Twelve Days of Taimizu

A fan week celebrating the romantic pairing of Taigen/Mizu from the adult animated action series Blue Eye Samurai! Running from 2nd - 13th June 2024. Carrd Mod: @kaladinkholins/@haydardotjpg

[verminsmillions]

It’s happening, y’all! ✌️⚔️🏯👹🎎💙💚🔥🌊

[taimizuweek]

Sorry for not updating here earlier, but (Mini) Taimizu Week 2025 is now in full swing!

To fic authors, be sure to add your works to the updated Taimizu Week AO3 collection!

PS. Thank you Rane @outwithwolves for organising and designing the graphics for this year's Taimizu Week, and to Verm @verminsmillions for sharing it and for all your contributions! –Mod Haydar

[valensitaaaa]

I know that you can love me

When there's no one left to blame

So never mind the darkness

We can still find a way

better late than never 🥹 traditional drawing this time

[mastereiji]

Haters will say they're straight 🌈🌈

[maiyooh]

Taimizu week 2025

I didn’t really get to any of the prompts but instead this is a little season two version of Mizu and Taigen in my style 🫣

[doughnutshi]

[ Day 3: Japan ]

Photocard edition: a kind of redraw of last year’s photocard. Idol au

[liar-leth]

TaiMizu Week Day 3:

Japan

(Sukeban & Banchō AU!)

(Close up)

[doughnutshi]

[Day 2: Devotion]

The basket ball au continues. They fell asleep after basketball practice. Shhh don’t wake them up 🫢 What happens in the court stays in the court

[verminsmillions]

“Scenarios” – Taimizu week 2025

Japan – “Hinoban”– 🏯 alt. canon – rating: T – Mizu becomes a fireguard for the shogun's inner palaces.

Snow – "Ask" 💍– modern AU – rating: G – On a gray winter's day, somebody is feeling nervous.

Sea – "Bilge Rat" 🌊– post season 1 – rating: E – At sea, Taigen finds himself alone with nothing but Mizu on his mind.

Will be updated with more for other prompts as the week goes on <3

[liar-leth]

TaiMizu Week Day 2

Devotion

[doughnutshi]

[Taimizu Week Day 1: Sea]

Basketball au: vacation. Taking a relaxing dip in the ocean at night

[valensitaaaa]

Would she ever tease him like that? probably not 😂 is it a cute scene from Ms. Congeniality ? very much so 🥺❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much Emmy for the idea, I love your content it never fails to make me laugh 🫶

But anyways back to the London Taimizu I’m manifesting the fact that Taigen is on that boat 😓

(I am probably gonna follow the prompt so this is technically not day one of Taimizu week but I still wanted to post something in the meantime 😭)

[liar-leth]

TaiMizu Week Day 1:

Sea

[otta-cosyne]

Taimizu week 2 Play-Laughter / Touch

[verminsmillions]

Uchi-sute

Shindo AU pt. III | 10.4K | rating: explicit | Taimizu Week, day 9: Acts of Service

I said I’d get this finished the day after the live-smut, aaaand then I didn’t :’) but here it is. Had so much fun during taimizu week and am sad it’s over. 😭

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[taimizuweek]

A bit of a belated post (because the mod was sick RIP) but Taimizu Week has officially come to a close! Thank you so much to everyone who participated!!! We hope to see you again next year!

Until then, please feel free to join our 18+ only Discord server! Hopefully more fun events will be in store, so do join us there :)

And for those of you who didn't have time to participate, not to worry! You can still post your entries whenever you find the time! Just tag this account (@taimizuweek) so we can still reblog your posts! The AO3 collection is also still open for you to add to whenever you like!

[ceruleanskies48]

Final Scene for BES: Healing & Family

In yesterday’s post, I wrote about what I think would be a satisfying ending for Mizu. For today’s post, rounding out the last day (Healing | Family) of @taimizuweek, I wanted to share my ideal final scene for the series.

Mizu and Taigen are living a happy peaceful life on their ranch together. Ringo (and Swordfather if he’s still alive) is visiting since Mizu recently had her first baby—a girl. The baby is around 4 months old, and Mizu looks down into her eyes and sees that they are still blue, meaning they will most likely stay that way. While part of her is scared for her daughter’s future, she is filled with an overwhelming feeling of love and hope for her. She will be surrounded by a loving family that adores her (and her eyes), and thanks to recent policy changes (driven through by Akemi with Mizu and Taigen’s help after taking down xenophobic Lady Itoh), their daughter should have a much easier time than Mizu did growing up. 

There are a few reasons I love this possible ending. It bring Mizu’s arc full circle. Mizu's quest is not a typical revenge quest motivated by death (someone killing someone the protagonist loves) but rather by creation (the birth of the protagonist). Her life goal was to kill her father for giving her blue eyes, so passing that trait to a child of her own would show that she has learned to accept and even love that side of her. In addition, the better life that the child can look forward to would represent hope for societal progress. While in other stories, the idea of a badass independent woman settling down and becoming a mother might seem regressive, I think it’d actually be empowering for Mizu given this close connection between her struggles for self-acceptance and her feelings about parenthood. This would more profoundly illustrate her growth and healing than just killing her father (which the creators have teased is what Mizu wants but not what she needs for her arc). 

Finally, it would be fun way to reference the origin story of BES. In every interview about the show, Amber Noizumi talks about how they first came up with idea for the show when she saw their baby daughter’s blue eyes. In that moment, she was thrilled that their baby had this “white” characteristic that is coveted in modern Western society as being beautiful, which led her to reflect upon her own internalized racism as a half-Japanese, half-white person. This inspired her and Michael to imagine a blue-eyed girl in the opposite context, where blue eyes made her reviled as sub-human and demonic. 

Mizu learning to love her blue eyes and feeling positive about passing them onto her child would thus be a powerful way to wrap up her journey, showing that she has overcome her internalized racism and achieved self-love and happiness. 

[yansartstyle]

TAIMIZU WEEK - Day 12: Healing

@taimizuweek

All they need is to recover and comfort each other from all the massacre they’ve seen.

I’ve had fun in this artistic journey for Taimizu week💙💚 I can leave my room since my family are always wondering why I’m in my little cave so much😅

still have high expectations for Taigen to be with Mizu’s journey for the next season. But anyhow, I appreciate y’all’s positive feedback y’all are so nice😌✌️❤️❤️❤️ Imma still do more fanart for this ship, cause Blue Eye Samurai took over my heart and soul but I gotta help my family out and if not they’re gonna drag me out of my little cave lol