😂 but you know....they have a perfect pr record in Japan. Totally don't have assistants and Event Planners running in circles rn trying to figure out what the hell they are doing
Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross. Repent and believe in him or you will be separated from God The Father for all eternity and face hell forever, for all eternity, never ending.
@@sheldoncooper8199 If the game is decent, then they'll be fine. If the game play is shit and nobody wants to play it, maybe not. This woke shit won't bury them, lack of good gameplay and story will. I'd have a hard time imagining a billion dollar company sinking full-stop like that, but maybe they'll go cheap enough for MS to pick them up or something, IDK.
@@MrSlowestD16 Erm i think the Gameplay Might be Good and the graphics are also very Good but they are no Billion $ Comany Nintendo is they have 500 Billion in the Bank. Still money from the SNES and Wii Days.
all they had to do was the bare minimum of research, literally just a few google searches to double check what they're doing. creating historically accurate content is so fucking easy man, this is embarrassing.
The ironic thing is that Japan wouldn't have had a problem with the game itself if Ubisoft didn't claim 'historical accuracy'. Though they'd most certainly have a problem with all of these stolen Japanese symbols without regard of their actual meaning or where it comes from. They just went 'oh yeah that looks cool, imma use that'. There's just multiple layers of disrespect. It's like Ubisoft's actually trying to disrespect Japan as much as possible.
@@darksamiri4304 “what was important was emulating the atmosphere of Medieval Japan. When people point out the inaccuracies, I laugh. It’s a video game, it doesn’t reflect reality. The Notredame? We want to get that right, that’s a an important piece from our history”
Not only that, it’s a spiritual medium in their culture. That’s why it’s famous. It’s a spiritual medium that survived the nuclear blast. It has so much meaning
Remember people, the media trashed Ghost of Tsushima but defends this game. And the directors of Ghost were made tourism ambassadors to Tsushima for their accuracy.
GoT is a phenomenal game. Ubislop can’t compete in terms of gameplay, storytelling, or character development. Also, when GoT finally came to PC and I first got to play it, I remember being absolutely awe struck in the opening when you get past the intro and finally into the open world, the sky, the grass moving in the wind, the music, everything was epic and immersive as hell.
They trashed ghost of tsushima? All I remember is praise for it. Not saying you're wrong or anything. And could just be the circle of content creators I listened to
Pretty much why they pulled out, Japanese were actually united across politics and threatened to "destroy the booth"(implication was they were gonna stab the people there) if Ubisoft dares to show up
Nah that's different, Americans don't see 9/11 the same way Japanese do since there's people that see 9/11 as an inside job, but the atomic bombings were fully done by foreigners
So Ubisoft made a game to appease weirdos that don't live in the real world who won't buy the game anyway, but they manage to insult victims of an actual tragedy. Impressive
Their consultants are an expert on historical relationships between Priest and little boys and a controversial white professor who is accused of revising Japanese history to sell his books. What could go wrong?
@@djzip9231 The armor this dude wears has a clan symbol from an actual japanese clan you can only use if youre blood related. They are literally stealing their culture.
The sad thing is that's exactly what some of these people think. East-Asians are 'white adjacent' and therefore it is permissable and morally right to be mildly racist toward them, or something. Apparently. I don't know, there was me thinking 'all' racism was bad.
@@bobbelcher678 Meanwhile, everyone has appropriated and exploited my culture, greek culture, for centuries, and even told us that we don't own it and have stolen it ourselves, and nobody has ever batted an eye. So, while I do understand the sentiment, I personally cannot sympathise when people complain about cultures actually being appropriated, because even in that case it's just another double standards moment.
Just to add more info. Torii Gate is symbol a gateway to enter divine realm. that why you will mostly found Torii gate infront of a shrine. so a broken torii gate is already bad enough, the worst is you will not found a broken one leg tori gate as it will be repair soon. The only one legged Torii Gate you can found in Japan is in Nagasaki that was ruined by atomic bomb........
This is NOT reaching. In ALL of japan there's only ONE broken torii gate and that's in Nagasaki. All other broken torri gate have either replaced, removed or repaired. Truly, staff of ubisoft are unironcally extremely ignorant and racist.
Yeah it's just wild, they decided to "celebrate" japanese culture by reminding them of one of the darkest events in their history... Talk about tone deaf
even if Yasuke was a real samurai and Ubisoft got everything correct about him in the game, it still would've been a bad idea to make him the main character. If you're going to make a game to celebrate and honor Japan's history, you should make the main character be Japanese.
The Torii gate would be like someone putting the Burning Twin Towers in a Funco Pop for their US Revolution era game because they thought they looked cool, and then trying to sell it to someone from New York. This has to be the most culturally tone deaf game studio ever.
Quite possibly the WORST thing Sweet Baby Inc has ever done and one of WORST things Ubisoft has done. They're losing their shit and have gone full rogue
This reminds me of Jada Smith when Black Cleopatra was made and pissed off the people of Egypt. Jada laughed, saying "Does the color of my skin scare you?" then said the whole country is racist. Are people just trying to set a record for who can piss off the most countries by changing their history?
Anti racists do this but I cant say gamer words? See We real racists will just tell you instead of spending 500 million dollars to do it in a video game.
Imagine the absolute meltdown that would occur if they made an MLK Jr. (or any other black historical figure of note) docudrama and got a white guy to play him.
Last night i ask my japanese friend about this, she didnt talk about nagasaki at all but she didnt likes 1. Tori gate is sacred symbol as gate to god and how they travel across japan to help people. 2. Its massive disrespect for someone sit on the gate. So yeah even we ignore nagasaki, they still mess up.
I think that's because there is nothing sacred to these people. Other than maybe diversity. They are too nihilistic to understand that these spiritual and cultural symbols carry real meaning for real people.
@@adamyami2902no it's actually worse LOL it's like Iran giving us a video game about 1500s America and instead of people getting off the Mayflower it's them standing on top of 9/11 ruble LMAO
Nah, anime characters sits on Torii gate all the time, it's not really that big of deal It's like people tell you the Cross is sacred in the West, but you see cross got tainted in Western media all the time.
It is unironically due to the degradation of academia. Prior to the red infiltration of academia you could trust a historian to actually be a historian. Nowadays the average weeb is more knowledgeable than anyone with a degree on japanese history, unless of course they are also a weeb.
It's the result of bridge. The original intention was for all our media organizations to be subverted from inside, then promote ideology over anything actually profitable. These DEI programs were supposed to be supported by Blackrock money, who in turn in supposed to be supported by government money. End result would have been a state ran demoralization / propaganda campaign. The wedge in the cogs so to speak was a combination of gamergate normalizing ideological pushback, and the 2016 election messing with the government money. The film industry in comparison never had that pushback, hence why everything is terrible.
The CEO of Ubisoft and his Family have been planning this for decades, just to buy stocks at the lowest price to get the most power over shareholders. Which is why Investors are taking the company private and firing the CEO and his family
@@XpVersusVista... You actually believe Sony is going bankrupt after one failed game? Sony? God of War, Sony? PS5, Sony? Currently wiping the floor with fucking MICROSOFT in the Console market, Sony? They would have to sell NO 'new consoles' and have no fucking release titles for the PS6 (which has to flop HARD) for this to be a possibility. This would be like saying Nintendo is a dead company because of the Wii U, actually it's worse, because the Wii U was a failed CONSOLE, not a failed game. I'm sorry, but the cope has gone too far. Sony will exist and probably release the PS20 while we're on our deathbeds if they haven't taken Microsoft's lead and started to Merge into their own mega-game corp to compete. Or Console Gaming has to die. Those are the two options. Microsoft is betting on the Console death thing btw, so I'd be more hopeful for that than Sony spontaneously combusting from Concord related trauma. Ubisoft going bankrupt is a fool's bet though. They've been a Zombie company for going on half a decade and the only reason they're still operating is because they're holding out hope that if they can just produce one big hit they'll find a sucker to buy them and get stuck with all their baggage.
Had they asked ONE Japanese person, not a historian, just any random regular guy form the street, they would've told them: "That's Chinese architecture, fix it", "That sword is from One Piece, people will notice immediately", and "Don't you dare using the one-leg Tori gate". All they needed to do was fetching ONE Japanese guy and asking them about it.
It’s almost an outright admission that they know their game doesn’t properly respect the Japanese culture and is representative of actual appropriation.
Torii gates are very important and sacred in Japanese religion. Torii gates have the following meanings: A structure that symbolizes the sanctity of a shrine. A gate that indicates the entrance to the "sacred precincts" where gods reside. Its role is to prevent impurities from entering the shrine. It plays an important role as a boundary between the inside and outside of the shrine, as a barrier. That is why, since the first PV for UBI, many Japanese people have been telling the game company about the sanctity and importance of torii gates to "Shinto". The torii gates on the game screen were treated as just village gates. But this time, a merchandise product has been released in which a character is kicking a replica of an important memorial to the atomic bomb. And, despite the important meaning of torii gates, they are deliberately making merchandise of a half-destroyed torii gate. In Japanese religion, torii gates must be handled with care, or they will become cursed objects that bring misfortune. So many Japanese were left speechless by the ignorance and rudeness. They just won't stop humiliating Japan. A huge amount of stolen images and false apologies. The fake news spread all over the world was the beginning of a lot of discrimination and harassment against Japanese people. The unauthorized use of historically important "family crests" such as the "Imperial Family" and the "Oda Family" and the rude way they handled them. UBI is the one who keeps smearing mud and spit on religion. The way they make fun of Japan and irritate us on social media every time is so amazing that I honestly wonder if it's happening again every time. I'm Japanese and I'm using the translation function. I'm sorry if there are any typos. Thank you so much for understanding the shock felt by Japanese people when they saw that merchandise and for trying to convey it. Games are meant to be fun. I just want to have fun, but UBI continues to use terrible advertising methods, continues to plagiarize, and even hurts my desire to have fun. I really feel that we can't go back to the good UBI of the past.
@@Plazoidmo If you are not deeply interested in the religions of other countries, it is understandable that you might mistake them for just a village gate or an object, as the game company did. There are eight million gods in Japan. Traveling to small rural areas outside of major cities in Japan is becoming popular among some foreigners, but there are so many places where dangerous gods sometimes reside, no matter how small the shrine or torii building. Even if you see an old, small Buddha statue or shrine on the side of the road, I recommend that you do not prank them just for fun or curiosity. The gods of large shrines that foreign tourists casually visit are generally generous and kind, so unless something extraordinary happens, there is no problem. However, there are rare cases of gods in Japan that are as dangerous as cursed Buddhas, so if you get even a little bit of goosebumps or feel even the slightest bit of danger in the air around you, I recommend that you leave immediately. Old, completely abandoned shrines are particularly dangerous, so we recommend avoiding them.
@@RafaelSantos-pi8py yo wtf?!!! The ones who hired these are probably other woke people who got the authority for hiring people because of some "connections" and aren't competitive as well. 🤣🤣🤣
Why would they drop out? I thought all the people hating on the japanese trailer were weebs using google translate? Surely there must be nothing to worry about then right?
Something to remember. The 2 nuclear bombings weren't even the only bad thing to happen to Japan at the end of the war. The firebombing of Tokyo killed another 100,000 people. That shit is a touchy subject for them. And yeah I can see why
tbh, if the game wasn't controversial before, only the sensitive part of Japanese society would've reacted. Half of wooden tori gate just looks cool. Only because Ubisoft games are ass people feel justified for complaining about anything.
Yet they don't care about messing around with other people's history, their government even attempted to erase their own war crimes from their history books. Not saying what Ubi have done here is good, but japan is by no means on the moral high ground regarding this matter.
@@АклызМелкендыTorii gates are sacred. They are like spiritual gateways for the gods. Is it a little superstitious and sensitive to react too negatively on that? True, maybe but you cannot deny that it is distasteful to cut it in half and put a person over it just because they think it would look cool. However, you are right. There wouldn’t be so bad of a reaction if the previous controversies didn’t exist. Now, most Japanese who care about such things are watching with scrutinizing eyes, and this doesn’t look good for Ubisoft.
