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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
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I watched a short anime series (8 episodes) called Blue Eyed Samurai on Netflix. It is a revenge tale that follow a half-white, half-Japanese person in a time when Japan has closed its borders to outsiders, and non-Japanese/white people are despised. Definitely for adults: plenty of nudity, sex, and gory violence.
Anime is not my usual thing, so there is probably context I am missing, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It developed a range of marginalized characters in an interesting and believable way and the story arc was gripping and believable. I think my chief complaint was that the fighting was very "they get their ass handed to them until they get angry/otherwise properly motivated, then they shake off their grievous wounds and are unstoppable". But everything was visually striking. I'm looking forward to another season.