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Do-Gooder
Full Name
Alias(es)
Master (by Ringo)
Origin
Occupation
Powers / Skills
Stealth
High Intelligence
Throwing skills
Horseback riding
Superhuman endurance
Hobby
Goals
Family
Mikio (husband, deceased)
Unnamed adoptive mother (deceased)
Friends / Allies
Taigen
Madame Kaji
Akemi Tokunobu
Seki
Enemies
Heiji Shindo
Boss Hamata
Hachiman
Chiaki
Taigen (formerly)
Type of Hero
| “ | I never said I was a samurai. You did. I am on the path of revenge. There's no place on it for love or friendship or weakness. Now I have a man to kill. | „ |
| ~ Mizu to Ringo. |
Mizu is the titular main protagonist of the Netflix animated series Blue Eye Samurai.
She is a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian swordmaster who has sworn herself to a quest of vengeance to kill the "Four White Devils", one of them being potentially her father, as she blames them for being the direct cause of her misery.
She is voiced by Maya Erskine.
Story[]
In the year 1633, Japan is closed to all foreigners. Mixed-race children are treated as demons, monsters, less than human. Some years later, Mizu, a young samurai with blue eyes, enters a noodle shop. When Hachiman the Flesh-Trader threatens the shop owner's son Ringo at gunpoint, Mizu cuts off several of his fingers and demands to know where he got his gun. Having been told that it was from Heiji Shindo, the samurai sets off again into the winter cold. Ringo follows suit and begs to be made an apprentice but is soundly rebuffed.
In flashbacks, a young Mizu is chased to a cliff by a pack of boys, one of whom jeers, "Your whore mother killed herself because your father is a white devil!" Suddenly a blue comet arrives, scaring off the children. Mizu watches as a blind old man struggles to lift the meteorite and then helps him load it into the cart. The man turns out to be Master Eiji, a renowned swordsmith, and he takes Mizu on as his apprentice.
Once in Kyoto, Mizu locks eyes with a noblewoman in a litter: Akemi. She meets with her father, Lord Tokunobu, and convinces him to marry her to an undefeated swordsman with humble beginnings, Taigen, whom she has a secret relationship with.
At the Shindo Dojo, Mizu asks politely but insistently to deliver a message to the master of the dojo. Once rebuffed enough times, Mizu cuts through the students with ease, using only a wooden sword, until Taigen, the best swordsman in the dojo, challenges the interloper to a duel. They recognize each other from childhood: Taigen was one of Mizu's bullies. He wins but declines to administer the killing blow, opting to mock Mizu instead for being mixed-race. Enraged, Mizu takes off the wrist and ankle weights, defeats Taigen, and slices off his topknot, dishonoring him.
The master intervenes and reveals that Heiji Shindo is on Tanabe Island guarding the white man that Mizu has sworn to kill. Mizu leaves Kyoto and bathes in a waterfall, revealing that she is a woman.
Abilities[]
Mizu is a self-taught swordswoman. She observes the men her master forged swords for practice and imitated their moves, giving her a distinctively eclectic blend of different sword styles to draw from. At one point Mizu is able to near single handedly kill a small army of gangsters.
Personality[]
Mizu is mostly concerned with her own quest for revenge and is mostly uncaring towards the feelings of others as she pursues this quest. She will, at the very least, avoid killing those who are not a threat and, despite admitting that she is no samurai, has a sense of honor. She’s not outwardly self-deprecating or despairing, but it’s evident that years and years of being called a monster and half-breed, of living in a society where no one looks like her at all, have taken a toll. She cuts herself off from any meaningful human connection and turns that internalized resentment into her only mission in life.
But the overarching themes of the show seem to be pointing Mizu away from her revenge and self-loathing, even if she staunchly denies it. There are the characters she meets who seem willing to hold out a hand to her even though she pushes it away. And the more metaphorical plot elements only further guide Mizu to acceptance: From the blind sword maker who takes her in, she learns that the strongest sword is a blend of metals.
External Links[]
- Mizu on the Blue Eye Samurai Wiki