‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Creators Amber Noizumi & Michael Green On Working With Netflix Bring The Animated Series To Life
deadline.comAfter ruminating on the idea for Blue Eye Samurai for quite a while, Amber Noizumi and Michael Green had difficulty finding the right medium – until they decided the story needed to be animated in whole new style.
Enter Netflix, which had just recently started an adult animation division, and the eight-episode series was born. Blue Eye Samurai follows Mizu (Maya Erskine), a young warrior driven by revenge as she lives as an outcast in Edo-period Japan.
Her blue eyes signify her as an outsider in a Japan that has closed its borders, and her gender prevents her from legally seeking revenge.
Green and Noizumi say they wanted to build up as many obstacles as they could for Mizu to overcome, as a warrior seeking to “transcend her station.” DEADLINE: Where did the idea for Blue Eye Samurai come from? AMBER NOIZUMI: We have a blue-eyed daughter who’s 15 now, and when she was a baby we called her our Blue Eye Samurai.
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