'Blue Eye Samurai' review: Yo, Jimbo, drop everything and watch this

'It's not that I look at the world through rose-coloured glasses... just that whenever I'm around, everything runs red.' Photos: Handout

What if, in some sake-induced haze, the artistic sensibilities of the animated Mulan crossed universes into the gore-soaked realm of Shogun Assassin (the notorious 1980s "video nasty" cobbled together from segments of Lone Wolf And Cub films)?

Why, chances are the resulting hybrid would look and sound (and almost feel) much like the captivating, deceptively gorgeous (and still gore-soaked) Blue Eye Samurai, Netflix's new mature-audiences animated series.