I was born in Japan, and I'm white and conservative . It's like they make a game out of me. ..... I don't want it. I'm no one. I go back to Japan, and I would learn.
@@guts4300 There is no evidence that he was a samurai. There is also no evidence that he was not a samurai. Therefore, it will be wrong to say that he was a samurai. Now Ubisoft has also made Yasuke LGBTQ in Assassin's Creed.
All of Assassins Creed is Historical Revisionism. Do you actually think Leonardo Davinci helped build equipment for an Assassin named Ezio? Do you think Assassins had Pirate Boats like in Black Flag? They take real historical events and take creative liberty to reshape it to fit the game narrative.
@@knightslifes1592 he did in most tellings of his story but for some reason people decided it's unknown. Totally couldn't be because they didn't want to except a black man became something other than a slave at that time.
-Samurai LITERALLY means servant, so ALL Samurai were servants -And he was a BODYGUARD and RETAINER...he was also promoted to Tono (meaning lord) and was going to get his own land and his own court. CRY about it.
Bro was a samurai, firstly because he just was it’s history, secondly you nor I was there to witness him in real life so you nor I can truly say, but accounts indicate he was samurai
@@JonahPlayss I just want to iterate I’m not arguing with you before you read what I’m going to say, if you want to learn more about Yasuke and better inform your self before the games release then check out my bio there I have plenty of historically accurate info on him as well as some more links about more ac shadows, Yasuke was a very interesting person as none of his life before heading to Japan was 100% known, even in his adult kid little is known, the small amount of info we do have on him changes from historian to historian, as for him being a samurai, up till late Edo period he would have been considered a samurai as that title was given to anyone who fought in the name of a lord, as in the Sengoku period he was a man who picked up arms in the name of his Lord, even if he didn’t fight (which there is atleast one recorded war he fought in) he was still Nobunaga’s body guard, again I’m not arguing with him I just find what we do know of him wasn’t bad
-Yass-keh -He's the main protagonist not a boss -He was never a samurai, he was a servant, there's no proof he ever picked up a sword -The other protagonist is a female Ninja, which also was never a thing -The game itself is a pre order live service SCAM, you can't call it a video game -Ubisoft did this psy op on purpose. -Final, MOST IMPORTANT POINT. This is the first Assassin's Creed game in which the main assassin was a non-fictional person who factually lived. This is Orwellian REVISIONIST HISTORY, spiting not just the Japanese, but you.
@@TheCandyyMan The term was largely popularized by novelist Yamada Futaro in his novel Ninpō Hakkenden (忍法八犬伝) in 1964.[1] Mie University historians have concluded that there are no historical records of female ninja performing reconnaissance and subversive activities in the same manner as their male counterparts. 3 second Google search. You're welcome.
UBI needed to drum up something to get people talking. They saw how much attention the Cleopatra "documentary" got, and they want a piece of that. Unfortunately they didn't look at the return on investment 🤣
@@renejr2296bodyguard is not samurai as they were a class of people. There is about 0% chance of any Japanese feudal lord allowing a non-Japanese person the title of samurai.
I'm Japanese. Yasuke was not Samurai. Ten men power is mistranslation. 十人力 ten power men means "average". I read the original text and the text was meant to say that Yasuke won one on one match. So there were ten matches. It's not like Yasuke vs 10 men. It's just Yasuke vs one guy at a time. Yasuke had ten matches. And there's no record of enlisting him in the army. Wikipedia ia still full of speculation.
There are a number of reasons people are mad. 1 is the hypocrisy that Ghost of Tsushima got hate for being a samurai game made by a US dev. While AC Shadows gets defended. 2 is all the other AC games have fictional main characters (MCs). 3 all other AC games MCs are from the region. With the exception of AC 3 which makes sense bc he traveled to the location. 4 Yasuke wasn't a samurai. Although this one is very much debated. 5 they picked the only black guy of note in Japan at the time to make thier game more diverse. Which is a valid view after SBI got thier mits on AC Valhalla. And finally 6 everyone hates Ubisoft. They steal (ie The Crew), they over charge, they make games overly grindy to sell mtx, and are just a terrible company. That basically sums up why gamers are pissed.
While I'm not gonna fight you on 95% because it's not worth it but people REALLLLY need tk read ToS when buying a digital game. You bought a LISCENSE to play the game and in the same way that a company can decide to take away your company car because they wanna get rid of it a company can also shut down a server to a game they don't wanna have anymore. It's not a new thing Bungie deleted HALF of Destiny 2 because they didn't want it (or felt like polishing it to re-sell later) game studios get rid of old games off servers to make room for new ones. Doesn't matter if you own a car that used leaded gasoline the gas stations are not required to carry it (or even allowed to in most places)
@@2Corinth138 didn't say it wasn't. To my understanding the Japanese enjoyed it. Doesn't change the fact western game journalists berated it for being made by a western dev. Now they are supporting AC Shadows. Bit of hypocrisy going on there
have you actually looked into this? or are you just parroting what you heard online? Love how everyone is an expert on Japanese history all of a sudden
@ymandeb9128 you give him too much credit. He's obviously repeating what he was told by someone else. There are records, but no one alive knows for sure how exactly he was treated. Records say he was taken in and trained and worked as a bodyguard, but that doesn't mean he was free or technically a samurai. He was a servant but as to whether he was a Samurai(a warrior servant to a lord) or just a normal bodyguard we can't know for sure. Historically Asian cultures like most cultures tend to portray events in a way that looks good on them.
