The Binaries of Blue Eye Samurai

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  @idlescree · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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  @thenosieyartist6924 · 1 year ago

  hearing misu means water immediately makes me think &quot;she was named after her eyes...&quot; beautiful blue

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  @johnvinals7423 · 1 year ago

  It’s so funny to me how so many people interpret Mizu as this uber butch warrior killer, when I actuality she’s quite a gentle person who gives her enemies constant opportunities to back off and doesn’t even cut her hair short, instead choosing to tie it up in a really tight bun.

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  @anakin-is-panakin · 1 year ago

  I love that when asked about Mizu’s identity, the creators said, “Mizu is Mizu.”

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  @flux.aeterna · 1 year ago

  The Bunraku theater episode is a genius narrative of Mizu’s journey in and rejection of binary societal norms, which should have won an Emmy

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  @VismayKedilaya-w2r · 4 months ago

  i feel like the thing with mizu&apos;s gender identity being somewhat muddy is kinda exacerbated by the fact that in the bunraku play, she&apos;s represented by both the ronin and the bride, man and woman. she knows what it&apos;s like to be both, and after a while she&apos;s just neither.

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  @BenHopkins1000 · 1 year ago

  Mizu always struck me as a tomboy (no idea why we’ve suddenly forgotten that word exists). Like Mulan and Cybersix before her, she disguises herself as one of the guys in the interest of her own self-preservation. Unlike Mulan, however, she’s only doing it to help herself instead of someone close to her. She understands her own physical and societal limitations intimately and adapts accordingly

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  @brodee2923 · 1 year ago

  When Master Eiji was refusing to listen to Mizus confession It felt like he wanted her to stay and say those things rather then leave and say those things

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  @cybersearcher1041 · 1 year ago

  This was such a beautiful essay. I&apos;m enby and the number of times I&apos;ve just introduced myself to people as <b>just</b> a trans man have been. So conflicting for me. Because I know what they see when they see me - a petite femm asian - and I know that between the two, trans man is easier to understand than non binary. If I even risk explaining at all. <br><br>I know that for them it causes less conflict because most people can understand one, or the other. They can&apos;t or don&apos;t see another option, or the fact that there&apos;s no point in defining &apos;&apos;options&apos;&apos; at all. <br><br>Mizu really reflects that part of me. The part of me that hides because I don&apos;t want to have to deal with the struggle of constantly coming out to every stranger who misgenders me and risking violence *every single time*. Sometimes I wish I had her physical strength just so I could meet any violence with violence of my own. <br><br>But I don&apos;t want that. I just want to be seen as a person. <br><br>Thanks for the video essay all of you guys this was brilliant work - Pax (they/them)

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  @zosobansk · 1 year ago

  This is so vindicating for me, I am not mixed, I am however nonbinary and I somebody else recognizing that coding, that defiance of strict gender rules, the way Mizu functions in society. I was thinking of doing a detailed post just to get my thoughts out there because all discussions of Mizu&apos;s gender I could see felt a bit incomplete, but you nailed it. Great video as always!

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  @jadamiller7485 · 1 year ago

  Mizu is going to go to London and get angry because people are identifying her as japanese by those that are white when she has grown up being told she is white, not japanese. It&apos;s going to mess with her racial identity in her head. I don&apos;t think she&apos;s ever truly realized she isn&apos;t either.

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  @tehilagrunebaum-lake6982 · 1 year ago

  As a mixed race jewish woman ive always found myself walking along the grey lines. Stories like this are so important for opening the discussions of nuisances when it comes to race.

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