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| 'Blue Eye Samurai' Sets Season 2 Release Date at Netflix — Variety | Reported context: [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] | Not recorded |
THE SHORT VERSION
- Netflix will release the second season of Blue Eye Samurai on January 19, 2027, Deadline and Variety both report, more than three years after the first season aired in 2023.Deadline 与 Variety 都报道，Netflix 将于2027年1月19日上线《Blue Eye Samurai》第二季，距2023年播出的第一季已超过三年。
- Maya Erskine returns as Mizu alongside Brenda Song, Darren Barnet and Masi Oka, with Jonathan Pryce, Joel Kim Booster and Sherry Cola joining the cast.Maya Erskine 回归饰演 Mizu，Brenda Song、Darren Barnet 与 Masi Oka 继续出演，Jonathan Pryce、Joel Kim Booster 与 Sherry Cola 新加入。
- A third and final season was ordered in August for a 2028 premiere, and the first season won four Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2024.第三季已于8月获订并将是最终季，安排在2028年首播；第一季在2024年获得四项创意艺术艾美奖。
A date after three years of waiting等待三年之后的一个日期
Netflix has set January 19, 2027 as the premiere date for the second season of Blue Eye Samurai, according to Deadline and Variety. The season lands more than three years after the first, which aired in 2023. Variety measures the wait the same way, noting that the second season arrives more than three years after the first season aired in Nov. 2023. Neither paper attributes the date to a cast member, and neither links it to a trailer.Netflix 把《Blue Eye Samurai》第二季的首播日期定在2027年1月19日，消息来自Deadline与Variety。这一季距2023年播出的第一季已超过三年。Variety 也用同样的方式衡量这段间隔，称第二季的上线时间距2023年11月首播的第一季已超过三年。两家都没有把日期归到某位演员身上，也没有把它和预告片挂钩。
The date is the only new production detail in either report. Neither paper gives an episode count, an episode title or a trailer date, and Deadline's mention of a previously released teaser and new Season 2 images comes without any description of what they show. Variety's account is shorter and stays with the logline, the cast list and the renewal history, so the two pieces overlap almost completely on facts and not at all on new material. Read together, they supply a date, a cast, a logline, a credit block and an awards tally, and then stop.日期是两篇报道里唯一新增的制作信息。两家都没有给出集数、单集标题或预告片上线时间；Deadline 提到页面附有一段此前发布的预告片和第二季新剧照，却没有说明画面内容。Variety 的篇幅更短，只停留在剧情简介、演员名单和续订经过上，因此两篇报道在事实上几乎完全重合，在新材料上则完全没有互补。合起来看，它们提供的是一份日期、一份演员名单、一份简介、一份制作名单和一份获奖记录，然后到此为止。
Erskine returns, with three new namesErskine 回归，另有三个新名字
Maya Erskine returns as Mizu, the mixed-race warrior at the centre of the series. Variety lists Brenda Song as Akemi, Darren Barnet as Taigen and Masi Oka as Ringo around her, then adds Jonathan Pryce, Joel Kim Booster and Sherry Cola to the second-season cast. Deadline names the same three additions without restating the returning ensemble, and neither paper assigns a character to any of the new actors.Maya Erskine 回归饰演剧集核心的混血武士 Mizu。Variety 列出 Brenda Song 饰 Akemi、Darren Barnet 饰 Taigen、Masi Oka 饰 Ringo，随后把 Jonathan Pryce、Joel Kim Booster 与 Sherry Cola 加入第二季阵容。Deadline 提到的三位新演员与之一致，但没有重列回归阵容，两家也都没有为任何一位新演员安排角色。
Variety also records the first-season cast: Kenneth Branagh, George Takei, Randall Park, Stephanie Hsu and Ming-Na Wen, among several others. Neither report says which of them appear in the new episodes, and neither treats the first-season list as a set of departures. Variety's phrasing is that the first-season list included those names among several others, which leaves the size of the original roster unstated in both papers. A returning voice cast and a returning character are not the same thing, and the two reports only ever confirm the first.Variety 还记录了第一季的演员名单：Kenneth Branagh、George Takei、Randall Park、Stephanie Hsu 与 Ming-Na Wen 等。两篇报道都没有说明其中哪些人出现在新一季，也没有把第一季名单写成离队名单。Variety 的措辞是这份名单里包括上述几位以及另外若干人，两份报道都没有交代最初阵容到底有多少人。配音演员回归与角色回归并不是一回事，而两家确认的始终只是前者。
London, Edo Castle and a samurai in two places伦敦、江户城与身在两地的武士
Deadline prints the official logline, in which "Mizu's (Erskine) bloody quest continues in London, where she faces new friends, old foes, and her own demons". The logline sets three places where the season works: London for Mizu, Edo Castle for Akemi and Taigen, and an unnamed search for Ringo. It keeps Akemi (Brenda Song) and Taigen (Darren Barnet) inside the castle under a dangerous new Shogun, and sends Ringo (Masi Oka) looking for new purpose in Japan.Deadline 刊出官方剧情简介：Mizu 的血腥追索在伦敦继续，她将面对新朋友、旧敌人和自己的心魔。简介点出这一季的三个活动地点：Mizu 在伦敦，Akemi 与 Taigen 在江户城，Ringo 则在一场没有写明地点的寻找中。同一份简介把 Akemi 与 Taigen 放在一位危险的新将军治下的江户城，并让 Ringo 在日本寻找新的意义。
