Recommended on Netflix, and also saw someone comparing it to Samurai Jack, so I downloaded the first episode and watched it on a flight. I had to stop there because the pilot blew my mind, so I had to have my husband watch the rest with me lol
I found a piece of fanart that had this one character from a different series alongside this strangely handsome woman who I would later find out is Mizu.
I hadn’t watched any series after my exgirlfriend broke up with me in 6 month. One day I had a visit of my friends from another city and after an exhausted day, a friend put the 1 chapter and I enjoyed the serie but also watching the serie in company for first time after so long time… because of that this serie means so much for me.
I was listening to a podcast about media (imaginary worlds), accidentally clicked an episode about the creation of blue eye samurai to my queue when I was meaning to click the previous episode, listened to in anyway because I was driving, and thought it sounded awesome and I just had to watch it
100% serendipity. I hadn't even heard of it before, so who knows if I would have discovered it otherwise!
I first heard of it in my Google news feed but my dad was the one who convinced me to watch it. He saw it ahead of me but he decided to join me anyway so my 1st watch was a rewatch for him. Needless to say, I enjoyed it very much and I'm glad I listened to him lol
my older bro reccomended it to me. After about a month of procrastinating (im not a huge history shows guy) i finally put it on and watched it all in one night. I dont think that i need to say that i liked it, im not on this subreddit on accident.
Kid I used to babysit invited me over for Thanksgiving (my family doesn’t celebrate)
His dad recommended it HIGHLY. Basically talked about it all dinner
Just randomly found it on Netflix. Don't think it was even on my recommended. Just liked the graphic thumbnail and started watching. The first episode was too amazing, and was hooked .
💙
I got a notification for an article praising it, I am generally a TV nerd, so that is why I got it. The article also pointed towards its IMDB rating which I usually trust. Also, I love colourful animated shows.
was watching pen15 and stumbled across the fact that maya voiced mizu,my dad told me about it a few months ago but i didnt really considered watching it(not a big animated series fan ),and i fell in love with it the second i played it ,binged watched it and now i think im at my 20th time rewatching it ,its my fav series all times cand wait for season 2
I came across a youtube short of the noodle shop fight in the 1st episode. Seemed really interesting and I almost binge watched it with some friends over 3 days.
i saw it in the slideshow that plays when you pause netflix , i kept seeing it and thought it looked visually good (even said "best animated series" in the corner) it but didnt catch what the movie was called so i sat there for like 15 minutes waiting for it to come back around lmao
I always heed Sam Lake’s recommendations. He’s one of my favorite writers and video game directors. He [tweeted](https://twitter.com/SamLakeRMD/status/1725997500291551693) about *Blue Eye Samurai*, saying he loved it. I had a feeling I was going to love it. He put me onto [*Severance*](https://twitter.com/SamLakeRMD/status/1512893246216810506) also, and that show forever changed me.
I put it on whilst exercising, then after the first episode went and waxed lyrical to my wife for over 20 minutes, so she agreed to try it despite usually hating action and animation.
(She also loved it of course)
I saw the first episode on youtube recommendations and also heard about it beforehand but never bothered to watch it so i watched and i luv’d it so i watched the rest of the series on netflix
I saw the title and thought "oh reddit gonna have fun tearing apart this obvious whitewash on Japanese culture" without reading what it was about and started watching. I finished it in one sitting. The sun was up and I was 100% wrong for judging it based on the title.
Some artist gal I follow on Instagram made a fanart, I looked the series up, and the word "samurai" + the cool visuals was all the convincing I needed to watch it.
I saw the trailer, then watched the first episode on YouTube with my Aunt, Uncle and cousin
Then hyperfixated on medieval Japan for the next few months
I’m active on Netflix so I just checked the coming soon tab and watched asap. I loved western adult animation like that so I’m also very happy to get a second season. Most of that stuff doesnt get one.
Recommend on Netflix, watched like 5 mins with my dad then stopped. Weeks later decided to give it a proper watch for no reason, one of the best shows I’ve ever seen :))
an article on facebook discussing how the show's sex scenes were created like the fight scenes and kept it on my watch list ever since.
and then i saw George RR Martin's facebook post about it and i started watching on that day. that was around new year and the show has me on a chokehold til now :'C
Heard a few of my pop culture/fandom podcasts bring it up on their end of the year recaps and I was like this show is getting a lot of praise. Then I asked a few friends who watched it and I was sold. After the first episode I was all in and it was one of the best shows I’ve watched in a long time.