@@DrRhyhm no, its was the 1580s, thats the end of the renessans. now, no photos but not medieval. still a slave, thats why he was spared by mitsuhide. actual retainers die with their lord.
@@johnsmith-de3tl Do you realise that european time periods does not apply to Japan right? Just because middle age lasted for 15xx in Europe that doesn't mean it lasted the same for Japan. The end of medieval era and its lords ended in the 19th century in Japan.
1. He was a retainer. 2. He had 1 battle where he participated, and his side lost miserably 3. he had to leave after 1 year, so he didn't have much time to learn sword skills or even become a samoraii....
Okay now that's stupid. I mean a retainer can still be a samurai. But he wasn't even really badass or part of anything? Why the hell did they pick him.
1. It’s pronounced YASKay. 2. Is that there is just one black dude in all of the Japanese history. All of the other main characters were from the region why not this game? He could have been a side character but they made him the main character.
exactly. they focused on the SINGULAR black historical figure in japan in that time period. apparently no japanese person was worthy of being the main character.
@MichaelKnowles I need you to get better research assistants. You not only have what his position in the game is (the male protagonist) but also his actual status in life wrong.
@@noneyabizz8337 like I said noone knows, That period a retainer could have been giving a role of samurai who serves a lord. It wasn't about nobility at that point yet. Even the Smithsonian and other sources say he was and other sources just say he was retainer...the truth is he did do battle for his lord but noone knows the exact title.
@@ChocolateBoyy0 actually it's pretty clear from historical evidence that he was Oda Nobunaga's pet. Kept around because he was an oddity. He "fought" in one battle, lost quickly, and ran away.
Yusike was a real person in japan. He (allegedly) wasn't a samurai but served as a retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581-1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident Edit: supposedly it's never been agreed upon by historians if he was actually a samurai or not. Don't quote me on that though 😅 Edit:no one else needs to correct me anymore, thank you for those that did give more info 🤗
Ye, yasuke was in fact a retainer. He also might have been a samurai and MAY have had an intimate relationship with nobunaga. When nobunaga died, there was no body found and it is reported that he commited sepiku in the inner rooms of the Honno-ji incident. Perfect for AC.
He was samurai, he was a part of Nobunagas retinue (Kosho) and a personal guard. He was granted all the rights and privileges of a samurai in that time (stipends and such). He also carried Nobunagas weapons which was something only samurai would be allowed to do.
@@leegitguyman5180 well I heard/read somewhere that it was never agreed on whether he was actually a samurai or not but since he did go with nobunaga and was even given a knife I'd say he technically is But I'd say don't quote me on that lol
And you're wrong. First red flag is Yasuke being as strong as ten men. Tall tale bullshit. Yasuke is only 5'9". Oda Nobunaga met Yasuke and in a year, gave him samurai status because of the novelty of his black skin; not for his military mind, numerous kills or martial art prowess. Because Nobunaga is the proud owner of a unique conversation piece with genuine dark skin, that is all. The affirmative action of samurai. LOL
@@myingthungotungoe7148 Agree, I was being facetious. Even Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then a sandal bearer, had to prove his significance in the Battle of Okehazama before becoming a samurai for Nobunaga. And Yasuke became samurai in a year?? C'mon. The problem with this situation is them making an attendant to a legendary warrior with a huge in influence in Nobunaga. When in reality, he's just a curiosity in Nobunaga's possession for Nobunaga to brag about having.
Only problem I have is that he is the main character, the main character was always from the culture of the setting, though if he is suposed to be the first of the assasins to arive in japan, then it makes more sense.
@@cralix2782if he's the big boss then he's almost certainly a Templar. Isn't that the idea of this series? That where's a war going on between these two clandestine esoteric religios factions who influence the world one toward freedom and the other toward authoritarian neofeudalism? It's haven't played this game since the brotherhood. Good series .
This is Sweet Baby Inc in action. He wasn't a samurai, he's also not an opponent, he's one of the main playable characters. Yasuke wasn't a samurai, he was a MERCENARY, and a retainer OF a samurai. He earned some honor and wore the armor but he was never a samurai. He was a mercenary retainer trained as one. It's rewriting history. DEI in videogames it IS.... given sweet baby Inc, the video game dei company, is the group that pressured for the change from a Japanese samurai to Yasuke, they also promoted the female ninja accomplice, which breaks history also as she'd need to either be a Kunoichi or a Geisha, not a NINJA. Three different things with overlapping purpose.
Each Assassins Creed had a unknown main character who interacted with historical characters of the time period/geological location. IT IS 100% DEI because now they are implying "YASUKE" and the female character are LGBT.
Okay, that part is wrong and just plain unnecessary. They finally got something right by including an actual historical figure, but then they go and ruin it by doing this. I guess a black samurai isn't diverse enough for them.
Okay, that part is wrong and just plain unnecessary. They finally got something right by including an actual historical figure, but then they go and ruin it by doing this. I guess a black samurai isn't diverse enough for them.
I normally enjoy your videos and agree with your take on things but boy are you wrong and misinformed on this one. The black Samurai in AC is one of the 2 playable characters and not the final boss. The character is based on a real person who was never a samurai, played a minor part in a historical event and has been shoehorned in to satisfy DEI nonsense exactly as accused. Please do better.
Technicalities as generally he was retained for military purposes, know who else got retained for military purposes samurai. Also it seems odd that he had all the rights awarded to samurai without the title
The funniest thing is that the game had so much redone that there's a theory that they started with just wanting a black guy as a samuri, and later one of them found out there was a real one and they didn't have to be so blatantly racist, and could instead be subtly racist, and they had to rewrite their story to fit him.
