r/BlueEyeSamurai

They cut the episodes to only like 6 as far as I've heard. I feel like so much is gonna be cut. At first after Heiji died I wanted to see atleast one flashback in season 2 with him, whether it involves Fowler or a personal backstory. But lowkey after seeing the summary I have my doubts, I'm fearing he'll be forgotten just like that. He's my favorite it sucks so bad I'm serious

Hello! I don’t know if it’s ever been mentioned or figured out, but does anyone know how much time passes from when Mizu starts hunting Fowler in episode 1 all the way to the end of the season? It feels like the season happens over the course of a week or so just because that’s how it was animated (duh), but I have a fan fiction that takes place alongside the first season and it feels like my character’s relationship goes from 0-100 lol.

I know that in episode 3 where Taigen makes the contract with Mizu, he says duel me in 3 days and after the tea party he says I gotta kill you tomorrow. Mizu sustains so many injuries that all heal relatively quickly and scar, but from what I’ve learned it takes a few days to a week for something to scab and scar. Obviously I know it’s just a show and it’s fiction, but we also have to factor in that she’s walking everywhere. The first half of my story takes place over the course of a few weeks, but I also know that the season changes from winter to spring because of the spring matsuri before the attack on Edo.

I’m probably reading way too into this, but if anyone knows or could give a guesstimation on how long they think it actually takes Mizu to get from episode 1 to 8, let me know and all help is greatly appreciated! (And if anyone could tell me roughly where Kohama would be roughly located even though it’s a fictional village, that would be awesome too)

So I’ve watched BES probably 5 times in the last year. Today I’m watching the final episode after starting the series again in the last week.

Something about Takayoshi always stood out to me and I think it finally clicked today. I may be TOTALLY off base but here goes…

No other Japanese character in the show looks like him. His nose is very different from any other Japanese man. His voice is different as well. I know we don’t hear him talk much but I always found something about his voice which made me wonder why it hits so different.

If you look at Takayoshi, his rendering looks much more like a “westerner.” His facial features are much more similar to a caucasian man then they are to an east-Asian man. I hope this isn‘t racially insensitive as I know that within any ethnic group there is diversity. Obviously they could have just tried to make him stand out a bit more because he may play a bigger role on the show.

Since there is a theory that Mizu may be of the Shogun‘s family (either his wife had relations or was raped by one of the 4 white men, or my suspicion which is her mother was white and father is either the Shogun or other royal family member), I wonder if her and Takayoshi share a parent.

It may be a wild theory but I swear that no other Japanese character on the show looks like him. if you google his character, some of the shots of him look like a “white guy” .

What do you think? Any chance this is why he is treated as an outcast, and not because of his stammer? maybe the stammer is going to be a key clue as stammers are mainly genetic.