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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Botan is a popular character with fans, coming in fifth and sixth place in the series' first two popularity polls. [15] [16] She came in fourth in the American Shonen Jump poll. [15] Botan was ranked as the seventh most popular female anime character in Animage ' s 1993 Anime Grand Prix, the eighth in 1994, and the eleventh in 1995. [17] [18] [19]
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.
Yasuke (弥助) Voiced by: Kōichi Yamadera Originally a batter for an unknown professional baseball team, Yasuke was transported to the Sengoku period, where he is found by Nobunaga. While taken in as an officer, he is bewildered by the savage culture of the time period as well as his baseball bat being mistaken as a weapon.
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. The Four Hell Warriors of Neo Contra – The four elite members of the "Neo Contra" organization: Guerilla Contra: the pipe-smoking military commander.