‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Creators Amber Noizumi & Michael Green On Working With Netflix Bring The Animated Series To Life
29.05.2024 - 22:03
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After 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. I was so excited when she was four months old and I realized her blue eyes were going to stay blue, and then I realized that, ‘Hey, it’s kind of weird that I’m so excited that my child looks more white than Asian.’ So, we kind of started having conversations about it, and the idea grew from that, but I think you had some insights too.
MICHAEL GREEN:Well, now that we are past the point of having launched the show, I think as much as it’s interesting that we have this very personal connection to the story and where it came from and why we chose to tell it, the story I’m really excited to share with more people now is how the hell we took something that we were excited about and actually worked with people to make it a reality. To make the show actually exist, which was a lot harder than coming up with an idea and
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