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It is bittersweetly ironic that Japanese actually LOVED Last Samurai because it didn't label itself to be historically accurate and it was able to capture the essence of samurai's life beautifully. This proves yet again that people love GOOD stories and you don't need to claim them to be accurate to reality.
Cos they're smart enough to understand that the eponymous last samurai is actually Ken Watanabe's character and not Tom Cruise's...
I loved the Last Samurai and I'm not Japanese. I thought it was very well made.
I feel like the Japanese would love Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, even though it's about a fictional black man in a fictional city based on Newark, New Jersey. It's a very respectful adaptation of samurai culture that also "captures the essence of a samurai's life beautifully," and is a truly excellent samurai film because of it.
The entire premise of the last samurai was Tom cruise telling the story of his time spent with "the last samurai" that trained him. Watanabe.
He wasn't technically a samurai, the story is told from an english man's view living with the last remaining samurai.
@@graysaltine6035samurai is both plural and singular. So it can refer to the last group of samurai.
"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted" - Ubisoft getting high on their own supply.
More like their own logic.
@@Eizo500-95Rabid leftists have no logic.
@@Eizo500-95 what logic.
"Truth is an obstacle to profit" - All modern corporations
Ubisoft *NEEDS* the Budlight Treatment !!!!
Last Samurai wasn't history. It was just a movie that wanted to tell a story about the dying age of Samurai through the eyes of an outsider. Tom Cruise' character was basically learning about how the actual last Samurai lived.
look up Jules Brunet.
It was inspired by history.
Exactly right and as far as Japan is concerned it's a masterpiece, won tons of awards and was hugely respectful to the culture.
Dances with Samurai😅
@@foxvulpes8245 Brunet was a lose basis for the main character of the movie, it is nowhere near historically accurate, especially not the timeline. Like Dances with Wolves it mostly about honoring previous cultures and values and give the US military a little "Fuck You".
Correction: The Japanese don't care about Yasuke going around killing Japanese if UBI never advertised this game as *Based On True History* or *Historically Accurate*. If you read the Japanese comments in all the RUclips videos covering this situation (can just auto-translate them), you would see every single one of them says the same thing.
What they were offended is UBI trying to pass this whole Yasuke propaganda as the REAL history. Imagine some white lefties from France come to your country and say "We are showing you the real history of your country from our POV". That's why they are beyond pissed right now. The lead developer of AC Shadows said this during his interview with Famitsu--the biggest game site in Japan, and it backfired so hard that that quote needed to be edited out.
Japan is no stranger to fictionalizing real historical events/people; they are very chill about this. Can you imagine how hard UBI fucked up when the country where "fictionizing historical figures and turning them into young girls" is their favorite pastime now riling against them?
I mean the Japanese reaction is kind of similar to the Western one lol - some people think it’s cool, some people are butthurt or offended by it, and everyone else correctly realizes that it’s incredibly stupid to personally care either way about the literal millionth example of a company doing something questionable in order to very transparently pander to a specific demographic
実際UBIが全てフィクションですと言っていれば問題にならなかった。盗作などはありますが。
史実に忠実に描くのであれば、本能寺の変の後で好きに脚色することが可能です。黒人の忍者はクールです。
@@Goldenboi77 Seems like they care more this time because they even went to a Japanese Diet member and the Diet member actually said he would investigate into the matter. Diet members don't just act on some silly things you know, there would be millions of silly things people bother him on daily and he chose to act on this one and that's enough said.
And you really can't claim that western butthurts pretended to be Japanese and actually got a Diet member doing something this time, can you? That would sound pretty ridiculous lol
they are from canada but i get your point.. ubisoft is based in montreal.
Forgot that ubisoft is french and wondered why the fuck you were calling out the french in your example lmao.
Thomas: Yasuke was a samurai.
Raiden: You got a source for that claim?
Thomas: I made it the fuck up.
Just like they always say. A fictional story with real characters that do not mirror the person they were. Ac was never about realism
Source: Trust me bro
@@majorshepard2 Thank you! No one bitched about Gladiator and the fact that's not historically accurate. Rome the TV show took 2 real life soldiers who were named in Caeser's legions and created a whole story with them being highly influential in the fall of the Roman Republic.
This has been going on for ages, where minor historical figures are given fictionalised versions of their real lives, or entirely fictionalised stories. Everyone is only bitching about it because it's a black dude lets be real. The Last Samurai, Shogun and more have depicted a white guy going to Japan, becoming a Samurai and doing shit they never did, unless the story is based on William Adams.
Like Ghosts of Tsushima isn't historically accurate either, where was all the criticism about that? People expecting historical accuracy from Assassins Creed are just searching for an excuse to be mad because their game has a black character and Black or Female main characters immediately equals woke nonsense.
It's similar to many sources from Chy na, they made it up and then source the website they bought.
The biggest example is the healthy magazine they sourced in 2020 to screw the whole world.
I'm no AC fan and probably isn't going to play the game because I hate Ubisoft. But the fun part is that a lot of experts that specializes in Sengoku era history believes that he had every rights of a Samurai and was also a warrior which means that even if he officially wasn't a Samurai, he probably was recognized as one by his peers. Even before covid lots of Japanese history experts were making papers on how the guy was a samurai.
The best comparison for Assassin's creed Shadows is Abraham Lincoln the vampire hunter.
Greatest... Movie... Ever!!!
But that is not claiming he was an actual vampire..
Nah, it's ac2 with aliens that gave the humans an alien artifact to fight about. Called the eden apple.
@@krush9673 yeah you won. Best comparison ever
Which to be fair is how i will always remember Abe.
This whole AC debacle is more than just about the game, its a cultural attack on Japan, I have heard several times in woke academic circles that they are super annoyed that they can't crack into Japanese culture and academia and that Japan is the next high value target for their ideology.
Their tactics, just like they did with games and everything else is not to make the best argument or to convince the people of their aims, is to subvert their culture and bait them into reacting so they can be called "racist" on a massive media campaign just like they did with GG, Star Wars, anything that went woke you can think of.
So they've been seeding the seeds with this black samurai crap for years and this game was the perfect vehicle to make headway into their culture, its big enough that it would provoke the desired effect and its a really effective and demonic strategy. And the perfect win for them is for the Japanese to acquiesce to minor corrections to historical things etc.. and to eat up the faking of their history so they wont be called all the names on the book by the world media.
They know the Japanese don't like confrontation so this is really the big moment that will define their culture independence and I really pray that the Japanese people hold strong and don't accept this.
Related to this is the whole "white adjacent" thing that has been gaining steam. They do not get the protection of other DEI groups. A good example of this is when they discovered Harvard was limiting the number of Asian applicants accepted because there were too many.
Thanks to Thomas Lockley, I was called a racist and assumed to be white. He is neither a professor nor a doctor of history. They did not believe me when I explained that it was a fake paper by an English teacher. From now on, I will not be able to use the Encyclopedia Britannica or any other source that uses him as a source. Then he gave up on the legendary hero Black Samurai and changed his opinion that “this is just a game” and “fiction”. And now some people are developing conspiracy theories that the Japanese were mean to us and erased our history.
Western media and also Wikipedia are platforms for Western politics and propaganda
We, Japanese, truly appreciate you showed this Wikipedia conspiracy. A lot of Japanese wished someday some western channels introduce the truth to the world.
The only other instance were i heard of Yasuke was in the Game Nioh, were he is a nameless boss called Obsidian Samurai and from a story point of view only there because he had a connection to the already deceased Nobunaga
I was kinda shocked how litte source material there (like 2 diary entries) is on the guy and that 99% is made up by this thomas fellow
@@dogwithsunglasses4051 He was in Nobunga's Ambition.