@@teodorcaraba979 both are tragedy, both are important but sad event for their respective country which should be respected and do heavy research on to not be disrespectful, idk how to be clearer than that
@@Auzeal. Ubisoft is French, not American. I think that might be where it's a confusing analogy. Maybe use Notre Dame burning down? That might make more sense.
@@RedPaintSpray did I state Ubisoft is American :v , it an analogy to show how insensitive this figure is for ppl saying “it just a gate” by comparing it with another, well know tragedy that’s accepted world wide as a bad thing. Make it easier for them to understand the real significant of the broken gate iconography for the Japanese just like the twin tower for the American. (But it seemed the dude I replied to didn’t get it :v )
i bet you didn't even notice that the shadow behind of the gate depicts the gate as whole. just like the bomb shadows only remained. i bet you can't unsee it now...
@@shroomer3867 Nah, 90% of the people working on the game are blue haired neo feminist interns. Even their coding is horrid, it's so bad they had to use Ai
I speak for all black people when I say we'd DEFINITELY prefer to see a real Japanese protagonist and for the whole game to be in Japanese. In fact any fans of the previous games were, no doubt, gagging for an Assassin's Creed that's set in Japan, where all the badass samurai are and the perfect Japanese story can be told - one in which the antagonist is immensely cruel but also misunderstood, and only the protagonist can see the good in him, so when the antagonist finally meets his end it's not a celebration of good overcoming evil but a solemn, respectful salute to the miracle of life and the tragedy of having to take it from someone who probably just needed more hugs. This is one of the many problems with the wokees, they're not the type to believe that black gamers are almost certainly otakus as well. Such a widely missed opportunity - the incompetence is maddening. We're PROUD to be black, we love it just as much as the many white people who'd love to be black. Stop pandering to us!
Don't worry, we know the difference between normie blacks and weeb/Otaku blacks. Weeb blacks will get serious about the lore. Normie blacks eat up social media slop.
This is like if the Japanese made a game in medieval Poland, the main-character is a south-east Asian Jew and they place the figurine in front of the Auschwitz gate.
Torii gates in general can’t be messed with. They are religious symbols and represent a gateway between the gods and mortals. One being destroyed means a severance. This is basically sacrilege against Japanese culture. Ubisoft just messed up too far. I don’t see how they can recover from this.
Well said. Just a nitpick, *the gods and humans. A cool thing about Shintoism is that gods are mortal just like humans. The whole idea of Shinto is to learn to live alongside gods in harmony. Gods have needs and wants just like humans, so sometimes we have to compromise.
The whole thing with the One-Legged Torii is a bit more than just about using a historical monument where it doesn't belong. The One-Legged Torii is a monument to commemorate the estimated over 200,000 people who were killed in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's why it's still there. And now Ubisoft is using it for merchandising.
The two aren’t even that similar. The figurines are on a red wooden Torii that was cracked in the middle, the one on the right seems like it’s made out of stone or something, and there is no crack where it’s in half, it’s a flat cut. And besides Mark Kern or Grumz makes mountains out of ant-hills all the time. It’s all a grift, I hate both political sides for grifting in two different ways. I would recommend Asmon to take the things from Grumz Twitter with a grain of sand to compare to the true problems that is the mountain that is called Ubisoft faces these days.
@@Writing_Gamer_513 its the only one thats allowed to be broken because its a memorial. its like having a japanese company release a figurine of an anime girl with notredam burning in the background
@@emotrashcracja5305 No, it’s like trying to say that out of all the buildings that burned down in the London fire of 1666, one remaining building made from straw and hay was preserved somehow so someone comes along and creates a statue to vaguely resemble the original building and they both exist in 1704. One is certainly of historical significance and importance, but an artist took inspiration from the original building by having a few liberties by changing the color of the statue, along with what material it was made of. The real house was made of cedar wood and straw, but the artist made it look like oak wood. Are there differences? Yes. Are these situations even similar? Somewhat. Does this even matter? Fuck no, one is a hypothetical scenario and the other one is a figurine to profit off of a slop game that was made with haste so they can maximize profitability. Besides, it’s like saying Palworld is Pokémon, they share similarities like taking inspiration from sheep and dogs and birds, but so is saying Pokémon took inspiration from Dragon Quest, again inspirations from real world things. There are many games that give different views on 9/11, most are controversial, some are cope mechanisms, others are taking the piss out the tragedy entirely, a dude on RUclips called Paper Will made a video about 9/11 games, good video. The main point I’m trying to say here, is that in a free society anything and everything can be used freely where someone can look at an item, place, or person, and use it to make art out of it. Shakespeare was inspired by his own experiences to create Hamlet along with stealing it from an old Norse tale. George Lucas took many inspirations to create Star Wars. Gene Roddenberry took inspiration from the philosophy books he read to create Star Trek. If it was like two or three people who said, “Y’know Steven that looks like a cool image,” and the other guy is like, “David that is a torii gate that survived one of the nukes, we can’t use that.” “Well Steven, it seems like you’re right we should change the design of our model a bit, add some color, make it look like a cracked top instead of a smoothed one and the execs would love this.”
@@Writing_Gamer_513i disagree, while yes Twitter users are drama queens who blow any issue out of proportion, that Tori gate is a huge deal for Japanese culture. People keep comparing it to 9/11 but it symbolizes a tragic event that was much much worse. 9/11 symbolizes a blow to US security and the start of war on terror. That Tori gate symbolizes the end of Japanese culture as they knew it for centuries and a collective cultural trauma that is reflected in Japanese media and storytelling for decades. Let’s not forget that the Japanese hold a lot more respect for their own history than most of the rest of the world. It might be a different color and it might be different materials with additional features, but it is still half a Tori gate, it is still mostly the same symbol
It's not the one-legged torii. Its not the same material, color, shape and only "vaguely" is similar. Why use a gate that was broken several hundred years after the game takes place? Makes no sense, thats because its not the gate.
@@bedinor Fyi Ubisoft employee, the only one legged torii in Japan is at Nagasaki. Yes, one of the atomic bomb site. It served as a reminder of the tragedy just like Auschwitz.
The historian invited by this game is simply a joke. I am Asian, not Japanese. This is the first time I felt strongly offended from a game. In the trailer, I saw a black man killing a Japanese on the street. The Japanese knelt down and was beheaded, but the civilians bowed to the black man. It was a very disgusting arrangement.
Its actually insane Thomas Lockley managed to make an *ENTIRE BOOK out of the 2 pages worth of info* on Yasuke in which most of it, was him being shown off by Nobunaga to the other Daimyos and anecdotes about him carrying stuff for the Lord. It gets worst when *Ubisoft did not have the Oda Nobunaga Clan's permission to use there Crest* and proceeded to put on cropped banners and most of all... GAVE YASUKE ODA NOBUNAGA'S SAMURAI ARMOR COMPLETE WITH HIS SCABBARD AND KATANA AND WAKIZASHI. *Unless you are part of the Oda Nobunaga Family, a literal blood related descendant. You cannot wield a weapon or armor by the Oda Nobunaga Family.* Its actually insane how much the game disrespects Japan and its history.
Oda clan. Not nobunaga. But yes they didnt get permission. Oda Nobunaga was his name. In japan the family name comes first. So Oda. Nobunaga was his personal name.
Funny thing is, this kind of thing is exactly what dei ppl r supposed to prevent: stopping foreign companies from accidentally stepping onto cultural landmines
I wonder if they actually did at the start, only to be immediately told that their idea was bad, so they went and found someone who would accommodate them instead
oh they did, they hired a socialist historian, she wrote books about gay men in medieval times and referenced modern literature that are not supported by any historical sources on yasuke. You can read all the historical documents on yasuke in 5 min. I wont be surprised if there are multiple openly gay samurai in this game lol
The thing is, Yasuke was never a samurai. He was essentially a caddy for an actual samurai for a few months until the samurai got bored of him and released him from service. Then Yasuke left Japan with the Jesuits he came with.
Now that I’m thinking about it, when did assassin’s creed ever feature an actual person from history as the main playable character? Why would they do that lol. It goes against the entire point of the series.
@Zlittlepenguin frankly using an actual historical person as the main character creates alot of narrative problems. You have to balance between telling the story and staying true to what actually happened. It's easier just to make up a character and have the historical person be a side character.
It's official. Ubisoft and Guillemot are simply hating Japan and want to disrespect it as much as possible. Not only did they call Japan the most boring setting, they continue on disrespecting everything with it. From Nobunaga family (by using their crest without permission, displaying it upside down, cropped etc.), Buddha statue (by using it without permission), rice farmers (by misrepresenting them as someone stupid enough to plant rice next to river), all japanese (by using chinese elements such as music and architecture), Nobunaga family again (by claiming Yasuke is part of Nobunaga family, since his sword is marked with Nobunaga crest, which only happened for family members) and now they disrespected all victims of Atomic Bombs. What baffles me the most is that the activists are now silent and don't see racism/misrepresentation/appropriation or anything else. I guess it's "it has someone black so it can't be racist" mentality.
The IQs of the CEOs of Ubihard......dear God....its utterly surreal. Self importance on steroids. Those peeps are in DIRE NEED, every CEO and lead manager of said "company", are in dire need of, minimum, 3 Ayahuasca sessions!!!! Their brains are rotating away!!!!! Live, no less!!!
I want to know what was in those press copies of the game that made them suddenly pull the whole thing. It has to be on this level or worse because that's a massive amount of advertising budget gone up in flames.
Using that symbol has a do8ble meaning now, I mean they are essentially saying they will destroy Japanese history in the game. The way that bomb destroyed their cities.
@@bedinor Torii are all standardized in geometry except the details and total size. Ubislop probably google "iconic Japanese symbol/structure" and brainlessly used it without knowing how offensive it would be. Typical.
I'm just basking on the humor where, a company wasting millions on all these _sensitivity_ b.s., and they managed to come out and outdo that somali streamer guy in offending the japanese.
Did bayek also feel out of place? did you see his hair? it was an african american in africa, literally what is wrong with this self hate of black people nowadays? 😂
Having a symbol of one of Japan’s darkest moments in history on a figurine is next level ignorance and disrespect. Ubisoft is dropping the ball on every level when it comes to this game. What a sh!t show.
"It's just a broken gate" No. It is a symbol of one of the greatest catastrophies in history and a symbol of great hurt for the japanese people. Also, from a religious perspective, a broken shrine gate is the shinto-equivalent of an upside-down cross. We westerners may find it "cool and edgy" to descecrate our symbols (I did that too when I was younger, total cringe). To actually spiritually and historically minded people this is a symbol great insult.
Whike I understand your point regarding symbolism, just as a note; despite common modern associations with satanism/heresies, the upside-down cross is actually the symbol of Saint Peter, who wished to be crucified upside-down due to his belief that he wasn't worthy to be killed in the same manner as Jesus. It isnt inherently "offensive" or "blasphemous".
I agree with your comment but just want to point out that an inverted cross is perfectly acceptable for a religious person since, at least in Christianity, it is the Cross of Saint Peter (it's usually misused in paranormal movies or other medias)
Also Japanese respect their own culture and would usually not intentionally damage Torii, the Shinto relision gate, even during the war in the Samurai period of time. It's just very weird to show a destroyed Torii next to a samurai or a ninja.
Durring the sengoku jidai? You are aware how civil wars work, right? IDK to be honest I think its a stretch. Ubidoft very obviously didn't know because they wouldn't have done this if they did because they are so up tight about their bs but I think at the very least it's not as absurd as people are saying it is.
@@casematecardinal - Even if you’re right, it’s certainly distasteful and I think THAT’S the problem ppl really have. It’s just little things here and there that may not seem like a huge problem but add them all together and it’s paints a rather obvious picture that Ubisoft has virtually zero respect for Japan, its people or its history.
@@KevinOnEarth_ I never said they did just that this one blunder shouldn't be the thing that looks so large. Its relatively small potatoes and is a stretch to even link. The main point is that it's something of an anachronism to even talk about and we are acting no better than people like those that work at sweetbaby by doing so
I lived in Japan for 14 years and was married to a local for 10. I lived in Nara, Osaka, and Kyoto, where at least some of this game is supposed to take place. I actually worked in Morinomiya for a few years, literally across the street from the grounds of Osaka Castle. The Torii isn't just a gate to Shinto shrines, it's the symbol of the religion itself. It's like the Cross for Christianity, the Star of David for Judaism, or the Crescent for Islam. While they don't expect it of tourists, as a resident I was expected to remove my hat when I walked underneath them. In addition to Shinto shrines, they are erected in places of great sentimental importance, like around schools to protect their children, or cemeteries to comfort the souls of their loved ones. The one pictured isn't just a monument, it's a memorial. They wouldn't have left it broken unless it had staggering sentimental meaning. The vast majority of Japanese people I talked to said they didn't mind foreigners depicting their culture, many adding they considered it a compliment, as long as it was done respectfully. One of my bosses that had studied in the US said, "It doesn't have to be perfect, but it should at least appear like you tried. We are more than willing to give you an E for effort." I think that's the same Torii that was depicted in the beginning of 'The Wolverine,' which started in a flashback to Nagasaki the day it was destroyed. Most of the locals I talked to about the film had mixed feelings about the beginning, and were quick to point out what the filmmakers got wrong, but had a positive overall view of the film because you could tell the filmmakers tried to be respectful. I'm not sure Ubisoft was using that very gate as a reference, but to use any broken Torii to prop up cartoonish characters shows a lot of ignorance and disrespect, and I think most people know respect is a pretty big deal in Japanese culture.
2:05 No, it's not just broken gate, because Japanese live in ways of earthquakes, typhoons and tsunamis, they constantly rebuilt their stuff and considered them the same original structure, as it if was never destroyed/damaged. Leaving that one gate damaged as symbol was always a big deal.
"The Black on Asian violence in America isn't getting enough attention in Japan." - Japanese 'consultant' "Make the samurai Black, then." - Ubi game director "The Asians are in full revolt, sir!" - Ubi employee "Very well. Remind them of Hiroshima." - Ubi game director
Why doesnt he know history? Japan was already going to give up before America dropped the bombs. America dropped the bombs on Japan because Russia was trying to expand its territory but it was an ally and America wanted to show a sign of strength and what would happen to them if they didnt stop. This is common knowledge
Just to point out, for those unfamiliar with torii gates; they are gateways for the spirits and their realms in Shinto belief and are found at points of religious importance, particularly on the pathway to Shinto shrines, so that kami (gods) can pass through to our realm as well as a barrier against evil spirits. It is considered rude to walk through the center of a torii gate since that space is reserved for spirits. Not only, as Asmon pointed out, was the gate's destruction over 400 years ago, proving again Ubisoft's ignorance, but the fact that they included a broken one is symbolicly desecration of Shintoism. Yasuke was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, an immensely powerful lord who is known in Japan as the Great Unifier. For Nobunaga to be associated with desecration of Shintoism in a time of strife without due course would be political suicide.
I mean...the guy welcomed Portugese Christian missionaries into the country and made extensive use of Dutch firearms, both of which drew heavy criticism and were used as justification for a coalition against him. The Sengoku period wasn't "politics" in the sense that you mean. It was politics in the sense that the other guy can't make fun of you on Twitter because his head was collected by a samurai in exchange for war spoils.
@@Vulgarth1 He only welcomed the Portugese and Christans because they opposed other religious enemies of his. The Dutch firearms were because they worked. (Absolutely did get him flack for it at the time and gave his enemies a great justification to coalition against him.)
I'm no expert and neither from Japan so my "insight" is quite limited. But as far as my understanding goes those Torii-gates are kind of sacred and symbolize the gateway between our world and the world of the gods.. or spiritual world. The only broken gate that exists in Japan is that in Nagasaki since the japanese wouldn't let a broken gate stand except for special reasons like Nagasaki-Bombing-memorial. So it's kind of a sacrilege or at least totally disrespectful to sell a broken Torii gate as toys.
There was a second one in Tsushima Island that was damaged in a storm, but after Ghost of Tsushima fans donated it was repaired. The difference in respect for culture is night and day.
A black samurai, even if he existed, as the dominating figure on the poster… I dunno, maybe they should have made him a side character? This just screams American politics and not Japanese culture.
Exactly. This would not have been nearly as big of a deal if he had just been a side character. People would have still been pissed if he was still samurai, but it would not have blown up like this has.
If they had made him a minor side character based on a real story it would've been interesting. But to make him front and center was lethal levels of woke pandering. The torri gate as the middle finger on exit is chefs kiss 😂
Imagine how much grief Ubisoft could have spared themselves if they just did what have done for the last 20 or so AC games and just created a fictional character native to the region. I hope the virtue signal points were worth it.
They had no problem with a Greek in Greece and an Egyptian in Egypt, but let a Japanese person be the star of a game in Japan, line drawn! What a weird hill to kill your entire company over, ubi.
The fact he had to explain to someone that this symbol can be offensive is wild to me... are people just so ignorant about other people's suffering or they just don't care?
Yeah it’d have be more like a middle eastern dude standing on the rubble of 9/11 but even then it would make more sense than yasuke since you can write it for him to be more American than his real heritage or some shi and is out to stop his people from doing more harm 😂
@@szith An Arab Muslim playing Superman standing on the rubble of the Twin Towers, lecturing Americans on imperialism and why this is how come the towers fell. This is what this is like.
Even if the Nagasaki reference was unintentional, most Japanese people would find it’s inappropriate to use the broken shrine gate and MC sitting on it!! Whenever kids uploads a picture like that on social media, it causes a huge backlash. It happened recently too
The amount of chatters saying "So what?" "Why does it matter?" or "It's just a gate".... is unreal. They're severely brain dead. How can you not grasp how disrespectful this figurine is? Do they understand the concept of disrespect?
@@Jack-4v To be fair, Christians are unlikely to be the ones who fail to see the problem with this, specifically because they ascribe value to certain symbols. The same people saying "It's just a gate" would probably say "It's just a building". Heck, we've seen that happen with Notre Dame Cathedral. Having no respect for anything is unfortunately the norm nowadays, it feels like.
I'm from a family of Japanese immigrants, the reason my family immigrated from Japan was because of the bombings, and how broken Japan was after that, it was economically dead, so my great-grandfather made the decision to come to Brazil to work as a Farmhand. You are right Zack there are not many of these broken Torii gates around in Japan, because this one became iconic because it was not completely wiped out by the bombs, since most of everything else was. Sadly my great-grandmother, grandmother, grandfather, and my father are not around anymore, I lost them in quick succession back when I was a kid, but if I showed them this figurine they would be understandably upset with it. I'm actually really disgusted by it, and I'm only half-Japanese.
If it's just one bump, it's probably an accident, If it's the second time, it could be bad luck. If it's the third time, you'll consider it intentional and an attack. But they still say they didn't mean to do it and that they respect you. And if it's the fourth time, they are just deceiving you with hatred. 1回ぶつかっただけなら事故でしょう、 2回目なら偶然かもしれません 3回目なら故意であり攻撃とみなすでしょう それでも彼らはその意図はなかった、貴方を尊重しているといいます そして4回目にぶつかるなら、相手は憎悪をもって騙しているだけです
It's fucking nuts that you say that but the little shit was about as respectful. That figuring with the one leg gate is about as respectful as him yelling "Nagasaki!"
I think the miss here is not the history mismatch, it’s the fact that they boast about knowing the history and then flippantly used a one-legged Torii gate without realizing the cultural significance of what a one-legged torii gate symbolizes. It’s basically a “look how much we know about Japan” and then engaging in a Japanese cultural Faux Pas
I am from japan, and further of the big mistake of the 1 leg tori, is the fact that is a game where a black African man kills other Japanese in Japan and they intended to promoted in Japan saying is historically accurate
Fun fact: The oringal Toby Maguire Spiderman movie had a pulled trailer where Spiderman caught a criminal fleeing by helicopter in a web he made between the Twin Towers. It was pulled from theatres in the wake of 9/11.
A new promotional video for AC:Shadows is available only on IGN China. Ubisoft doesn't know the difference between Japanese komainu and Chinese lion statues. I am fed up with their indifference to Asian culture.
Some random ninja from the Iga or Fuma shinobi, or perhaps one that served the then-subdued opposition like Azai, Takeda, Asakura, Imagawa, Saito, Ashikaga, Miyoshi, etc. and some random obscure samurai under Oda with some connection to Akechi, Shibata, Maeda, Tokugawa, or Kinoshita/Hashiba/Toyotomi. Heck, if they *really* wanted to be controversial, they could have the MC be a monk-turned-samurai; a survivor of Nobunaga’s scorching of Mt. Hiei. This was one of the easiest settings to tell an interesting story with no-name underlings. Every bit of what they have done here is intentionally malicious every step of the way, they have made sure every single detail is an insult, and they deserve to be pushed out of the industry entirely. Absolutely insane that this is even happening.
I don't know if you are familiar with Azumi, it's manga and there are two movies based on it, it's about Tokugawa's old samurai being tasked with training group of assassins after Sengoku civil war, who are then sent to assassinate three renegade shogun who threaten with civil war. All three guys are actual historical figures, with obvious fictional liberties for the movie. It's a perfect plot for AC game set in Japan.
@@njmfff I haven’t read the manga, but I do have some ancestral ties to one of the three Daimyo that were targeted (Sanada Masayuki) through one of my recent ancestors, which I’d always been fascinated with since the overwhelming majority of my ancestry is Hiberno-Norse. I’ll have to check that out, both the manga and the movies! Thank you! And I’d have to agree with you in regards to that being a good setting; mainly because I’d love to see more portrayals of Sanada Nobushige!
@@macdhomhnaill7721 Oh that's really cool! Sanada Masayuki is technically primary villain of second movie, as he's one of three warlords targeted by assassins, alto he's not really a villain, he's actually the most noble of three. Check them out if you get the chance, first movie was directed by very talented Ryuhei Kitamura and second movie is another director, and it's more fantasy (it's similar to Ninja Scroll). Also, with similar theme, I highly recommend 13 Assassins by Takashi Miike.
The fact that never once, through all the years of Japanese warlords feuding, not a single Torii Gate was ever destroyed. For those unaware, Torii Gates are a very religious and sacred symbol by the Japanese. Torii Gates mark the boundary between the human world and the sacred world of the Shinto Gods where spirits usually pass through. It is a tradition for the Japanese to bow before passing through one. So for a Torii Gate to be destroyed means to sever the connection, meaning that the once sacred land they deemed holy enough to make a gate for, has been tainted or destroyed. So to the Japanese, a broken Torii Gate is akin to a symbolical omen of doom, as it's a place that the gods can no longer touch and no longer under their protection.
@@boccobadz Very true. odyssey got me burned out hard, was way to big filled with pointless content. valhalla i played for 1 hr and never touched it again (finished every game before) Black Flag was the last AC i really enjoyed. Just my 2 cents
OMG! We were ALL thinking it! I was literally just about to comment that it would be like making a toy with the Ground Zero wreckage of the Twin Towers. In a game based on Gangs of New York.
The thing about the "shadows" left in Japan due to the explosions is interesting. The people in the radius of the "fireball" were vaporized immediately without leaving any remains. It was the people slightly further away that were pulverized by the blast and heat and "spray painted" against the walls or floor.
I learned its because of the shadows they left on the ground from the light of the bomb right before they were vaporized, and that left the permanent imprint on whatever surface their shadow was cast on. I could be wrong but thats what i was taught
the fact the exhibition is getting cancelled IN japan is so telling, if this was anywhere in the west you can already tell what the articles would be saying, but now they're stumped..
I mean if they wanted to have a black lead why didn't they do a story taking place in Congo or place in Africa and tribal feuds... Treasure hunting...diamonds...so much to draw from...
The Twin Towers analogy was very good, but not quite perfect. That would be if Japan made a game set in the U.S. and then sold a collectible featuring the rubble of the Twin Towers complete with the iconic cross that two of the steel beams formed.. THAT would be the exact same.
yes his analogy makes no sense lolthat would mean japan is supportive of us and showing the twin towers still standing, they need to make it look like rubble to fit the analogy loll
Why has it come to this? The Ubisoft I once loved has sold its soul to DEI, and lost its pride. Can such a disgraceful, floor-licking racist company even understand the honor of a Samurai? The answer is no. I am Japanese, and I am genuinely happy when people from other countries take an interest in Japan and create games set in Japan with love and respect. When the game was first leaked and it was said that Yasuke would be the protagonist, there was a bit of a debate, but it wasn't a huge issue. Japanese people tend to accept most things in fiction. In fact, Ghost of Tsushima was highly praised in Japan. I personally loved it and enjoyed playing it. When I first heard that the protagonist would be a black man, I thought, "Why not a Japanese person?" But if it turned out to be a good game, I wouldn't have minded. However, the game ended up being full of copyright infringement, historical revisionism, cheap animations, and everything about it angered not just Japanese people, but those who love Japan and gamers alike. It was like tap-dancing on a minefield, yet Ubisoft didn't seem to care. Personally, I think the story could have shown Yasuke coming to Japan, serving Nobunaga, and admiring the honor of the samurai, while struggling with the fact that, because of his status, he could never truly become one. But despite this, he tries to embody the spirit of a samurai in his heart. That would have created a character with real depth, someone that everyone could relate to. Apologies for the long message. Since this is a translation, there might be typos or inappropriate expressions. If so, please let me know. From Japan
This here, it was never about the mc being black as long as the story was good, it was about the bullshit they were pushing. Hell I was personally cool with the black mc so long as they did it right and still kept within the bounds of history and culture.
They were about to order plane tickets but couldn't find Tokyo on the map of Africa
lmfaoooooo
LOL
OOF.
Nice 🤣
Lol 😂
Ubisoft: "You are racist for not liking our racism."
Exactly. lol
Bingo
You'll buy our revisionist history and like it
@@romano3771 what was the point of this comment?
Just wait until if speculation is true about Yasuke and Nobunaga being potential lovers. I would hope they wouldn’t do this, but it’s Ubisoft.
"No Japanese actually has problem with this game."
Proceeds to withdraw themselves from Tokyo Game Shows.
😂 but you know....they have a perfect pr record in Japan. Totally don't have assistants and Event Planners running in circles rn trying to figure out what the hell they are doing
Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross. Repent and believe in him or you will be separated from God The Father for all eternity and face hell forever, for all eternity, never ending.
@@treek10k I'm Christian and you're only turning people away by harassing people like this. Cut it out.
edit: YES, IT WAS A BOT. I GET IT.
@@treek10kearth is flat
"No Japanese actually has a problem with this game"
Japanese people: proceed to post furiously on Twitter about the game
I don't think ubisoft can come back from this. The amount of disrespect to Japan with this one game is insane. This is just sad.
A lot of people don't care, a lot of people don't even know about this controversy.
Ubisoft will be fine.
@@MrSlowestD16
No the wont Ubisoft wont exist anymore in 2025. Star Wars Outlaws cost 200 Millions and didnt Sell.
I've made a £10 bet with my mate that ubisoft goes bump before the end of 2025.
@@sheldoncooper8199 If the game is decent, then they'll be fine.
If the game play is shit and nobody wants to play it, maybe not. This woke shit won't bury them, lack of good gameplay and story will.
I'd have a hard time imagining a billion dollar company sinking full-stop like that, but maybe they'll go cheap enough for MS to pick them up or something, IDK.
@@MrSlowestD16
Erm i think the Gameplay Might be Good and the graphics are also very Good but they are no Billion $ Comany Nintendo is they have 500 Billion in the Bank. Still money from the SNES and Wii Days.
Somehow, Ubisoft managed to overcome millennia of mutual hatred and unite Chinese, Korean and Japanese against Ubisoft.
If anybody was going to do it was going to be the French.
As an Italian, that is just the French effect, from Africa to Europe and apparently now Asia too
I don’t think they’d agree in that order but same same
They managed to unite Europe once again in the common hatred against the French. It is beautiful.
Only in this crazy world nowadays. Fr.
They hired people who hate Japan to make a Japan game.
"We didn't feel restricted by Japans history"
It's not that they hate Japan. It's that they hate everyone and everything that isn't them.
You could say they were unburdened by what has been.
all they had to do was the bare minimum of research, literally just a few google searches to double check what they're doing. creating historically accurate content is so fucking easy man, this is embarrassing.
The ironic thing is that Japan wouldn't have had a problem with the game itself if Ubisoft didn't claim 'historical accuracy'. Though they'd most certainly have a problem with all of these stolen Japanese symbols without regard of their actual meaning or where it comes from. They just went 'oh yeah that looks cool, imma use that'. There's just multiple layers of disrespect. It's like Ubisoft's actually trying to disrespect Japan as much as possible.
@@darksamiri4304 “what was important was emulating the atmosphere of Medieval Japan. When people point out the inaccuracies, I laugh. It’s a video game, it doesn’t reflect reality. The Notredame? We want to get that right, that’s a an important piece from our history”
Imagine getting your war memorial turned into a funko pop
ah hell
The number of people who looked at the product drawings and then just went "yeah, we can make this" is insane.
a funkopop featuring a black samurai*
@@MinscS2 buying black dude is so back 🔥
Not only that, it’s a spiritual medium in their culture. That’s why it’s famous. It’s a spiritual medium that survived the nuclear blast. It has so much meaning
日本では神社へのお参り（shrine visit）を習慣にしている国民は多いです
神社における鳥居は神域と人間が住む世界を区画する門として重要な意味を持つ建物です
この建物をそのまま使うのであれば、問題はないと思いますが
破壊した形でこのようにフィギュアで用いることには否定的な考えしか浮かばないです
冒涜的な行為でバチが当たる（divine punishment）のではないかと感じました
このフィギュアについて日本人の監修があったのかという疑問があります
普通の常識を持つ日本人ならば、このフィギュアの販売にOKを出すとは到底思えません
Dont worried , im 100% sure majority of people will react the same as Japanese people do .
after understand the whole picture
Remember people, the media trashed Ghost of Tsushima but defends this game.
And the directors of Ghost were made tourism ambassadors to Tsushima for their accuracy.
Can’t wait for ubisoft to be permanently banned from japan as result
Wait... Tsushima is a real place? I feel like an idiot... 😅
GoT is a phenomenal game. Ubislop can’t compete in terms of gameplay, storytelling, or character development. Also, when GoT finally came to PC and I first got to play it, I remember being absolutely awe struck in the opening when you get past the intro and finally into the open world, the sky, the grass moving in the wind, the music, everything was epic and immersive as hell.
They trashed ghost of tsushima? All I remember is praise for it. Not saying you're wrong or anything. And could just be the circle of content creators I listened to
@@TheBlacksheep1313 it won game of the year over RE2 so I don't know what this guy was talking about.
Ubisoft committing corporate seppuku right in front of our eyes.
That implies that they admit they're wrong
@@Dumb-Comment And that they have any honor to lose.
@@Dumb-Comment So it's just Harakiri then?
Sounds like a buff to me! :3
I admire their courage
All they had to do was listen to the Japanese and respect their culture.
And hire real Japanese historians
Funny how they respected the descendants of the Hashashin, and don't care about the Japanese
Wokeness doesn't allow respect of any culture. It allows replacement of culture with their vision of it.
Don't care. Give me the game I'll enjoy it.
Them evil tengus will never win! 😂😂😂😂
They literally put their blackwashed character on a statue that stands for the destruction of japan.
Coincidence? I think not.
I think your right, a message from the corp bankster jews
Pretty much why they pulled out, Japanese were actually united across politics and threatened to "destroy the booth"(implication was they were gonna stab the people there) if Ubisoft dares to show up
*"Ubisoft releases a game set in the USA and sells a toy: two towers with a plane flying between them."*
I tried to write that and the Hawaii Harbor incident but of Course RUclips Nuked my comment.
I heard the toy crashed and burned.
i'd buy it
I would buy it tho
Nah that's different, Americans don't see 9/11 the same way Japanese do since there's people that see 9/11 as an inside job, but the atomic bombings were fully done by foreigners
So Ubisoft made a game to appease weirdos that don't live in the real world who won't buy the game anyway, but they manage to insult victims of an actual tragedy. Impressive
Oh Ubishaft!
Standrad DEI win, thanks BlackRock 🤩
That's what happens when your Company goes the DEI route... it turns to crap.
Their consultants are an expert on historical relationships between Priest and little boys and a controversial white professor who is accused of revising Japanese history to sell his books. What could go wrong?
Wait, actual tragedy? Did i miss something?
“You can’t appropriate a culture if you appropriate it with a black man”
-Ubisoft probably
@@djzip9231 The armor this dude wears has a clan symbol from an actual japanese clan you can only use if youre blood related. They are literally stealing their culture.
The sad thing is that's exactly what some of these people think. East-Asians are 'white adjacent' and therefore it is permissable and morally right to be mildly racist toward them, or something.
Apparently. I don't know, there was me thinking 'all' racism was bad.
@@djzip9231nah they just offended and exploited our culture
Gotta fight non-existent racism with real racism 😂
@@bobbelcher678 Meanwhile, everyone has appropriated and exploited my culture, greek culture, for centuries, and even told us that we don't own it and have stolen it ourselves, and nobody has ever batted an eye.
So, while I do understand the sentiment, I personally cannot sympathise when people complain about cultures actually being appropriated, because even in that case it's just another double standards moment.
Just to add more info. Torii Gate is symbol a gateway to enter divine realm. that why you will mostly found Torii gate infront of a shrine. so a broken torii gate is already bad enough, the worst is you will not found a broken one leg tori gate as it will be repair soon. The only one legged Torii Gate you can found in Japan is in Nagasaki that was ruined by atomic bomb........
This is NOT reaching. In ALL of japan there's only ONE broken torii gate and that's in Nagasaki. All other broken torri gate have either replaced, removed or repaired. Truly, staff of ubisoft are unironcally extremely ignorant and racist.
Truth.
I call others bigots so I can't possibly be a bigot.
its even on the torri wiki page
If you put in a historically symbol , any sane person would at least google it or not ?
Can something like this even happen by accident ?
Yeah it's just wild, they decided to "celebrate" japanese culture by reminding them of one of the darkest events in their history... Talk about tone deaf
DEI folks being racist towards Japan is the ultimate irony
DEI is just modern social drawings down to a teir list of what races matter more than others
Japan pushing back and saying no to woke crap is what everyone else should have done
Its really odd how DEI people REALLY dont like asains...
Asians' success break the narrative that the white man holds the other races back
Them using the one-leg torii gate is a metaphor for how they're nuking japanese history in the game.
imagine a funko pop featuring two towers and a plane
Ngl. I would buy it
Well now I want one. I want a Chernobyl too
And brag about it, the level of insult Japanese people are getting from Ubisoft
DOnt give them any ideas!
They can use that for their next game set in North America where you play as a gay black man named Pocahontas.
even if Yasuke was a real samurai and Ubisoft got everything correct about him in the game, it still would've been a bad idea to make him the main character. If you're going to make a game to celebrate and honor Japan's history, you should make the main character be Japanese.
This is what I’d like to know. If he wasn’t the main character would people be having the same result.
I heard a rumor that they made Yasuke gay.
@@Stephenwhite013Yup, it will still be mock.
The Torii gate would be like someone putting the Burning Twin Towers in a Funco Pop for their US Revolution era game because they thought they looked cool, and then trying to sell it to someone from New York. This has to be the most culturally tone deaf game studio ever.
I can only hope it's deliberate, that way they'd at least be honest about their spite
Imagine commercializing the destruction of New York's twin towers and saying "not a problem at all" when people get angry.
To be fair the twin towers image goes hard.
Dude just found out the twin towers were in Dustborn lol but not lol
Quite possibly the WORST thing Sweet Baby Inc has ever done and one of WORST things Ubisoft has done.
They're losing their shit and have gone full rogue
This reminds me of Jada Smith when Black Cleopatra was made and pissed off the people of Egypt. Jada laughed, saying "Does the color of my skin scare you?" then said the whole country is racist.
Are people just trying to set a record for who can piss off the most countries by changing their history?
Anti racists do this but I cant say gamer words?
See We real racists will just tell you instead of spending 500 million dollars to do it in a video game.
There are just too many people with the mindset of “I’m right, you’re wrong, and fuck you.”
Narcissists thinking any negative response is fear. "There's no way they could hate me for me, I must simply be too awesome!"
Imagine the absolute meltdown that would occur if they made an MLK Jr. (or any other black historical figure of note) docudrama and got a white guy to play him.
The ignorance
Last night i ask my japanese friend about this, she didnt talk about nagasaki at all but she didnt likes
1. Tori gate is sacred symbol as gate to god and how they travel across japan to help people.
2. Its massive disrespect for someone sit on the gate.
So yeah even we ignore nagasaki, they still mess up.
I think that's because there is nothing sacred to these people. Other than maybe diversity.
They are too nihilistic to understand that these spiritual and cultural symbols carry real meaning for real people.
This is like selling a figurine with a cute mini Spiderman posing with the burning twin towers in the background.
Did they make the « African ninja » gay as well ? What are his pronouns ?
@@adamyami2902no it's actually worse LOL it's like Iran giving us a video game about 1500s America and instead of people getting off the Mayflower it's them standing on top of 9/11 ruble LMAO
Nah, anime characters sits on Torii gate all the time, it's not really that big of deal
It's like people tell you the Cross is sacred in the West, but you see cross got tainted in Western media all the time.
Next up, Assassin's Creed: Auschwitz
Trailer is a voiceover from a girl hiding in an attic writing in her diary.
Talk about true escapism...
That would actually be interesting honestly. If the main chars were jews
@@saint3106that’s funny ann frankly true
LMFAO
You'd think a consultant on Japanese culture would know to avoid these symbolism fails.
That's what happens when you let american modern mindset replace the respect you have for your own culture.
It is unironically due to the degradation of academia. Prior to the red infiltration of academia you could trust a historian to actually be a historian. Nowadays the average weeb is more knowledgeable than anyone with a degree on japanese history, unless of course they are also a weeb.
That would mean ubisoft would have to study the culture of the japanese people and they couldnt do that without screechiing about nationalism
@@topdeckkek2266 yea lol
At this point, I have to ask whether that wasn't deliberate, and basically a hate crime from the part of the consultant.
Okay is someone hired to destroy the company from within? This is some next level self-destruction.
This. When I saw this, my first thought was, it has to be intentional. Subbing an black guy for a samurai, now this.....holy shit
Tencent
It's the result of bridge. The original intention was for all our media organizations to be subverted from inside, then promote ideology over anything actually profitable.
These DEI programs were supposed to be supported by Blackrock money, who in turn in supposed to be supported by government money.
End result would have been a state ran demoralization / propaganda campaign.
The wedge in the cogs so to speak was a combination of gamergate normalizing ideological pushback, and the 2016 election messing with the government money. The film industry in comparison never had that pushback, hence why everything is terrible.
The CEO of Ubisoft and his Family have been planning this for decades, just to buy stocks at the lowest price to get the most power over shareholders.
Which is why Investors are taking the company private and firing the CEO and his family
Yeah Sweet Bully Inc did 😂
Japanese people bow in front of Torii gates before traversing them. That's how important they are to them.
Ubisoft bankruptcy any% run is INSANE
I think they're aiming for the 100% run at this point
Going for The world record
@@TheGigaRadSony Vs Ubisoft, who's gonna win?
@@XpVersusVista Ubisoft, solely because sony had more money to begin with.
@@XpVersusVista... You actually believe Sony is going bankrupt after one failed game? Sony? God of War, Sony? PS5, Sony? Currently wiping the floor with fucking MICROSOFT in the Console market, Sony? They would have to sell NO 'new consoles' and have no fucking release titles for the PS6 (which has to flop HARD) for this to be a possibility. This would be like saying Nintendo is a dead company because of the Wii U, actually it's worse, because the Wii U was a failed CONSOLE, not a failed game.
I'm sorry, but the cope has gone too far. Sony will exist and probably release the PS20 while we're on our deathbeds if they haven't taken Microsoft's lead and started to Merge into their own mega-game corp to compete. Or Console Gaming has to die. Those are the two options. Microsoft is betting on the Console death thing btw, so I'd be more hopeful for that than Sony spontaneously combusting from Concord related trauma.
Ubisoft going bankrupt is a fool's bet though. They've been a Zombie company for going on half a decade and the only reason they're still operating is because they're holding out hope that if they can just produce one big hit they'll find a sucker to buy them and get stuck with all their baggage.
Had they asked ONE Japanese person, not a historian, just any random regular guy form the street, they would've told them: "That's Chinese architecture, fix it", "That sword is from One Piece, people will notice immediately", and "Don't you dare using the one-leg Tori gate". All they needed to do was fetching ONE Japanese guy and asking them about it.
they did that but that Japanese was black.
Why would they? They know better, they are the "good guys", remember?
@@mahadotube😂
@@mahadotube we waz Shogunz an shit?
maybe they ask johnny somali. he once visited japan and did some research there. ahhahaha
It’s almost an outright admission that they know their game doesn’t properly respect the Japanese culture and is representative of actual appropriation.
le pire c est que en france ubisoft a porter plainte contre un youtubeurs franco japonais pour avoir critique ce jeu et les gens qui y bosse
It isn’t appropriation 😂 assassins creed never been a historically accurate title
"Cultural appropriation" is ridiculous as a concept tbf, but I agree on them disrespecting Japanese culture.
nobody should be forced to endure the browns
Just stop using that term, appropiation is such a stupid woke western word
日本人の一人としてはこの長崎の一本鳥居についてはあまり怒ってない。そもそも存在知らなかったし（UBIが知ってて敢えてこのフィギュア作ったのなら悪質極まりないけど）
それよりも半分に破壊された鳥居を敢えて立体化した事に怒りを通り越して恐怖を感じてる
鳥居は非常に神聖なものであり、現世と神界の出入口と考えられてる。シャドウズのPVにあるような村の入口のオブジェクトじゃない
それをあえて真っ二つに破壊し、そのうえ日本人の直江に足で踏みつけてさせている（まあ直江はあまり日本人には見えないけど）
もちろん怒りはあるんだけど、罰当たりすぎて恐怖してる日本人が多いです。鳥居を真っ二つにするなんて発想は日本人からは絶対出てこない
わざわざ壊れた鳥居出すのはダメよな
自分は無宗教だけど、とりあえず一礼して鳥居の端っこ通るし
@@Tom_RiddleV日本人はとりあえず神様なら無礼なことはすんなって基本的には思ってるよね。
Torii gates are very important and sacred in Japanese religion.
Torii gates have the following meanings:
A structure that symbolizes the sanctity of a shrine.
A gate that indicates the entrance to the "sacred precincts" where gods reside.
Its role is to prevent impurities from entering the shrine.
It plays an important role as a boundary between the inside and outside of the shrine, as a barrier.
That is why,
since the first PV for UBI,
many Japanese people have been telling the game company about the sanctity and importance of torii gates to "Shinto".
The torii gates on the game screen
were treated as just village gates.
But this time,
a merchandise product has been released in which a character is kicking a replica of an important memorial to the atomic bomb.
And, despite the important meaning of torii gates,
they are deliberately making merchandise of a half-destroyed torii gate.
In Japanese religion,
torii gates must be handled with care, or they will become cursed objects that bring misfortune.
So many Japanese were left speechless by the ignorance and rudeness.
They just won't stop humiliating Japan.
A huge amount of stolen images and false apologies.
The fake news spread all over the world was the beginning of a lot of discrimination and harassment against Japanese people.
The unauthorized use of historically important "family crests" such as the "Imperial Family" and the "Oda Family" and the rude way they handled them.
UBI is the one who keeps smearing mud and spit on religion.
The way they make fun of Japan and irritate us on social media every time is so amazing that I honestly wonder if it's happening again every time.
I'm Japanese and I'm using the translation function.
I'm sorry if there are any typos.
Thank you so much for understanding the shock felt by Japanese people when they saw that merchandise and for trying to convey it.
Games are meant to be fun.
I just want to have fun, but UBI continues to use terrible advertising methods,
continues to plagiarize, and even hurts my desire to have fun.
I really feel that we can't go back to the good UBI of the past.
@@みゃあ-t4vthis is information that everyone should know before depicting a Tori gate in any media. I had no idea how disrespectful that could be
@@Plazoidmo
If you are not deeply interested in the religions of other countries, it is understandable that you might mistake them for just a village gate or an object, as the game company did.
There are eight million gods in Japan.
Traveling to small rural areas outside of major cities in Japan is becoming popular among some foreigners,
but there are so many places where dangerous gods sometimes reside,
no matter how small the shrine or torii building.
Even if you see an old, small Buddha statue or shrine on the side of the road, I recommend that you do not prank them just for fun or curiosity.
The gods of large shrines that foreign tourists casually visit are generally generous and kind, so unless something extraordinary happens, there is no problem.
However, there are rare cases of gods in Japan that are as dangerous as cursed Buddhas, so if you get even a little bit of goosebumps or feel even the slightest bit of danger in the air around you, I recommend that you leave immediately.
Old, completely abandoned shrines
are particularly dangerous, so we recommend avoiding them.
Ubisoft hired 20 year olds who studied gender studies 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Actually you're right, they did hire people with gender studies degrees as "historical consultants". Its not even a joke, they really did it.
@@RafaelSantos-pi8py yo wtf?!!!
The ones who hired these are probably other woke people who got the authority for hiring people because of some "connections" and aren't competitive as well. 🤣🤣🤣
Well.. that's what happens when you hire people based on their gender. 😂
It's irony because tencent is one of the shareholder of ubisoft😂
@@regiluthfi Tencent is a chinese company though?
Why would they drop out? I thought all the people hating on the japanese trailer were weebs using google translate? Surely there must be nothing to worry about then right?
Even the bot farm company they paid told them "i cant keep defending you guys man" HAHAHAHAHA
むしろ日本人は海外の情報を翻訳して見てるんだよなぁ。軽視発言が無かったらここまで燃えなかったのに。そんでこのコメントもあの会社にはGoogle翻訳した白人男が書いてると思うのかな。
My grandmother once told me:" no matter what anybody says, Napoleon was Peruvian"
Well he truly wasn't French
"...and non-binary" (They/Them)
@@kaiganardea9275Are you advocating for an independent Corsica?
Eww, no lol
And from the planet pandora
Something to remember. The 2 nuclear bombings weren't even the only bad thing to happen to Japan at the end of the war. The firebombing of Tokyo killed another 100,000 people. That shit is a touchy subject for them. And yeah I can see why
It’s even touchier since the Japanese don’t really discuss why this happened and so have very interesting opinions on it.
People who says "Who Cares" are idiots, of course the Japanese care, it's a game based on their country.
tbh, if the game wasn't controversial before, only the sensitive part of Japanese society would've reacted. Half of wooden tori gate just looks cool. Only because Ubisoft games are ass people feel justified for complaining about anything.
aah yes, reddit 🤣
Yet they don't care about messing around with other people's history, their government even attempted to erase their own war crimes from their history books. Not saying what Ubi have done here is good, but japan is by no means on the moral high ground regarding this matter.
@@АклызМелкенды Oh you're one of them.
@@АклызМелкендыTorii gates are sacred. They are like spiritual gateways for the gods. Is it a little superstitious and sensitive to react too negatively on that? True, maybe but you cannot deny that it is distasteful to cut it in half and put a person over it just because they think it would look cool.
However, you are right. There wouldn’t be so bad of a reaction if the previous controversies didn’t exist. Now, most Japanese who care about such things are watching with scrutinizing eyes, and this doesn’t look good for Ubisoft.
Imagine Japan come out with a figure of a anime girl posing to 9/11, that’s basically what they did with the figure
Exactly
that makes zero sense lol
@@teodorcaraba979 both are tragedy, both are important but sad event for their respective country which should be respected and do heavy research on to not be disrespectful, idk how to be clearer than that
@@Auzeal. Ubisoft is French, not American. I think that might be where it's a confusing analogy. Maybe use Notre Dame burning down? That might make more sense.
@@RedPaintSpray did I state Ubisoft is American :v , it an analogy to show how insensitive this figure is for ppl saying “it just a gate” by comparing it with another, well know tragedy that’s accepted world wide as a bad thing.
Make it easier for them to understand the real significant of the broken gate iconography for the Japanese just like the twin tower for the American. (But it seemed the dude I replied to didn’t get it :v )
Ubisoft: Yea it is a random Symbol let's add it.
The Random Symbol:
That's likely how it went and a bunch of zoomers probably thought it looked cool.
@@daniel29263 Zoomers are still interns so I don't think they'd have the ability to do something like this. Older Zoomers or younger Millenials maybe.
@@shroomer3867 some Nepo babies may involved
i bet you didn't even notice that the shadow behind of the gate depicts the gate as whole. just like the bomb shadows only remained.
i bet you can't unsee it now...
@@shroomer3867 Nah, 90% of the people working on the game are blue haired neo feminist interns.
Even their coding is horrid, it's so bad they had to use Ai
I speak for all black people when I say we'd DEFINITELY prefer to see a real Japanese protagonist and for the whole game to be in Japanese. In fact any fans of the previous games were, no doubt, gagging for an Assassin's Creed that's set in Japan, where all the badass samurai are and the perfect Japanese story can be told - one in which the antagonist is immensely cruel but also misunderstood, and only the protagonist can see the good in him, so when the antagonist finally meets his end it's not a celebration of good overcoming evil but a solemn, respectful salute to the miracle of life and the tragedy of having to take it from someone who probably just needed more hugs.
This is one of the many problems with the wokees, they're not the type to believe that black gamers are almost certainly otakus as well.
Such a widely missed opportunity - the incompetence is maddening. We're PROUD to be black, we love it just as much as the many white people who'd love to be black. Stop pandering to us!
Don't worry, we know the difference between normie blacks and weeb/Otaku blacks.
Weeb blacks will get serious about the lore.
Normie blacks eat up social media slop.
This is like if the Japanese made a game in medieval Poland, the main-character is a south-east Asian Jew and they place the figurine in front of the Auschwitz gate.
😂
Also you play as Teutonic Knights
Black jew*
But instead of that Japanese devs decided to give us Bloodborne and entire world agreed that this is how London looks like. Even the British people.
@@сергейчернов-ъ4п It's a Victorian setting, which is *obviously* inspired by Victorian London.
Torii gates in general can’t be messed with. They are religious symbols and represent a gateway between the gods and mortals. One being destroyed means a severance. This is basically sacrilege against Japanese culture.
Ubisoft just messed up too far. I don’t see how they can recover from this.
Well said. Just a nitpick, *the gods and humans. A cool thing about Shintoism is that gods are mortal just like humans. The whole idea of Shinto is to learn to live alongside gods in harmony. Gods have needs and wants just like humans, so sometimes we have to compromise.
Plus didn't you cleanse the Torii gates in Ghostwire Tokyo??? That was a cool feature in my opinion.
Well, they can't even recover their stock that keeps nose diving.. 🤣🤣🤣
これを非難したら、海外ニキに片足鳥居はたくさんあると言われました！
それは平和を表していると！
だから、どこにあるのか聞いてみました。なんと、誰も教えてくれません。どうしてですか？たくさんあると言ったのに！！
皆さん、アメリカのツインタワーの事件の象徴を見て、平和を表現しているんだ！と思えますか？
それは、ただ亡くなった人への追悼と、悲しみの象徴です。
片足鳥居も同じです。
どうして、それを踏みつけられるのか。
The whole thing with the One-Legged Torii is a bit more than just about using a historical monument where it doesn't belong. The One-Legged Torii is a monument to commemorate the estimated over 200,000 people who were killed in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's why it's still there. And now Ubisoft is using it for merchandising.
they probably had one as a pillar of their planned display
The two aren’t even that similar. The figurines are on a red wooden Torii that was cracked in the middle, the one on the right seems like it’s made out of stone or something, and there is no crack where it’s in half, it’s a flat cut. And besides Mark Kern or Grumz makes mountains out of ant-hills all the time. It’s all a grift, I hate both political sides for grifting in two different ways. I would recommend Asmon to take the things from Grumz Twitter with a grain of sand to compare to the true problems that is the mountain that is called Ubisoft faces these days.
@@Writing_Gamer_513 its the only one thats allowed to be broken because its a memorial.
its like having a japanese company release a figurine of an anime girl with notredam burning in the background
@@emotrashcracja5305 No, it’s like trying to say that out of all the buildings that burned down in the London fire of 1666, one remaining building made from straw and hay was preserved somehow so someone comes along and creates a statue to vaguely resemble the original building and they both exist in 1704. One is certainly of historical significance and importance, but an artist took inspiration from the original building by having a few liberties by changing the color of the statue, along with what material it was made of. The real house was made of cedar wood and straw, but the artist made it look like oak wood. Are there differences? Yes. Are these situations even similar? Somewhat. Does this even matter? Fuck no, one is a hypothetical scenario and the other one is a figurine to profit off of a slop game that was made with haste so they can maximize profitability. Besides, it’s like saying Palworld is Pokémon, they share similarities like taking inspiration from sheep and dogs and birds, but so is saying Pokémon took inspiration from Dragon Quest, again inspirations from real world things. There are many games that give different views on 9/11, most are controversial, some are cope mechanisms, others are taking the piss out the tragedy entirely, a dude on RUclips called Paper Will made a video about 9/11 games, good video.
The main point I’m trying to say here, is that in a free society anything and everything can be used freely where someone can look at an item, place, or person, and use it to make art out of it. Shakespeare was inspired by his own experiences to create Hamlet along with stealing it from an old Norse tale. George Lucas took many inspirations to create Star Wars. Gene Roddenberry took inspiration from the philosophy books he read to create Star Trek.
If it was like two or three people who said, “Y’know Steven that looks like a cool image,” and the other guy is like, “David that is a torii gate that survived one of the nukes, we can’t use that.”
“Well Steven, it seems like you’re right we should change the design of our model a bit, add some color, make it look like a cracked top instead of a smoothed one and the execs would love this.”
@@Writing_Gamer_513i disagree, while yes Twitter users are drama queens who blow any issue out of proportion, that Tori gate is a huge deal for Japanese culture. People keep comparing it to 9/11 but it symbolizes a tragic event that was much much worse.
9/11 symbolizes a blow to US security and the start of war on terror. That Tori gate symbolizes the end of Japanese culture as they knew it for centuries and a collective cultural trauma that is reflected in Japanese media and storytelling for decades. Let’s not forget that the Japanese hold a lot more respect for their own history than most of the rest of the world.
It might be a different color and it might be different materials with additional features, but it is still half a Tori gate, it is still mostly the same symbol
This is what cultural appropriation looks like
It's not the one-legged torii. Its not the same material, color, shape and only "vaguely" is similar. Why use a gate that was broken several hundred years after the game takes place? Makes no sense, thats because its not the gate.
@@bedinor Fyi Ubisoft employee, the only one legged torii in Japan is at Nagasaki. Yes, one of the atomic bomb site. It served as a reminder of the tragedy just like Auschwitz.
@@bedinor here we find the ubisoft shill in it's natural habitat
@@markusstern8059 True lmao
@@bedinor why do they not consult about the gate first before produce it as a part of figurine?
Yasuke was not a samurai
Nor was he gay
@@FrankJ222 Yea, he was just a servant given to some japanese noble and ultimately he was given back to the dutch or whomever. I wonder why??? XD
According to Ubisoft Cleopatra was a samurai and black too.
@@ArielCleirighshe was Kill Bill
@@neutronshiva2498 well well well
The historian invited by this game is simply a joke. I am Asian, not Japanese. This is the first time I felt strongly offended from a game. In the trailer, I saw a black man killing a Japanese on the street. The Japanese knelt down and was beheaded, but the civilians bowed to the black man. It was a very disgusting arrangement.
Its actually insane Thomas Lockley managed to make an *ENTIRE BOOK out of the 2 pages worth of info* on Yasuke in which most of it, was him being shown off by Nobunaga to the other Daimyos and anecdotes about him carrying stuff for the Lord.
It gets worst when *Ubisoft did not have the Oda Nobunaga Clan's permission to use there Crest* and proceeded to put on cropped banners and most of all... GAVE YASUKE ODA NOBUNAGA'S SAMURAI ARMOR COMPLETE WITH HIS SCABBARD AND KATANA AND WAKIZASHI.
*Unless you are part of the Oda Nobunaga Family, a literal blood related descendant. You cannot wield a weapon or armor by the Oda Nobunaga Family.* Its actually insane how much the game disrespects Japan and its history.
Oda clan. Not nobunaga. But yes they didnt get permission. Oda Nobunaga was his name. In japan the family name comes first. So Oda. Nobunaga was his personal name.
Probably made him Nobunagas gay lover
Jew making up shit to harm the host country it's in... that's never happened before in the whole of recorded history
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Ohh they 100% would.
trying to decide which AAA game premise is funnier between 'rainbow six wheel chair operator' and 'first african samurai'
Funny thing is, this kind of thing is exactly what dei ppl r supposed to prevent: stopping foreign companies from accidentally stepping onto cultural landmines
No logic with these people. They hate the rich yet they work for them. They hate capitalism yet contribute to it.
The ONE actual job DEI people are supposed to legitimately do and they can't even do that.
@@talkingtakotaco8611 lol
There is the proposed job they have, then there's their actual job. Japan is on the woke radar because it is not “culturally enriched” enough.
Bold of you to assume people in DEI weren’t self-serving.
This proves Ubisoft employed *zero* Japanese natives as consultants on the game. Not ONE!
I wonder if they actually did at the start, only to be immediately told that their idea was bad, so they went and found someone who would accommodate them instead
oh they did, they hired a socialist historian, she wrote books about gay men in medieval times and referenced modern literature that are not supported by any historical sources on yasuke.
You can read all the historical documents on yasuke in 5 min.
I wont be surprised if there are multiple openly gay samurai in this game lol
They had Wikipedia tho. 😄
@@_KondoIsami_gay men and boys
@@_KondoIsami_
Not just homosexuality, but between underage boys and adult men as well
it cant be for real
someone did it on purpose
i refuse to believe that someone can be THAT stupid, its basically mocking at this point
The thing is, Yasuke was never a samurai. He was essentially a caddy for an actual samurai for a few months until the samurai got bored of him and released him from service. Then Yasuke left Japan with the Jesuits he came with.
we know that. That stupid expert they hired chose to ignore it.
Now that I’m thinking about it, when did assassin’s creed ever feature an actual person from history as the main playable character? Why would they do that lol. It goes against the entire point of the series.
Ya know. If Ubisoft made a game about his journey (not connected to AC title new IP) that would actually be pretty cool.
Yes
@Zlittlepenguin frankly using an actual historical person as the main character creates alot of narrative problems. You have to balance between telling the story and staying true to what actually happened. It's easier just to make up a character and have the historical person be a side character.
It's official. Ubisoft and Guillemot are simply hating Japan and want to disrespect it as much as possible. Not only did they call Japan the most boring setting, they continue on disrespecting everything with it. From Nobunaga family (by using their crest without permission, displaying it upside down, cropped etc.), Buddha statue (by using it without permission), rice farmers (by misrepresenting them as someone stupid enough to plant rice next to river), all japanese (by using chinese elements such as music and architecture), Nobunaga family again (by claiming Yasuke is part of Nobunaga family, since his sword is marked with Nobunaga crest, which only happened for family members) and now they disrespected all victims of Atomic Bombs.
What baffles me the most is that the activists are now silent and don't see racism/misrepresentation/appropriation or anything else. I guess it's "it has someone black so it can't be racist" mentality.
The IQs of the CEOs of Ubihard......dear God....its utterly surreal. Self importance on steroids. Those peeps are in DIRE NEED, every CEO and lead manager of said "company", are in dire need of, minimum, 3 Ayahuasca sessions!!!! Their brains are rotating away!!!!! Live, no less!!!