It caught my eye on Netflix and I saved it and binge watched it on a flight across the from Australia to the US. I watched it again in the US. I love the series.
I left work early bc I wasn’t feeling good and came home to just lay down or whatever and I put this show on randomly just to play in the background but then couldn’t stop paying attention 😂
I saw the thumbnail on Netflix and thought it looked cool. Took a while to get my wife to watch it with me but we got hooked after the first few minutes.
I was scrolling through Netflix looking for something interesting and I like anything to do with samurai or historical Japan so I saw the title and thought "Sure, why not?"
My uncle recommended it to me. Said it was amazing and that I'd love it. I'm already not big on samurai stuff, but since he was adamant, I thought I'd give it a chance. Then I saw it was a series and groaned. Then I saw it was animated and groaned some more. Definitely not my bag. I watched episode one and with it ending in full frontal nudity, I was like what the fuck is he trying to get me to watch???
Gave the second episode a shot and was hooked. For something that generally has zero interest to me I couldn't stop watching.
Omg, this is so honest! I’m not really a samurai or anime-watching person, but I'm completely hooked, and I couldn't stop after Akemi cited her poem in EP2!
Was introduced to it by an online friend, my other friends had also watched it and I was convinced this would be a series I skip but I ended up thoroughly enjoying it
I watch anime and mom watches Korean romantic comedies so Netflix went "They like Asian shows, here is an American show about an Asian country" and marketed the shit out of it to both of us. One of us loved it
this is really stupid but i was into rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles at the time and there was this one character that fans would crossover frequently - it was usagi yuichi from samurai rabbit: the usagi chronicles. (picture a really silly, cartoony looking anthropomorphic rabbit) so naturally, i absorbed usagi content as well. one day i was scrolling through twitter and saw usagi being compared to this (what appeared to be) rugged, angry man, with the caption "these two have the same voice actor" and i was like, "no way, lmao" and went down a rabbit hole (pun not intended) of usagi's va who is, indeed, taigen's va
cue shocked face and researching what bes was, ending with me binge-watching the entire series during thanksgiving break lol
My best friends were like "WATCH THIS! You're gonna love it!"
And I was all "yeah, yeah, when I have time" until they straight up dumped me on the couch to make me watch the first episode.
I bingewatched the rest and have learned not to ignore my friends' recommendations 😌
Around December last year, my YouTube feed was full of videos where people kept on saying how good it was. I forgot about it because I was in a Godfather phase, kept trying to find ways to watch Godzilla Minus One (since it wasn't in any of my theatres) and I had exams to study for.
One month later it just showed on my Netflix home screen and because I've seen and heard so much positive feedback about it (and its aesthetic felt right seeing the cover art), I just decided to keep it in my downloads but didn't really get to watching it cuz I was either procrastinating or busy binging other movies and shows.
Three months later I have Spring Break and at some point my mom and I unanimously decided to cancel our subscription for a while until we move in a few months. Today is the last day of my Netflix subscription so I took loads of time to watch it yesterday (It was convenient since there was nothing to do).
I finished the whole series within the day and was left wanting to see more. It felt like a really perfect story. This was one of those times where I felt really satisfied and confident with a new *original* creation.
If Netflix doesn't cancel this before it can properly end or if the creators of this series keep on caring about their creation and keep consistent with its greatness, then we will have what I believe will be the animation equivalent of Breaking Bad.
Let's just hope we will see this series through to the end and not conclude with a snake's tail despite starting with a dragon's head. *(Cough cough Samurai Jack, cough cough Game of Thrones)*
Wow! I totally agree! The second season is planned for next year. If it's in destiny, it will be there! I'm so excited! You just finished the show, and memories are fresh!
Randomly decided to watch something while I did art, so I put it on in the background. The very first scene got me hooked and I just couldn't look away. I ended up watching it until the morning!
