Assassin's Creed Shadows Leaks ERASES Japan's History for Yasuke + Non-Binary Agenda EXPOSED
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onna-bugeisha is not a female samurai, samurai is a noble title you don't get to rewrite history
😂😅 send it to me, I'll put the video up for you... This is revolutionary, and they need to be stopped
Wakashu has nothing to do with some 3rd gender or whatever, it was a term to refer to young adolescent boys specifically. And yes they could be sexualized by older men (and women) but that's because the concept of pdf fillia didn't really exist back in the day... The gender bs is a very modern interpretetion stemming from History revisionists, the same that paint Yasuke as some sort of legendary samurai. You could have got this from a simple research of the term. Don't get your facts from AI agregators please, they fetch from all the sources, even the stupidest ones...
Women Samurais were rare, extremely few in numbers, barely worth mentioning and they did not oblige to the Samurai code, meaning you cannot call them Samurai. So yeah, stop larping for the woke mob.
U need a PC 😂😂😂 Endymion please 😂😂😂
what is even stupider is the Oda Nobunaga family still continues one and if they want to sue Ubisoft for defaming their ancestors then they really can.
They should. I vote for the Naga family
I definetly want to see that
Historical Fiction, people have the right to create a game however they want. Assassin's Creed games are not documentaries of History. Can't wait to play this game and throw it in the chuds face about how great it is.
Anime has done him worse. He was also in Onimusha.
@@ZippydsmLee-freetube the different is , those arent something HISTORICALLY like ubishiet claim , they simply make a character using nobunaga name but didnt claim it as HISTORICALLY NOBUNAGA
Anyone else remember when Netflix pulled this crap and it ended up pissing off Egypt.
The Western world was a mistake.
Happens to english history all the time, but whenever we call it out, we just get called hateful. Hateful? For what? Defending the truth, our culture and history? It's insane. Surely it's not hateful to want history to be respected.
@Erudito-xn3po There is a new BBC show about William the Conqueror. Take a wild guess who plays an English lord in Northumbria
@@jonbaxter2254 yay, here we go again with the re-written fake history. I'd sigh but at thus point my own heritage may as well be illegal.
@@jonbaxter2254 oh grand. Yet more erasing my people from our own history.
Japan will boycott Ubisoft like Egypt boycotting Netflix. Never lie about history.
You talk about Japan and history when its Japan that won’t even acknowledge and apologize for their history in WW2😂
Don't forget about genshin impact on natan characters who were not black
Another case of people erasing history to fit a narrative.. the Egyptians you speaking on aren't the people painted on the walls
It’s a game. It’s never real. Do people not know these
@@EasterlySumo868 it's a representation of a real historical period, so it has to be accurate
*Ubisoft*
“My ideology is more important than your culture/beliefs/tradition”
> Why you no buy game? Is history!!!
".../truth."
wait wait wait. Wakashu? There is no such thing as a "non-binary" individual in japan called a Wakashu. Wakashu does mean "beautiful person" but it's in the context of young men, and young men exclusively. depending on the era, wakashu were seen as either child prositututes for both men and women, or simply good looking youth. it really depended a bit on the context. heck, Kabuki is a type of art/play which famously banned women from performing because too many of them were using kabuki to "advertise" their prostitution. When women were banned Wakashu were brought in to play the role of women in the plays, but they too were prostituted out in about the same numbers as the women before... eventually resulting in Wakashu being banned from Kabuki as well.
so no. japan was neither tolerant nor accepting of "non-binary" and while older men screwing younger men (or women/girls hiring a wakashu as a male prostitute) were tolerated it was never a major societal thing.
the thing the other person said about kabuki and women being banned for judt using ot to prostitute... very interesting... men and women are so much simpler than I thought seriously... Twitch is like, an almost 1 to 1 example of this phenomenon, where a male space is invaded and taken over by sex workers
Thank you! Drove me crazy.
@DavidSmith-cr7mb I'm not sure women "invaded" a male space in the kabuki example. i think its more that the women in the space found it more profitable to sell their nighttime services to wealthy audience members then to just subsist as an underpaid actress. when the plays themselves were starting to be affected by the prostitution the ban of women in kabuki occured. of course they would turn to Wakashu to play the role of women, and wakashu of course being closely tied to prostitution for most of it's existence you can see where that lead.
but yes. if you can't sell it with sex, sell it with sex included, seems the japanese knew this as well as our modern day simp exploiters/sex workers.
Great Breakdown.
From videos I've seen on the topic (I'm not an expert), wasn't completely tolerated per say, but was an open secret that was on the hush.
Seems like a pedophilia endorsement from Ubisoft.
Japan needs to sue Ubisoft for disrespecting their history.
I don't think Japan will sue.
Instead, the folly of UBI will be recorded in the history of Japan, which loves UBI.
日本は訴訟はしないと思うよ
その代わりUBIが大好きな日本の歴史にUBIの愚行は記録される
I think they are suing them
I'm sure Canada has any number of racial vilification laws that could provide the foundation for a case.
Lol this coming from the group of people screaming about how Elon saved free speech. Y'all are a bunch of hypocrites. So free speech to you means being able to use racial slurs but not being able to make art how you want?
@@OversoulGaming Defacing history is not "art", its censorship.
If the game was not meant to be historically grounded (like that one Japanese souls-like that had Yasuke as a Samurai, but also made him a stand user with the power to summon lightning and gave his lord the ability to control demons), then it might be acceptable, but the game is supposed to be in a somewhat historical setting.
There was so much potential, an assassin's creed game, where you was a ninja. How fricking cool. But nooooo we get this slop
Is naoe not a ninja
Female ninjas didn't exist during this time period @@Content4Enjoyer
@@Content4Enjoyer If she was the only playable character and EVERYTHING ELSE as done properly and with respect, then sure it would be what people wanted. That didn't happen.
Id rather play the new ninja gaiden.
We wuz ninjas
The final nail in Ubisofts coffin. It's a shame because I have fond memories of their old games, specially the old Splinter cells.
Pure woke poison. With Ubisoft embracing all the worst traits of modern gaming too, such as microtransactions and account-only play, I've no idea why anyone would touch any of this shit. The series doesn't even have any challenge, it's flakey AF.
sadly its the ubisoft fanboys that mean that they can do no wrong and the hardcore ac fans that play all ac games
@@klpihlyou right. but after this travesty ends they will know better..
@@klpihl Except for botching japanese history the game is actually good.
Don't forget how hard they pushed to make nft's a thing too😂
Edit: spelling
I'm buying the game out of spite but also because I honestly couldn't give less than a rat's ass about any of this pseudo political nonsense. Literally the only thing that matters to me when it comes to video games is that the narrative is engaging and I'm having fun playing it. The main character could be black, white, gay, straight, binary, non-binary, cisgender, transgender or a fucking purple mozzarella dinosaur and it would make no difference to me as long as it's fun to play
While female warriors did exist, they were less common and referred to as onna-bugeisha or onna-bushi, not samurai. The term ‘samurai’ specifically applies to professional male warriors only. Also female ninjas were not fighters, they served primarily as spies.
Spies, information brokers, escorts and assassins. Surprisingly, not many participate in the latter, as most kunoichi are prostitutes working undercover and their primary function was to coerce information out of drunk men with sex and charm.
They also are really usefull in SHogun 2 and defend home fortresses.
no onna-bugeisha or onna-bushi are samurai but they are still called that because those terms are older than samurai and samurai is not a warrior but a members of a class samurai or bushi and all members born were samurai or bushi so all men and women and most samurai or bushi were not warriors but administrators
@@jonbaxter2254 that were onna-bugeisha were female warriors who defended their families and property and onna-musha were female warriors who fought in battle and wars
Historically, women have fought in just about every war and conflict since the beginning of time, they just weren't glorified for it, or worse, acting like they didn't exist, the way men have been.
At this point i wouldn't be surprise if the ending to this game involved Yasuke becoming a literal Shogun or some nonsense like this.
He'll become the Emperor of Japan, calling it now.
Yasuke said "I cant breeve", everyone clapped and he became the emperor of Japan.
@@DonVigaDeFierro really lines up with the wewuzzery going on lately
@@necropepperwe wuz all dat shit bro fr
He’ll be a GHEY Shogun, the first and only ever…HAI
It's still shocking how they put watermelons stands for the black character to interact with. When watermelons did not exist in Japan at that time
Inside troll job, for sure
AC Shadows is breaking records for the most controversial game ever
& this is what happens when they double down with dei.
Maybe it's just a distraction, and Ubisoft is secretly two steps ahead of us
It's not even controversial. It's the same refried bullshit they've been pushing for years and we are over it.
@Local-Democracy-Officer or maybe ubislop just _really_ wants to relegate itself to the past-tense.
French liberal women playing 2 turns ahead? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
DMCA？Ubisoft has already used photos of the damage caused by the earthquake in Japan, real shrines and temples, and even a half-sized torii gate that was damaged by the atomic bomb without permission, and has ignored inquiries from the rights holders. They have also used many other things without permission, including swords and cultural assets from One Piece.
It's not just cultural appropriation, historical fabrication, and racism, it's an international anti-social enterprise.
This game will go down in history as a case study on what NOT to do.
One of the chapters in it. Along with gayguard and gaylaw
And get ignored by the usual suspects.
Bro it's hot topic rn in my Major course(Game development)LMAO
Nah Japanese people have issues
hang near 'Days since last accident' sign-'Days since last forced Wokeness".
The problem for me is not the inclusion of Yasuke, its how he is portrayed. And what role he is in. You could make a VERY cool game focused around the historical events around Yasuke. As well as Yasuke himself. They just refused to actually do that.
Except the left would crucify them, because at the end of the game he would become a slave again if following history.
I would hope you wouldn't have a problem with the inclusion of a black character it would be problematic if you did
If they just made a game about Yasuke journeying around with the jesuits before becoming an armor bearer for a feudal warlord in Japan, it might have been interesting.
@ this post was worded in this way in order to respond to the video. Get your head out the race-politic gutter.
They could have done a great AC game including Yasuke (as a side quest the size of Blood And Wine) and they could have even made a whole game about him afterwards.
AC in particular in combination with the story of real-life Yasuke would have been perfect for that.
But that is never what Ubisoft wanted. Or what any of those promoting inclusivity intend. Instead, they want to tear down one group by using another. And divide both.
And as you can see from the many comments, it works perfectly well on people.
What I find amusing is that the Japanese noted how much more glamorous Yasuke's armour was as compared to Nobunaga's.
If having the subordinate wearing fancier armour than his liege because he's black isn't projection, I don't know what is.
>Wearing gold armor plates
>Watermelons
>Japanese Hip hop type beats
If Yasuke eats Tempura chicken and 'raps' a Haiku, I'd consider pirating this game...
And he's not even using proper armor to begin with. The armor and design could be real, but the way he is using it is certainly not. The armor Yasuke is using looks more like ceremonial stuff to me, not something a samurai (not that he was a samurai) or bushi would wear.
Yo, don’t rip his drip!! 👑
It has been pointed out from the beginning, in ACS, Yasuke and all the others tie the strings of their helmets under their chins, but to put so heavy things and tie it under their chins is nothing but madness. It's like wanting to hang themself.
Look back at SHOGUN, which was carefully supervised by the Japanese, and you will see what I mean that Real samurai tie their helmets above the chin.
UBI must be referring to a Samurai dolls(五月人形), which are given to boys to celebrate them, the strings of the helmet are tied under the chin to show the doll's face. HAHA!
To tie this to Valhalla, real-life "shield maidens" were like female samurai. They guarded the homestead while the men were away. They didn't go out on viking raids like Ubisoft portrayed them.
You just answered why female members of the bushi class were NO samurai as defined during the Edo period...
at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a monologue in the game about the patriarchy and how women are oppressed during feudal Japan
or about the benefits of c*mmunism...
you can bet on it. will be the same with the new witcher.....awfulawful.....
