Netflix Confirms Blue Eye Samurai Will End With Third and Final Season

Netflix has revealed that Blue Eye Samurai volition officially extremity with a 3rd and last season.

Netflix showed disconnected a big of upcoming contented astatine Anime NYC today, including a caller trailer and images for Blue Eye Samurai Season 2. In a property merchandise provided to the media, the streamer teased an “epic decision accumulation announcement” for the show, which IGN was capable to corroborate meant the eventual merchandise of a 3rd season.

Netflix told america that Season 3 volition service arsenic the last decision for the series, tying up Mizu’s melodramatic travel for good.

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Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 was archetypal confirmed successful December 2023, with co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green releasing a associated connection excitedly revealing the news.

"When we started this project, we made a committedness to instrumentality this precise idiosyncratic communicative acceptable successful Edo-period Japan and bring it to beingness successful the astir authentic and beauteous mode possible. Our animators, historians, musicians, martial artists and dependable formed made this a world beyond our expectations," they said.

"We are thankful to our full squad and to our viewers from each implicit the satellite who person shown specified passionateness for Mizu and her way of revenge. Mizu has a batch much humor to spill! We are profoundly grateful to our unthinkable partners astatine Netflix for letting the travel continue."

The Anime NYC Season 2 trailer showed Mizu sailing to London connected a ship, braving stormy seas and unsafe company. It volition merchandise connected Netflix successful January 2027.

Blue Eye Samurai follows Mizu, a half-white, half-Japanese warrior who disguises herself arsenic a antheral to hunt down 4 achromatic men illegally surviving successful Japan during its closed-borders policy. She believes 1 of these men is her father, and seeks revenge against him for making her a "creature of shame.”

The series’ archetypal play was highly well-received by some critics and wide audiences, boasting a 97% people connected Rotten Tomatoes.

This latest quality for Blue Eye Samurai comes connected the heels of respective different large announcements from Netflix astatine Anime NYC, including a caller trailer and images for the highly-anticipated Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.

The streamer’s slate of animated projects person mostly been hits, with Castlevania, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, and Arcane getting rave reviews. Here’s hoping that Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 follows the aforesaid trend.

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