As a Korean, who has seen a lot of this kind of stuff.
Shout the truth loud as you can. Because if you don't, the liars will continue to.
They will try to evade, tu quoque and bring all shorts of fallacies to muddy the water.
Hey hey hey, I’m sure he built Japan
My Japanese historian friend Thomaso Cruisio the 3rd disagrees.....
So Ubisoft didn't actaully look into the actual history of a nation that actually exists and has their own historical scholars that could have been consulted on the matter? Color me surprised.
they had an "expert" who specialized in xxxxx relations between older men and young boys in something like the 1600's.
I am not joking, this was their college focus, and they are rather proud of it.
That would've involved not being racist. The modern western game industry (may it be devs, localizers or journalists), especially in North America, have a deep-seated hatred for Japan, for kinda no reason at all.
Color me surprised will get you cancelled 😞
It is a game no one should give a fuck unless it is purposely offensive.
@@NlNEFlNGERS
Grow another finger brother
This is why every accredited college doesn't accept Wikipedia as a source when writing papers.
Even as a basic source of info, Wikipedia is compromised by special interests. Even its cofounder lamented about it
That is because Wikipedia is not actually a source, but really a repository of sources. Using Wikipedia is perfectly fine, but people need to read and cite the actual source that Wikipedia cites to get the original information from the original source.
But accept dissertations claiming men can give birth
I think the biggest reason teachers/whoever disallow wikipedia is because it's too easy, and we can't have it easy. It's just convenient that it also happens to be potentially unreliable and can be edited by anyone, because those make better excuses
Not just Wikipedia but any encyclopedia due to how encyclopedias work. They are not peer-reviewed and are TERTIARY sources.
"AC Shadows is the best selling game in Japan" is another lie made up by them. It was #1 on PS5 for an hour after they put it up on the Amazon JP store, and they immediately wrote articles about how much Japan loves this game. Meanwhile it is actually rank #72 on PS5 and rank #1,209 (!) for video games overall in Japan right now.
It’s also a month later, and it’s a preorder. At that point just say people didn’t like hogwarts legacy because even though it was the best seller last year, it’s not the best seller this year too.
UBI, Uniquely Biased Information.
africans make the best ninjas they dont need clothing to blenmd in at night
I remember that, people on reddit use rhat as an argument lmao, and now they are all quiet
Never believe anything anymore.. it’s all lies.. most history is fake, made up, or hidden from the public.. Academia - the Smithsonian Institution don’t want the narrative exposed as lies…
"He looks like he locks his doors when there are a lot of minorities around."
As a minority, this question comes from the bottom of my heart: WHO DOESN'T?
i just lock my doors on principle
@@parzingtheasian who tf doesnt lock their doors?
He sounds like he's the type of person to double check he locks his door all the time, except around minorities because he's afraid they might think he's racist.
Encouraging prejudice towards your own kind. It's like white guilt & self-hate..., but for minorities! Wow! 😄 Awesome twist!
I lock the doors when I park, the car auto-locks after a certain speed.
I'm Japanese, and I love Last Samurai, Afro Samurai and Ghost of Tsushima, but I despise AC Shadows. The latter has no respect nor attitude of learning towards our history and culture at all. And top of that, they even insult Japanese people who have criticised it because it's not historically accurate. Also, it's embarrassing that Japanese university still employs such a vicious liar as an associate professor.
They chose him not because they wanted to honor whoever or whatever he was. They did it to promote woke bs about divеrsitу. To score points with investors. Thats what a lot of us have a problem with, plus the disrespectful way they've been talking to Japanese people.
It's outrageous that someone with such low academic integrity can work as a professor at a university
@@olafthebear2327 Thomas Lockley is just a dude teaching English in a university, and it's not some fancy job like actual professors teaching science or math or even history. My friends always joked about "go teach English in Japan" as a secret cheat tact to start living in Japan, because it's that easy to become an English teacher in Japan. He probably teaches English in university because his Japanese is fluent enough to converse with the young adults in universities.
@@olafthebear2327 Trust me, it fits.
@yungzhe the JET program used to be the thing for that. Seemed good for those who wanted it. Idk.
if Yasuke was really that important, there w̶i̶l̶l̶ be plenty of records of him, just like William Adams. But the history says otherwise.
*would
They chalk that up as racism cause he's black.
Oda Nobunaga himself his lord would have written about Yasuke's heroic deeds but there's none.
Probably because Yasuke didn't do any heroic deeds Samurais are very honorable when it comes to who they killed in battle they have a list of their deeds cause they get corresponding rewards for it.
How could a samurai in active service not have that?
Simple he didn't serve in any combat role.
Even if they chose William Adams to be the protagonist, that would be equally as bad. Like, imagine if they chose a Greek protagonist for AC:Origins.
@@tonig2757I agree the protags should be from their own countries, they could make people like them mission characters.
@@tonig2757nah they would of loved it lol they love white main characters
It wouldn't be as bad. Atleast the story of William Adams is true and he did become a Samurai. It is a brilliant story of two cultures marrying, for so many reasons. There's arguably no better story of culture mixing. It recalls so much of Japan's history that was uniquely brutal, beautiful, savage, gentle, and tranquil all at the same time.
The story of William Adams is a love letter to Japan
There was no black slave trade to Japan, that dude saying it was popular is a complete lie.
there was no active slave trade but Yasuke was bought and for the same reason rulers would and that was for entertainment value. like that one King who had an entire brigade of "little people" soldiers he would parade out to entertain guests.
The average person would be DISTURBED when they realize how much of academia is fueled by this kind of behavior.
I’m not, and I became truly aware of it after the Vikings TV show came to be popular. I was engrossed in Norse Mythology, the Eddas, archaeological finds, and runestones from the Viking Age, and after the show came out, all these archaeologists were calling every new female grave find a woman warrior/shieldmaiden. That idea of these bands of women warriors and women being primary combatants just didn’t exist before the show pushed the idea. Stories in the Edda about such women were noted as such because it was NOT the norm.
I’ve been telling people this for years. Go learn your own history people.
Years back, I found myself reading Sagas of Icelanders. I got caught up in follow prose some of the times. As I read Egil's Saga, it was easier and it quickly became my favourite in the entire book.
Highly recommend to anyone even remotely interested in the topic, for whatever reason.
Not to mention how they've overtaken important things like peer review
@@whiteflame24 Historical revisionism is real. Howard Zinn just flat out says rewriting history is necessary to fit the narrative.
No one would have a problem with this if they said it was historical FICTION. But they didn't and said this is historical fact. They lied- and said if you don't believe the lie, you're a racist.
That's a horrible thing to do. There's no way I'm buying this game. This type of marketing has to stop.
B.S they would complain anyway. People just don't like black characters.
@@shiningdragon8737 People didn't hate Afro Samurai. This is Japan, they made Nobunaga a woman like in more than a dozen variants and noone care, it doesn't matter when it's correctly framed as fiction and not real.
and they stole things like the flag from this private club among other things, put sakura blossoms up when rice is harvested which cannot happen at the same time one is spring the other in autumn
Source where it was claimed to be real?
@@Ka_chi1The author of the book sold it as historical fiction in Japan and sold it as nonfiction elsewhere
The problem with Thomas Lockley is that he says different things in his books for Japan and abroad.
The Japanese version is described as fiction, while the English version is non-fiction.
When an English-speaking interviewer asks him a question, he cleverly uses words that are sufficiently misleading to both the interviewer and the viewer.
