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Yasuke is an original net animation series loosely based on the historical figure of the same name, a warrior of African descent who served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period of samurai conflict in 16th century Japan. Created by LeSean Thomas and animated by Japanese animation studio MAPPA, the series stars LaKeith Stanfield as the titular character.
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In an alternate-reality 16th century feudal Japan, reimagined with magic and advanced technology, a warrior named Yasuke witnessed the fall of Oda Nobunaga in battle against the army of the warlord Yami no Daimyо̄ at Honnō-ji. Twenty years later, Yasuke puts his storied past as a legendary ronin known as the "Black Samurai" behind him and retires as a boatman named Yassan in a remote village. He encounters a singer at a local bar named Ichika and her daughter Saki, a sick girl with mysterious magical powers. After an attack, Yasuke is tasked by Ichika to escort the child to a doctor while finding himself in the middle of a power struggle between rival daimyo as well as dealing with dark supernatural elements as he protects the young child.
Now it goes without saying there are individuals and entities who are very keen on showing anything black related in TV right now, whilst over glorifying aspects of Black cultures or History for that matter. Indeed many nations have history of doing this, some more than others but when it comes to history that is lot older than lets say 200 years I feel there is lot better presentation in unbiased manner what actually went down.
Yasuke was a minor individual during sengoku period and most writings about him have to do with him being just black and obviously being servant under nobunaga. He didn't do anything major during the war according to historical writings. In this anime he's shown as very important individual and being the one who killed Nobunaga during the historical siege, but this is not obviously true.
Soap scene you will be seeing early on is actually true according to historical events and probably most close you are gonna get to historical accuracy here. Then again its sort of cool picking up a small historical figure and spinning off a story around him - US blacks obviously have history of watching Asian martial arts movies a lot as growing up so they have become big fans of samurai culture (You can see lots of that in popular culture)
Overall it was enjoyable action anime and it should be treated as such than some historically accurate alternate story on real life events. Music was very solid and so was the animation by MAPPA - however I had some issues with English dub, so I preferred Japanese dub this time.
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