Steampunk Anime 'Blue Eye Samurai' Returns with Season 2 Set for January 2027, Lego Mashup
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Bass x Machina This original, new steampunk-style anime has a talented voice cast that includes Janelle Monáe, Brian Tyree Henry, Tati Gabrielle and Cree Summer. The story, set in the West, is about a father on a justice streak and features supernatural and sci-fi elements, bloodshed and what’s expected to be a really good soundtrack. It’s due out on Netflix on Nov. 3.
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GizmodoBass X Machina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWbZBIrEfqI Animated by Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra/Devil May Cry), Bass X Machina is a steampunk western anime where a father battles outlaws, machines, and supernatural oddities to protect his family. The show stars Brian Tyree Henry (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), musician and actor Janelle Monáe, Tati Gabrielle (Mortal Kombat II), and seasoned voice actor Cree Summer. The series premieres on November 3.
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Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 release date Follow Mizu to London when Blue Eye Samurai returns for season 2 in January 2027, continuing her revenge stroll and crossing names off her list. Netflix shared a small teaser with the launch information, so be sure to check back for details on when the six-episode premieres.
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The VergeBlue Eye Samurai’s second season will hit Netflix in January The show will officially renew with a third and final season.
GizmodoBlue Eye Samurai Season Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oCx6HcYz9k Animated by Blue Spirit, season two of Blue Eye Samurai sees roaming samurai Mizu (Maya Erskine) continue her vengeful journey in search of her father in London. Meanwhile, back in Japan, Mizu’s companion Ringo (Masi Oka) searches for a new purpose in life while Akemi (Brenda Song) and Taigen (Darren Barnet) navigate the politics of Edo Castle under a new, dangerous shogun. The series, by writers and showrunners Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, is slated to return in January 2027.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 The uber-popular series will return for its second season on Oct. 20, four years after it made its debut on Netflix. This standalone installment will have 10 episodes and take fans back into the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, so prepare for more action, violence and a revenge-y plot. Though Netflix dropped some photos back in June, you can peep the official teaser and a new set of images below.
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EngadgetThe 10-episode series follows a new crew of mercenaries in Night City. Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 and confirmed the series will be available to stream on October 20. The second season of the Cyberpunk 2077 adaptation is still co-produced by developer CD Projekt Red and animation house Studio Trigger, but now follows an entirely new cast of mercenaries surviving in Night City.
GizmodoCyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyeHKMfswHk Studio Trigger and CD Projekt RED’s highly anticipated follow-up to the 2023 Anime of the Year-winning series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners follows a new crew in Night City in a 10-episode standalone story set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077. Along their neo-noir journey, the show—which draws heavy inspiration from classic cinema like City of God—asks what extremes its heroes are willing to go to for their stories to matter.
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Lego One Piece This may not feel like anime, but if you like Lego’s cinematic universe and anime, you’ll get this mashup of Lego One Piece (just look at Chopper!). This two-part special is a remixed version of what viewers saw in seasons 1 and 2 of Netflix’s live-action One Piece series, narrated by Usopp (Jacob Romero). You can stream it on Sept. 29.
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GizmodoLego One Piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z8oBbmkgXo Coming off the bon voyage of the live-action One Piece series’ second season, this two-part animated LEGO special recaps the events of the series thus far as told by the Straw Hat pirates‘ trusty sniper (and unreliable narrator), Usopp. The special stars Iñaki Godoy as Luffy, Emily Rudd as Nami, Mackenyu as Zoro, Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp, Taz Skylar as Sanji, Charithra Chandran as Nefertari Vivi, Mikaela Hoover as Tony Tony Chopper, and Jeff Ward as Buggy. Lego One Piece premieres on September 29.
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Sakamoto Days, Season 2 Everyone’s favorite retired-but-unretired hitman, Taro Sakamoto, is back on the scene to dig up intel on Slur — and much more. Season 2 of Sakamoto Days will arrive in January 2027, but until then, check out this trailer to get a look at the players in this new installment.
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GizmodoSakamoto Days Season Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld4PMbghy78 Studio TMS is back with a second season of shonen hitman-turned-family-man mayhem with Sakamoto Days season two. The series follows Taro Sakamoto (EN: Matthew Mercer, JP: Sugita Tomokazu), a legendary hitman who, after retiring from the business for good to become a loving husband and father, is thrown back into the criminal underworld when a nemesis puts his family in his crosshairs. What follows is an action-adventure romp that’s equal parts John Wick and Jackie Chan kung fu cinema wrapped in a delightfully madcap package as Sakamoto and his allies take on a progressively bizarre assortment of antisocial assassins. Sakamoto Days season two premieres in January 2027.
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The One Piece Another adaptation of the beloved manga, The One Piece, is a Netflix original anime produced in collaboration with WIT Studio, Shueisha, Fuji Television Network, and Toei Animation. The streamer said season 1 will cover the East Blue Saga, based on the first 50 chapters. Look for its debut in February 2027.
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GizmodoThe One Piece Rounding things out is a new look at the key visual for WIT Studio’s anime remake of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running shonen series, The One Piece. As we learned earlier this year, the series is seven episodes, each with a runtime of roughly 42 minutes, which’ll drop all at once on the streamer. For those keeping track of what that means relative to the ongoing manga’s 1,000+ chapters, the show is adapting the first 50 chapters of the series’ East Blue Saga “up to the point where Luffy and the crew meet Sanji.” The One Piece sets sail in February 2027.
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01 Gizmodo We’ve known since last year that Avengers: Endgame was getting a second re-release to help build up hype for this December’s Avengers: Doomsday. For months, Disney’s been hyping up this “Encore edition” as a tie-in to the new superhero film, complete with new footage set “in the Doomsday story.” Now we may know the value of that extra material, and the big takeaway might be… that’s it?
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02 Engadget Per Netflix's announcement, the second season is "a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge in a city that thrives on violence" and is designed to be standalone. Kai Ikarashi, a storyboard artist and animation director on the first season, will direct the 10-episode second series, according to Anime News Network, working with several other season one veterans. Those include Bartosz Sztybor, who will act as producer and showrunner; Masahiko Otsuka, a returning writer; and Ichigo Kanno, the second season's lead character designer.
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03 CNET When Ninja first released its hefty Ninja Slushi Twist machine in May, it sold out on the brand’s website in less than two hours. Today, the company is launching the same machine again, but with another twist.
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04 The Verge After Netflix teased an “epic conclusion production announcement,” to media reporters, IGN reports that Netflix confirmed this means Blue Eye Samurai will officially end with a third and final season. There’s currently no information regarding the third season’s production or release timeline, but bear in mind that the second season was confirmed back in 2023, so we could be waiting a while.
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