I ’ m sure he'll say, "I don't know. It was just a misunderstanding by the readers and viewers and interviewers on their own" in the future.
It is also not well known, but at that time Japanese were also bought as slaves by white merchants through missionaries and exported as slaves overseas.
Japan was facing a crisis of Western colonial rule.
After Nobunaga's death, Japan chose seclusion as a defensive measure against invasion by Western powers.
Japan was facing a Western colonial crisis, that's basically one of the reasons they went to war. We have seen China being colonized so their fear did make sense. Human trafficking was a thing back then and still a thing today.
近年の弥助ブームは日本人の視点からしてとても奇妙に見えました。教科書にも載ったことも歴史の授業にも出たこともない人物なので。
*Far left liberal woke
Yes, it was disgraceful.
They claim to be tolerant and mock over 2.6 billion Christians
I find it hilarious that they made an Assassin Creed game based around a fake historical book.
But they did it in every assassin's creed game. The only difference now is that they took a person that is in history to make their fantasy around it. I don't see a problem with it.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAM This is 100% astro turfing so no one is talking about how the game is 140$
@@DaBlaccGhostthe game is $70. If you want the game and 2 shadow of the erdtree size DLCs, it’s $110. A very good deal.
@@majorshepard2 no, they made a pseudo historical story around REAL history, as in there is actual legit grounding to many of the places and characters and embellish some elements in a vain often seen in media.
Shadow on the other hand not only was the first time you play a historical figure but also bases much of that presentation on a fake book of fake history. basically the one time they're like "he actually was this" was the one time he really wasnt as far as we know
TLDR: previous ACs were fiction based in history, Shadows is fiction actively trying to push fake history and i do mean PUSH
@@majorshepard2 the problem is they make a slave as a legendary samurai. Used fake historical book as a reference. Didn't study about the meaning of the structures. On a country that values their culture.
They are the ones that tarnished Yasuke, despite being a _historic_ figure the guy was an undocumented one, and it was a brilliant chance for an actual competent writer to come up with a depiction that while fictional could be passed as historically accurate (that's the whole point of Historical fiction).
But the "writers" behind Ubisoft aren't professionals, they're just woke activist that larp as _consultants_ and used Yasuke as a medium to pander and virtue signal, to the point they claimed not only Yasuke was a samurai but that Africans somehow _made Japan_ and Not only are all the articles that claimed he was a samurai fake but they tried to pass a AI generated "historical" photo of Yasuke in Samurai armor with his wife and kid despite cameras and photos did not exists in his time period.
But the cherry on top is that the whole point of Yasuke was to combat racism when their depiction is anything but racist: his theme song features hip-hop beats, the katana he uses is plagiarized from One piece (It's Zoro's katana) and the reason they even made him a samurai was because they stated that _Asians samurais were over-represented_ yep, they think that japanese folk are racist for partaking in their own culture.
Wokies are actually racist and do support cultural appropriation but pretend they not as long as it matches the values they promote.
Your last sentence is so true, its comical the cognitive dissonance they display.
I don't know if they actually did all this, I did not follow this. If they did, it's gross and they should be sued. If not, as a person, this character at this time, in this country is very interesting. There are so much moments to tackle how the time back there was. It is an interesting character. Don't need to be lore accurate, just honouring the time and the countries thinking at that time for me. I want to see accurate feudal Japan and not an accurate character if it is not contradicting or leading today's ideas.
@@6lake. You mean like eivor napping with Loki about fenrir? Yeah very lore accurate. I must have overread that in my books. Or finding Atlantis. Or talking to aliens in ac2. Man that whole shit slipped in history I guess. People really just sound racist because they did not see the dumpster fire the game will be and only hate because it's a black person in feudal Japan. Wait for the release and then hate because it will be trash. Don't scream fire before it burns
There isn’t a single ac that anyone could possibly think is historically accurate.
@@HahahMamaman Yeah but the difference is that Ubisoft never claimed they were historically accurate, till this one, and we all know why.
Rumour has it, that Destiny is in a discord somewhere screaming that Yasuke was a Samurai - because *"I READ IT ON WIKIPEDIA! IT SAYS IT RIGHT HERE!"* 😂🤣😂
Nobunaga no Yakata &
Azuchi-jo Castle Museum in Omihachiman Japan tour guides will indefinitely tell you that he was an armorless samurai who served as a protector of his master.
Edit: Stop believing what u see on the internet wiki’s and RUclipsrs included
“History is written by the victors, and it’s full of liars”- Captain Price
not true, look up history of (north) macedonia after 1945 for example
@@allofyourdreamsbro it's a video game quote 😂
All controversy aside, ngl Thomas Lockley kind of 5head. Dude basically put his fanfiction on wikipedia, claiming it was real, then made a documentary about his own fanfiction.
Wikipedia Wars are real
I read about Yasuke a long time ago when Afro Samurai came out and I found out about him so I got curious. Here's what makes sense to me from the various things I read.
He was a guy from Africa that was traveling with some religious misionaries and ended up in Japan. There Nobunaga heard about a dark man that Japanese people had never seen before and he was curious, so he summoned him. When he saw him, he was entertained by a man so different (some people say he scratched his whole body because he didn't believe that was his color) so he made him part of his clique by giving him money and special treatment to stay. When everything went down and Nobunaga dies by sudoku (allegedly), his retainers there died except Yasuke who didn't fight or sudoku'd himself and was captured instead, he then left Japan as soon as he could.
So yeah, in my opinion he was Nobunaga's jester and as soon as the privileged lifestyle ran out, he left Japan because he was not there for his love for the country or had some deep involvement in anything. Dude got lucky with a super sweet gig, but it didn't last so he got tf out of there like any of us would. He was probably a chill dude but not a warrior lol.
actual lore accurate.
Sudoku😂
Actually Yasuke did fight in the incident he was send to find Nobunagas son but was defeated on the way, the he was spared and send to the same missionaries that bring him form Portugal, the last mention of Yasuke is that he managed to return with the missionaries and was treated by them, whatever happened to him after that is not known, also this is taken from a Japanes document so it's most likelyu true.
Yasuke was nobunagas weapon bearer, not a jester.
So I guess you hated Afro samurai since it wasn’t lore accurate
Calling a dude legendary who didn’t have one duel in his resume is nasty work .Meanwhile you have dudes like miyamoto if they wanted to have a real life counter part he was that guy.
Paul Mooney: Well I have a movie idea, maybe they'll produce my movie, the Last N***** On Earth, starring Tom Hanks
RIP Mooney
"We have proof Yasuke existed."
"Where?"
"It's Assassin's Creed Shadow by Ubisoft"
*wipes hands*
He existed, just not as a samurai
@@HahahMamaman Correct. He did exist, but nothing ever suggested he was a samurai or had any kind of important role.
Yea this game is fictional only idiots would actually take Ubisoft seriously and get butthurt over a fictional depiction of a guy that may or may not have existed.
@@abicrystalwing1543correct and that's why this game is fictional, none of this happened so why do people care.
@@Ka_chi1 Because Ubisoft’s intentions are clearly trying to rewrite history. Yes, the story is not real, but they’re still trying to parade around the false idea that he was a samurai. And secondly, Ubisoft has always used completely original characters as their protagonists, but this guy is the first one based on a real person.
There was a war going on with Yasuke’s Wikipedia page with people trying to rewrite history.
All of these are too coincidental to just brush aside.
The biggest problem though is the fucking pricing scheme. I feel like that’s getting overlooked.