Variety carries the logline too and credits it to the production rather than to a cast member. Neither paper explains how the London strand connects to the Edo Castle strand, or how many episodes each thread runs. Both print the logline as one paragraph, so the two countries sit side by side without a transition. What they do establish is that the season splits its main cast across two countries for the first time in the show's run, with the three Japanese storylines named separately from Mizu's.Variety 也引用了这份简介，并把它归于制作方而不是某位演员。两篇报道都没有解释伦敦线索与江户城线索如何衔接，也没有说明两条线各占多少集。两家都把简介作为一整段刊出，两个国家因此并排出现，中间没有任何过渡。它们确认的是：这一季第一次把主要阵容分置两国，三条日本线被单独列出，与 Mizu 的线索并列。
The premise the first season built第一季搭起的故事前提
Deadline summarises the premise: Mizu is a mixed-race Japanese warrior seeking vengeance against four white men, including her father, who remained illegally in Japan after the Tokugawa shogunate closed its borders. Amber Noizumi and Michael Green created the series, and Deadline describes the pair as a husband-and-wife duo. The four men are also the reason the story can leave Japan at all, since the first season's search was framed as a hunt across a closed country.Deadline 概括了故事前提：Mizu 是一名混血日本武士，要向四名白人男子复仇，其中一人是她的父亲；这四人在德川幕府锁国之后仍非法留在日本。Amber Noizumi 与 Michael Green 创作了该剧，Deadline 称两人为夫妻搭档。这四个人也正是故事得以离开日本的原因，因为第一季的追索被设定为在一个封闭国度的全境搜寻。
Variety fills in the credits around the two creators. Green and Noizumi are creators, writers and executive producers, Erwin Stoff is also an executive producer, Jane Wu is supervising director and producer, and Blue Spirit is the animation studio. Deadline credits Blue Spirit as well and lists the pair as writers and executive producers, so the production team is the one part of the record on which the two reports agree without any variation. Neither paper gives a budget, a production timeline or a studio location beyond that credit.Variety 补上了两位创作者周围的名单：Green 与 Noizumi 身兼创作者、编剧与执行制片人，Erwin Stoff 也是执行制片人，Jane Wu 担任监制导演兼制片人，动画制作由 Blue Spirit 负责。Deadline 同样把动画制作归给 Blue Spirit，并把两人列为编剧与执行制片人，因此制作团队是两份报道完全一致、没有任何出入的部分。除这项署名之外，两家都没有给出预算、制作周期或工作室所在地。
A third season, already ordered and already last第三季已经获订，也已经是最后一季
A third season is already ordered, and it will be the last. Both papers date that renewal to August and put the final season's premiere in 2028. Variety states that the final season is slated to debut in 2028, and Deadline reports the same year while describing the order as a third and final season rather than as an extension of a show still finding its audience.第三季已经获订，并且将是最终季。两篇报道都把这次续订的时间定在8月，并把最终季的首播放在2028年。Variety 称最终季定于2028年首播；Deadline 给出的年份相同，但把这笔订单描述为第三季兼最终季，而不是给一部仍在寻找观众的剧集加订。
Neither report says how the last two seasons divide the story, or whether the third was written as a conclusion. What both establish is a fixed end point one season out and a second season that arrives ahead of it, which makes the January launch the start of a two-part finish rather than a routine renewal. The final season has a year but no date, and the second season has a date but no episode count, which is the shape of the record as of Nov. 3.两篇报道都没有说明最后两季如何划分故事，也没有说明第三季是否按结局来写。可以确认的是一条固定的终点：最终季已排在2028年，而第二季在那之前上线，这让明年1月的开播成为两段式收尾的起点，而不是一次普通续订。最终季有年份没有日期，第二季有日期没有集数，这就是截至11月3日的记录形态。
Four Emmys, six Annies and what each paper counts四座艾美、六座安妮奖与两家各自的统计
The first season won four Creative Arts Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Animated Program. Variety dates that haul to 2024 and lists the shows it beat: Scavengers Reign, The Simpsons, X-Men '97 and Bob's Burgers. Deadline records the same four wins without the year, and adds six Annie Awards from six nominations, all for the first season, a figure Variety does not carry. All six of those nominations turned into wins, a sweep Deadline states in a single clause.第一季获得四项创意艺术艾美奖，其中包括最佳动画节目奖。Variety 把这次获奖定在2024年，并列出被它击败的剧集：《Scavengers Reign》《The Simpsons》《X-Men '97》与《Bob's Burgers》。Deadline 记录了同样的四项奖，没有给年份，并补充第一季还以六项提名拿下六座安妮奖；Variety 没有提到这个数字。六项提名全部转为获奖，Deadline 用一句话写出这次全胜。
Related coverage on this site includes the record year for Japanese animation, the ratified SAG-AFTRA television animation contract and the release date for Ethos season 2. The date is the news in both pieces; the rest of the file is the file both papers have carried since the renewal.本站相关阅读包括日本动画市场创下纪录的一年、SAG-AFTRA 电视动画合同获批与《Ethos》第二季定档。两篇报道的新闻都是这个日期，其余内容仍是续订以来两家一直在刊发的那份材料。
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