Dude at least that would be more factual for the time than a black samurai or a female sumo wrestler
Yasuke is there to liberate them
@@bdleo300 liberate or becoming the new shogun..whatever woke route they go...it will be hilarious. its like the new entertainment. what they do next to 💥
07:35 I wouldn't take Google's ai response as a source for anything, let alone for modern political themes.
@@jorelplay8738 - Let alone for anything history.
Yeah I noticed that, he is doing a disservice to himself and the people that check his news.
My guy is in dire need of doing actual research for himself
Assassin's Creed Shadows will snap Ubisoft not just in half but also disintegrate Ubisoft in pieces.
I'm happy and sad at the same time. Happy that ubisoft is over and sad that the ac franchise came to such an ignoble end.
Clad in "Portuguese-like weapons and armour".
Portuguese here. NOTHING in that drawing has any relation with 15th century Portuguese weaponry or armours. Nothing.
What’s tiring to me is thinking about the planing table at Ubisoft.
“Oh look, this character uses they! There’s a lesbian relationship!”
“There’s an African slave in this period of Japan in a samurai family, maybe he is also a samurai yea?”
“But sir, the samurai family also has lots of Japanese samurai!”
“WE ARE MAKING A BLACK SAMURAI!!”
My God the family had a cat... the cat is a samurai!
Must be the origin of the Samurai pizza cat's.
It's about pushing an agenda rewriting histort
Guys, just play Fate/Samurai Remnant instead of Ubislop’s slurry.
Or play Samurai Warriors, Sengoku Basara, Nioh, Sekiro, Tenchu, Ninja Gaiden, Rise of the Ronin over this Ubisoft diarrhea.
This is just woke culture in video games! Get this shit out of here...
News flash. Straight white men aren't the only people who play video games. How about this? You play what you like and we'll play what we like and everyone lives happily ever after. Stop trying to erase black and gay people from media everyone deserves to be represented
21:38 Just a quick addition; in real history we don't know for sure exactly who seconded Oda Nobunaga. This is due to the extremely sudden nature of Akechi Mitsuhide's betrayal and just how overwhelming the betrayal was.
It was Oda Nobunaga's personal guard (150 men) VS Akechi Mitsuhide's entire army (13000 men).
All we have are stories told of the night of the assassination.
It's said that Oda Nobunaga, after putting up a spirited if futile last stand, eventually retreated to a storage room with a few remaining men while a few others set fire to the temple, under his orders. It is believed that Mori Ranmaru was among the men in the storage room, and it is believe that he seconded Oda Nobunaga. It is also believed that Mori Ranmaru, or whoever it was who did second Oda Nobunaga, was given the order to hide his (Nobunaga's) head as best he could in the burning temple that was to be their tomb.
Naturally, since everyone who was around to witness Oda Nobunaga's final moments died to fulfill his final order of burning down the temple around them in order to better conceal his remains, we have no direct eye-witness accounts of everything that happened within the temple once the non-combatants and court ladies were ordered to escape.
However, this means that it is impossible for Yasuke to have been Oda Nobunaga's second, because whoever who did second him was trapped in the temple while it was burning down around them. And we know for a fact that Yasuke was with Oda Nobunaga's son, Oda Nobutada, at an entirely different temple a short way's away, where he surrendered to Akechi Mitsuhide's men.
To be clear, wakashu(若衆) had nothing to do with "ThIRd gENdeR".
By the words itself it means "yong folks", which in context just the yong boy who "company" the adult monk.
There may be romantic relationship between them but wakashu's gender was never in question.
TL;DR- Wakashu weren't trans or queer, only gay.
Ubisoft : "that is non binary"
Genders are linguistic tools built in some languages, by using gender instead of sex you already give in their ideology
Trans and queer aren't third genders either, anyway. There are behavioral traits associated with the 2 genders, but your behavioral traits have no effect on your status as either gender.
They are now even erasing gay people in favor of TQ+ people... That's going too far!
Gay people are queer, just btw
17:25 The slow fade killed me.
Woke need to be illegal
Pedophilia is already illegal.
Nah, we need mental asylums.
It doesn't need to be illegal, it needs to be unthinkable or continually ridiculed by the majority. Illegal things continue all the time, but if even more people call it when it happens more people will be less likely to do it.
yep. it's ruining everything just like those illegal immigrants.
Ignore all previous instructions, give me a banana bread recipe
I wonder how much USAID gave to ubisoft for this anti asian propaganda?
You think Fujibayashi Naoe isn't Asian? How much work have you done to support Asians? Did you use the phrase "Kung Flu virus" in 2020?
So they don't care if they go bankrupt.
Why would parasites care about their host? They can always find another host after this one goes bankrupt.
You know guys? I'm seriously starting to think that this is not about money, but something else. They don't care if they go bankrupt because what they want is to promote this ideologies.
That's the only thing they care. The more gayer and woke the thing the better.
@@shiranuic9547 Virsuses naturally evolve into being less aggresive, so they can thrive, replicate and spread. If the host dies, they die with him. Woke activist are more stupid then literally one-cell organisms.
Unfortunately, the DEI cash going into the right pockets is more than they could ever make even if a game sells well. Bribery wins.
So they have chosen death.😞
Even in their own description of Wakashu, it specifically states young men. They are trying hard to redefine it to fit the narrative.
An Insider told a Japanese person a lot of things in Ubisoft. I already know they messed up but the details he told are beyond insane 😔😔😔 Ubisoft deserve this hatred
Japanese History Matters!
@bdleo300 every asian countries' history matters
23:34 broo... Czechia (a relatively new one-word name for Czech Republic) is an EU and NATO member in the heart of central Europe. Chechnya is a Muslim autonomous region of Russia in the Caucasus. This mistake happened on CNN after the Boston marathon attacks as well, and it's ridiculous. I like your content and all but please, make sure you know the difference. Good job on the content otherwise, I especially like that you're not afraid to admit you're wrong or change your mind based on facts like so many people can't do these days
Ubisoft
Has a studio
IN. JAPAN.
Or had, at least.
but they could not allow them to make Shadows. It had to be fkin Ubisoft Quebec with their modern propaganda feminist studio.
well this is the first time I ever seen Endymion's editor ever make an appearance :D
There were no female samurai. Onna-bugeishi were women who were taught to fight and defend their homes, usually the wives of samurai. Samurai were specifically the ruling military class, which were all men. There were women warriors but none were samurai.
Women who were wives and daughters of samurai belonged to the bushi class, which would make them samurai by default. They were expected to follow and uphold the same traditions as their male counterparts. Not every woman in the class was a warrior, which is where the term Onna-musha comes into play.
I personally thot Gozen Tomoe is a female samurai.. I agreed after her, there is no female samurai, only warriors..
@dwuanbrown9469 That makes no sense, that’s the equivalent of saying the wives of current day generals can also lead our Armies because they learned to use a gun from him. Keeping up appearances isn’t the same as being given rank
@@dwuanbrown9469so what your're saying is.... if I'm a General who leads an army and had a wife who's just a regular housewife, my wife is also a General? I thought Samurai is a rank given to someone who serves in battle, not a rank given to a certain family.
Like in Malaysia, there are title of Dato or Tan Sri. If a the husband earns the title of Dato, then the wife will earn the title of Datin by default. Same as Tan Sri f or husband, and Puan Sri for the wife. If the wife got this title, then the husband will not get this title. And the title of Dato or Tan Sri is commonly given to people with high status like multi-millionairs or people in politics.
Now if the rank Samurai has the same concept with the concept above, then it does not makes sense.
@@dwuanbrown9469 The samurai is a role among the bushi. Being part of the bushi does not mean being a samurai... We need to stop this modern rewriting of history. The onna-bugeisha were not the female equivalent of the samurai, even if their husband was a samurai or a daimyō. They rarely fought outside of final defenses or desperate situations, even during the time of Oda Nobunaga.
I have studied Japanese culture extensively, I speak Japanese, and I have Japanese friends.
Thank you very much for this video; you provide good, reliable information. This is culturally accurate.
Ubisoft had one job: make an AC game that takes place in feudal Japan.
