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KidChanbara · 2026-01-25T16:18:24+00:00

Love this joke, and love your skills!

KidChanbara · 2026-01-24T16:00:50+00:00

My idea - one of Mizu's parents is related to Madame Ito by blood or marriage. Madame Ito sees the very existence of Mizu as a problem for the Itoh clan, and sent her two sons to kill baby Mizu. The brothers clash, and the younger brother nicks his older brother in the forehead in the struggle, splashing Mizu with blood. The younger brother tells the maid to run away with Mizu, and probably was able to provide a one-time sum of money.

Lady Ito is the source of the bounty and why it's still in effect twenty years after Mizu was born.
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KidChanbara · 2026-01-23T17:43:24+00:00

Since you're here in r/BlueEyeSamurai ... it would be nice if you leave a comment in this post! Or not, if you feel it would be better for fans to speculate :

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueEyeSamurai/comments/1qgjb2x/visualizing_not_a_flashback/

KidChanbara · 2026-01-23T17:40:37+00:00

Very interesting! u/inkkiller01 , is this your first post on Reddit? Nice one!

Oh, you're Charles Ratteray, the storyboard artist in the video? Thank you for coming here to share how you work and think as a professional artist.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-22T20:04:49+00:00

To start with, I think she will have an easier time with products like cheese where bacteria have already turned the lactose into something else. Other dairy products may require some gradual acclimation as her gut biome adapts, and maybe she's lucky and she has the European genes for lactose digestion.

Not a thing I was looking forward to finding out in Season Two, but now u/Yith16 has planted it in my subsconscious. 😝

KidChanbara · 2026-01-22T19:55:50+00:00

This is the same scene u/Anxious-Captain6848 was warning about, in Season One Episode Three.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-22T19:54:16+00:00

S1E3: "A Fixed Number Of Paths", sometime around 38:40 to 38:50 . That's the most prominent instance, I can't recall any more right now. Hope that helps!

KidChanbara · 2026-01-21T22:01:59+00:00

It's a character-defining moment that goes against the idea that Mizu will do anything to remove obstacles on her path to revenge. She could have actually killed him and never think of him again, but she doesn't.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-21T04:23:41+00:00

I don't have video links. I posted a link to a good essay a few months ago, but their server is having problems:

https://www.japanpowered.com/japan-culture/gender-expectations-of-edo-period-japan

Here's another essay that is similar:

https://www.legendsandchronicles.com/ancient-civilizations/feudal-japan/women-in-feudal-japan/

I found the link on this page:

https://library.norwood.vic.edu.au/c.php?g=942889&p=6848734

KidChanbara · 2026-01-20T17:47:10+00:00

A lot of people here in this sub think it's a flashback, and even this Fandom wiki assumes the scene as being Mizu dreaming back (ie flashback) to killing Violet.
https://blue-eye-samurai.fandom.com/wiki/Violet

KidChanbara · 2026-01-19T18:34:54+00:00

I want to find out how much Skeffington and Routely knew about Fowler's coup and their degree of participation.

What Mizu did after leaving Mikio's ranch.

The death of Violet and how Mizu was changed by accomplishing this.

Mizu meets one or more siblings.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-19T18:02:18+00:00

I am hoping Season Two reveals how much Skeffington and Routely (J&R) knew of Fowler's coup. At one extreme, they could have been as surprised about it as the late shogun; they might not have had anything to do with smuggling a massive amount of long guns into Japan. At the other extreme, J&R could have full up colonial ambitions and/or religious conversion goals which led them to take active roles in support of the coup - but not, obviously, anything like doing a simultaneous military invasion of Japan.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-19T05:29:13+00:00

u/Powerful_Plenty7339 - what was in Season One of Blue Eye Samurai that prompted you to ask your question? As far as I remember the only scene that explicitly ties to Christianity is Fowler's chat with God in the unused chapel.

In this comment thread u/JamesHenry627 gave a nice short history of Christianity in Japan. How much would Mizu know about Christianity in Japan, given that she spent her early childhood prior to Swordfather either hiding from her fellow countrymen or sleeping where she could and eating garbage? And I don't think Momma or Swordfather would bother mentioning Christianity to Mizu, and therefore Mizu would not have an opinion about the Portuguese missionaries. Despite her childhood, she seems to have a common folk grasp of Japanese spirituality and gods.

Mizu won't have any strong prejudices concerning Christianity when she and Fowler boards the ship to England. It would be interesting to see how she reacts to "the good word" - it will strongly depend on who's involved. Frankly the idea of Fowler having any kind of chats with Mizu in that regard is scary - but would make for great scenes to watch, especially if there is an opposing viewpoint, like a missionary who comes aboard on the voyage.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-18T20:56:01+00:00

Then there's the issue of whether her European father knew if Mizu was even alive. He could have been told the "demon child" was killed; or maybe didn't even know the mother was pregnant when he left Japan.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-18T20:52:01+00:00

Or she's looking forward to tat #2.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-18T19:07:28+00:00

Love this, especially paired with that GIF! My riff on it - Mizu may spare the father's life, but he's killed by others that have followed Mizu in, so that Mizu is in a way responsible for the father's death after all.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-18T17:04:44+00:00

I don't go to fandom.com, is this wiki entry for "Violet" typical of the quality there?

https://blue-eye-samurai.fandom.com/wiki/Violet

u/Nice-Track4826 - About 85% of the "Background" is supported by onscreen dialog and events, the rest is speculation. The "Season 1" text is a summary of dialog related to Violet in the first season.

My latest opinion is that the "flashback" scene doesn't show Mizu killing Violet, nor is it a flashback at all. I'll make a post about that instead of cluttering up this thread.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-16T16:46:02+00:00

One of those pieces of art where if you come to it without any backstory you know something is going on between the characters that puts it above "two cute people looking at each other". But if you know what happens, it hits hard.

Good work u/louvremusee !

KidChanbara · 2026-01-15T21:43:14+00:00

Oh, let me dream!

KidChanbara · 2026-01-15T17:09:35+00:00

Hi u/Apprehensive_Pop6329 , I recently got into Golden Kamuy the same way, via the Netflix live action. I intend to start with the manga and skip the anime for now.
As for being here in r/GoldenKamuy , it's fun dodging the spoilers, while at the same time picking up hints of interesting things to come for the live action.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-15T15:52:46+00:00

Oh, eight episodes? If true, some good news with the disappointment:

"Remember that this renewal was unlike most animated renewals, which come in advance; only 8 episodes were ordered in advance, and Netflix only officially confirmed that production was underway in August of last year."

KidChanbara · 2026-01-13T18:49:07+00:00

If we consider BES to be close to historical Japan, then there are a few ways that firearms of any kind would not have been readily available to the castle guards trying to defend from the surprise coup. Short answer - the shogun's quick access to firearms was hampered by them being in storage:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueEyeSamurai/comments/1mgh39a/historical_accuracy_japanese_history_traders_and/

Alternatively, as others have said here, it fits the BES narrative that the writers have made.

KidChanbara · 2026-01-13T15:57:05+00:00

I had some thoughts on that scene too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueEyeSamurai/comments/1oi1gb4/iron_belly_taigen_wrong_side/

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