Netflix’s new anime series Yasuke is one of our most anticipated shows of the year. The gorgeous new show features LaKeith Stanfield voicing the titular character, and it looks like an epic historical ...

The best news is that this series is in great hands, overall. That’s more than important because anime has not always been the most representative storytelling realm. Yet creator/director/producer ...

The tale of Yasuke, which dates to the 16th century, is an old one: An African man — the first that Japan ever saw — becomes the first non-Japanese to hold the rank of samurai. However, his name is ...

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

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

Thanks to a renewed focus on the ideas the series was originally built on, Shadows is the most satisfying Assassin’s Creed has felt in years. You can fluidly move from ground to castle rooftop thanks ...

Yesterday saw the launch of Yasuke, a six-episode series from Netflix which fictionalizes the story of the eponymous historical figure, an African man who ended up fighting as a samurai in feudal ...

Yasuke is a groundbreaking new anime that fuses fact and fiction. The six-episode original series streaming on Netflix now is the brainchild of comic artist and animation director LeSean Thomas ...

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

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

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

An Education is a Yasuke-exclusive quest in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. In this mission, you’ll revisit Yasuke’s past as he begins his training to become a samurai. This AC walkthrough guide contains ...