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Yasuke (弥助) Voiced by: Jun Soejima [7] (Japanese); Lakeith Stanfield (English) Once a servant of Jesuits named Eusebio Ibrahimo Baloi and originally of Yao descent, he was named Yasuke upon becoming a samurai under Oda Nobunaga, after which his skill and honor earned much of his Lord's favor, despite the discrimination for his skin and distrust for his foreign origin.
In November 2014, Thomas successfully crowd-funded an animated TV series pilot called Cannon Busters: The Animated Series, based on his creator-owned comic book of the same name, featuring production by Japanese anime studio Satelight. The project was successfully funded in December 2014 and was released to limited audiences July 8, 2016.
Yasuke is the first known African to appear in Japanese historical records. Much of what is known about him is found in fragmentary accounts in the letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (信長公記, Nobunaga Official Chronicle), Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (松平家忠日記, Matsudaira Ietada Diary), Jean Crasset's Histoire de l ...
Maga-Tsuki (まがつき) [a] is a shōnen manga series by Hoshino Taguchi, who got the idea for the story after visiting a shrine.The story follows Yasuke, who is about to confess his love to his childhood friend when he is cursed by accidentally breaking a mirror at his family's shrine.
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Stage names are also used to create a more marketable name, as in the case of Creighton Tull Chaney, who adopted the pseudonym Lon Chaney Jr., a reference to his famous father Lon Chaney Sr. Chris Curtis of Deep Purple fame was christened as Christopher Crummey ("crummy" is UK slang for poor quality). In this and similar cases a stage name is ...
Pamela Anderson attended the 2025 Golden Globes with her signature makeup-free look and brought her son, Brandon Thomas Lee, as her date to the event.
Yasuke appears in the 2005 to 2017 manga series Hyouge Mono. Yasuke is featured in the 2016 to 2020 manga The Man Who Killed Nobunaga. Yasuke appears in the 2017 game Nioh, where he is manipulated by Edward Kelley into helping revive Oda Nobunaga, believing the latter can finally grant him the title of samurai. After William defeats him, Yasuke ...