I feel like this is a great ending for the season because it's a huge shift in Mizu's quest. At the beginning, her sole desire is revenge. But this decision to go to London, to spare Fowler, indicates a new desire, a new quest. She wants answers. She wants to understand her own history. And that's a quest with a future, rather than the revenge quest, which has none. It opens the possibility of reconciling with her place in the world, rather than simply cursing it. Revenge shuts the door, while potentially, self-knowledge could open it.

The Great Fire of 1657 was an actual real life fire that did that much damage. They took some liberty to make it fit into the story, but it was indeed a fire that destructive.

now that the season is over, remember when they thought this was a kids show?

Akemi was giving that meme of the little girl smirking with a house burning in the background.

Blue Eye Samurai Season Two: The Parent Trap

Spectacular from start to finish, and most importantly, it raises the crucial question we all must ask ourselves: Remember when we thought it was a kid's show?

Mizu's shirt is her kimono from childhood. It fits as a shirt now because she's not a kid anymore. And Arcane ended on a complete note, the story was the origin of Jinx, and at the end, she chose to be Jinx over Powder with the pulling of the trigger.

One thing to note is that the Japanese were very adept in the use of firearms prior to the time of the show. But as part of the reforms enacted by the Shogunate after 1603, the production and use of firearms was severely restricted, even before the country was closed to westerners entirely. Additionally, Japan had been at peace for more than half a century, so when Fowler rocks up with an army that's been drilling with advanced firearms, the Shogun's forces are doubly unprepared to deal with it.

Clarus's Civilization joke was the hardest I've laughed on this channel. 👌🏻

I love that Ringo and Taigen's solution to warning the Shogun is to Leeroy Jenkins the gate.

Trains didn't come around until 1804.

I mean, you can't say the show didn't foreshadow Ringo's lake-grabbing skills lol I thought the implication was that they used the flood of people coming into the city for the festival and marriage (that brought Madame Haji and co) to get people in place, but maybe I'm misremembering. This show was shockingly good, cannot wait for S2 - good reaction series!

That Civilization reference made my day

Crazy that she’s sailing to London in the 1600’s lol. Just comparing that to Shogun and the real life man that Blackthorn is based on. It took them 18 months to sail from Holland to Japan, going down around the tip of South America and up past Hawaii. Three ships departed, only one made it. And on that ship, 20 of the 100 aboard survived the voyage. So will she sail east and retrace that route, or go west via China or India and the Silk Road? Maybe sail the entire way down around Africa? Like… fuck. Just getting to London itself is a virtual suicide mission at this point in history. Curious to see is the next season is just about that journey and all the shit she gets into along the way, closing out the season with her arrival in London a year or so later lol. Or if they skip it and just plop her there at the start… a year or so later lol.

The show explains How they sneaked the force: The Nobles all around Japan were in their side. They hasted the Shogun and wanted him dead. So they let Fowler Go end then. And the Shogun forces and allies were focused on the festival and the marriage.

My S2 prediction is that Mizu and Fowler take the Silk Road to India where she finds another one of the white devils set up as a king and she plots to kill him. S3 Mizu makes it to London, finds out her real mother has been alive and held captive all this time, and takes out the “last” of the white devils. Somewhere either in S2 or beginning of S3 Fowler escapes and goes back to Japan and sets himself up as the BBEG of the series. The show ends with their fight to the death. As for the Great Fire, the Japanese built their castles on top of the highest hills in a given region, the castles were then eight stories high and at the very tippy tops they placed two three foot tall fish sculptures made of iron… biggest lightning rod in the region. Osaka Castle burned down twice before they figured out not to make the fish sculptures out of metal. And Nerdy, I hope you realize you just accepted a spot on Squid Games😂

They had issues with things going up in flames like that for centuries. Tokyo fire bombings of WW2 is another example. Hiroshima level of casualties.

Can’t wait for the design of London in S2…

I LOVED the discussion you had after the episode, talking about how mean and negative people are/have been/can be. Because I agree, people can be awful, the internet can be awful. There’s so much cruelty out there. It’s hard to watch. So, on that note, can I make a suggestion?? Maybe……stop contributing to that and don’t end your videos telling people to leave mean comments for the “algorithm goddess”. I mean less than ten minutes prior to that, Clarus said how many of us could go five days without leaving a mean comment. Don’t you think, just maybe, the way you end your videos just might be contributing to that?? Possibly? Just a thought. Just something to consider.

