The surprising subject of the latest Netflix anime is the real-life historical figure Yasuke, known as the first Black samurai, an African servant-turned-samurai recruited by Japanese feudal lord Oda ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I spoke with both Thomas and Jones about crafting Yasuke’s story and how they approached mixing fantasy with facts about the most ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows' final content update dropped last week, and it elegantly ties up Yasuke's and Naoe's stories in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The series, which hails from animation veteran LeSean Thomas (whose credits range from “The Legend of Korra” and “Black Dynamite” ...

The story of Yasuke, the African immigrant who became the first foreign-born warrior to achieve the status of a samurai, and the story of LeSean Thomas, the creator, producer, and director of the ...

The streaming services continue to maneuver for anime supremacy, and although the Crunchyroll and Funimation services can’t be beat for both dub-and-sub sheer quantity, Netflix is emerging as quite a ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

It is hard to remember a more exhausting set of controversies than the ones that have surrounded Assassin’s Creed Shadows since it was announced, focused on culture war-centric issues that have only ...

Yasuke doesn’t have the luxury of killing an entire base without taking a few hits. Well, unless you’re just that good. For the rest of us, Regeneration is a basic but powerful passive skill that ...

Netflix is going big into anime in 2021, and Yasuke is one of its most anticipated projects. The internationally produced anime brings in talent from all over the world, and on Thursday, the streaming ...

While both Yasuke and Naoe are playable near the start of Assassin's Creed Shadows, you don't actually unlock Yasuke as a playable character in the open world until much later on. It's worth keeping ...