Yasuke was never a sameri, he was basically a cattie for them tho, they tought i5 was funny to dress him up like a sameri, don't trust dei infused history, use your brain 😂
I have no problem with Yasuke, I just wish they would make Him DLC and make Naoe the main character (which she is but all you westerners don’t even know she exists) like similar to AC black flags, their DLC had Adawale as the main character expanding his story further
He was not a samurai, he was a helper to a samurai. When he had the chance to fight in a battle, he surrender, which was the most cowardly way according to the Japanese traditions.
Gay black man as main character in a game about samurai where he was just a retainer, it's d.e.i. with all the boxes checked even the female protagonist is a lesbian. I mean how much more could be injected?
It's also said he didn't have much power and was more seen as an oddity. Just because he was different and bigger, they used as like an attraction. Like a side show. But maybe that's not true either. Hard to say really. AC has been so woke for so long they don't even know what's going on anymore.
Well, you missed the mark Micheal. Not too big of a deal. I would just make an edit to this post tho. Like the other comments said, he is the playable character in the game. He was in Japan, but only for about 14 months and he died or went missing, we don’t know. He was a retainer (basically a bodyguard) for Oda Nobunaga, one of the most important and influential men in Japanese history.
Your pronunciation is killing me, but yes, he was real. He caught the eye of the 1st great unifier of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, friend to the Jesuits, slayer of warrior monks, (and possible murderous psycho, but arguably everyone was, so....? )
no yasuke was a retainer to oda Nobunaga yeah he was giving a sword but he was never meant to fight in the wars if you're getting that from Wikipedia that makes sense why you would say that the woke tried to change the history from Wikipedia The edited it oh yeah michael have you ever heard of a novel called Tales of Idolized Boys
"Retainer" is an essential part of the Samurai class, in the context of Japanese culture before the Meiji period. They were given a stipend (money or rice) instead of land. Looks like a subset within the Samurai class.
@@adfdasdfadfadsfareae samurai comes from the word saburau that means "to serve", you must remember that japan was a society ruled by a caste system that was very hierarchical enforced by the concepts of honor and social presure so everybody was a servant to the superior in the caste so that means even if youre a servant or samurai to the lord you still are a servant
A retainer refers to a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services. Please don't confuse Europe with Japan. Most retainers were samurai or kosho but the is no instances of Yasuke being mentioned as a kosho it's only sword bearer which also is a form of a samurai or soldier but for case is samurai do due being lord Nobunaga sword bearer which is a high honour in Feudal japan. Yasuke was a samurai but not a high ranking one.
@Void_and_Colors To be retained is to be in the service of, obviously the majority of Oda's people in service to him would be soldiers yet 100s to 1000s wild be like Yasuke. Samurai are a class given far more rights. Rights Yasuke didn't have. He had no home, no family. Please don't confuse LGBT+ YAASSSS brown people whitey is evil crap with that of any time period outside 30 years modern time. He literally held umbrellas for Oda.
@@vanessa_kn So is a flute player, Samurai were given land and servants, their main purpose was battle, Yasuke was given no rank, no lands, no servants ans was in 0 battles. The bit about him having the strength of 10 men ios also BS, it is mistranslated Kumete which is still done today in karate lol you spar 10 dudes one after the other. Can you read Japanese?
I'm sorry, but this is such a weird thing for me to see you lost on this. The black samurai has been in gaming, anime, pop culture for a long time. However. I'm not 100% convinced the game was created due to the woke white intersectional liberal women who created it.....maybe like 25% 😅
The problem everyone has is there's actual accounts of this man being nothing more than a sword carrier. However it probably wouldn't be so bad if you could still pick a japanese character to be that wasn't a female. Regardless what's pissing people off the most is the fact that not only is he black but he's supposed to be gay too. Both characters are. This is like assassin's creed origins with a british guy. Also there are historical accounts of a white guy becoming a samurai, so why isnt there a white guy? Its pretty easy to figure out what they are doing.
@michaelknowles - please correct the data you presented, it doesn’t suit a guy like you being so incorrect. He’s not the main boss, he’s the player character, you can play as him, Also he’s not a samurai, he’s just a retainer. Please read any of these other comments which are even better researched
It’d be different if it wasn’t a real life person and they were just pandering but Yasuke was an actual badass of a samurai back in the day 🤷🏽♂️ he’s got legitimate accomplishments in his time as a samurai
Yasuke was more like a "pet" that was impressing the main guy and put him in its retinue. That said: altho - i do believe Ubisoft doing this for DEI reasoning, its not new that AC is changing historical characters for their alt universe. Washington was an evil templar, the church in Italy etc. Yasuke being different is no problem to me, even tho we all know very well why they did this.
Yasuke was not a Samauri and it was likely he was a slave when he arrived at Japan before being freed and made a retainer because he was a novelty being a Black man. He was there for less than two years before he left as a free man.
So if I'm not mistaken, Yasuke was indeed a retainer, however in the Sengoku period that was still a military rank and he was also given his own land, horse, house, armor and most importantly a katana, which was an extremely important Samurai symbol. So if he wasn't a Samurai by birth (which btw you didnt have to be during the Sengoku period, you could be appointed as one by your Daimyo) then he was still one by every other metric.
1. He was a retainer. 2. He had 1 battle where he participated, and his side lost miserably 3. he had to leave after 1 year, so he didn't have much time to learn sword skills or even become a samoraii....
He was a freak show they mocked and made fun of. He was not trained as a samurai, but was a retainer of a samurai family. He would have him wrestle with other people and when they went out in public they dressed him up and had him carry and umbrellas. His first battle he was in they lost and he was captured and turned into a slave. They try to make his history out as something better, but it was not. The thing is think of what the Japanese are thinking. With all the historical Japanese figures they could have had the made a diversity team-up of a black Samurai and a female ninja. This was done 100% for wake points.
When Scarlett Johansson did something similar in "Under The Skin", everyone was screaming "Appropriation! White Washing!", but this is okay when a black man is substituted for an Asian?
They put him in for this exact reason. So the internet would fight over DEI vs historical accuracy and get a bunch of free press off triggered conservatives and weebs.
So little is know about this guy but what we do know is that he was a slave, he wasn't a samurai, he was present in one battle where his master was killed and the attackers (former Comrades) didn't consider him a warrior and instead of giving him a warrier's death they sent him back to his owners. He was oy in Japan for about a year and a half. The only reason Oda kept him around was because he was a freak to them and novelty. Michael I love you but you are dead wrong on this one.
He was NOT a samurai, Michael
He was a retainer, but there’s a Japanese word for it I can’t remember >
I was born in Japan, and I'm white and conservative . It's like they make a game out of me. ..... I don't want it. I'm no one. I go back to Japan, and I would learn.
He started of as a retainer then eventually became samurai
@@guts4300 There is no evidence that he was a samurai. There is also no evidence that he was not a samurai. Therefore, it will be wrong to say that he was a samurai.
Now Ubisoft has also made Yasuke LGBTQ in Assassin's Creed.
@@abstuli1490 No way… did they really? if that’s true I legit have 0 hope left for this company
It's okay Michael, you guys can't know everything about gaming culture. I'm sure everyone in the comments section is politely correcting the mishap.
We live in a society.
Was not a samurai.
was in Japan for only 3 years.
Could barely speak Japanese.
Was nobunaga servant.
Not a samurai.
Yasuke was a slave, not a samurai, this is absolutely historical revisionism
All of Assassins Creed is Historical Revisionism. Do you actually think Leonardo Davinci helped build equipment for an Assassin named Ezio? Do you think Assassins had Pirate Boats like in Black Flag?
They take real historical events and take creative liberty to reshape it to fit the game narrative.
@@merrittterrell4195this reminds me of when Ann Coulter complained that Nixon was still president in The Watchmen even though it was the 80's
@@kewltony Actually the Watchmen takes place in an alternate reality. It’s pretty clear when they say we actually won Vietnam.
Thank you. I am tired of people calling him a samurai when he was never one.
@@merrittterrell4195 Not it isn't.
Yasuke isn't the final boss. He's the player character. He also was not a samurai. He was a retainer to Oda Nobunaga.
Noone knows what yasuke was...most evidence leans to him being a reatiner which is a bodyguard and enlisted warrior
@BlackChocolat8 most evidence shows him a slave and basically mobile storage
I thought he became one overtime no?
@@knightslifes1592 he did in most tellings of his story but for some reason people decided it's unknown. Totally couldn't be because they didn't want to except a black man became something other than a slave at that time.
He was a sword bearer. Aka, samurai.
L take Michael. He wasn't a samurai he was a servant
-Samurai LITERALLY means servant, so ALL Samurai were servants
-And he was a BODYGUARD and RETAINER...he was also promoted to Tono (meaning lord) and was going to get his own land and his own court.
CRY about it.
you search that up on wikipedia
It’s Historical fiction, and a alternate universe they can make Yasuke what ever they want
Bro was a samurai, firstly because he just was it’s history, secondly you nor I was there to witness him in real life so you nor I can truly say, but accounts indicate he was samurai
@@JonahPlayss I just want to iterate I’m not arguing with you before you read what I’m going to say, if you want to learn more about Yasuke and better inform your self before the games release then check out my bio there I have plenty of historically accurate info on him as well as some more links about more ac shadows, Yasuke was a very interesting person as none of his life before heading to Japan was 100% known, even in his adult kid little is known, the small amount of info we do have on him changes from historian to historian, as for him being a samurai, up till late Edo period he would have been considered a samurai as that title was given to anyone who fought in the name of a lord, as in the Sengoku period he was a man who picked up arms in the name of his Lord, even if he didn’t fight (which there is atleast one recorded war he fought in) he was still Nobunaga’s body guard, again I’m not arguing with him I just find what we do know of him wasn’t bad
The entire writing team was woke, intersectional feminists. They found the ONE example of a black guy in japan. We all know why.
-Yass-keh
-He's the main protagonist not a boss
-He was never a samurai, he was a servant, there's no proof he ever picked up a sword
-The other protagonist is a female Ninja, which also was never a thing
-The game itself is a pre order live service SCAM, you can't call it a video game
-Ubisoft did this psy op on purpose.
-Final, MOST IMPORTANT POINT. This is the first Assassin's Creed game in which the main assassin was a non-fictional person who factually lived. This is Orwellian REVISIONIST HISTORY, spiting not just the Japanese, but you.
Yes theyre were bruh theres litteraly a word for them Kunoichi
@@TheCandyyMan The term was largely popularized by novelist Yamada Futaro in his novel Ninpō Hakkenden (忍法八犬伝) in 1964.[1]
Mie University historians have concluded that there are no historical records of female ninja performing reconnaissance and subversive activities in the same manner as their male counterparts.
3 second Google search. You're welcome.
Yasuke was a captive who impressed the Lord and became his bodyguard due to his large stature
UBI needed to drum up something to get people talking. They saw how much attention the Cleopatra "documentary" got, and they want a piece of that.
Unfortunately they didn't look at the return on investment 🤣
@@renejr2296bodyguard is not samurai as they were a class of people. There is about 0% chance of any Japanese feudal lord allowing a non-Japanese person the title of samurai.
I'm Japanese. Yasuke was not Samurai. Ten men power is mistranslation. 十人力 ten power men means "average". I read the original text and the text was meant to say that Yasuke won one on one match. So there were ten matches. It's not like Yasuke vs 10 men. It's just Yasuke vs one guy at a time. Yasuke had ten matches. And there's no record of enlisting him in the army. Wikipedia ia still full of speculation.
Wasn't he a sword carrying soldier
wikipedia is 51% correct.
@@DeathChaser retainer, but most considered him a slave. mitsuhide names him so when he lets him go after the Honnōji Incident.
@@johnsmith-de3tl that is completely lie he was given pay
But was he gay
Not a Samurai MK. A real person, but never a Samurai.
Wrong.. hes not a Samurai he was a sword barer who was paraded around like a circus.
Michael managed to get everything wrong here, it's impressive
There are a number of reasons people are mad. 1 is the hypocrisy that Ghost of Tsushima got hate for being a samurai game made by a US dev. While AC Shadows gets defended. 2 is all the other AC games have fictional main characters (MCs). 3 all other AC games MCs are from the region. With the exception of AC 3 which makes sense bc he traveled to the location. 4 Yasuke wasn't a samurai. Although this one is very much debated. 5 they picked the only black guy of note in Japan at the time to make thier game more diverse. Which is a valid view after SBI got thier mits on AC Valhalla. And finally 6 everyone hates Ubisoft. They steal (ie The Crew), they over charge, they make games overly grindy to sell mtx, and are just a terrible company. That basically sums up why gamers are pissed.
While I'm not gonna fight you on 95% because it's not worth it but people REALLLLY need tk read ToS when buying a digital game. You bought a LISCENSE to play the game and in the same way that a company can decide to take away your company car because they wanna get rid of it a company can also shut down a server to a game they don't wanna have anymore. It's not a new thing Bungie deleted HALF of Destiny 2 because they didn't want it (or felt like polishing it to re-sell later) game studios get rid of old games off servers to make room for new ones. Doesn't matter if you own a car that used leaded gasoline the gas stations are not required to carry it (or even allowed to in most places)
GoT was very historically accurate despite being made by a US dev
@@2Corinth138 didn't say it wasn't. To my understanding the Japanese enjoyed it. Doesn't change the fact western game journalists berated it for being made by a western dev. Now they are supporting AC Shadows. Bit of hypocrisy going on there
@@reiketsukan6669everyone knows that. Everybody is also arguing that live service is the scam.
He was a slave. He was never a samurai. He took ONE photo in samurai armor, but only because his master liked the idea
have you actually looked into this? or are you just parroting what you heard online? Love how everyone is an expert on Japanese history all of a sudden
@ymandeb9128 you give him too much credit. He's obviously repeating what he was told by someone else.
There are records, but no one alive knows for sure how exactly he was treated. Records say he was taken in and trained and worked as a bodyguard, but that doesn't mean he was free or technically a samurai. He was a servant but as to whether he was a Samurai(a warrior servant to a lord) or just a normal bodyguard we can't know for sure. Historically Asian cultures like most cultures tend to portray events in a way that looks good on them.
Photo? Dude it was the medival time, there was no photos.
But yes he was a retainer.
@@DrRhyhm no, its was the 1580s, thats the end of the renessans. now, no photos but not medieval. still a slave, thats why he was spared by mitsuhide. actual retainers die with their lord.
@@johnsmith-de3tl Do you realise that european time periods does not apply to Japan right? Just because middle age lasted for 15xx in Europe that doesn't mean it lasted the same for Japan.
The end of medieval era and its lords ended in the 19th century in Japan.
1. He was a retainer.
2. He had 1 battle where he participated, and his side lost miserably
3. he had to leave after 1 year, so he didn't have much time to learn sword skills or even become a samoraii....
Okay now that's stupid. I mean a retainer can still be a samurai. But he wasn't even really badass or part of anything? Why the hell did they pick him.
Can you please research the retainer in samurai culture? It's not the same as what you think!
1. It’s pronounced YASKay. 2. Is that there is just one black dude in all of the Japanese history. All of the other main characters were from the region why not this game? He could have been a side character but they made him the main character.
exactly. they focused on the SINGULAR black historical figure in japan in that time period. apparently no japanese person was worthy of being the main character.
Yeah UBI is garbage, anyone still playing these games will 100% support anything like this
He was a retainer not a samurai.
In samurai culture a retainer is a samurai, ignorant!
@MichaelKnowles I need you to get better research assistants. You not only have what his position in the game is (the male protagonist) but also his actual status in life wrong.
Noone truly knows who he was ..
@@ChocolateBoyy0he definitely wasn't a samurai
@@noneyabizz8337 like I said noone knows, That period a retainer could have been giving a role of samurai who serves a lord. It wasn't about nobility at that point yet. Even the Smithsonian and other sources say he was and other sources just say he was retainer...the truth is he did do battle for his lord but noone knows the exact title.
@@ChocolateBoyy0 actually it's pretty clear from historical evidence that he was Oda Nobunaga's pet. Kept around because he was an oddity. He "fought" in one battle, lost quickly, and ran away.
He was a slave and became a myth.
Yusike was a real person in japan. He (allegedly) wasn't a samurai but served as a retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581-1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident
Edit: supposedly it's never been agreed upon by historians if he was actually a samurai or not. Don't quote me on that though 😅
Edit:no one else needs to correct me anymore, thank you for those that did give more info 🤗
Stop using logic. This is something we should be offended about. He's black so it's DEI political correctness and woke
Ye, yasuke was in fact a retainer. He also might have been a samurai and MAY have had an intimate relationship with nobunaga. When nobunaga died, there was no body found and it is reported that he commited sepiku in the inner rooms of the Honno-ji incident. Perfect for AC.
He was samurai, he was a part of Nobunagas retinue (Kosho) and a personal guard. He was granted all the rights and privileges of a samurai in that time (stipends and such). He also carried Nobunagas weapons which was something only samurai would be allowed to do.
He also wasn't loyal
@@leegitguyman5180 well I heard/read somewhere that it was never agreed on whether he was actually a samurai or not but since he did go with nobunaga and was even given a knife I'd say he technically is
But I'd say don't quote me on that lol
Wokeness is why we cant have nice things
Imagine thinking this is woke
Wokeness is a term used by morons
Yasuke was a real person, just not a samurai, I’m pretty sure he remained a servant I think .
Samurai literally means "those who serve"
And you're wrong.
First red flag is Yasuke being as strong as ten men. Tall tale bullshit. Yasuke is only 5'9".
Oda Nobunaga met Yasuke and in a year, gave him samurai status because of the novelty of his black skin; not for his military mind, numerous kills or martial art prowess. Because Nobunaga is the proud owner of a unique conversation piece with genuine dark skin, that is all. The affirmative action of samurai. LOL
Not samurai status. He was more of a squire.
@@myingthungotungoe7148 Agree, I was being facetious.
Even Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then a sandal bearer, had to prove his significance in the Battle of Okehazama before becoming a samurai for Nobunaga. And Yasuke became samurai in a year?? C'mon.
The problem with this situation is them making an attendant to a legendary warrior with a huge in influence in Nobunaga. When in reality, he's just a curiosity in Nobunaga's possession for Nobunaga to brag about having.
Portuguese not Italian missionaries. Also he wasn’t a samurai just a servant to nobunaga
no they were Italian missionaries
Only problem I have is that he is the main character, the main character was always from the culture of the setting, though if he is suposed to be the first of the assasins to arive in japan, then it makes more sense.
Acually he isnt he is a black guy who came over with chritian missionaries sounds very Templar to me
@@cralix2782if he's the big boss then he's almost certainly a Templar. Isn't that the idea of this series? That where's a war going on between these two clandestine esoteric religios factions who influence the world one toward freedom and the other toward authoritarian neofeudalism? It's haven't played this game since the brotherhood. Good series .
Edward Kenway a Welshman in the Caribbean begs to differ... Also Ezio in Constantinople oh and a sub-Saharan African in Egypt...
This is Sweet Baby Inc in action. He wasn't a samurai, he's also not an opponent, he's one of the main playable characters. Yasuke wasn't a samurai, he was a MERCENARY, and a retainer OF a samurai. He earned some honor and wore the armor but he was never a samurai. He was a mercenary retainer trained as one. It's rewriting history. DEI in videogames it IS.... given sweet baby Inc, the video game dei company, is the group that pressured for the change from a Japanese samurai to Yasuke, they also promoted the female ninja accomplice, which breaks history also as she'd need to either be a Kunoichi or a Geisha, not a NINJA. Three different things with overlapping purpose.
Each Assassins Creed had a unknown main character who interacted with historical characters of the time period/geological location. IT IS 100% DEI because now they are implying "YASUKE" and the female character are LGBT.
believe it or not gay people have existed longer than 50 years
They also made him gay in the game
Are serious.....?
Okay, that part is wrong and just plain unnecessary. They finally got something right by including an actual historical figure, but then they go and ruin it by doing this. I guess a black samurai isn't diverse enough for them.
Okay, that part is wrong and just plain unnecessary. They finally got something right by including an actual historical figure, but then they go and ruin it by doing this. I guess a black samurai isn't diverse enough for them.
I normally enjoy your videos and agree with your take on things but boy are you wrong and misinformed on this one. The black Samurai in AC is one of the 2 playable characters and not the final boss. The character is based on a real person who was never a samurai, played a minor part in a historical event and has been shoehorned in to satisfy DEI nonsense exactly as accused. Please do better.
Hes not the final boss hes one of the main characters you play as. Lol the only reason you like him is because it pisses people off.
I thought he wasn't a samurai. He was a retainer.
Technicalities as generally he was retained for military purposes, know who else got retained for military purposes samurai. Also it seems odd that he had all the rights awarded to samurai without the title
A retainer in samurai culture is a samurai
Hes not the final boss hes one of the main characters you play as.
No, he's not a samurai. Hes a sword bearer
Kosho was reserved for samurai only. He was a samurai and received a stipend.
@leegitguyman5180 Kosho is equal to a squire, not a knight.
The funniest thing is that the game had so much redone that there's a theory that they started with just wanting a black guy as a samuri, and later one of them found out there was a real one and they didn't have to be so blatantly racist, and could instead be subtly racist, and they had to rewrite their story to fit him.
The craziest part is he gained all this notoriety over the course of 15 months
Michael is an accelerationists confirmed.