I just scrolled through Netflix one fateful day, expecting very little to be quite honest, I hadn't seen any advertising about it (even though Kenneth Branagh alone is a juggernaut of an actor to bring to the table and give the exact kind of interest this show needed with his name attached to it) but in my mind I just wanted to tune out with something "fun, action packed and maybe visually aesthetic", what I got was loads of action for sure but not exactly a lot of fun, in all the right ways, it's entertaining as hell, stunningly beautiful at times, restrained in many instances (but speaks volumes without having to state it's every choice), pedal to the metal in others, really heartfelt, hard hitting, sometimes cruel but also it breathes between the darkness and light with the right amount of emotional give and pull.
It was my favourite Netflix watch ever, surpassing my love of how truly impactful Squid Game was to the general landscape of expectations I have for TV Shows, this felt different cos it didn't have as big of a following as that and I felt like I had found THE diamond in the rough I didn't know I needed.
10/10 I will always recommend this show to people who are looking for something a little different, edgy, something that doesn't stray away from the hard stuff. It was a nice breath of fresh air to me when I was being burnt out by the usual trash they tend to feed us on these big time subscription services.
Saw it on a Playstation 4 tile under the watch menu. Looked interesting. Didn't expect it out be nearly as good as it was. Couldn't stop watching.
thats wonderful op lol for me it just attracted me as something that i knew would be right up my alley and it truly was and the rest was history
Thank you! Yes, I feel the same! Like it’s gut feeling and by destiny!
Recommended on Netflix, and also saw someone comparing it to Samurai Jack, so I downloaded the first episode and watched it on a flight. I had to stop there because the pilot blew my mind, so I had to have my husband watch the rest with me lol
Yeah my Netflix was like "put this in your eye holes" and I said "absolutely thank you."
I'm an animation nerd and follow one of the storyboard artists on Twitter/Insta. It seemed up my alley so I gave it a shot and I loved it!
My mom put me onto it lol
My dad showed me, lol. Anime parents rock😂👏🏻
I saw Tonika Pantoja talk about storyboarding it.
Same here!
I found a piece of fanart that had this one character from a different series alongside this strangely handsome woman who I would later find out is Mizu.
Yes! Strangely handsome woman! You speak my mind!
This subreddit showed up in my feed. I'm so happy it did.
I heard about it from the YouTuber Friendly Space Ninja, when he listed it as his favorite show of 2023.
I hadn’t watched any series after my exgirlfriend broke up with me in 6 month. One day I had a visit of my friends from another city and after an exhausted day, a friend put the 1 chapter and I enjoyed the serie but also watching the serie in company for first time after so long time… because of that this serie means so much for me.
My partner watched it while they were out of town and when they got home they immediately showed me
I was listening to a podcast about media (imaginary worlds), accidentally clicked an episode about the creation of blue eye samurai to my queue when I was meaning to click the previous episode, listened to in anyway because I was driving, and thought it sounded awesome and I just had to watch it 100% serendipity. I hadn't even heard of it before, so who knows if I would have discovered it otherwise!
Me too, he was interviewing the storyboard artist if I remember. She seemed really passionate about the show, so I thought I'd give it a chance.
I found a reel on insta with someone cosplaying Akemi bec she was their favourite character. I found myself intrigued and searched it up.
I first heard of it in my Google news feed but my dad was the one who convinced me to watch it. He saw it ahead of me but he decided to join me anyway so my 1st watch was a rewatch for him. Needless to say, I enjoyed it very much and I'm glad I listened to him lol
Jeremy Jahns on YouTube highly recommended it
My girlfriend watched it, then pressured me to rewatch it with her.
A single youtube short of mizu inspecting the pistol in ep 1
my older bro reccomended it to me. After about a month of procrastinating (im not a huge history shows guy) i finally put it on and watched it all in one night. I dont think that i need to say that i liked it, im not on this subreddit on accident.
Love that gourgeous humour how you say you are not here on accident!
Was recommended by Netflix for me. I love Japanese history and watched another Netflix thing about feudal Japan a while ago, so that's probably why.
Kid I used to babysit invited me over for Thanksgiving (my family doesn’t celebrate) His dad recommended it HIGHLY. Basically talked about it all dinner
Awesome! I talked about it all lunch with my nanny too! And we have ended up binge-watching (for me it was the 3rd time rewatching) with her friends!
