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A mysterious dark-skinned humanoid alien (or African American) in the forty-fifth century who follows the code of the Samurai. He is the only character able to wield the Katana, the most powerful weapon in the game. The character is based on the real-life black samurai Yasuke from the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan history.
On its website, Ubisoft said that creators decided to include Yasuke in the game because they wanted a samurai character whose story was “open-ended enough to allow for creativity,” adding ...
The ongoing time-travel manga series Nobunaga Concerto by Ayumi Ishii portrays Yasuke as a Black baseball player from the present day. [47] Yasuke was the inspiration for Takashi Okazaki's Afro Samurai franchise. [43] Yasuke plays a minor role in the 2005 to 2017 manga series Hyouge Mono by Yoshihiro Yamada. [47]
A character named Yasuke appears in the time-travel manga Nobunaga Concerto. Yasuke is the protagonist of the eponymous Netflix ONA series Yasuke, released in 2021. Koei Tecmo's 2021 game, Samurai Warriors 5, adds Yasuke as a playable character. It has been claimed that the Afro Samurai franchise is based on Yasuke. [17]
The two playable figures of Assassin’s Creed Shadows are emblematic of the nearly 20-year history of the popular video game series. Yasuke (voiced by Tongayi Chirisa), based on the historical ...
While exact plot points are still under wraps, it reports, Yasuke was “an African warrior who served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period of samurai conflict in 16th ...
On November 8, 2018, Netflix announced Yasuke, an anime original fantasy series created, directed and executive-produced by Thomas, which is inspired by the historical African samurai Yasuke who served Oda Nobunaga in the late 1500s, featuring Oscar-nominated actor Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Get Out, Sorry to Bother You and Knives Out) as the ...
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan (2019) Thomas Lockley (born 1978) is a British academic who is an associate professor of the College of Law of Nihon University , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and a visiting researcher for the SOAS University of London . [ 2 ]