Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix’s new anime series Yasuke is one of our most anticipated shows of the year. The gorgeous new show features LaKeith ...

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 ...

Who is Yasuke the Black Samurai in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Ubisoft officially announced this week that Assassin’s Creed Shadows will feature dual protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke. However, a lot of ...

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

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 ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

It’s just as significant that this story has manifested through anime. Japan’s animated exports are beloved by Black audiences, but only a precious few series and films that portray Black people or ...

“Yasuke” creator LeSean Thomas leaves everything on the field with his new Netflix anime series. That’s blatantly obvious the moment we drop into the center of a battle where armored warriors clash ...

Variety has reported that JoAnn M. Hunter will direct the Broadway-aimed musical Yasuke: The Black Samurai. Hunter is best known as the choreographer for Broadway's School of Rock, Bad Cinderella and ...

Yasuke is a historical and important figure in Japan, and Assassin's Creed Shadows is giving the legendary samurai another adaptation in pop culture, this time as a playable character. The new Ubisoft ...

PureArts is back as they are firing up the Animus once again with a brand set of collectibles for Assassin's Creed Shadows. Yasuke, the historical African samurai, has been reimagined as a main ...