Fowler seems to be calling the shots
It’s been over two years since Blue Eye Samurai first arrived on Netflix, combining stunning animation with visceral violence to become a runaway hit. We’ve been waiting for season 2 ever since. A brief teaser released last summer announcing the start of production featured a flashback showing our protagonist, Mizu (Maya Erskine), leading a peasant rebellion. Now, we’ve gotten our best look yet at Blue Eye Samurai season 2.
During a panel at the 2026 Annecy Festival, Netflix played roughly one minute of footage from Blue Eye Samurai season 2, which is coming soon with no set release date. Here’s everything we saw, and what it means for Mizu’s ongoing adventure.
Season 1 ended with Mizu capturing the arms dealer Abijah Fowler (Kenneth Branagh) and taking a ship to London in the hopes of locating and killing the other men who could be her father. This new season 2 footage provides a first glimpse of what she gets up to in Europe.
Mizu seems to have become a bit too trusting of Fowler on her long voyage. By the time she arrives in England, he’s no longer being held in a prison cell and instead watching the shoreline by her side and promising he’ll deliver the men she’s hunting within days. He admits it’s been a while since he’s been back in London given how long he spent manipulating Japanese politics, but says that the last time he was there the whole city danced to his tune.
The scheme to flush Routely or Skeffington out involves putting Mizu in an underground fighting match. As the crowd jeers at the “ugly boy” getting pummeled by two much bigger men, Fowler looks a little too pleased with himself. Then Mizu stops taking hits and starts breaking bones with some sickening crunches. An onlooker makes things a bit more interesting by tossing a stick to one of the fighters who twirls it around a bit. But that just seems like an invitation for Mizu to really unleash with a weapon of her own.
We still don’t have a release date for Blue Eye Samurai nearly three years after the first season premiered to rave reviews but hopefully we’ll see more of Mizu’s quest soon, along with what her former allies are up to in Japan.
