Mizu is the leading protagonist of Netflix’s action-animated series, Blue Eye Samurai. The character is voiced by Maya Erskine.
Mizu is the main character of a story filled with revenge, bloody battles, and tragedies during the Edo-period Japan that is facing a threat from colonialists masquerading as traders.
At the center of it all is a bespectacled samurai of few words, who is dead set on exacting vengeance upon the white man who gave them a life of prejudice, fear, and neglect.
The blue-eyed demon
Mizu is a mixed-race woman, as she was a result of a white Western man consummating with a Japanese woman.
As a result, her skin is noticeably different from the “pure” Japanese and she also has stark blue eyes that become the most apparent marker of her identity.
The Japanese see a demon in those blue eyes, and they not only discriminate against her for it, but also bully, beat, and hunt her down.
To hide her identity, she wears tinted sunglasses, a hat, and bandages to flatten her chest, so that people don’t decipher her real identity.
An apprentice
After nearly getting driven off a cliff and to her death, she is saved by a blind swordsmith, named Eiji.
She soon takes refuge at his house and he also takes her in, not knowing of her real identity and gender until she one day tells him about it all.
She becomes Master Eiji’s apprentice and he moulds her into a competent swordsmith over time. However, when she comes of age, she decides to set off on a journey, one that’s rife with suffering and perils aplenty.
A samurai seeking revenge
Four western men of white flesh came to Japan and one of them is Mizu’s biological father, along with being the one who caused such a life of suffering and constant fear for her.
She seeks revenge against the man who took everything from her and sets off on a quest to exact her vengeance upon him when she becomes an adult.
The primary target is Abijah Fowler, one of the white men who could be her father, but during their climactic battle, he denies being her father while telling her that it could be among the two other white men she hasn’t met yet.
Mizu is yet to find her father and take revenge on him, as she sets sail to lands Fowler directs her, to confront his white friends and hopefully find her biological father.
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