saved my terrible background skills.

The fire and the burn.

#blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi blue eye samurai #mizu/akemi #blueeyesamurai #era art #the greatness and the death art

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waterfire1848 · 4 months

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Ringo: Do you mind if I slyly mention you’re single?

Mizu: Don’t do that.

Ringo: You won’t even notice.

[ Later. ]

Akemi: Ringo said you wanted to see me.

Ringo: Mizu’s single.

#incorrect quotes #source: brooklyn nine nine #Ringo #mizu #akemi #blue eye samurai #mizu/akemi

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razzberrydazz · 5 months

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I'm a maniac and wrote a 6k fic in one sitting for my latest toxic yuri enjoyment of Mizu/Akemi from Blue Eye Samurai.

There are layers of gender fuckery involved with this one - a woman pretending to be a man (or is she? Big trans energy) to survive in a misogynistic society, has another woman paint her face like a woman's as if she's cross dressing as a woman, while the other woman thinks she's a cis man. So we have a woman pretending to be a man who is pretending to be a woman. The other woman just thinks it's a man pretending to be a woman. Do you understand my vision. Please.

#razz rambles #blue eye samurai #i need more toxic yuri #I gotta write the toxic yuri my damn self #mizu/akemi

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tiktokedits-fordawin · 5 months

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Blue Eye Samurai

Song: Something about you

#blue eye samurai #tiktok edits #bes edit #something about you #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi blue eye samurai #mizu/akemi

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eerna · 5 months

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my love for this show is stronger than tumblr's insistence to flag this post

#blue eye samurai #mizu bes #itoh akemi #eernart

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captainamateur-artistt · 5 months

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𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐨𝐥e.

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Direct reference to that one famous photo of Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald & Raul Esparza in “Twelfth Night”.

#minxart #blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi #mizu #taigen #this show has been occupying my mind for weeks

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proxysart · 6 months

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Had to draw the trio

#blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai fanart #mizu #akemi #taigen

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ash-and-starlight · 5 months

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humble contribution

#basic: interpreting mizu’s gender based on what u think fits best #based wired inspired: interpreting mizu’s gender based on the ship so that it’s always a gay relationship #also whoever drew taigen’s nose Like That..#i am forever thankful i need to kiss them with tongue #ode to taigen’s nose: page 1 of 204737835737493 #did i spend too long on this instead of just simply grabbing screenshots? look away #blue eye samurai #mizu #akemi #taigen #taigen’s top knot before it met its early end teach the angels how to sing baby 😔🙏#ringo #my art #yuri is when there’s blood and themes yaoi is two blokes who do fuck all

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sockich · 6 months

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I WANT TO BE GREAT.

BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023)

#i adore mizu with my whole heart #but akemi is a VERY close second #(that said i hope taigen gets his simple happiness too genuinely would love that for him)#akemi #love her #taigen #blue eye samurai #tv #my posts

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unamedica · 4 months

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Modern Assassin!Mizu AU

Its slowly coming along

#blue eye samurai #fanfiction #mizu blue eye samurai #mizu x akemi #mizu/akemi #mizu #blue eye samurai fanfiction

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erajmcouts · 6 months

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Peaches <3

Blue Eye Samurai hit me like a punch in the face with a chair.

And these two... oh, these two!

Find a bigger version on AO3

#blue eye samurai #blueeyesamurai #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi blue eye samurai #mizu/akemi #I want to be great #Death is an art #era art

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stromblessed · 5 months

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Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1: