Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai is coming back for a second season

Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai animated series from co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green has turned out to be one of this year's surprise hits, and the streamer already has plans to keep the momentum going with a second season.

Blue Eye Samurai's season 1 finale made it fairly obvious that Noizumi and Green still have plenty of stories left to tell with Maya Erskine's Mizu, a biracial samurai who takes it upon herself to rid Japan of white foreigners during the nation's Edo period. Today, though, Netflix officially announced that it has renewed the series for a second season that will presumably follow Mizu as she and her captive Fowler (Kenneth Branagh) make their way to London in pursuit of the men she intends to kill.

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