Netflix has ordered the second season of its newer animated drama, Blue Eye Samurai. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amber Noizumi (LCJ Q&A Podcast) and Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049), who are married and co-creators of the show, devised a four-season plan for the series. The show premiered just last month. 

“When we started this project, we made a commitment to take this very personal story set in Edo-period Japan and bring it to life in the most authentic and beautiful way possible. Our animators, historians, musicians, martial artists and voice cast made this a reality beyond our expectations,” Noizumi and Green said in a statement announcing Monday’s news of the second season via The Hollywood Reporter. “We are thankful to our entire team and to our viewers from all over the world who have shown such passion for Mizu and her path of revenge. Mizu has a lot more blood to spill! We are deeply grateful to our incredible partners at Netflix for letting the journey continue.”

The series follows Maya Erskine’s (Wine Country, Betas) Mizu, a nixed-race woman samurai who seeks revenge against the white man who murdered her mother. Along the way, she will be challenged by foes and allies alike on how she wants to shape her life.

Both Green and Noizumi sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s Top 5 podcast in a past episode and stated that they imagined a four-season plan for the series, which the couple’s daughter partially inspires. Since debuting on Nov.3, the first season, which holds eight episodes, received an infrequent 100 percent rating by critics and a 96 percent score with viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. 

The series has already begun making critics’ best of 2023 lists. 

Voice actors on this project include Brenda Song (Doll Face, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody), George Takei (Star Trek, Call Me Kat), Masi Oka (Heroes, The Meg), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Mortal Kombat, Planet of the Apes), Darren Barnet (Never Have I Ever, The Summit of the Gods), Kenneth Branagh (Henry V, Hamlet) and Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai).