In April, Netflix released Yasuke, an animated television series that tells the story of an African who becomes the military retainer — or samurai — of one of medieval Japan's most famous warlords.

Kate Irwin is a PC gamer passionate about FPS games. She has an MFA in writing from Columbia University. You can follow her on Twitter @pixiekate13. The anime's first season tells the story of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Netflix’s Yasuke was one of the biggest original anime series to launch on the streaming service ...

At first, it's not clear who's fighting whom. All you know is that it's Kyoto, 1582 and dudes are getting absolutely sliced up. Then come in the big mechas, and they have huge guns and swords for arms ...

Netflix's new series, “Yasuke,” has brought the history of the African samurai — and that of Africans in Japan in general — to public attention. The real-life Yasuke was an African who arrived in ...

Netflix announced in March it would release 40 anime shows this year. "Yasuke," an anime about a Black samurai, was one of Netflix's most popular shows last week. Head writer Nick Jones Jr. talked ...

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