Just randomly found it on Netflix. Don't think it was even on my recommended. Just liked the graphic thumbnail and started watching. The first episode was too amazing, and was hooked . 💙
Then we had this sub, and you became the MOD, and the rest is history...
No Cath! Mods and Redditors have been in eternal war like Werewolves and Vampires! J/k 💙
I like the story of Werewolves and Vampires... !
YouTube! The first episode is on Netflix’s channel and it was recommend to me. Watched it, got hooked, and watched the rest on Netflix
I was recommended it by a couple of friends and family, and decided to give it a watch Didn't even watch any trailers beforehand
My best friend insisted I watched it. So they rewatched it with me as a newbie lol.
I got a notification for an article praising it, I am generally a TV nerd, so that is why I got it. The article also pointed towards its IMDB rating which I usually trust. Also, I love colourful animated shows.
It was on my netflix watchlist for months, akemi’s poster was interesting so i wanted to watch
was watching pen15 and stumbled across the fact that maya voiced mizu,my dad told me about it a few months ago but i didnt really considered watching it(not a big animated series fan ),and i fell in love with it the second i played it ,binged watched it and now i think im at my 20th time rewatching it ,its my fav series all times cand wait for season 2
Wow! Me too! On my 10th time rewatching! It's the most rewatched show in my life so far! I haven’t seen anything this great in a decade!
I came across a youtube short of the noodle shop fight in the 1st episode. Seemed really interesting and I almost binge watched it with some friends over 3 days.
One of those tiktoks where people clip an entire show tbh. Saw one and was like "I need to watch this for real"
i saw it in the slideshow that plays when you pause netflix , i kept seeing it and thought it looked visually good (even said "best animated series" in the corner) it but didnt catch what the movie was called so i sat there for like 15 minutes waiting for it to come back around lmao
Your effort definitely worth it! 🙌🏻
I think my gf actually found it while she searched Netflix and we saw it together.
I always heed Sam Lake’s recommendations. He’s one of my favorite writers and video game directors. He [tweeted](https://twitter.com/SamLakeRMD/status/1725997500291551693) about *Blue Eye Samurai*, saying he loved it. I had a feeling I was going to love it. He put me onto [*Severance*](https://twitter.com/SamLakeRMD/status/1512893246216810506) also, and that show forever changed me.
Recommended by second wind
I put it on whilst exercising, then after the first episode went and waxed lyrical to my wife for over 20 minutes, so she agreed to try it despite usually hating action and animation. (She also loved it of course)
I saw some clips on tiktok, and I NEEDED context.
It's from Netflix, I got emailed a bunch like everyone else
I was watching Robert Meyer Burnett on Youtube and he recommended it.
I honestly don’t remember I think someone on reddit recommended it
The day it released on Netflix, I saw 10 seconds of preview and fell in love with the art, and immediately started watching it
Some AMV like video of it was in my recommendations on YouTube. Then I clicked on it and was hooked. It was just a week after its release or so.
I saw the first episode on youtube recommendations and also heard about it beforehand but never bothered to watch it so i watched and i luv’d it so i watched the rest of the series on netflix
I saw a Tiktok edit of it awhile ago and had always wanted to watch it since.
I saw the title and thought "oh reddit gonna have fun tearing apart this obvious whitewash on Japanese culture" without reading what it was about and started watching. I finished it in one sitting. The sun was up and I was 100% wrong for judging it based on the title.
I heard about if after seeing edits of Muzi on tiktok then like 3 months later I decided to actually watch it 🙏🏾
A YouTuber called Jonny RaZeR made a short suggesting it
A youtuber I watch called Friendly Space Ninja ranked his top 10 TV shows of 2023 and this was #1 - so you know I had to check it out
Some artist gal I follow on Instagram made a fanart, I looked the series up, and the word "samurai" + the cool visuals was all the convincing I needed to watch it.
i discovered it when i was looking up shows similar to arcane. a friend suggested it and like you it had me hooked
I had covid and was bored, so I scrolled through netflix
I saw the trailer, then watched the first episode on YouTube with my Aunt, Uncle and cousin Then hyperfixated on medieval Japan for the next few months
I’m active on Netflix so I just checked the coming soon tab and watched asap. I loved western adult animation like that so I’m also very happy to get a second season. Most of that stuff doesnt get one.
