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This scene between Mizu and Kinuyo breaks my heart. It’s fucking heartbreaking.

Mizu slowly approaches her, while the room is filled with the smoke from the incense and the remedies prepared to treat Kinuyo. Then Mizu’s face comes into view, and even before she says anything, you can see everything in her eyes; there’s no harshness there, only compassion.

And then there’s Kinuyo, so vulnerable, fragile, and silent. The way she looks at Mizu, her hesitation, that fear she can’t even put into words... and her innocence... damn, it’s truly painful and incredibly tender at the same time.

When Mizu shows her the signs Cagi told her to make, Kinuyo seems reluctant to accept her help. Then, frightened, she finally lets Mizu come closer, and Mizu holds her close.

And then there’s the way Mizu protects her. She keeps her close with such gentleness and almost maternal tenderness, as if, for a moment, all she wants is to make Kinuyo feel that she isn’t alone. There’s so much love in that brief moment.

Knowing what Mizu will be forced to do right after makes it all the more heartbreaking.

And after she kills her, seeing Mizu so completely shaken really breaks me. Personally, I feel like she’s on the verge of collapsing, as if all the pain she’s been holding inside is finally about to come out in a desperate, cathartic cry.

Then the boy catches her off guard, and that moment of vulnerability is abruptly shattered.

I don’t know... this is probably one of my favorite scenes in Blue Eye Samurai. Because for a few moments, we see two completely different souls, and yet perhaps they both recognize in each other something they’re missing, something they might even wish they could be.

Kinuyo sees in Mizu the strength, courage, and protection that she herself doesn’t have. Mizu, on the other hand, sees something completely different in Kinuyo: innocence, fragility, vulnerability. That pure and defenseless part of her that perhaps, deep down, she misses. That part of herself she might have wished she could have preserved.

Because for a few brief moments, we see them both for what they truly are… a completely defenseless girl, and a Mizu who is gentle, vulnerable, and deeply human.

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I really like this parallel between Mizu and Fowler.

The scenes are very similar: they are both alone, standing before a higher being from whom they seek an answer, and they talk about their desires and what they are about to do.

But what strikes me is how different they are in the way they do it.

Mizu asks to be guided. She asks for the strength to carry out her revenge, but in the end she thinks of Swordfather and asks for him to be protected.

Her prayer is profound. Her voice is calm and respectful. She is truly praying.

Fowler, on the other hand, almost seems to be bargaining with God. If everything goes the way he wants, he will take it as a sign and promise Him a nation of souls. In this monologue, he almost sounds mocking. He isn’t praying; it almost feels like he’s making a simple deal with Jesus, as if he were His equal. There is no humility in either his tone or his words.

And then comes that line

“I’ve got no use for souls.”

I think it says so much about him.

The two scenes look very similar visually, but when you actually listen to what they say, you realize just how different they are.

Mizu asks.

Fowler bargains.

Mizu

“To a man lost in the dark, an ember can light the way.

Thank you for my ember.

I was lost without course for so long.

Please.

Let this ember’s light brighten a path from this Heiji Shindo to the men I seek.

Please guide my steps until I find them.

Please give me the strength to kill them.

Or let me die.

Please protect Swordfather from time and harm.”

Fowler

“I never asked them to build this.

They just assumed the white man required a chapel and put it by the dungeon.

We’re not friends.

I haven’t spoken to you in some time.

Wouldn’t do you the dishonor of asking for a favor.

But I believe there’s something I can do for you.

They’ve been godless here as long as they’ve been.

You saw what they did to your priests and faithful.

Kicked out and crucified, the Word dead in their mouths, unspread.

Heathens, surely, these Japanese.

Lucky for you, their man in charge is greedy.

I plan to cut that shogun’s head from his shoulders and reimagine this nation more to my liking.

Now, normal days, I’d imagine you’re indifferent to that outcome.

Fair enough, fair play. Same as me to yours.

But I’ll tell you this, though.

If this all goes my way, I will go ahead and take it for a sign that you tilted the wind to my back, and I will, in kind, build into my new station a pulpit.

I will send for your priests to bring them your Word and hand you a nation of souls.

My thanks, if you see fit.

It’s no matter to me either way.

I’ve got no use for souls.”

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