Do you guys remember what animation used to look like? this show is stunning

27:15 I think that is confirmation bias. Yes, there are tons of people who will leave shitty comments. But the comments that are never written are the vast majority. I'm convinced that the majority of people rarely ever leaves shitty comments but the small minority that does constantly makes it seem terrible.

09:21 I remember samurai doing much better defending against musketmen in Civ than they do here.

Epic ending, new adventures in Europe for Mizu

Holy petunias, what a show

Is he going to teach her English? I can't wait to see what happens in season 2

Is season 2 gonna be mizu story of killing the first one of the 4 she killed while she is sailing and more of what's going on in Japan and we don't get to London until season 3?

Probably my least favorite episode of the series, but still some incredible badass moments. The idea that the Shogun’s forces wouldn’t have guns or know how to defend against them kinda takes me out of it, since Japan had them for century at this point. And there was a little too much reliance on deus ex machina style last minute saves in one episode for me. But despite that, it’s a really solid show with beautiful animation and memorable chat and great lines. Enjoyed your reactions.

Great reaction, really enjoyed it.

Maybe it's the red hair.. but Fowler really feels like Ganon.

You absolutely said penultimate last episode. At least twice.

Honestly I think the only major weakness of this season is Fowler. He's just such a snidely whiplash villain, it makes him as a character pretty uninteresting. He's still an effective threat for Mizu so he works mechanically for the plot, but as a character he's just incredibly bland compared to all the other characters. Arcane's ending was definitely substantially strong than this. While there were many plot threads that were setup to continue, S1 of that show could still standalone if it had to with the ending itself playing perfectly into it's theme of unfettered consequences. The show itself is a modern greek tragedy and the finale is effectively the culmination of all the different characters conflicting motivations and choices getting in the way of fixing any of the systemic failures that created the situation to begin with.

Ha ha this episode the assault part is most unbelievable even with guns vs arrows with shogun already alert they cant take the castle if its real :P

I saw the trailer for this and was thinking of watching this show with my kids. Will they enjoy it?😅

The one thing I hate here is the perpetuated myth that Samurai hated guns which is simply BS. In the 16th century Japanese armies had the highest rate of firearms outside Europe. None would be impressed by Fowler nor recoil at guns or not know what to do. The Shogunate retained firearm arsenals throughout its rule, what they did was remove them from the other warlords. It went too hard on West evil when Samurai Japan was not a doe-eyed naive empire when it came to this at all. They just left Korea after too massive invasions just decades before.

The whole guns as a new thing and so devastating to samurai, is the only thing this show gets wrong. The Japanese had more guns at this time period than Europe did. This is near the end of the Sengoku Jidai, the hundred years of civil war that had raged in Japan. They had thousands of guns and were well versed in how to use them and defend against them. It is the only real blemish this show has.

right one is bigger

Start to finish I really enjoyed the character arcs in this story. Many characters have shades of grey or complicated personalities. The story didn't have resolutions that I expected.. But I still felt satisfied at the end. On a side note it was around this period that Japan did wall it self off from the world until mid 1800s when usa navy was told to open trade and use force if they had to, and then again until ww2 they were still fairly isolationist.

What a show, man. My biggest complaint is that there isn't more of it.

Suggestion for the next series: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal

I loved the season, but have a real problem with the ending. I would have found a UFO coming down to transport Mizu to London to be equally as likely as Mizu getting on a ship to go to London with Fowler as a prisoner. No one else is shown on the ship, because it makes no sense. Who is sailing that ship? The Tokugawa Shogunate built ships and went as far as Europe 20-30 years before, but all of that was shut down around 1635. There are no Japanese ships, so it's a European ship where Mizu has paid for passage and they don't mind the rich guy (who probably speaks their language and she doesn't) being kept prisoner in hold? This is going to be a 4+ month journey. This triggered my bigger problem. You had a clean theme: Mizu is treated as a monster for her half blood status because of the Xenophobia, Racism and Misogyny of Feudal Japan, which was among the worst in all of those categories in human history. She learns to rise above the hatreds of her culture and forgive herself by forgiving her Father for having given her life. All that feels really mushy from S1E8 and I start to get whiffs of approval for what is effectively Japanese fascism at this stage and I don't like it.

"Fire proofing"? Let me tell you a story about the time during world war 2 when we burned Tokyo to the ground killed more people then a nuclear weapon did in Hiroshima.

ok but when are you guys reacting to hazbin hotel