He is not.
I don't care about a black samurai being historically accurate, I'm upset about the outrageous price tag on this piece of shit.
It’s goobisoft and outrageous price tag is par for the course they’re greedy like most gaming companies
Its not accurate. He was basically a warlords trophy. Part body guard part jester.
He was never a samurai.
I literally just said I don't care, go play pedant somewhere else
@@yolkonut6851 I don't care that you don't care.
You'll still buy it, because you are a good consumer
He was a samurai the same way a pre-med student is a surgeon.
Dude, your videos are awesome, keep it real
He's actually a character you can play not a villian
The book about him was written based on the only account we have of him that's only two sentences long..
Yasuke was never a sameri, he was basically a cattie for them tho, they tought i5 was funny to dress him up like a sameri, don't trust dei infused history, use your brain 😂
I have no problem with Yasuke, I just wish they would make Him DLC and make Naoe the main character (which she is but all you westerners don’t even know she exists) like similar to AC black flags, their DLC had Adawale as the main character expanding his story further
He was not a Samurai, Nobunaga? thought it would be funny to dress him as a Samurai, he was used pretty much as a mule to carry around their stuff
Research before writing
@@vanessa_kn I think its you that needs to research it Vanessa, start with the original Japanese texts on the man.
@@InDadequate ua-cam.com/users/shorts36DFUS7erNI?si=ZJRJRxHI4eI-gN0R
Motive is woke the character and history is valid
You're factually incorrect, need to look past the recent propaganda
That isn't what happened at all. He was a slave. The Japanese samurai thought it was funny to dress him up in armor. He was in a battle and ran away.
He was not a samurai, he was a helper to a samurai. When he had the chance to fight in a battle, he surrender, which was the most cowardly way according to the Japanese traditions.
Gay black man as main character in a game about samurai where he was just a retainer, it's d.e.i. with all the boxes checked even the female protagonist is a lesbian. I mean how much more could be injected?
All them woke writers moved from Hollywood to gaming.
Don’t care if he was or wasn’t a Samurai, they picked a black dude for woke points, rumor has it now he might be light in the loafers as well now
It's also said he didn't have much power and was more seen as an oddity. Just because he was different and bigger, they used as like an attraction. Like a side show. But maybe that's not true either. Hard to say really. AC has been so woke for so long they don't even know what's going on anymore.
Well, you missed the mark Micheal. Not too big of a deal. I would just make an edit to this post tho. Like the other comments said, he is the playable character in the game. He was in Japan, but only for about 14 months and he died or went missing, we don’t know. He was a retainer (basically a bodyguard) for Oda Nobunaga, one of the most important and influential men in Japanese history.
he was the first black samurai in real life he was Oda's Nobunaga samurai
Your pronunciation is killing me, but yes, he was real. He caught the eye of the 1st great unifier of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, friend to the Jesuits, slayer of warrior monks, (and possible murderous psycho, but arguably everyone was, so....? )
Micheal as usual just like Matt Walsh just not being in the mix with this is hilarious!
no yasuke was a retainer to oda Nobunaga yeah he was giving a sword but he was never meant to fight in the wars if you're getting that from Wikipedia that makes sense why you would say that the woke tried to change the history from Wikipedia The edited it oh yeah michael have you ever heard of a novel called Tales of Idolized Boys
american devs are really fucking up with any countries history.
"Retainer" is an essential part of the Samurai class, in the context of Japanese culture before the Meiji period.
They were given a stipend (money or rice) instead of land.
Looks like a subset within the Samurai class.
He was a slave not a samurai
Yes, that is what it means to be samurai.
@@alejandromatagiannattasio7994 -_- really?
@@alejandromatagiannattasio7994not at all
@@adfdasdfadfadsfareae samurai comes from the word saburau that means "to serve", you must remember that japan was a society ruled by a caste system that was very hierarchical enforced by the concepts of honor and social presure so everybody was a servant to the superior in the caste so that means even if youre a servant or samurai to the lord you still are a servant
Netflix also has an anime to push this bs. Historically inaccurate but whatever. It was decent. Wouldn't spend $100 on a game anyway.
Yasuke was not a Samurai he was a retainer, he never saw combat. He held umbrela for Oda.
A retainer refers to a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services. Please don't confuse Europe with Japan. Most retainers were samurai or kosho but the is no instances of Yasuke being mentioned as a kosho it's only sword bearer which also is a form of a samurai or soldier but for case is samurai do due being lord Nobunaga sword bearer which is a high honour in Feudal japan. Yasuke was a samurai but not a high ranking one.
@Void_and_Colors To be retained is to be in the service of, obviously the majority of Oda's people in service to him would be soldiers yet 100s to 1000s wild be like Yasuke. Samurai are a class given far more rights. Rights Yasuke didn't have. He had no home, no family. Please don't confuse LGBT+ YAASSSS brown people whitey is evil crap with that of any time period outside 30 years modern time. He literally held umbrellas for Oda.
@@Void_and_Colors Forgot to mention, nowhere is it recorded he was what you call a "Sword bearer". He was a pet to show other rich people.
A retainer in samurai culture is a samurai
@@vanessa_kn So is a flute player, Samurai were given land and servants, their main purpose was battle, Yasuke was given no rank, no lands, no servants ans was in 0 battles. The bit about him having the strength of 10 men ios also BS, it is mistranslated Kumete which is still done today in karate lol you spar 10 dudes one after the other. Can you read Japanese?
