Adult action anime has over-the-top violence, full nudity.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 16+?
Any Positive Content?
Violence & Scariness
a lot
Fantasy violence and scary imagery, including blood and detailed gore, death, beatings, dismemberment, decapitations, torture, executions, and use of swords and guns. Action sequences are excessively violent, and many characters are killed in grotesque ways that show a ton of blood and detailed gore. A character gets his fingers sliced off. Multiple scenes of characters getting eviscerated, decapitated, or their heads bisected. One scene shows a tunnel filled with the skeletons of dead and murdered children.
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Multiple scenes of both full male and female nudity. A couple is shown having sex and full nudity is shown. Characters are shown in brothels, and sex work is mentioned multiple times. There's implied sexual violence.
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This Japanese anime is set in Japan and focuses on Japanese female and male characters. The main character Mizu is a mixed-race White-Japanese woman. Mizu is discriminated against due to her mixed race and gender. Mizu is orphaned multiple times throughout the series and has different caretakers in place of her family. Mizu also dons a male disguise while traveling as a samurai to prevent being hindered from her goals due to her gender. Multiple characters have disabilities such as blindness or being born without limbs. These characters are portrayed as strong, kind, wise, and generous.
Eiji the swordsmith takes in an orphaned Mizu, who's discriminated against because of her mixed race and appearance. Eiji shows great compassion and care for Mizu and serves as her mentor and father figure. Mizu has moments of compassion and sometimes tries to protect or help the downtrodden, but she's primarily motivated by revenge.
Positive Messages
none
Themes explored include revenge, discrimination, race, gender, shame, and power.
Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Blue Eye Samurai is an adult action-drama anime about a samurai woman's quest for revenge. Scary imagery includes blood and detailed gore, dismemberment, decapitation, executions, torture, and death. Swords and guns are used frequently. Expect to see full nudity of both men and women, including during sex scenes. Language includes "hell," "bastard," "damn," "whore," "a--hole," "s--t," and "f--k." Characters drink sake, and one is addicted to the drug opium and is shown smoking it.
This might be the best show I have watched all year. The writing is brilliant, the characters are amazing and fleshed out. But the best things about the show are the visuals and the music. Breathtaking. No really, I had to stop every two minutes to take screenshots. Truly masterful.
Amazing writing and amazing cinematography Directed with such perfection
I don't have words for this
What's the Story?
BLUE EYE SAMURAI follows the story of Mizu (voiced in English by Maya Erskine), a mixed-race woman born in the Edo period of Japan. Due to her heritage Mizu is heavily discriminated against and is made into an outcast in Japan. Having suffered a life of hardships and tragedies, Mizu becomes possessed by a need for revenge. She vows to ruthlessly hunt down four White foreigners who she suspects fathered her; she views them as responsible for turning her into a monster.
This action-drama anime delivers plenty of over-the-top action. Blue Eye Samurai is beautifully animated and visually striking. The action scenes are exciting and stylishly violent. The violence is excessive, with tons of blood sprays and detailed gore. Fans of violent action will likely enjoy the entertaining and brutal action here, but those who don't like very gory violence will want to skip this one.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the impact that viewing excessively violent and graphic content can have on kids. What messages about violence and sex do you think this series trying to convey?
Revenge is a theme addressed in this series. How are the characters' actions motivated by revenge? What does this series have to say about the concept of revenge?
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