ANN soft locks article for Yasuke' and shadow delete the comments.

Lol. They're even making an anime on this guy? Some people are reaaaaallly trying to push him as a historical legend.

Lol. They're even making an anime on this guy? Some people are reaaaaallly trying to push him as a historical legend.

Lol. They're even making an anime on this guy? Some people are reaaaaallly trying to push him as a historical legend.

@Dante012 Lol some people are reaaaaallly butthurt about a black guy being a historical figure in Japan.

@IKKIsama: First of all, don't prevent people from replying if you have some fucking balls. Coming on my profile page knowing that you won't let me reply there is more than ridiculous. Dogs have more dignity than you.

Then, I don't give a fuck about the guy. That's my point. Some people are trying to push him as a popular historical character, as @LSSJ_Gaming demonstrates.

Who would've cared much about that lousy anime though. It looks so tasteless, cheap and retarded that hardly anyone is interested.
Those negative comments would at least give it some more popularity.
Btw, is it that director who has unhealthy focus on representing a particular race?

@Dante012

he is popular though? I mean he's notable enough to have had children's books written about him, video games developed about him, TV shows produced about him, appearances in media not specifically about him that were set during the Sengoku period, and to have inspired a ton of dark skinned samurai characters. While his time as a samurai was short, it did leave an impression on history due to his unique circumstances. While you may not care about him personally, he is pretty well known and an interesting part of the history of Japan so to write off his impact on pop culture is disingenuous. It's not really "pushing him to be popular" when you can easily look up the influence he has had on Japanese pop culture

The moderators are moderating?!?!?



(Good on them for both doing their job and, presumably, for not putting up with trolls and dweebs)

I have no idea who Yasuke is because I don't follow celebrity gossip.

@LSSJ_Gaming



I don't have a horse in this race, but the claims about him being a samurai are generally Western-driven. The term "samurai" is often used as an umbrella term in the West to group together all kinds of bushi, which leads to confusion. As such, the average Japanese person generally rejects this notion, as it originates from the West.

There’s no evidence that he was a 旗本 (hatamoto), 御家人 (gokenin), 足軽 (ashigaru), or 地侍 (jizamurai), or that he ever learned bushido (武士道) principles such as bu-gei (武芸) or practiced basic arts like kyujutsu (弓術) or kenjutsu (剣術). What we have are fragmentary references saying he was made to serve Nobunaga as a retainer whilst being referenced to having joined battles with oda's forces as well

Since saburau (侍う) means “to serve,” it was presumed that he must have been a samurai cuz of such, because that’s where the term “samurai” comes from aka saburaru=serve. However, the way the term “samurai” tend to be broadenly used in the west is not the same as it is in Japan—just look at how the term anime is used differently for example but people appropriated the term either way.

So, Yasuke was either a retainer or a samurai, depending on which side across the pond you look at it from. That said, this whole debate is disingenuous and agenda-driven as heck, due to the West's culture war

@KittenCuddler

moderating = soft locking/shadow deleting????? i don't think you know what moderating is
also, how were the commentators in there dweebs and trolls? that's a massive fabrication on ur part, tho u do u, bud.

(And the ''presumably'' preface isn’t as much of a shield against being called out as you might think.)

@Phantomnocomics You're talking to a person who calls themself a music listener despite not liking a single piece of music.

@KittenCuddler

moderating = soft locking/shadow deleting????? i don't think you know what moderating is
also, how were the commentators in there dweebs and trolls? that's a massive fabrication on ur part, tho u do u, bud.

(And the ''presumably'' preface isn’t as much of a shield against being called out as you might think.)

Lol. They're even making an anime on this guy? Some people are reaaaaallly trying to push him as a historical legend.

I have nothing against Yasuke but its pretty obvious he's being used and pushed in the West as a overly glorified historical/popular legend in Japan when he was just a minor historical figure in Japan, he wasn't even a samurai (it was better explained above why). The main reason for the current controversy is that people in English-speaking countries are interpreting materials in their own way or using mistranslated information to assert as fact the speculation that Yasuke is a samurai. Even the Japanese Wikipedia -which it's the only trustworthy source and not internet users opinions- doesn't call him a samurai. I found ironic those negative comment on ANN are from tourists who wanted the Yasuke Anime to be proper anti-Japanese propaganda when Japan and sane people would never to allow it.

Yasuke being a samurai is just an interpretation, NOT a historical fact. Anime is allowed to make their own interpretation of historical people AS LONG don't try to pass as facts, that's why fantasy elements were added which I'm glad the Yasuke Anime did. It's annoying some people in the West are using him only because of his skin color and trying to use Japanese culture by force acting they care about Japan when it's cleary they are just insulting the country. If Yasuke wasn't black, they will never care about Yasuke in the first place and much less trying to openly use culture appropiation to pass him as samurai. They don't care about Yasuke as a person, they don't care about historical facts and obviously they don't care about Japanese culture. They just want to push a political agenda.

The Anime is just an interpretation of the character since it contains a lot of fantasy and supernatural elements while Assassin's Creed Shadows did the opposite, an openly racist game towards Japanese people and has a lot of revisionism and historical inaccuracy at the same time.

bruh i've know about this guy before this "historical accuracy" nonsense started with AC shadow.

he was in Nioh samurai warriors and many of the sengoku era manga i've read.

not sure why hes suddenly a problem for ya'll oh right youtuber grifters.

@GrimAtrament I wonder what you think the word "grifter" means.

@kutuya people who make up things and blow things out of proportions for people to be mad about that they actually don't care about but know will make them likes/clicks/money. Seriously assassins' creed 2 you fought the pope using magic alien destiny staff.

if you care about "historical accuracy" for AC now that bus left after AC1.


@KiliianSleipnir

i mean fate/go turned half the historical figures into anime girls and i don't see as much of a outrage as this nonsense. Seriously who gives a fuck? i sure don't most Japanese manga and anime producers that mess with history in there mnaga/books/anime/games do not.

heck honkai impact turned newton into a anime girl. so clearly china doesn't give a fuck either.

@GrimAtrament That literally describes you. People aren't mad because it's "historically inaccurate", you're the one latching onto that, they're upset about the irreverence towards Japanese history and culture.
None of the other examples you bring up are at all similar, Fate/Grand Order made Da Vinci a girl because they thought it would be cool, not to boost their ESG score.

@GrimAtrament My apologies, I will promptly stop asking questions and just consume product then get excited for next product.