Incredible but it happens. This person Thomas Lockley reminds me of a woman from Colombia that lied about working with Hayao Miyazaki on the making of the movie The Boy and The Heron.
Oh geez
Lmao, Geraldine Fernandez in the houseeeee
From my city, Barranquilla. Shakira, Geraldine and me
"Deleted all of his social media profiles"
The wicked flees when no man pursueth.
ty for this neat quote!
There’s few contemporaneous accounts of this guy, all brief, and one is by Mitsuhide Akechi who captured him after defeating Nobunaga. He said Yasuke was little more than an animal, and most importantly “knew nothing & didn’t understand”, so he returned him to the Portuguese. This outcome would be unlikely if Yasuke had been one of Oda’s samurai.
This sort of shit goes on in scentific papers too, people create fiction to justify another fiction they created
Fauci did that with the origin of covid paper in Nature so you arent wrong but he was smart enough to get it published under another persons name despite having edited it.
Then the next scientist has to site that fiction for his fiction.
To rewrite history to promote one's product. In any historical context, the first rule is to have a source.
- Wikipedia is not a credible source. There are reasons why your school teacher discourage you from using Wikipedia for your essays.
- Even a book is not a source unless it comes from the time period that the man existed. When you create a history book about an individual, you still need historical text sources to confirm your claims.
- What are your sources? If Yasuke existed, do we have things that belonged to him? Survivng hair samples, evidence, sword, armor, tools he used, papers that people wrote during his time confirming his existence. Show these papers. You have the right to ask that.
- Yes, things become lost to history, but that isn't an argument that the man existed or didn't exist.
- These aren't questions that belong to only one individual, it's an argument that a historian will make on anybody. If you write an event that happened in history and there is nothing to back up your claim, then you are making things up.
- A famous example is King Arthur. Despite how famous the legend thrives, King Arthur never existed. There is a profound reason for this. There are no sources or evidence confirming his actual existence. Famous historical analysts have tried over and over to come up with any means to show that King Arthur actually existed, but there is nothing.
They didnt do it to promote a product. They did it to force "diversity" on people.
This game is fictional, no shit none of it is real.
@@Ka_chi1 Well then maybe Ubisoft should stop marketing the game's setting and characters as authentic
Yes it’s made up. Just like Ubisoft said. I believe they said they made up Yasukes story.
@@Ka_chi1
Remember in 2007 when they removed the crossbow for historical accuracy? Remove Yasuke, or be a rucking fetarded hypocrite.
Yasuke was not killed because he was not a samurai was not allowed senpaku or execute enemy considered him outsider
I don't know if Amonsgold would see this, but at 19:24, the first line of text says that, according to Thomas Lockley's book, enslaving black people became popular in Japan after Nobunaga appointed the black man Yasuke. This isn't true, and he tries to make it seem like enslaving black people was a popular thing in Japan, just like it was with Westerners.
Enslavement in Japan in the past was not related to race, unlike in the USA or Europe. People didn't care about race, and it had nothing to do with it. Additionally, not wanting to change one's culture by mixing it with others, as is common in Western countries, has nothing to do with racism. Some people take pride in their culture and want it to remain as it is. Others don't feel this way, which is why many Westerners today don't love their countries and wish to see them fall apart, as is evident in the US and Western Europe.
Just more context for you guys, Oda Nobunaga has some many documents through out his live. Yasuke is mention so less it can really just fit in about five pages or less
Now, the major consensus in Japan is Yasuke just "sticks" around and doesn't do much, or the historian at that time just don't care.
Another note. Yasuke was "maybe" under the orders of Oda to protect the his son. So that's why he's not around
You know, they could have made him a side-character as a charming and loyal butler for Nobunaga and you get to meet him after missions.
@@zeppelincraft1443 There'd be a lot of ways to introduce Yasuke as a character in the game, even as the main playable character. What Ubisoft did was not the way to go.
@@zeppelincraft1443he wasn't really a butler, more like Nobunaga's sword bearer. He probably wasn't a samurai, though. But I personally dont care what they do with Yasuke as long as they don't pretend it's anything but fiction.
@@zeppelincraft1443 yep, interact with me and ask him about what's Africa like at that time.
Or you know, help you make weapons and stuff.
Not what ever this shit
@@reginaldcampos5762 there's a maybe painting of him holding a big umbrella too
He looks like somebody slid a couple sliders during Tom Cruise's character creation just a little bit.
They were stuck with Oblivions tools. This is as close as they could have gotten 😢
He looks like the flashgitz version of Tom.
He really does😂
Asmon said that but I don't see it at all
「ゲーム開始時に「これはフィクションだ」と表示されるのに何が問題なんだ？」という発言をする人は問題を理解できていません。
問題は開発者(UBI)はインタビューや宣伝において「これは当時の日本で起きていた事実だ」と主張したことです。
例えば「伝説の侍弥助」や「斬首などの残酷な表現はACとしてではなく、皆が斬首で死ぬことが一般的であった日本の描写である」などの発言です。(もちろんこれらの歴史的事実はありません)
もし誰かが「あなたの過去を攻撃的なデタラメで描いたゲーム」を作り、インタビューでは実際に起きたことだと主張しながら、ゲームの開始時にフィクションだと表示すれば本当に問題が無いと考えるのでしょうか？
そして仁王や他のゲーム開発者はこうした間違いを「歴史的事実」などと言って広めていませんので全く論点が違います。
また間違いだらけにもかかわらず、UBI(Charles Benoit)はインタビュー(Game*Spark - Japanese)において「日本在住の歴史専門家3名」(日本人とは言っていません)とUbisoft Japanが歴史考証に協力していると言っています。
なので日本では「本当に歴史考証を行ったのか？ / 専門家やUbisoft Japanが関わっていてなぜ間違いだらけなのか？」と疑問が起き、他のインタビューにおける日本へ対する軽視/差別発言や著作物の扱い、批判や指摘へのUBIの対応から反対署名に至る経緯があるわけです。
For some reason I'm seeing a ton of Facebook posts talking about the 'facts' of Yasuke, and none of them are facts.
Yep and that's the issue people spreading misinformation as facts, at least premise your writings as fiction before you say it.
it's facebook. it's a gossip website.
there's a lot of japanese and history groups in Facebook shitting on this as well. It's Facebook, majority of the users are old people
My teachers would frequently tell us that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information.
As I remember last samurai was %70 accurate, well the guy was a French cavalier rather than a American etc, but he really did captured lived with them andjoin them on the fight etc. So it was inspired by real events to a degree
Dude.....the last samurai was grossly in accurate. The satsuma rebelion was spearheaded by saigo takamori. The actual last samurai
Did you miss the point of the movie? They are using the guy as a storytellers for the last samurai. Retelling the last samurai as an outsider, he is never the last samurai.
Most people really like seeing the cover and concluded "A white man is the last samurai?" When it's just a marketing idea as he is super popular worldwide.
@@diegokaqui60
@@diegokaqui60 wow! crazy his name was actually saigo.
@@diegokaqui60 He literally said it was somewhat accurate. Chill.
@diegokaqui60 is it hard? Being that dumb 😂
Imagine being Ubisoft, who spent hundreds of millions on a game whose story was based on a frauds book.
Imagine basing a multimillion game on a single book, without hiring actual Japanese historians, that is based on Japanese "true history". They got themselves to this.
This is why in school teachers NEVER want you using wikipedia as a source 💁🏻♂️
Literally metal gear 2 ending...
I think about that ending all the time
What do you mean?
@@justinmadrid8712
In Metal Gear 2's ending an AI explains to you how there are many objective truths that aren't passed down because people find them uncomfortable. There are also many lies that we tell ourselves and others just because they make us look good or make us feel good. With the rise of the internet it became increasingly easy for people to spread around false information as the number of people uploading garbage online was too large to keep track of. So the truth was being forgotten while being buried under a mountain of garbage info.
Which is why we are discovering that for a decade now we have been hearing stories online from "reputable sources" about some black samurai and his adventures. But it turns out it was all made up by some dude trying to sell his book or whatever. With so much info being uploaded and changed on an hourly basis without people noticing, it makes you wonder just how much of it is real.
You mean metal gear solid 2 or metal gear 2??
@@dissidentwolf5939 metal gear solid 2.
The AC charm back in the day was sticking to the history as much as possible.
If Washington was a president, he is the president ingame. If Black Beard was a brutal pirate, he was a brutal pirate ingame.
This Yosuke thing is just straight up rewrite history to their own liking. Nobunaga even sees him as some strange savage lower than a lowly peasant
Yasuke was the equivalent to the hyenas that African warlords keep as pets.
In ac2 there were aliens and alien artifacts, what the hell are you talking about with history accurate? This game series was never accurate since ac2 and after that they had historically accurate persons in it that got changed to fit, but now it's a problem.
@@majorshepard2 Interesting how in all of the AC games the characters are a reflection of the local population, but soon as it's set in Japan, we got a black guy.
@@majorshepard2 the part where they "go back in time" you know where the majority of the game takes place is where the "historical accuracy" is at. and woven in-between the historical buildings and scenes there were elements of a message buried in a certain persons DNA that they were able to interpret "hidden" messages in artifacts that would be detectable to future humans.... did you even play it? did you even pay attention to the story? what are YOU talking about? and they weren't "aliens" they were the precursor civilization that inhabited earth before the event that destroyed them. and in AC2 the "flashbacks" of alien landscapes.. was "the garden of EDEN" and humanity gaining sentience .. fking tourist.
@@majorshepard2 You are using literal Easter eggs to argue against AC2's historical setting. This new game doesn't even respect the role Yasuke played in history, it straight up says he is what we know he wasn't.
Washington was President, is Pres in game and is also more than that. Leonardo was a designer and inventor, the game just suggests that he also invented some thing's for a secret society. Yasuke was a slave and a social spectacle, in the game that isn't the case at all. It doesn't respect the history that he was a nobody and suggests that he was historically important, when he wasn't. If they want to do it justice, put him in as the lowly spectacle for his skin but then have him be taking part in key events in secrecy.
When people say the older games respected history, they mean that key roles and positions were held by the exact or sort of person that actually held it at that time, they just also were involved in the Templar - Assassin conflict.
26:14 AC Shadows is not the best selling game for preorders in Japan. It was for that one week after it was first announced. Now, you can't even find it in any of the top selling lists.
That's pretty much every game that exists that has marketing budgets. Lol...I hate when companies try to inflate their popularity it's cringe.
Ah, yes, it was it's just like how BG3 was a top seller. Now you can't find it on any top sellers list, but when it was announced, it "was" a top seller
@@Deboo-oz2rb BG3 is 7 on the top sellers list on Steam as of this moment.
@@Deboo-oz2rb Man yall little manlets are coping hard in the comments lmao,.
@Mendicant_Bias Please tell me how am I coping plz, do I work for ubisoft? If the game fails, how will it affect me? The game was number one on Amazon and was trending on PSN in MAY!!! It's JULY!!! most of the ppl who wanted to preorder already have done so. So that's why it's not on the top lists nomore, don't you know basic sales. How does this mean I am coping? it's a reason why asmon said that because even he checked the sales on a live stream 🤦🏻♂️
だから最初は"歴史上の事実に基づいた"とかを外して"全てフィクションに"してくれと譲歩し懇願してたんだよ。
でも帰ってきた言葉は"レイシストだ！"
私は悲しかった日本人の言葉を世界はこんなにも聞いてくれないのかと。日本人抜きで黒人だ差別だと盛り上がる世界。
UBIは脚色されすぎた弥助について事実はこうだけど、主人公にしたいから沢山設定を盛りましたと正直に言えば良かったんだ。
でもロックリーを信じてたからか頑なに譲らなかった。
やっと耳を傾けてくれるのだろうか？それともやはり日本抜きの会議を始めるの？
That dude has a PASSING resemblance to Tom Cruise at best.
at best... what just because of the big grin? perhaps? idk..
he looks more like a heavier james o'keef. ;) LOL
...but only if someone compares both dudes.
Honestly… I thought « Tom cruise » before the video even started just from looking at the first frame
I wouldn't say he's mistakable for Tom Cruise, but as far as resemblance, I'd believe it's his brother
Tom is cool af bro, wtf
Honestly, at this point i find it hillarious. How the hell you mess up this badly? Even if you set aside the whole Yasuke thing they messed up everything else as well (Unless the games main mechanic is playing as a priest fiddling young boys) Architecture is wrong, seasons are all over place, random Torii gates, Weapons from anime, wrong symbols. Like seriously, was Ubisoft's whole goal to take piss at Japan because everyone and their mother wanted it? Because it really feels like that.
You mess up this badly by starting with your whole life is based on reality is whatever you make up. All the failures after that then just kind of line up.
They obviously don't give a single f about Japanese history and culture.
So why are they making a "historical fiction" game set in Japan? I think a bunch of people already noticed that first time watching the trailer. It's just happen that people started looking and found out they do actually give zero f about Japan.
@@andrewlee5471 Because often part of the point(if not the whole point) IS to rewrite history. It is an easy bet that for a good portion of them they want in as many people's head as possible the thought that he was so important in real history. I mean 2 of the people they are pulling the "history" from totally made it all up and call it historical fact. They want to mix up their truth with fiction to make it harder to distinguish the two.
I mean often in today's news they will make something up, other news companies will pick that up as fact, and then the original writers can point all of those others and say "See, all these people say it is true".
Maybe they should try making a Japanese game with actual historians.
"Historical Fiction" is such an insidious way to rewrite history. Basically Ubi can have it both ways. Promotion of the game began with samurai Yasuke being promoted as a real character in Japanese history. As evidence have proven this to be BS they instantly pivot to "historical fiction" so we took liberties.
If people didnt bother to research, Yasuke the samurai would ve been accepted as fact.
I got some heat for stating that even if they all were college graduates, Ubisoft didn't seem to be picking consultants with the proper backgrounds to fit th project at hand.
This heavily reinforces that feeling.
If we are in a simulation then... Someone really must have cranked down the historical accuracy.
I'm of the opinion that if this is s simulation, then my user is going to want their money back.
Someone has set “complete bullshit” modifier to high
They've had to dedicate most of the processing power to fool some genius or something
Until budget = 200 mil and copies sold = less than 15, Ubishaft will keep doing it
Nah black rock will still continue to fund them anyways to further the agenda.
For people who didn't watch the Japanese YT video
In 2015, a user called Tottoritom add the line about Yasuke on Japanese Wiki, and listed Thomas Lockley's academic paper, which is in press for 2016/not published yet at the time, as a reference. That makes people suspect that Tottoritom is Thomas Lockley(Tottori=the prefecture he was teaching at, Tom=Thomas).
After that in 2017, Tottoritom edit the reference for Yasuke again and referenced a book about Yasuke written by Thomas.
In 2019, Thomas pubuished "African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke"(which is a fiction marketed as a nonfiction book btw), and some of the content already on the wiki written by Tottoritom are in the book as well.
Later the book became best seller, and because how the book was marketed, every reader in the west think that the content is real history, thus the legend of Yasuke was born.
P.s African Samurai never pubished in Japanese.
A for what happened at Honnoji temple. Yasuke was caught, and he was basically deemed as a lesser being, so there was no reason for him to commit ritual suicide, and he was just sent back to slavery.
The sad thing is Yasuke could have been included into the game in a way that was respectful to his history. Instead they raped his corpse by making him something he was not.
They’ve done that with every historical character in every ac game. Clearly you haven’t played them.
@@HahahMamamanNo they havent done the same thing. They are trying to force a balck guy as the main character in a game based in Japan, solely because they want to score brownie points with DEI investors.
@@HahahMamaman Unbelievable that 14 year olds are still allowed online.
@@HahahMamaman Yasuke as a main character made him fuel for the "we wuz" narrative where people see the pattern recognition of blacks constantly taking credit for other history. This wouldn't have happened to this degree if he remained as a side character. In past AC games it has always been: Completely fictional OC characters who represent their region as main characters while side characters are historical fiction. Turning Yasuke into a tool for a political agenda tarnishes him. He used to be a character that the Japanese themselves would take inspiration for their arts. Now he is a political tool
@@HahahMamaman Keep coping and seething in all the comments little manlet
the last samurai was based on real events but he wasnrt an american
The last sumari refers to watanabes character
He was English!
England wins again!
Very cool, thanks for sharing
@@All_Hail_Chael
Bo'l'o'wa'ah+Knoife_loisense+Didn't_ask+u_w0t_m8+invaded over half the world, but didn't use those spices in their own cooking+L
@@All_Hail_Chael he was German the time frame for last samurai is after the civil war before and during the turn of the 20th century, hints why the rifles in last samurai are bolt action, you are thinking the character from Shogun who I think is named james black That was 16th century Japan if my memory serves me well they still had match lock and flint lock up to the point of last samurai.
For those who dont understand, Samurai isn't just a cool anime warrior, its a ruling class in fedual Japan. Its equivalent to a Japanese guy rewritting American history to make a Japanese fonding father and call it histrical fact, then a Japanese game company makes a whole game based on him claiming to tell a little know true history to "educate" people. Also in game that "definately real" Japanese fonding father uses anime pink magic wand to smashes Southerners head in while some anime lolicon music plays in the back ground.
lol samurais are so overrated and suffers alot of misconceptions. I dream for a game where you don't play as the cliched ass samurai/ronin armed with a katana slashing people over and over, but an ashigaru armed with a gun or spear.
It's founding.
@@adambrande not only its overrated, its also inaccruate in the popular calture, actual samurai historically uses spears and bows, then later even guns 95% of the time, Sword usage is a last resort.
@@adambrandeshadows does let you use guns, bows, spears, and clubs.
It would be more like saying a senator was Japanese. I don’t think anyone would care, especially because Ubisoft said the game is fiction and that they made up Yasukes story.
陰謀論よりも怪しい情報が日本の歴史として語られているのがかなりヤバい
19:20I could be wrong, but I think they are trying to say that the phrasing makes it seem like Nobunaga's decision to appoint Yasuke inspired, for example, Portugal, which had plenty of ties to Japan, to start enslaving black people, thus, in a roundabout way, they claim Japan set off a chain reaction that started it all.
lol Portugal was busy for a while before that
Yasuke was already a slave for Portugal. They’d been doing it for a long time.
im online too much
i feel you..
same bro and people are becoming soft af so it isn't even fun anymore
Go outside and workout my frnd. It really helps alot with everything including being online....lol
@@refugeehugsforfree4151 Exactly. If you do both you'll be healthier, physically and mentally. Nothing wrong with being online. Being "chronically online" will rot your mind and body. Anyone who disagrees with that are too far gone already. How's your back going to keep you upright in your gaming chair the rest of your life if you NEVER strengthen it? Go for a walk in nature, lift some weights/do bodyweight exercises, THEN go watch youtube and game. People sometimes seem to think that you're either a full-on gym-rat/outdoorsman or a full-on chronically online basement dweller. Having positive relationships on top of that never hurt either.
@@amphibeingmcshpongletron5026 Yea it literally increases dopamine production naturally. It also will make gaming and watching shows\movies more entertaining due to the natural increase in dopamine production making you feel better about pretty much everything chemically.
Exercise is the main way to increase and balance your hormones also.
I really wish we taught this in schools instead of random shit no one will ever use or care about ten years later.
There is one big difference with the Tom Cruise Film - The Last Samuri and The Ubisoft Assassin's Creed game.
The Last Samuri was set DURING and AFTER Trade Routes were established between the America & Japan, mid to late 1800s, so there is a REASON Tom Cruise's Character was there.
PLUS Tom Cruise's Character was shown not to fit in and was LEARNING the culture while staying with the people, during which he earned their respect & then they initiated him on screen.
This is not the case with the Assassin's Creed game. It is set further in the past, late 1500s the 'Shadows' presence and Yasuke, is based on a real Historical Figure. Because the 'Historical Ambiguity', over the records of the Samuri's retainer, gave them permission to alter the race of the character in ways that they claim are 'Creative', without purpose or reason other than, lets be honest here - they altered him to be African for more Funding, Tax Subsidies and then to appease the activist lobbyist's in Academics & Media.
They didn’t alter the race of Yasuke. He was either African or Indian, but most likely African. Nobunaga tried to wash his skin, because he thought Yasuke was dirty. He wouldn’t have done that to a Japanese person. It’s also stated that he was a Portuguese slave. They didn’t take Japanese slaves.
The difference being that Last Samurai didn't pass itself off as being historically accurate, unlike this situation with Yasuke.
Also, the last Samurai wasnt even Tom Cruise, the last samurai was the leader of the rebellion.
@@Shiirow you are 100% right
10:30 this is actually called the apostle effect. This happens when one person sites another person on something and then another person says the same thing sighting the person that told them. This continues until the original source is sighting a source form another source that sighted from them.throughout all this time nobody knows exactly what happened.
That pic looks like a scuffed AI-generated image of Tom Cruise.
That's it! That's what I see. I couldn't figure it out, thank you.
Looks more like Joel Osteen to me
Next thing you know Snow White is going to be a black historical figure.
Already done by disney
Japan enslaved black people, even though there's just one account of a single black person during that period?
A Japanese youtuber named 頼むぜエディタ made a very well video where he explains (in English) why Japanese people are angry at Ubisoft and their garbage game.
Also, pre orders doesn't say anything. Just look at Suicide Squad.
The last Samurai was inspired by true events... *Satsuma Rebellion Of 1877* and the westernization of Japan.
*Saigō Takamori*
*"The film's depiction of the rebellion is similar to the real-life rebellion led by Saigō Takamori, who is known as "The Last Samurai of Japan". Takamori's life and actions continue to have a significant impact on Japanese culture and history."*
The crazies these days spend all their time screaming at strangers about why them not caring about the current buzzwords makes them the worst person in the world. Yet when you challenge or correct them, the go to response is always "Why do you care bro".
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN SCREAMING AT US FOR NEARLY A DECADE ABOUT THIS SHIT BECAUSE THEY "CARE"
And that's why I believe every woke people cannot be argued in a good faith.
I’m pretty sure most of them think that samurai is about a sword or some kind of a sword mastery but in actuality it is about him owning land in Japan and being an official representative of a feudal lord who is above him.
The answer is simple. People LOVE for their culture to be shared even if its glamorized or not accurate. What they DONT like is when that glamourized or fake adaptation of their culture is presented as if it is factual and historically accurate.