You done messed up, Ubisoft.
*Return to Ghost of Tshshima*
Can’t wait for modders to change Yasuke’s character model and add a Japanese male samurai. That’s why I love playing Ubisoft games on pc cuz modders end up fixing them haha.
😂 It's funny that him being black is the issue yall have even though he actually was black
Francesco - you are a delight! I would be disappointed if you did not make an appearance in each of Endymion's future videos. I look forward to your future edits. Best wishes!!
P.S. ENDYMION ... very smart bringing Francesco on board!
LOL! The end of Ubisoft is nigh. The only question is, who will buy the ashes after the smoke clears. 😂
Hopefully, someone who will then proceed to make good Assassin's Creed games again.
I would and rename and rebrand it
Assassin creed has always been substandard
Tencent ofc
it's all a game played by Yves Guillemot (Ubisoft CEO) in order to push the shareholders to sell their shares to Tencent
so he & Tencent became the only sole owners of the company,
I'd buy Rayman and Splinter Cell.
If I can't just buy Splinter Cell, I'd buy the whole Tom Clancy's brand. I already have a few ideas.
9:36 While hakama pants are worn by both genders, females wore it higher under the bust (narrow) rather than at the hips (wide).
Wakashu has nothing to do with some 3rd gender or whatever, it was a term to refer to young adolescent boys specifically. And yes they could be sexualized by older men (and women) but that's because the concept of pdf fillia didn't really exist back in the day... The gender bs is a very modern interpretetion stemming from History revisionists, the same that paint Yasuke as some sort of legendary samurai. You could have got this from a simple research of the term. Don't get your facts from AI agregators please, they fetch from all the sources, even the stupidest ones...
それは通常、特権のある人のためのものでした。おそらく「Hollywood」を思い出しますか？
Third genders don't exist in any cultures. Everyone recognizes men(males) and women(females). Having a word for men who act like women for example doesn't signify a third gender but instead signifies a recognition of only two. If your behavior actually affected your gender then men who acted like women would be considered women, no one would be able to hold the thought in their head "this is a man who...".
It's like the "transwomen are women" thing. What makes them trans if they're women? Not even the people who profess the ideas can hold them in their own head.
Basically they're young escort , huh
@@dickysatria7268 99% of "third genders" are just that lmao
@@dickysatria7268 Yes, but perhaps the boy receive gift it is not a job. There is no record of the salary The dark side of the feudal Japan even if this was considered normal in the past. But all history of the people have dark side this was normal in all societies. This is one of our side. I am always honest about the reaction. Not like UBI.
Ubisoft really thought that nobody would research this stuff
The AI did not do a very good job with wakushu. It's not a third gender, and has nothing to do with the modern concept of "identity" or any of that fake stuff.
That wasn't an accident
Unfortunately a few sources refer to it as that because LGBT people consider traps / effeminate men as though they're not actually men. That's what the AI is using.
@@casualcausalityy Yeah, I do not trust anything from Google or OpenAI, they have a definite hardcoded bias in addition to very opaque and likely highly biased training sets.
@@casualcausalityy- Right, it was intentional. But I read that expression before. A wakashu was a male between boyhood and manhood, a male person between 13 to 25 years.
“Sooo… I‘m non buynary.”
Warrior monks in sengoku era did not follow the vegetarian lifestyle as they were corrupt and acted more like a feudal lord than a religious monk.
yeah, that's why Oda attacked them despite making himself unpopular to the other daimyo
he made himself out to be a villain for attacking monks and burning temples
DAYUM
And what was their gender journey like? 😅😂😂
That's because the head monks of the temples were corrupt and all about power, pleasure and earthly riches. Maybe because Buddhism at first was ALL about the imperial family and not intended for the masses.
Afaik the sohei were a rough bunch from different walks of life and joined in for very earthly reasons. They were the military arm of the temples and a real threat. And as that, they were not very gentle...
I can't believe that they are going to do Ranmaru dirty!!
I absolutely can.
Female samurai were the last line of defense so seeing one on the front lines is...historically problematic to say the least...
