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[saltynovember]

if the source you rely on about Yasuke is Wikipedia or Thomas Locklee's novels, than that's 90% bullcrap the writer's imagination so sorry

Yasuke isn't historically accurate

Ubisoft was very clever in featuring Yasuke as the protagonist of the new Assassin's Creed. This black protagonist is being used as a shield, and any criticism of the game will be used by the developers to say, "Anyone who dislikes this game is just racist."

On the official Assassin's Creed Shadows preorder site, you can read:

"Live the intertwined stories of Naoe, an adept shinobi Assassin from Iga Province, and Yasuke, the powerful African samurai of HISTORICAL LEGEND…"

If you do a basic Google search, you'll learn that Yasuke indeed existed. He was an African who went to Japan under a mission with missionaries and met and served a Japanese Daimyo, Oda Nobunaga. However, he wasn't a samurai, much less a great warrior.

…DRUMROLLS… he was a retainer. He was a man who carried katanas and weapons of a Daimyo, that's everything he was. Nothing much different from a butler, an assistant.

That's because Oda was known to be a fan of outside culture, he liked different and exotic things. And when he saw a black man (by the way, he didn't believe Yasuke had black skin at first, Oda was surprised and even asked Yasuke to wash himself) he called Yasuke to serve under him but only as a retainer, that's all. And he only served for a few months, he had no training, he didn't go in any battles, Yasuke, to Oda, was a pet, a trophy that Oda was exposing to other Daimyos and other samurais.

I find it very amusing how they had all the opportunities in the world to make an Assassin's Creed game set in feudal Japan using real and accurate representations but chose the only African who was ever involved in the feudal period and had a pathetic level of importance.