When was it presented as facts? It's an assassins creed game
@@protogoniascension the game was originally made with actual historical people in mind. Ubisoft changed it and made Yusuke the main character and then the wikipedia articles about samurai and of Yusuke himself were changed in order to fit the narrative that he was in fact a samurai when the reality is that there is no such evidence. Now, Forbes, The Gamer, Time Magazine and many others are presenting it as a fact that he was indeed a samurai. There's a huge push to rewrite history over this for some reason. Heck, there WERE in fact black samurai but now, because of all of this, the real history of black samurai is drowned out and Yusuke is all you can see in searches. They took real Japanese history, tainted it, then made it near impossible to actually learn the true history. It's beyond disrespectful
@@Prime_Rabbitthat is not Ubisoft fault.
@@HahahMamaman
It is. Because they could just NOT made him a main character and took the easy money by making their Japanese Ninja game featuring Japanese Ninjas.
Most people didn't even watch the last samurai
Because everyone describing it to me is describing a different movie
The movie isn't history is fiction
Tom Cruise is just a foreign guy learn and witness the last samurais he isn't a white saviour, actually he need saving multiple times
The movie about Japan but Tom Cruise exists for the America audience
When I was in college, you couldn't cite Wikipedia as a source for anything.
Any damange to Ubisoft sales is a win for gaming in general.
I don't think Japan has ever been known for having an overabundance of arable tracts of land that contributed to an unusually high demand for labor.
I'm really tired of the narrative that a country that places importance on preserving their history, identity, and culture is racist.
The word racist means "you do not agree with my insanity therefore I will slander you to try to subdue you"
Does Ubisoft even realise that almost all of their issues will disappear if they just stop claiming that it’s actual history?
Do they actually claim that it's real, if so that's crazy.
Where have you been? They’ve been saying that for 17 years.
In the developer interview, they phrased it as "filling the gap" of history. That's a pretty bold statement for a fictional game, isn't it?
when nobunaga got killed all we know is that yasuke was made prisoner every thing else is speculation, another thing we know is that yasuke spent only 6 month in japan he entered it as a slave and left it as a prisoner....
Source? Because that is just not true.
@@HahahMamaman .... it is truth,how long do you think he stayed in japan exactly? the source is nobunaga memory it self written by Shinchō Kōki , go ahead, open a book for once
@@kurhooni5924most people say 1-3 years, and even that is not proven.
@@HahahMamaman it is proven, in nobunaga memor written by Shinchō Kōki
@@HahahMamaman we know in the memorty when he entered japan, and how long after nobunaga death he left as a prisoner.... and it makes 6 months ...
@21:40 It’s also because Japanese people didn’t pay any attention to Yasuke because so little was known about him.
"The last samurai" was loosely based on a real guy/events though, they didn't push any narratives or tried to change history, they just ended up mixing some stuff together for convenience/entertainment.
Tom Cruise also isn't "the last samurai" he just lived/fought among them in the movie, most people seem to misunderstand this
Neither has Ubisoft. And Tom cruise wore samurai armor, so it was “cultural appropriation” according to you guys.
@@HahahMamaman No. I have been scrolling through the replies of comments and seeing you everywhere saying incorrect things and false comparisons. There is a huge difference between someone wearing tradition Japanese attire and someone being portrayed as a historical figure when they were not. Please stop doing whatever it is you are trying to do.
I find it really weird whenever someone bring up Nioh or Samurai Warriors as to why it's okay for Yasuke to be present there and be a samurai but not here in Ubisoft. I think it comes down to how the setting and Yasuke himself is used. Nioh is a much more fantasy style telling of the Sengoku period with yokai and spirit stones being the main root of evil that caused the warlords to fight. While Samurai Warriors is like a comic book style telling of the history. Assassin's Creed has the weird first civilization and powerful artifacts, but it's still a mostly grounded history of the world that is meant to match up with our own. And we have never played as a real person in history before which creates a whole new list of problems. It's this strange attempt to take someone who is barely even a footnote in Japan's history and make them out to be a bigger deal or that they even had an impact in said history, than they actually did.
Yeah they tried to claim that Yusuke story was nonfiction rather than fiction, and lable people as racist if they disagree. That's why
@@anthonyjoy9719that’s untrue. The ceo simply said he was disappointed in the malicious attacks to the devs. He didn’t call anyone racist, and was likely referring to death threats and calls for Ubisoft employees to lose their jobs and be homeless. They have also stated multiple times that the game is fiction and they made up Yasukes story.
No one is saying is that. Only the ubi defenders are bringing that up
少なくともUBIは不信感を生む発言を繰り返しました。
実際我々日本人が出来事の背景を調べてみるとひどいものでした。
In the developer interview, they literally phrased it as "filling the gap", that's not something you say when you regard your game as purely fictional. If they still market their game as a "historical" fiction, then they should have more historical accuracy.
Calling a female ninja Shinobi instead of Kunoich, making the tatami square, drawing Japanese monkey with long tail, using $40 Zoro's sword bought online for marketing at a convention and so on. They are making a historical fiction game set in Japan but it's pretty obvious they have ZERO respect for Japanese history and culture, so we all know what their true intention is, cultural appropriation. It's all about intention.
This guy rewrote history to the point that they made an anime and a video game about it.
Looks like Tom Cruise? You missed me with that one.
Downs Cruise
They are so incredibly similar, they could be brothers or cousins. Study the facial structure.
the most sucessful "trust me bro" in history
To know Yasuke is samurai or not, look only one thing - there is no record of his surname. To be a samurai, first you need to have a clan/surname which is similar to noble houses in Europe. In medieval Japan, no one has surname besides samurai and noble. Under the feudal system, its impossible that formal documents don't address surname(which is also clan name). Similar to feudalism in Game of Thrones, its impossible to neglect the importance of Houses. House Targaryen, Starks, Lennisters etc.
The Issue with this kind of things is.. now it's harder to believe, what is stated on Wikipedia....
I am waiting for people that keep saying they are wining the argument by using Thomas Lockley books and journal that probably rooting to his book.
When this dude created a wiki along with accompanying book, I know he wasn't expecting to throw a whole nation under the bus with the "Japanese were racist against black people" narrative exploding in current year and thats why this is so funny to me.
I believe this is done intentionally as a continuation of the attacks on western culture to promote Macrons "Open Society". As you note, the timing is too coincidental.
Remember folks, it is OK to think you are living in a simulation, as long as that simulation does not involve Earth being flat and stationary.
Imagine ubisoft basing a game around a fake wikipedia edited samurai who never existed. Very corporate move.
It’s based on the real life weapon bearer, Yasuke. They embellished his story, like they’ve done with every historical character in every single one of their games.
Things are incredibly circular. I'm not even officially old yet (16 years to go) but I've already seen a lot of this stuff play out before. When you get to that point, you'll feel even more like it's all a simulation, especially with younger people who don't want to listen, or are "discovering" this stuff or repeating an old cycle.
As I've said before, Yasuke isn't even a new revelation, and the guy likely wrote the book and started this because he found out about the last time this went around. Basically, in the 70s there was this sort of resurgence in interest in eastern culture, especially as their movies were bring brought over. This was the era of "Kung Fu Theater", "Wu Shu", and other productions, and all kinds of crazy eastern mysticism stuff associated with martial arts. We had seen this before then even with "Fu Manchu" and "The Shadow" who learned his powers in the far east.
