Blue Eye Samurai. Damn. Just...damn.
I've watched literally thousands of hours of animation in my life.
The last hour of Blue Eye Samurai, (Episode 8) is the very, very best.
There are frames in there that could hang as paintings in palaces and fit right in.
It is simply gorgeous. And spectacular.
Season 2 through whenever I die MUST be made. Never stop making this show.
Forget a list of top animation properties. This show tops lists of top action/adventure/historical dramas with ease.
I honestly can't recall being more engaged by something on my television in recent memory.
If you have Netflix, watch this. Now.
If not, find someone who does and move in.
My only negative note is that in the very closing minutes, what had been a tightly braided cord of story threads has frayed open into at least three seemingly opposing directions. After 8 superb episodes, I have great faith in this show's creative team that in some way I cannot envision, will somehow loop those new strands into a weave and continue the tale as a tapestry.
What they have started here deserves its place among properties with household names like Game of Thrones, Dune and Shogun. It truly is that good.
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