Netflix has released the official trailer for its latest adult animated series “Blue Eye Samurai.”
The series is set in Edo-period Japan. It tells the story of Mizu, a mixed-race swords master living in disguise and seeking revenge.
Mizu will be voiced by Maya Erskine. The rest of the main voice cast includes George Takei (Seki), Masi Oka (Ringo), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (The Swordmaker), Brenda Song (Akemi), Darren Barnet (Taigen), Randall Park (Heiji Shindo), and Kenneth Branagh (Abijah Fowler).
The series will also have supporting voice performances from Stephanie Hsu (Ise), Ming-Na Wen (Madame Kaji), Harry Shum Jr. (Takayoshi) and Mark Dacascos (Chiaki), among others.
The show was created by married couple Amber Noizumi and Michael Green. The couple also serve as writers and executive producers for the show. They say they were partly inspired by their daughter’s blue eyes.
“…I kind of started thinking, ‘Why am I so excited that my daughter has blue eyes? What’s the big deal about that? And why am I so excited that I have a baby who looks more white?'” Noizumi said in a Netflix press kit interview.
“In our early creative conversations, we were talking about how back in the Edo period starting in 17th-century Japan, it would’ve been illegal to be white. Nobody would’ve wanted to look white like that. We started spinning a tale that progressed slowly over the following 15 years.”
“Blue Eye Samurai” will premiere on November 3.
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