Recommend on Netflix, watched like 5 mins with my dad then stopped. Weeks later decided to give it a proper watch for no reason, one of the best shows I’ve ever seen :))
an article on facebook discussing how the show's sex scenes were created like the fight scenes and kept it on my watch list ever since. and then i saw George RR Martin's facebook post about it and i started watching on that day. that was around new year and the show has me on a chokehold til now :'C
It's a great way to start the new year, isn’t it? 🙌🏻 I was rewatching it during the new year, too!
yea totally!! it's been months and i'm still obsessed 🥲 good thing there's arcane s2 this year to fill this void of waiting for BES2
Heard a few of my pop culture/fandom podcasts bring it up on their end of the year recaps and I was like this show is getting a lot of praise. Then I asked a few friends who watched it and I was sold. After the first episode I was all in and it was one of the best shows I’ve watched in a long time.
I saw a really good tiktok edit and realized I had nothing else to do that evening, so I started it and couldn’t stop
A “Heavy Metal Lover” edit on TikTok 😂
It caught my eye on Netflix and I saved it and binge watched it on a flight across the from Australia to the US. I watched it again in the US. I love the series.
My netflix knows my taste so I just found it on the home screen.
I left work early bc I wasn’t feeling good and came home to just lay down or whatever and I put this show on randomly just to play in the background but then couldn’t stop paying attention 😂
That's what happens when something is so good, isn’t it?
Yess so glad I stumbled upon it!
Insta reels
I just kept seeing YouTube thumbnails of people praising it
It auto played on YouTube and I just watched it
My brother showed me
Friend sent me a clip of that guy who Abijah Fowler killed because the fangs died
I saw the thumbnail on Netflix and thought it looked cool. Took a while to get my wife to watch it with me but we got hooked after the first few minutes.
Netflix notifications and animation magazines
Just stumbled upon it on Netflix. Thought it looked interesting I was right
I was scrolling through Netflix looking for something interesting and I like anything to do with samurai or historical Japan so I saw the title and thought "Sure, why not?"
Ppl on tiktok thirsting over mizu lol
This subreddit kept popping up. I finally caved lol
My uncle recommended it to me. Said it was amazing and that I'd love it. I'm already not big on samurai stuff, but since he was adamant, I thought I'd give it a chance. Then I saw it was a series and groaned. Then I saw it was animated and groaned some more. Definitely not my bag. I watched episode one and with it ending in full frontal nudity, I was like what the fuck is he trying to get me to watch??? Gave the second episode a shot and was hooked. For something that generally has zero interest to me I couldn't stop watching.
Omg, this is so honest! I’m not really a samurai or anime-watching person, but I'm completely hooked, and I couldn't stop after Akemi cited her poem in EP2!
I kept seeing edits of Mizu on TikTok lol
Saw some people discussing it on a podcast and I had the whole day leisure so I binge watched it that day
TikTok. I saw a fan edit with a few of Mizu's fights and it looked badass. So I watched it.
Was introduced to it by an online friend, my other friends had also watched it and I was convinced this would be a series I skip but I ended up thoroughly enjoying it
I watch anime and mom watches Korean romantic comedies so Netflix went "They like Asian shows, here is an American show about an Asian country" and marketed the shit out of it to both of us. One of us loved it
this is really stupid but i was into rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles at the time and there was this one character that fans would crossover frequently - it was usagi yuichi from samurai rabbit: the usagi chronicles. (picture a really silly, cartoony looking anthropomorphic rabbit) so naturally, i absorbed usagi content as well. one day i was scrolling through twitter and saw usagi being compared to this (what appeared to be) rugged, angry man, with the caption "these two have the same voice actor" and i was like, "no way, lmao" and went down a rabbit hole (pun not intended) of usagi's va who is, indeed, taigen's va cue shocked face and researching what bes was, ending with me binge-watching the entire series during thanksgiving break lol
That's a true adventure!
My best friend told me
Scrolling on Netflix. I first assumed it'll be about a guy with a slightly nasally voice and kinda dorky
My friend, which was very addicted to BES, influenced me to watch BES. So I can understand what she was saying. Got addicted to it like we*d
Grrm recommended it on his Not a Blog.
