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 ...

Yasuke will soon bring history’s first Black samurai to the small screen in a Netflix original anime series. The show’s dazzling and more than worth the binge, and LaKeith Stanfield is here to do the ...

After impressing the industry with his 2018 debut “The Burial of Kojo,” helming episodes of Ava DuVernay’s “Cherish the Day” and working with Beyoncé on her feature-length visual album “Black Is King, ...

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 story of Yasuke, the first African samurai, will soon come to life in a new way: as an anime. Series creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas is working on the show starring LaKeith Stanfield ...

Jeff Sneider is the Senior Film Reporter at Collider, where he breaks film and television news and curates the Up-and-Comer of the Month column in addition to hosting The Sneider Cut podcast and the ...

“Yasuke” is purportedly a show about history’s first Black samurai. When the Netflix adult animated series sticks to that idea, it’s pretty good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take long for the ...

In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. has landed “The Color Purple” director Blitz Bazawule’s next project, which takes on the legendary Yasuke, an African warrior who became the first Black ...