Here's to hoping that it'll fail so hard they don't ever dare pull this sht again
I want to know what was in those press copies of the game that made them suddenly pull the whole thing. It has to be on this level or worse because that's a massive amount of advertising budget gone up in flames.
Japanese always say they were victims but actually they were same as Nazzi.
i want it to fall hardest so they could bankrupt and ceasw to exist
Using that symbol has a do8ble meaning now, I mean they are essentially saying they will destroy Japanese history in the game. The way that bomb destroyed their cities.
The symbolism sure fits the game because it looks like it's gonna bomb.
It's not the one-legged torii, it looks nothing like it, its not the same color and its a vaguely similar shape, but it is not it.
@@bedinor Torii are all standardized in geometry except the details and total size.
Ubislop probably google "iconic Japanese symbol/structure" and brainlessly used it without knowing how offensive it would be. Typical.
I'm just basking on the humor where, a company wasting millions on all these _sensitivity_ b.s., and they managed to come out and outdo that somali streamer guy in offending the japanese.
@@bedinor You don't know anything about what the torrii gate is and it's painfully obvious. That last bit of the video, yeah, that applies to you.
"Its just a broken gate"
Yea ok, its just a plane next to two towers.
All you had to do ubisoft was make an Japanese male protagonist, literally all you had to do. I'm black, and Yasuke feels so out of place.
D o n t y o u f e e l r e p r e s e n t e d?
@@mjbranch2109That sounds like something that would be whispered from my closet in a dark room
It's such a bizarre choice to make. How could they NOT make the male protagonist Japanese in 16th-century Japan??
Big fucking mistake on their part
Did bayek also feel out of place? did you see his hair? it was an african american in africa, literally what is wrong with this self hate of black people nowadays? 😂
Having a symbol of one of Japan’s darkest moments in history on a figurine is next level ignorance and disrespect. Ubisoft is dropping the ball on every level when it comes to this game. What a sh!t show.
They have the most racist community in Siege. They want all the villain accolades.
I mean they were eating other humans before that bomb....😂 let's not pretend they didn't provoke it
@@DrinksOnCosbyubisoft dev detected
@@fivespy207 they’re just a edge lord who never grew up after leaving the 9th grade :/
@@louiedoee he probably learned history from countryballs edits
A funko pop sitting on a nuclear holocaust memorial is wild. I'm beginning to think Ubisoft unironically hate Japan.
Honestly at first I thought it was just corporate stupidity but the more time goes on the more convinced I am they’re doing this on purpose.
Chinese investor's money perhaps?
@@noonenowhere877 Japanese people don't bow down to allmighty DEI so wouldn't be surprised at all if it was intentional.
海外の方が日本人の感じている不快感を理解してくれて光栄です。
鳥居⛩️を破壊することは神を遠ざける行為です。
注連縄（白い縄）を切ることは悪魔を解き放つ行為です。
Poland stands with you. We understand.
"It's just a broken gate"
No. It is a symbol of one of the greatest catastrophies in history and a symbol of great hurt for the japanese people.
Also, from a religious perspective, a broken shrine gate is the shinto-equivalent of an upside-down cross.
We westerners may find it "cool and edgy" to descecrate our symbols (I did that too when I was younger, total cringe). To actually spiritually and historically minded people this is a symbol great insult.
Most of us Don't appreciate this kind of disrespect.. Its disgusting.
@@mehcutcheon2401Thank you, well said.
Whike I understand your point regarding symbolism, just as a note; despite common modern associations with satanism/heresies, the upside-down cross is actually the symbol of Saint Peter, who wished to be crucified upside-down due to his belief that he wasn't worthy to be killed in the same manner as Jesus.
It isnt inherently "offensive" or "blasphemous".
I agree with your comment but just want to point out that an inverted cross is perfectly acceptable for a religious person since, at least in Christianity, it is the Cross of Saint Peter (it's usually misused in paranormal movies or other medias)
Even more so. The gate figurine is broken but ITS SHADOW REMAINS.
Also Japanese respect their own culture and would usually not intentionally damage Torii, the Shinto relision gate, even during the war in the Samurai period of time. It's just very weird to show a destroyed Torii next to a samurai or a ninja.
Durring the sengoku jidai? You are aware how civil wars work, right? IDK to be honest I think its a stretch. Ubidoft very obviously didn't know because they wouldn't have done this if they did because they are so up tight about their bs but I think at the very least it's not as absurd as people are saying it is.
@@casematecardinal - Even if you’re right, it’s certainly distasteful and I think THAT’S the problem ppl really have.
It’s just little things here and there that may not seem like a huge problem but add them all together and it’s paints a rather obvious picture that Ubisoft has virtually zero respect for Japan, its people or its history.
@@casematecardinal Yeah but the kunoichi disrespecting her own culture though.
@@KevinOnEarth_ I never said they did just that this one blunder shouldn't be the thing that looks so large. Its relatively small potatoes and is a stretch to even link. The main point is that it's something of an anachronism to even talk about and we are acting no better than people like those that work at sweetbaby by doing so
At this point, Ubisoft should just hire Johnny Somali as their game ambassador for AC Shadows if their goal is to keep pissing off the Japanese people
Underrated comment LMAO
The whole add is him just saying "Hiroshima Nagasaki"
I lived in Japan for 14 years and was married to a local for 10. I lived in Nara, Osaka, and Kyoto, where at least some of this game is supposed to take place. I actually worked in Morinomiya for a few years, literally across the street from the grounds of Osaka Castle. The Torii isn't just a gate to Shinto shrines, it's the symbol of the religion itself. It's like the Cross for Christianity, the Star of David for Judaism, or the Crescent for Islam. While they don't expect it of tourists, as a resident I was expected to remove my hat when I walked underneath them. In addition to Shinto shrines, they are erected in places of great sentimental importance, like around schools to protect their children, or cemeteries to comfort the souls of their loved ones. The one pictured isn't just a monument, it's a memorial. They wouldn't have left it broken unless it had staggering sentimental meaning.
The vast majority of Japanese people I talked to said they didn't mind foreigners depicting their culture, many adding they considered it a compliment, as long as it was done respectfully. One of my bosses that had studied in the US said, "It doesn't have to be perfect, but it should at least appear like you tried. We are more than willing to give you an E for effort." I think that's the same Torii that was depicted in the beginning of 'The Wolverine,' which started in a flashback to Nagasaki the day it was destroyed. Most of the locals I talked to about the film had mixed feelings about the beginning, and were quick to point out what the filmmakers got wrong, but had a positive overall view of the film because you could tell the filmmakers tried to be respectful. I'm not sure Ubisoft was using that very gate as a reference, but to use any broken Torii to prop up cartoonish characters shows a lot of ignorance and disrespect, and I think most people know respect is a pretty big deal in Japanese culture.
They have just cancelled the press previews too. This is BEYOND damage control mode.
2:05 No, it's not just broken gate, because Japanese live in ways of earthquakes, typhoons and tsunamis, they constantly rebuilt their stuff and considered them the same original structure, as it if was never destroyed/damaged. Leaving that one gate damaged as symbol was always a big deal.
"The Black on Asian violence in America isn't getting enough attention in Japan." - Japanese 'consultant'
"Make the samurai Black, then." - Ubi game director
"The Asians are in full revolt, sir!" - Ubi employee
"Very well. Remind them of Hiroshima." - Ubi game director
This is pure gold 😂😂😂
"We need to be more insulting." Ubi game director
"Sell merch with chiba style characters sitting on a Japanese memorial." Ubi employee.
Why doesnt he know history? Japan was already going to give up before America dropped the bombs. America dropped the bombs on Japan because Russia was trying to expand its territory but it was an ally and America wanted to show a sign of strength and what would happen to them if they didnt stop. This is common knowledge
@@chiquita683 that what america will do, showing AN ABSOLUTE POWER !
*slow claps*
Just to point out, for those unfamiliar with torii gates; they are gateways for the spirits and their realms in Shinto belief and are found at points of religious importance, particularly on the pathway to Shinto shrines, so that kami (gods) can pass through to our realm as well as a barrier against evil spirits. It is considered rude to walk through the center of a torii gate since that space is reserved for spirits.
Not only, as Asmon pointed out, was the gate's destruction over 400 years ago, proving again Ubisoft's ignorance, but the fact that they included a broken one is symbolicly desecration of Shintoism. Yasuke was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, an immensely powerful lord who is known in Japan as the Great Unifier. For Nobunaga to be associated with desecration of Shintoism in a time of strife without due course would be political suicide.
I mean...the guy welcomed Portugese Christian missionaries into the country and made extensive use of Dutch firearms, both of which drew heavy criticism and were used as justification for a coalition against him. The Sengoku period wasn't "politics" in the sense that you mean. It was politics in the sense that the other guy can't make fun of you on Twitter because his head was collected by a samurai in exchange for war spoils.
@@Vulgarth1 He only welcomed the Portugese and Christans because they opposed other religious enemies of his. The Dutch firearms were because they worked. (Absolutely did get him flack for it at the time and gave his enemies a great justification to coalition against him.)
I'm no expert and neither from Japan so my "insight" is quite limited. But as far as my understanding goes those Torii-gates are kind of sacred and symbolize the gateway between our world and the world of the gods.. or spiritual world. The only broken gate that exists in Japan is that in Nagasaki since the japanese wouldn't let a broken gate stand except for special reasons like Nagasaki-Bombing-memorial. So it's kind of a sacrilege or at least totally disrespectful to sell a broken Torii gate as toys.
yeah it be like Muslims sitting on a cross with Jesus hanging on it
@@john_squatson Or like selling a figurine of mohamed burning the coran xD
@@fabienherry6690 lol
So a broken torii gate means it gets cut off from the spiritual world?
There was a second one in Tsushima Island that was damaged in a storm, but after Ghost of Tsushima fans donated it was repaired. The difference in respect for culture is night and day.
A black samurai, even if he existed, as the dominating figure on the poster… I dunno, maybe they should have made him a side character? This just screams American politics and not Japanese culture.
Exactly. This would not have been nearly as big of a deal if he had just been a side character. People would have still been pissed if he was still samurai, but it would not have blown up like this has.
Agreed. He could be just a side character and this would be neat
If they had made him a minor side character based on a real story it would've been interesting. But to make him front and center was lethal levels of woke pandering. The torri gate as the middle finger on exit is chefs kiss 😂
That's because it is
But it would rasis if he was a side character.
Imagine how much grief Ubisoft could have spared themselves if they just did what have done for the last 20 or so AC games and just created a fictional character native to the region. I hope the virtue signal points were worth it.
They had no problem with a Greek in Greece and an Egyptian in Egypt, but let a Japanese person be the star of a game in Japan, line drawn! What a weird hill to kill your entire company over, ubi.
@johnthomas1422 but the levels in italy were good in ac2. Weird...
They literally had a viking invade Englad, France, Ireland. I guess Naoe isn't Japanese? Strange.
@@bedinor oh okay, from your other comments, you're either a Troll or working for Ubisoft. 🤷♂️
@bedinor we found the ubisoft PR employee
The fact he had to explain to someone that this symbol can be offensive is wild to me... are people just so ignorant about other people's suffering or they just don't care?
They don't care
Imagine two Asian protagonist in a game set in America and they are both standing on the Robbles of two Towers
No cap, sounds lit
That makes a lot more sentence than yasuke considering that america has a lot of asians
Yeah it’d have be more like a middle eastern dude standing on the rubble of 9/11 but even then it would make more sense than yasuke since you can write it for him to be more American than his real heritage or some shi and is out to stop his people from doing more harm 😂
It's not like that at all. It'd be like if two Asian dudes stood on the rubble of a church
@@szith An Arab Muslim playing Superman standing on the rubble of the Twin Towers, lecturing Americans on imperialism and why this is how come the towers fell.
This is what this is like.
Even if the Nagasaki reference was unintentional, most Japanese people would find it’s inappropriate to use the broken shrine gate and MC sitting on it!! Whenever kids uploads a picture like that on social media, it causes a huge backlash. It happened recently too
The amount of chatters saying "So what?" "Why does it matter?" or "It's just a gate".... is unreal. They're severely brain dead. How can you not grasp how disrespectful this figurine is? Do they understand the concept of disrespect?
