A Statue of Yasuke, Who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the First Black Samurai.

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image showing A Statue of Yasuke, Who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the First Black Samurai.

boxsmith91 on August 20th, 2021 at 04:17 UTC »

I like anime. I really like the idea of an anime about the first black samurai. I really, really wanted to like Yasuke on Netflix.

But it was so bad. Just so, so bad. Like they could have just made samurai champloo again with him as the main character, and everyone would have loved it. But they went with weird Mecha magic nonsense that destroyed any historical accuracy and made it too ridiculous to enjoy.

ChiggaOG on August 20th, 2021 at 04:55 UTC »

I've seen this photo posted to Reddit. What should be pointed out is the statue you look at may not describe "Yasuke" because there are little to no records of him in detail.

CasualNova on August 20th, 2021 at 08:52 UTC »

Misleading title, like the last few times this was reposted.

There are no records of what Yasuke looked like. He most likely wore the same garbs as japanese people during that era.

This is just fantasy fanart, not a historical statue. The armor style, especially chainmail, has many inaccurate and fantasy/other culture elements to it.

It does look really badass though and man Yasuke would probably be an awesome video game protagonist