Yo, the internet is literally starving for this show. People out here rewatching season 1 every other week, crying over the finale again, and flooding every Netflix post with “WHERE IS MIZU???” memes. Season 2 is coming, it’s locked, and the updates are finally getting spicy. Here’s the real, no-filter rundown straight from the streets.
Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 Release Date Updates
Netflix said “bet” and renewed it TWO WEEKS after season 1 dropped in 2023. Fast forward to summer 2025: they crashed Anime NYC with a full production update reel and confirmed filming/animation is deep in the trenches right now.
Current word on the timeline:
- Late 2025 got ruled out (animation this clean takes time, fam)
- Creators Amber Noizumi & Michael Green straight-up said “2026” in every interview since August
- Most insiders and animation heads are betting on Q2 or Q3 2026 (think May–August window)
- Six longer episodes again, each pushing 45–50 minutes
So yeah, still a minute away, but at least it’s real and moving. The wait hurts, but the glow-up is gonna be insane.
Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 Expected Cast
Everybody you love is returning, plus one new face that already has people screaming.
Locked in:
- Maya Erskine – Mizu (duh, the whole show)
- Kenneth Branagh – Fowler (still breathing, still a snake)
- Darren Barnet – Taigen (Edo’s new golden boy)
- Brenda Song – Akemi (about to run the whole palace)
- Masi Oka – Ringo (best boy stays winning)
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa – Swordfather (that post-credit sword scene wasn’t a flex for nothing)
- George Takei, Randall Park, Stephanie Hsu, Ming-Na Wen, Mark Dacascos – all back causing chaos
Brand-new edition:
- Freddie Fox (you know him from House of the Dragon and Slow Horses) – playing a mysterious London character. Nobody’s saying if he’s ally, villain, or love interest yet, but the casting is too perfect to be random.
Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 Potential Plot
Season 1 ended with Mizu sailing to London with Fowler chained in the cargo hold like “you’re my GPS now, colonizer.” Season 2 picks up exactly there.
What we know for a fact:
- First scene of the season = Mizu breaking into some fancy British estate to murder somebody (confirmed by the creators)
- Full London setting: cobblestone streets, opium dens, dirty pubs, rich people with bad wigs
- The last two white men on her kill list are hiding in high society there
- Expect culture shock, racism, disguises, and Mizu going full ghost in a city that isn’t ready for her
- Taigen and Akemi storylines still running back in Japan (power moves, arranged marriage drama, possible civil war vibes)
- Ringo is 100% on the boat with her because he’s ride-or-die like that
- Flashbacks to baby Mizu and whatever hell her mama went through
The creators keep calling it “the demon season.” Translation: way more blood, way more heartbreak, and Mizu finally facing if revenge is actually fixing anything or just turning her into the monster.