Image somebody burned down a church in front of Christian and said it just a building
@@Jack-4vthe Christians are too used to be bullied, hence all the upside down crosses and pentagrams worn by all the run-through women
The concept of disrespect is a doctor who calls himself an apex predator :)
@@Jack-4v To be fair, Christians are unlikely to be the ones who fail to see the problem with this, specifically because they ascribe value to certain symbols.
The same people saying "It's just a gate" would probably say "It's just a building". Heck, we've seen that happen with Notre Dame Cathedral.
Having no respect for anything is unfortunately the norm nowadays, it feels like.
Lack of real life experience outside their basement.
I'm from a family of Japanese immigrants, the reason my family immigrated from Japan was because of the bombings, and how broken Japan was after that, it was economically dead, so my great-grandfather made the decision to come to Brazil to work as a Farmhand.
You are right Zack there are not many of these broken Torii gates around in Japan, because this one became iconic because it was not completely wiped out by the bombs, since most of everything else was. Sadly my great-grandmother, grandmother, grandfather, and my father are not around anymore, I lost them in quick succession back when I was a kid, but if I showed them this figurine they would be understandably upset with it. I'm actually really disgusted by it, and I'm only half-Japanese.
Its not an accident, it's not a virtue signal, it's an attack on japanese culture.
Exactly. It's intentional.
If it's just one bump, it's probably an accident,
If it's the second time, it could be bad luck.
If it's the third time, you'll consider it intentional and an attack.
But they still say they didn't mean to do it and that they respect you.
And if it's the fourth time, they are just deceiving you with hatred.
1回ぶつかっただけなら事故でしょう、
2回目なら偶然かもしれません
3回目なら故意であり攻撃とみなすでしょう
それでも彼らはその意図はなかった、貴方を尊重しているといいます
そして4回目にぶつかるなら、相手は憎悪をもって騙しているだけです
It is Cultural-Marxism
Yasuke is actually Johnny Somalia.
"Look at me!.. I'm the samurai now!"
It's fucking nuts that you say that but the little shit was about as respectful. That figuring with the one leg gate is about as respectful as him yelling "Nagasaki!"
What I definitely felt this time is that Ubisoft is intentionally hating Japan. This can never be a mistake.
Hiroshima Nagasaki
I think the miss here is not the history mismatch, it’s the fact that they boast about knowing the history and then flippantly used a one-legged Torii gate without realizing the cultural significance of what a one-legged torii gate symbolizes.
It’s basically a “look how much we know about Japan” and then engaging in a Japanese cultural Faux Pas
"Look at how much we know about Japan look at this black dude ! " and then proceed to stumble pretty hard on every big cultural nono
@AnarchyBurger-holdthegovment brain rot, you give a large group of people too much credit
I am from japan, and further of the big mistake of the 1 leg tori, is the fact that is a game where a black African man kills other Japanese in Japan and they intended to promoted in Japan saying is historically accurate
Fun fact: The oringal Toby Maguire Spiderman movie had a pulled trailer where Spiderman caught a criminal fleeing by helicopter in a web he made between the Twin Towers. It was pulled from theatres in the wake of 9/11.
As stated at the 6:40 mark
Sargon ballsniffer turned dead lefty channel happened so often you guys could create a new community at this point lol
A new promotional video for AC:Shadows is available only on IGN China.
Ubisoft doesn't know the difference between Japanese komainu and Chinese lion statues. I am fed up with their indifference to Asian culture.
Video name?
@@ClaySanoif YT gives you zero results, search one in r/gamingleakandrumor (don't know the exact subreddit name)
buahahaha, seriously? although there's like hundred of examples in internet and they still get it wrong?
One of the highest forms of self-care is not purchasing or playing Ubisoft games. Respect yourselves, gentleman
When I thought it couldn't get any worse this happen
Man, they disrespect Nagasaki and in a game called "Shadow". Could be double insult to Nagasaki with the Shadows left behind from the bombs
Thats dark af 😂
Sheesh 🥲
Remember when the press criticised Stellar Blade for the Hard R graffiti.
Ubisoft devs are completely cooked themselves by this one
worse
look at the shadow of the gate
it is intact in the shadow
just like humans were before being turned to vapor
Some random ninja from the Iga or Fuma shinobi, or perhaps one that served the then-subdued opposition like Azai, Takeda, Asakura, Imagawa, Saito, Ashikaga, Miyoshi, etc. and some random obscure samurai under Oda with some connection to Akechi, Shibata, Maeda, Tokugawa, or Kinoshita/Hashiba/Toyotomi.
Heck, if they *really* wanted to be controversial, they could have the MC be a monk-turned-samurai; a survivor of Nobunaga’s scorching of Mt. Hiei.
This was one of the easiest settings to tell an interesting story with no-name underlings.
Every bit of what they have done here is intentionally malicious every step of the way, they have made sure every single detail is an insult, and they deserve to be pushed out of the industry entirely. Absolutely insane that this is even happening.
I don't know if you are familiar with Azumi, it's manga and there are two movies based on it, it's about Tokugawa's old samurai being tasked with training group of assassins after Sengoku civil war, who are then sent to assassinate three renegade shogun who threaten with civil war. All three guys are actual historical figures, with obvious fictional liberties for the movie. It's a perfect plot for AC game set in Japan.
@@njmfff I haven’t read the manga, but I do have some ancestral ties to one of the three Daimyo that were targeted (Sanada Masayuki) through one of my recent ancestors, which I’d always been fascinated with since the overwhelming majority of my ancestry is Hiberno-Norse.
I’ll have to check that out, both the manga and the movies! Thank you!
And I’d have to agree with you in regards to that being a good setting; mainly because I’d love to see more portrayals of Sanada Nobushige!
@@macdhomhnaill7721 Oh that's really cool! Sanada Masayuki is technically primary villain of second movie, as he's one of three warlords targeted by assassins, alto he's not really a villain, he's actually the most noble of three.
Check them out if you get the chance, first movie was directed by very talented Ryuhei Kitamura and second movie is another director, and it's more fantasy (it's similar to Ninja Scroll).
Also, with similar theme, I highly recommend 13 Assassins by Takashi Miike.
The fact that never once, through all the years of Japanese warlords feuding, not a single Torii Gate was ever destroyed. For those unaware, Torii Gates are a very religious and sacred symbol by the Japanese. Torii Gates mark the boundary between the human world and the sacred world of the Shinto Gods where spirits usually pass through. It is a tradition for the Japanese to bow before passing through one. So for a Torii Gate to be destroyed means to sever the connection, meaning that the once sacred land they deemed holy enough to make a gate for, has been tainted or destroyed. So to the Japanese, a broken Torii Gate is akin to a symbolical omen of doom, as it's a place that the gods can no longer touch and no longer under their protection.
灰色ならまだしも赤い鳥居を壊すのはやめとけ…
あなた優しいね。
教えてあげなくていいじゃん。
よりによって朱色の鳥居か…と思いますよね。積極的に不幸を求めるとは流石UBI。
All they had to do is follow ALL THE OTHER AC GAMES and use characters from the region/nation the game takes place in.
they did it just because of his skin colour
They weren't able to do good AC game since Black Flag. Think about it.
@@boccobadz Very true.
odyssey got me burned out hard, was way to big filled with pointless content.
valhalla i played for 1 hr and never touched it again (finished every game before)
Black Flag was the last AC i really enjoyed.
Just my 2 cents
OMG! We were ALL thinking it! I was literally just about to comment that it would be like making a toy with the Ground Zero wreckage of the Twin Towers. In a game based on Gangs of New York.
100% Ubi found out Ghost of Yotei was being announced at TGS before the Sony State of Play and knew they'd be walking into certain death.
Oh yea. That is for sure a big part
It sounds like they got their history from the "historian" that said 'my grandmother told me we all know cleopatra was black'.
Sweet Baby Inc and Progressives: "Wait - are we the baddies?"
Yes, yes you are.
Always have been
Ahh the soviet womble reference
Bold to assume they'd ever realize
They're too deep up their own backsides to have enough self awareness for that.
Golden Rule: Never collaborate with Sweet Baby Inc
Ubisoft: "We are so proud of the historical accuracy"
The internet: Challenge accepted.
The thing about the "shadows" left in Japan due to the explosions is interesting.
The people in the radius of the "fireball" were vaporized immediately without leaving any remains. It was the people slightly further away that were pulverized by the blast and heat and "spray painted" against the walls or floor.
I learned its because of the shadows they left on the ground from the light of the bomb right before they were vaporized, and that left the permanent imprint on whatever surface their shadow was cast on. I could be wrong but thats what i was taught
@@malcolmnorton744 walking through the museum in Hiroshima must feel so unbearably haunting and melancholy, geez
@MagickGOATee not just the museum, those imprints are on sidewalks, stairs, walls, where ever that person was in that moment. Very haunting indeed
Anyone else notice that it kinda looks like Yasuke has a noose attaching him to the tori gate?
They unironically turned a gravesite for thousands and turned it into a marketable figure.
This is what pisses me off the most. It's absolutely disrespectful. Disgusting.
This right here is what’s most mess up about this.
@@blazinpuffsbro Yasuke saved people from the bomb pick up a history book
the fact the exhibition is getting cancelled IN japan is so telling, if this was anywhere in the west you can already tell what the articles would be saying, but now they're stumped..
They're gonna go full circle and start calling the japanese "honorary aryans"
Yeah, it's weird they don't want to do it considering how hard it is to get lynched in Japan, if we go by what that somali dude was doing.
I mean if they wanted to have a black lead why didn't they do a story taking place in Congo or place in Africa and tribal feuds... Treasure hunting...diamonds...so much to draw from...
The Twin Towers analogy was very good, but not quite perfect. That would be if Japan made a game set in the U.S. and then sold a collectible featuring the rubble of the Twin Towers complete with the iconic cross that two of the steel beams formed.. THAT would be the exact same.
If the Japanese made a ww2 game and the special edition is a diorama of the pearl harbour attack.
Set in 1500s America lol
yes his analogy makes no sense lolthat would mean japan is supportive of us and showing the twin towers still standing, they need to make it look like rubble to fit the analogy loll
@@jamiep9991 this is far more accurate
Yes this would be the exact mirror. Thanks for refining his point
Why has it come to this? The Ubisoft I once loved has sold its soul to DEI, and lost its pride. Can such a disgraceful, floor-licking racist company even understand the honor of a Samurai? The answer is no.
I am Japanese, and I am genuinely happy when people from other countries take an interest in Japan and create games set in Japan with love and respect. When the game was first leaked and it was said that Yasuke would be the protagonist, there was a bit of a debate, but it wasn't a huge issue. Japanese people tend to accept most things in fiction. In fact, Ghost of Tsushima was highly praised in Japan. I personally loved it and enjoyed playing it.
When I first heard that the protagonist would be a black man, I thought, "Why not a Japanese person?" But if it turned out to be a good game, I wouldn't have minded. However, the game ended up being full of copyright infringement, historical revisionism, cheap animations, and everything about it angered not just Japanese people, but those who love Japan and gamers alike. It was like tap-dancing on a minefield, yet Ubisoft didn't seem to care.
Personally, I think the story could have shown Yasuke coming to Japan, serving Nobunaga, and admiring the honor of the samurai, while struggling with the fact that, because of his status, he could never truly become one. But despite this, he tries to embody the spirit of a samurai in his heart. That would have created a character with real depth, someone that everyone could relate to.
Apologies for the long message. Since this is a translation, there might be typos or inappropriate expressions. If so, please let me know.
From Japan
Please do not apologise, this is an excellent post that expresses your intention perfectly.
This here, it was never about the mc being black as long as the story was good, it was about the bullshit they were pushing. Hell I was personally cool with the black mc so long as they did it right and still kept within the bounds of history and culture.
Translation was more or less perfect, just a little formal. ;)
I like your plot about the yasuke. Too bad the rot mind of ubi can't brain this plot But a barbarian with no respect.
I tried my best to find a fault in your comment only to find none :)