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televisiongifs · 9 months

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STAN LEE in Chapter Sixteen 'Unexpected' HEROES (2006–2010)

#heroes #chewieblog #userbbelcher #useroptional #cinemapix #heroesedit #tvedit #stan lee #masi oka #hiro nakamura #ours #by soph #mediagifs #tvsource #filmtv

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redsamuraiii · 6 months

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My favourite characters and their voice actors/actress from Blue Eye Samurai.

I knew their voices sounds familiar!

#blue eye samurai #cary hiroyuki tagawa #masi oka #george takei #ming na wen

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lunaoblonsky · 5 months

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Blue Eye Samurai

S1 E1 - Hammerscale

#blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #mizu #snow #winter #animation #animated #netflix #maya erskine #masi oka #japan #japanese #snowfall #snow aesthetic

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aenslem · 7 months

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The Hard Part HEROES (2006–2010)

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elvismentions · 9 months

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Hawaii Five-0 S05EP21

#elvismentions #elvis #elvis presley #elvis impersonators #hawaii five 0 #hawaii five 0 (2010)#h50 #masi oka #dr. max bergman #jorge garcia #jerry ortega #tv show #television #2010s #year: 2015 #screencaps

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agentnico · 4 months

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Blue Eye Samurai - Season 1 (2023) Review

Don't think I've ever seen so much human genitalia in animated form all in one go. Makes me wonder if the production team had a designated animator of genitals who literally just spent his time drawing penises for the show. If so, I hope it was Jonah Hill as he already proved in Superbad that he is the perfect artist for this subject.

Plot: Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Netflix consistently hashes out so much content every week, that it is hard to keep up with any of it, as such many great projects get missed and are forever lost in the streamer's endless library void. Luckily Blue Eye Samurai didn't pass my scrolling and evidently has its fan base, as this is one of the quickest examples of the streaming giant announcing a season renewal after release. Yep, Blue Eye Samurai will be getting a second season which is amazing as this is a superb new series that if you haven't yet discovered then you are doing yourself a disservice and should amend that behaviour immediately and go watch it! Still need persuading? Alright, sit yourself down and allow me to gush about Blue Eye Samurai!...

It’s hard to overstate just how stunning Blue Eye Samurai is to look at. The series uses a mix of 2D and 3D animation styles to create landscapes and characters who seem only a few degrees removed from live-action, even as the form allows for combat on a scale that would cost several large fortunes to craft with flesh-and-blood actors. In fact, looking at the behind-the-scenes the team hired an actual martial arts choreographer to support in creating the combat sequences in real life with real people, and then the movements of those fights were transferred to animation and used in the final product. In one episode (seemingly inspired by the 1978 martial arts film Enter the Game of Death where Bruce Lee had to fight his way up to the tower to get to the last floor) the main samurai Mizu must defeat multiple bosses on each level of the season's big bad Fowler’s impregnable fortress home, and each separate battle is a work of art in itself. Honestly, the show just looks like a moving painting, with every frame absolutely jaw-dropping gorgeous. Even without dialogue or characterization, it would be completely engrossing.

Luckily, writers Michael Green and Amber Noizumi are as interested in the people at the center of these crazy fights as they are in the many improbable techniques Mizu uses against her opponents. Mizu is presented throughout as both supernatural and deeply human. She can handle any odds, and come back from every injury that would cripple or kill a normal person. But the series never loses sight of what a life wholly devoted to revenge has cost her, and the ways in which she has turned herself into every bit the monster that her countrymen believe her to be.

It is then also the exploration of how Mizu interacts with the other characters in this world. There's the disabled would-be apprentice Ringo (played warmly by Masi Oka), who has learned to navigate life despite his lumbering size and lack of hands. Mizu has no interest in a sidekick, but Ringo gradually wears her down, as if he’s a peaceful stream flowing against a rock over hundreds of years. There's also Taigen (Darren Barnett), a warrior chasing after Mizu to collect a debt of honour, yet due to this honour he ends up helping her as in his eyes only he has the right to kill her, no one else, so ends up attacking those that attempt to harm her. Brenda Song voices the princess Akemi, who is just as eager to escape the bonds of Edo society as Mizu is, but who uses very different methods to achieve that. We follow her journey through an intimate tour of the area brothels, which is where the aforementioned heaviness of nudity comes in. There is, in fact, a lot of naked flesh on display throughout the season. The series can be just as graphic in depicting sex as it is in violence, yet both avoid feeling gratuitous. And finally, there's Kenneth Branagh as this season's big bad Fowler, a despicable arms dealer who has no sense of morality or empathy and is willing to destroy anything standing in his path. He's a massive presence and seemingly the only one able to hold himself in a fight against Mizu, hence why Branagh's British snark yet heavy tone fits perfectly here.

The whole thing is an incredible, utterly badass example of how animation can be used to create worlds, characters, and adventure every bit as vivid as live-action if not more at times. Even though I would say there are a few areas of pacing issues, which withheld me from binging this season all in one go and instead had me taking regular break intervals throughout, this is still a stellar show and one that you can tell was created by a team of passionate filmmakers and artists. Blue Eye Samurai would never have had the impact it did had it been live-action - using animation as its storytelling medium elevated it to a masterpiece in my opinion. Kudos to everyone involved in such an amazing project and I can’t WAIT to see more!

Overall score: 8/10

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moviemosaics · 1 year

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Bullet Train

directed by David Leitch, 2022

#Bullet Train #David Leitch #movie mosaics #Brian Tyree Henry #Aaron Taylor-Johnson #Brad Pitt #Hiroyuki Sanada #Benito A. Martínez Ocasio #Bad Bunny #Zazie Beetz #Joey King #Andrew Koji #Masi Oka

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oldinterneticons · 6 months

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#heroes #masi oka #tv

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funkymbtifiction · 5 months

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Blue Eye Samurai: Ringo [ESFJ 2w3]

MBTI Type: ESFJ Ringo is a true extrovert, who talks almost constantly, which means he shares every thought and feeling that passes through his head. He is very much swayed by those around him and influenced by their morals—taking part in local traditions and enjoying their food, and wanting to know more about everyone around him. The Swordmaker tells him he values silence at one point, and that…

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#2w3 #Blue Eye Samurai #ESFJ #Masi Oka

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geekcavepodcast · 7 months

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Blue Eye Samurai Trailer *Graphic**

Set in 1633 Japan's Edo period, Blue Eye Samurai follows Mizu, who is out for revenge against her father, whichever of the four white men that he may be. But to do so Mizu will need to hide both her gender and her blue eyes.

Blue Eye Samurai stars the voice talents of Maya Erskine (Mizu), Masi Oka, Darren Barnet, Brenda Song, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Stephanie Hsu, George Takei, Randall Park, Ming-Na Wen, Harry Shum Jr., Mark Dacascos, and Kenneth Branagh. The series is created and written by Michael Green and Amber Noizumi.

Blue Eye Samurai hits Netflix on November 3, 2023.