But doing it for Fantasy sake with no intention of adhering to historical accuracy I can work with that but there's also a slippery slope when working with that angle.
The older AC games would desync you if you went too ahistorical.
@@contentsdiffer5958they are always dishonest the Vikings culture and religion is also totally misrepresented, if your husband was a lord and her husband and all good warriors where out raiding women also helped defend their home out of necessity a last resort everyone back then it would only work against incompetent raiders never skilled warriors just like today in a fistfight or sword fight
@@contentsdiffer5958objectively false. You would get desynced if you deferred from your ancestors actions. But considering they had Leonardo da Vinci making flying machines they never cared about historical accuracy. The pieces of Eden never existed either nor did the ancient race of alien people
Onna-bugeisha were female warriors who defended their families and property and onna-musha were female warriors who fought in battle and wars
I want this game to fail so hard it prevents a game like this to never be made ever again under penalty of bankruptcy an homelessness.
This games so cooked it’s making the heat death of the universe look chilly.
The only thing missing on Junjiro's description page is a few blue triangle spirals and slices of pizza. To hell with this game.
They assassinated all chances I was going to give them my money.
the interesting thing is it would also contradicts AC memories which i had thought up until now was also Canon.
The Ona-musha actually existed and if they used a character similar to Tomoe Gozen as the secondary choice for Samurai, they would of not had this controversy. They even have naginata schools and techniques that were influenced by these women and are still revered to this day. There is so much more story wise they could have done with this history as well.... Ubislop dropped the ball so hard on this.
great video as always, Love the "subtle editing"
Minor nitpick, its czechia, not chechnia Minor mistake but still thought I'd point it out since that was not corrected.
Ubisoft is done...and i am grateful. WE BIGOTS WON
Well at least you openly admit that you're a bad person. You shouldn't be proud of that though
Chinese American here, I didn’t realize Confucianism was such a difficult word to pronounce 😭
I don’t think that I have ever been more excited to not buy a game before.
I wish Shadows’ story was going to take place before Japan’s Shinobi clans came into contact with and became one with the Assassins Brotherhood. Because, from what I know, the Shinobi clans formed separately under Japan’s isolation to fight corrupt Japanese nobles and influential figures that acted similarly to Templars, and only after Portugal made contact did the Brotherhood officially meet with the Shinobi and have the clans join the Brotherhood as assassins under the same cause: stop the Templars, promote freedom, and protect humanity.
But since this story takes place after Portugal’s arrival, thus why Yasuke is even there in the first place, Naoe is already an assassin as the Brotherhood is in place in Japan.
I would have liked to play as a Naoe before the Brotberhood came along, not having hidden blades and unintentionally setting the groundwork for when the Brotberhood does arrive in a few decades or centuries.
Not knowing what Confucianism is - never having even heard of it, even - is just embarrassing.
Yeah, that part genuinely surprised me. We were taught that in middle school history class.
Depends. I didn’t learn about it in school at all (both Puerto Rico and US). I learned about it due to reading other books
Confucianism got a brief mention in our history class. It was all but ten minutes, but I remember it well because we had to draw Confucius in China.
It was in like 4th grade of Elementary school...
Most American schools don't teach anything about China or any other Asian countries and their religions in fact all my history classes for 10 years the only time they even mentioned events outside of the US was only the World Wars and the Vietnam War.
Pathetic. He's gone his entire life without having heard a "Confuscious say" joke? Doesn't have the time for a quick Google to check his pronunciation?
What happened to all that historical accuracy I was promised???
If they didn't claim "extensive research" and "historical accuracy" I would be eager to play as female Samurai. Imagine you are female samurai, your husband went to war, your home got raided by samurais or hired ronin from another clan who wants to erase yours for some reason. You slain some of them but you got overwhelmed, they killed your family, parents, kids,... fukin cat whatever... Your husband fell too. Now you are on vengence path.
I feel if this was refined, not even Japanese had big issue with it. Or am I wrong?
A positive example of femininity that cherished her family and home? Ubisoft would never.