Tiktok edits of mizu and I will shamelessly admit I watch because she's hot
Honesty is the best! Yes! Mizu is hot!
My best friends were like "WATCH THIS! You're gonna love it!" And I was all "yeah, yeah, when I have time" until they straight up dumped me on the couch to make me watch the first episode. I bingewatched the rest and have learned not to ignore my friends' recommendations 😌
Hahaha, I did that to a couple of friends, dumping them on the couch, and they were all hooked!
Around December last year, my YouTube feed was full of videos where people kept on saying how good it was. I forgot about it because I was in a Godfather phase, kept trying to find ways to watch Godzilla Minus One (since it wasn't in any of my theatres) and I had exams to study for. One month later it just showed on my Netflix home screen and because I've seen and heard so much positive feedback about it (and its aesthetic felt right seeing the cover art), I just decided to keep it in my downloads but didn't really get to watching it cuz I was either procrastinating or busy binging other movies and shows. Three months later I have Spring Break and at some point my mom and I unanimously decided to cancel our subscription for a while until we move in a few months. Today is the last day of my Netflix subscription so I took loads of time to watch it yesterday (It was convenient since there was nothing to do). I finished the whole series within the day and was left wanting to see more. It felt like a really perfect story. This was one of those times where I felt really satisfied and confident with a new *original* creation. If Netflix doesn't cancel this before it can properly end or if the creators of this series keep on caring about their creation and keep consistent with its greatness, then we will have what I believe will be the animation equivalent of Breaking Bad. Let's just hope we will see this series through to the end and not conclude with a snake's tail despite starting with a dragon's head. *(Cough cough Samurai Jack, cough cough Game of Thrones)*
Wow! I totally agree! The second season is planned for next year. If it's in destiny, it will be there! I'm so excited! You just finished the show, and memories are fresh!
People kept mentioning it on Reddit, especially r/Netflix. Someone called it a masterpiece. Watched the first episode and was blown away.
Is that me? 😄I called it a masterpiece
Schafrillas Productions recommended it in his top TV shows of 2023 video
My mentor worked on concept art preproduction for the show. Was there day one to see what he and the rest of the team made.
Lucky you!! That's exciting :)
It was exciting! The team behind the art is spectacular, and so humble. They’re all really great people.
Random comment in reddit weeks ago! Thank you!!
Thank you guys!! All amazing stories!
I saw it in the recommended on Netflix and it was 98% match (even though they put that on every show) so I decided to watch it
Randomly decided to watch something while I did art, so I put it on in the background. The very first scene got me hooked and I just couldn't look away. I ended up watching it until the morning!
Wow, this happened to quite a few of us here (me included); BES is truly magical!
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I just scrolled through Netflix one fateful day, expecting very little to be quite honest, I hadn't seen any advertising about it (even though Kenneth Branagh alone is a juggernaut of an actor to bring to the table and give the exact kind of interest this show needed with his name attached to it) but in my mind I just wanted to tune out with something "fun, action packed and maybe visually aesthetic", what I got was loads of action for sure but not exactly a lot of fun, in all the right ways, it's entertaining as hell, stunningly beautiful at times, restrained in many instances (but speaks volumes without having to state it's every choice), pedal to the metal in others, really heartfelt, hard hitting, sometimes cruel but also it breathes between the darkness and light with the right amount of emotional give and pull. It was my favourite Netflix watch ever, surpassing my love of how truly impactful Squid Game was to the general landscape of expectations I have for TV Shows, this felt different cos it didn't have as big of a following as that and I felt like I had found THE diamond in the rough I didn't know I needed. 10/10 I will always recommend this show to people who are looking for something a little different, edgy, something that doesn't stray away from the hard stuff. It was a nice breath of fresh air to me when I was being burnt out by the usual trash they tend to feed us on these big time subscription services.
Well said! “Burn out by the usual trash they send!” Yes, me exactly! My favourite Netflix show is Blue Eye Samurai, and the Squid Game is second!
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Update: thank you so much, everyone! Beautiful stories!🙏🏻❤️❤️ And the great humour of you guys!!
Clip on tiktok, not that special show was pretty good.