Blue Eye Samurai Is Ending After Season 3 — and Season 2 Finally Has a Date

Season 2 arrives in January 2027, announced alongside a new teaser. Season 3 will be the last, and it's scheduled for 2028.

What's actually confirmed

• Season 2: January 2027, exact date still unannounced. Production has wrapped.
• Season 3: greenlit, already in production, targeting 2028. Final season.
• The teaser: Mizu at sea, headed for London, declaring her intention to choose revenge over roughly everything else.

The gap between announcement and delivery is the notable part here. Season 1 landed in November 2023 and then vanished into the production ether for three years. Netflix is now telling us the third season lands roughly twelve months after the second, which suggests the pipeline stopped being a bottleneck at some point in the last eighteen months.

Where the story left off

If your memory of 2023 is hazy: Mizu is a mixed-race swordswoman in Edo-period Japan who conceals both her gender and her heritage while hunting the four white men who were illegally in the country around the time of her birth. One of them is probably her father.

Season 1 ended with her sailing for England with Abijah Fowler as her prisoner and two names left on the list. Season 2 picks up in London, where — per Netflix's own framing — she runs into new allies, old enemies, and her own considerable psychological baggage.

Created by married duo Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, the series won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program and holds a 97% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.

A prestige revenge saga that gets to finish on its own terms, with the ending announced before the audience organizes a campaign. Notice how rarely that happens.

Season 3 was described at the convention as an epic conclusion, which is a phrase with two possible meanings and I'd like the optimistic one.