I'm sorry, but this is such a weird thing for me to see you lost on this. The black samurai has been in gaming, anime, pop culture for a long time. However. I'm not 100% convinced the game was created due to the woke white intersectional liberal women who created it.....maybe like 25% 😅
he was a slave...
I immediately thought to myself "isnt that one black dude from Japan."
The problem everyone has is there's actual accounts of this man being nothing more than a sword carrier. However it probably wouldn't be so bad if you could still pick a japanese character to be that wasn't a female. Regardless what's pissing people off the most is the fact that not only is he black but he's supposed to be gay too. Both characters are. This is like assassin's creed origins with a british guy. Also there are historical accounts of a white guy becoming a samurai, so why isnt there a white guy? Its pretty easy to figure out what they are doing.
Solid, don't you mean enslavers.
@michaelknowles - please correct the data you presented, it doesn’t suit a guy like you being so incorrect.
He’s not the main boss, he’s the player character, you can play as him,
Also he’s not a samurai, he’s just a retainer.
Please read any of these other comments which are even better researched
Like others have pointed out, he was a slave, not a samurai, and after three years they sent him back home.
I thought he was the main playable character, not the final boss
He was not a samurai he was a sword holder. He ran from his first fight.
They dressed him up as a joke and it is noted as such.
there was a white samurai in Nioh....nobody bitched..
Oh im sorry I missed the part where Nioh was franchise that leaned on the crutch of historical accuracy
Cause nobody really cares. These arguments are fake. Designed to divide
That’s because the white guy was actually a samurai and had a real impact on Japanese history.
Ubisoft is trash. Game will be trash. Play sekiro and got if you want to play a good game. Drop ac and stop chasing nostalgia
William Adams was the first non-Japanese Samurai and his life is well documented. This guy? 2 sentences in some guys journal.
I don't get it like people need to research there information
It’d be different if it wasn’t a real life person and they were just pandering but Yasuke was an actual badass of a samurai back in the day 🤷🏽♂️ he’s got legitimate accomplishments in his time as a samurai
At most he was a retainer. Becoming a samurai was like a 10 year process and he was only there for a year.
“The samurai’s name is Ya-soo-kee”
Good night knowles. The least you could do is pronounce his name properly
Yasuke was more like a "pet" that was impressing the main guy and put him in its retinue. That said: altho - i do believe Ubisoft doing this for DEI reasoning, its not new that AC is changing historical characters for their alt universe. Washington was an evil templar, the church in Italy etc. Yasuke being different is no problem to me, even tho we all know very well why they did this.
He is not the final boss, he is the protagonist
First time ive seen him get something so wrong. Goes to show you can't know everything.
Ya-sook-ee lol *Yas-kae*
Out of all the samurai they picked the African novelty bc that’s what he was just a novelty
9 seconds into the video and I'm headed straight to the comments for the barbecue
Yasuke was not a Samauri and it was likely he was a slave when he arrived at Japan before being freed and made a retainer because he was a novelty being a Black man. He was there for less than two years before he left as a free man.
So if I'm not mistaken, Yasuke was indeed a retainer, however in the Sengoku period that was still a military rank and he was also given his own land, horse, house, armor and most importantly a katana, which was an extremely important Samurai symbol. So if he wasn't a Samurai by birth (which btw you didnt have to be during the Sengoku period, you could be appointed as one by your Daimyo) then he was still one by every other metric.
1. He was a retainer.
2. He had 1 battle where he participated, and his side lost miserably
3. he had to leave after 1 year, so he didn't have much time to learn sword skills or even become a samoraii....
Guys, I know it's not 100% historically accurate. Neither were any of the other ones
He was a freak show they mocked and made fun of. He was not trained as a samurai, but was a retainer of a samurai family. He would have him wrestle with other people and when they went out in public they dressed him up and had him carry and umbrellas. His first battle he was in they lost and he was captured and turned into a slave. They try to make his history out as something better, but it was not.
The thing is think of what the Japanese are thinking. With all the historical Japanese figures they could have had the made a diversity team-up of a black Samurai and a female ninja. This was done 100% for wake points.
Michael Knowles having garbage takes on something he clearly knows nothing about? Color me shocked
It's pronounced "Yasu Gay"
This didnt age well. HAHAHA
When Scarlett Johansson did something similar in "Under The Skin", everyone was screaming "Appropriation! White Washing!", but this is okay when a black man is substituted for an Asian?
They put him in for this exact reason. So the internet would fight over DEI vs historical accuracy and get a bunch of free press off triggered conservatives and weebs.
He’s the main character in the game not the boss. Big difference.
He's in the nioh games... he served oda nobunaga
Just like the last Samarai starring Tom Cruise. 😂
Ken Watanabe was the "Last Samurai".....did you even watch it?
Some Jesuits are still solid. ;)
...but if my wife wears Dutch braids, she's accused of cultural appropriation... if it weren't for double standards...
He is the main character, Yasuke was never a samurai, they are rewriting wiki pages to pretty much rewrite HISTORY in the name of woke
So little is know about this guy but what we do know is that he was a slave, he wasn't a samurai, he was present in one battle where his master was killed and the attackers (former Comrades) didn't consider him a warrior and instead of giving him a warrier's death they sent him back to his owners. He was oy in Japan for about a year and a half. The only reason Oda kept him around was because he was a freak to them and novelty.
Michael I love you but you are dead wrong on this one.
Mc is a black guy, not final boss, homie heard the was a black guy and did no more research
He is one of the two playable characters my man. So in a sense , it’s way worse.