Blue Eye Samurai is an animated series of eight 45-minute or so episodes. The story is set in ancient Japan where two decades ago the Emperor closed off the land to outsiders.

Mizu (Maya Erskine) is an intense blue-eyed half Japanese women who poses as a male ronin wandering the land seeking revenge on four white men, one of whom must be her father. Along the way she is followed by Ringo (Masi Oka), a handless noodle maker who wants to be a samurai, and keeps crossing paths with Taigen (Darren Barnet), a samurai who used to be one of her childhood bullies and who she's defeated and wants a rematch...to the death. Mizu crosses path with Princess Akemi (Brenda Strong), a head-strong woman who runs away from home to find and marry Taigen but the real world is no place for a Princess.

There are some fairly cool samurai fights and Mizu has some pretty cool tools that enhance her sword fighting when needed. It's also quite graphic at times both showing some brutal deaths and showing a good amount of male and female nudity. The part where Mizu breaks into castle home of Abijah Fowler (Kenneth Branagh), her primary target this season, is also cool due to the traps and challenges inside.

Season one ends with Mizu leaving Japan in pursuit of her final two targets (oh, apparently the first one is already killed when the series starts). Season two has been greenlit.