At any rate the martial arts stuff lead to it being combined with the exploitation generes, and you saw movies like "Enter The Dragon" and the unfinished "Game Of Death" feature black martial artists in prominent positions. The philosophy of guys like Bruce Lee lead a lot of black people to assume such things were a lot more open and welcoming to them than they actually were. In the 80s on the tail end of it, when I was pretty young in fact, it all got dubbed "Ninja Mania" as to older people everything was some stupid "Ninja" or "Karate" movie, and realize most people in the US at the time had no idea of the differences between Karate movies, Samurai Movies, and Kung-Fu movies. Musical groups like "Wu Tang Clan" used this era as a thematic inspiration given how a lot of black people got interested, and Rza even did two fantasy movies about a black guy going to the far east. You also had Japan notice this and do their own fusion in the form of "Samurai Champloo" which blended hip hop elements into a Samurai tale.
A lot of black people desperately wanted to believe there were these great black martial artists, and there were some who were fairly proficient in the modern day, but nothing ancient. Realize "Black Angst Theory" seems to have a lot of reinforcement when it comes to things like this, as a lot of the interest seemed to be black people trying to find some evidence that people like they weren't basically complete failures for thousands of years. Yasuke's name came up before, and I remember in like the late 1980s people tried to track him down and you even had some Japanese scholars looking into it, I think there was even a TV history show at one point covering it.
See, the thing is the Samurai aristocracy was wiped out, despite being remembered well in some respects. Then Japan went through a period of totalitarian imperial rule, and of course we know it had a lot of problems in the aftermath of WW II. A lot of Japanese history was lost for various reasons. The thing is though that the really famous people were not. From what I remember the basic gist of it is that Yasuke was a slave. There were pretty much no black people around, and they are pretty sure he was purchased from some visiting traders, and he was going to be sent to the fields, but thinking he looked exotic he was taken as a house servant where his job was to tend to a lord and be one of those tending his weapons and armor, and he was of course taught Japanese and re-named. Given that no one else had a black slave he was brought to a lot of meetings, and in those meetings Yasuke would carry his lord's sword. This was done because as a diplomatic thing none of the lords meeting were directly armed but they had to be capable of defense, so each had a trusted servant carrying their blade, this meant no one could be threatening, and people would be less likely to act in haste.... while maintaining appearances. This did mandate some trust, but apparently there would also be guards like actaul Bushi and Samurai present to defend everyone present. This is why there is artwork of a black dude carrying a sword.
When this lord fell, Yasuke was supposed to have had his Lord's sword, and was coaxed into surrendering it. This is the most detailed part of anything about him, and really the only notable thing someone recorded as he was otherwise beneath notice as his only claim to fame was basically being black when no one else was. He did not fight, as he was never trained to fight, though he did know how to polish and maintain weapons and armor presumably. From what I remember, and realize this would be like 30 to 35 years or so ago when this last came up, they claimed you never heard anything more about him after that because he was simply sold, and the buyer was never specified. As a slave there was no honor in killing the guy, and he was one of the possessions to be disposed of as part of the estate.
It is likely he was privy to some confidential information given what he did, and if you were going to do a more "notable" version of him in a period piece, you would likely present him as something like a Majordomo and run with the idea of him being a confidant. In a game set in the period he'd be a good supporting character and quest giver type.... but a giant skull crushing samurai... yeah, no one would forget that.
The reason why white people being inserted into Samurai drama isn't a big deal is because it did happen, just VERY rarely, and it was documented. What's more most such characters are usually understood to be fictional, where in this case they are saying this was a person of note and that he's a literal "legend" worthy of turning into a video game protagonist.
The difference is being historical, and clearly indulging in historical fantasy. The way Ubisoft is doing it is where they are not portrayed this as one of the fantasy "alternate history" elements, they are saying this guy existed, and then making him seem even more impressive.... when really his greatest accomplishment was likely being a sword caddy for a kind owner.... not exactly a black empowerment narrative.
Also realize, a lot of Japanese pop culture comes from the US as they copied us heavily after WW II. I won't go into this again as it's very long, but the truth is a lot of their stuff was created by Americans using Japanese pen names anyway... or just acting as ghost writers, or allowing someone else to take the credit by proxy. This is why you see references to things like Western RPGs and novels in like 80s and 90s anime, when Japan had no idea what any of that was. Likewise their RPG mechanics and such all used western conventions behind the scenes, because they were based on western RPGs and CRPGs.
This gives the US a weird sort of pass in some respects, even if there isn't a lot of direct acknowledgemnt, at least not nowadays, especially when this kind of incestuous relationship could raise all kinds of IP questions. Still, this is why a certain Marvel editor was "shamed" (here at least) for using a Japanese pen name to produce stuff in Japan. It was not uncommon for a long time.
At any rate, to finish this off, the entire concept of the "Ninja" as it now exists is pretty much from America. I won't go into the whole thing, but if people ever told you that the classic "Ninja Suit" is not accurate to well... anything... that is because some American creators looking to do their own martial arts stuff in cinema here, saw those kinds of suits in some Japanese plays used for it, and ran with the idea as they thought it looked cool. Then they took a mixed bad of ideas... tossed them into a blender, and boom... Ninjas became cool, and weirdly Japan didn't likee these guys until they saw the American version and went "Yes! This is how it will be now!". Given how much fantasy was already involved (and that mercenary clans of "Ninjas" hadn't existed for a long time... having been wiped out) this made it easy for them to get even crazier with it later and do things like "Naruto" which just took the American style and ditched a lot of the theater trappings. If you go back and watch stuff like "American Ninja" (they made like four of these... ), or uh "Ninja 3: The Domination" (we won't discuss the first two movies... or if there really even are any) you can get some weird cross-cultural insights, especially if you look at what Japan was doing at the time (hint: it's not like this, and yet this version is what survived).... this is one of the reasons why they tend not to get as uptight with cheezy Ninja stuff or pretty much anyone or anything being able to be a Ninja (including sewer dwelling turtles). The Samurai existed and it's a touchy historical thing, so they tend to be protective of it... but they hated Ninjas... and all that's left is fantasy that they sort of co-created with the US indirectly over a decade or two of highly incestuous, usually extremely terrible, movies. Terrible movies that somehow also tend to be preposterously awesome, and entertaining... which is why that whole "Ultimate Power" site joking about Pirates and Ninjas used to be a cornerstone of the internet. Some of the details aged badly for younger people (which is why it mostly died) because you sort of had to have been there for parts of "Ninja Mania" and some attempts to do awful direct to video pirate movies at the same time (competing on the shelves of rental places) to entirely understand some of the meta humor and how there were movies actually worse than some of the fake ones described on that site.
That guy doesn't look at all like Tom Cruise....
My grandma always told me, whatever they teach you in school, always remember that Yasuke was a samurai
"Who Cares"
Ubisoft does.
2 years since Abe passed away is crazy
I think the real problem is AC used to make its story around history and historical events. Now its making up history around a narrative that company have to push for ESG and DEI.
Yasuke was a slave from Mozambique (a country that belonged to Portugal for a long time) brought by the Portuguese to Japan. In Japan Yasuke served Oda Nobunaga and became his guard. Yasuke fought a lot of battles for Nobunaga but there is no proof that he was considered to be a real samurai (The word "samurai" used to mean "the one who serves") but instead a "bushi" (warrior). Only at the end of the XI Century the word "samurai" started to have a different meaning to something higher. (Source: YAMASHIRO, 1964, p. 59. A book written by YAMASHIRO, José. "Pequena história do Japão" - Portuguese/Brazil book)
In reallity, Yasuke had very little importance in japan history. Thats all.
Basically 0. A footnote at best and that becomes the focus for a game that people requested for more than a decade. Even worse they break all suspension of disbelief by making him a samurai