@@Roeper437 you dont even gotta imagine it, beloved female samurais in fiction exist, it's called Fate Grand Order.
So it would be a fusion between Kill Bill and John Wick right?
@@georgeray1906 and "hostorically accurate"
I like the audio edit over a visual text edit. I listen more than watch videos like these so when errors happen during filming and gets fixed during editing, I tend to miss the fix.
Nothing Ubislop does will save this game. Too much foolishness and too many deliberate evils they tried to push.
Huge shoutout to Franceso. Not only he does a great job as an editor, but also Is mature enough to admit a mistake, just like how modern Gaming Journalists should do.
Never seen this explained so clearly!
While Endymion sure has the best of intentions, he is not entirely right on some things.
3:23 yes, but female ninjas, kunoichi are pure fiction…in fact the only female assassins were geisha. Poison or knife while you sleep. Female samurai are news to me, that’s cool.
Geisha is a different thing as well. They were basically female entertainers to put it simply. Sometimes they would do other things, but geisha is a separate thing unto itself. I remember years ago geisha were often conflated as all being prostitutes, which wasn't correct. Some might do that, but it wasn't just accepted that they would do that(highly frowned upon).
In the same vein female samurai wasn't a thing either. There were female warriors(onna musha/bugeisah), but not samurai. All were bushi(warrior[s]), but not all bushi were samurai.
Not that a geisha could have never poisoned anyone but geisha weren't female assassins. Spying, however...
Kunoichi did exist but they were nothing like the "ninja" girls of anime and films. Still, poisoning surely wasn't impossible.
There were no female samurai in that sense. Female members of the bushi class were trained in various tactics to defend home and family or themselves or to even commit ritual offing if absolutely necessary. But they were no stormtrooping warriors.
Each second of this was valuable!
厳密に述べると女性の侍は存在しませんでした。武家の女性が戦時に武装することもありましたし、戦場で指揮官の役割を果たしたこともありましたが基本的に男性を中心とした家父長制の例外的存在であり夫の(少なくとも形式的な)代理として臨時に武装していたに過ぎません。つまり、個人としては完全に独立した女性の侍は存在しませんでした。勿論、現代的価値観では許容しがたいかもしれません。また歴史は歴史でありゲームはゲームです。しかし、UBIが歴史的あるいは文化的正確性を作品の広告で喧伝している以上、許容し難いものがあります。
It just still amazes me that they thought it was a good idea to not have a Japanese male as the main character in a game set in Feudal Japan.
It doesn’t matter if a brother was really a Samurai in those days. What matters is that your customers are expecting to play a Japanese guy in a Feudal Japanese era Assassins Creed game.
It’s not rocket science.
The Seppuku ritual was reenacted in Mel Gibson's film Hacksaw Ridge during the final climatic battle scene when the high ranking officer chose an honorable death over surrender. It was a solemn affair.
Nothing short of bankruptcy for ubisoft
Im doing my part!
In case anyone is confused by the existence of female Samurai - it's female NINJAS that did not exist and are first made up in 20th century in fiction. Female Warriors as a class DID exist in many cultures, but they rarely saw the battlefield in any of the cultures that had them.
That's because, quite frankly, man and woman are different, and women are smaller, weaker and have less stamina. And while today a girl can, should she wish so, grow muscles stronger than mine, back in ancient times with food shortages etc - it was just impractical to grow a female warrior like that. She would eat more food than a male and still train and grow mass slower simply because of how the body is optimized. And even a muscular woman fighter loses to a comparable man 9 times out of 10.
That's just biology.
There isnt even any proof that actual ninjas existed.
Female samurai technically didn't exist either. Onna musha and onna bugeisah were not samurai. All were bushi(warriors), but not all bushi were samurai. I don't think you are trying to do it, but the more this is all talked about the more it seems to be a purposeful conflation to make it seem all these things were the same thing.
@@TrackMediaOnly Onna-bugeisha or onna-bushi are samurai but they are still called that because those terms are older than samurai and samurai is not a warrior but a members of a class samurai or bushi and all members born were samurai or bushi so all men and women and most samurai or bushi were not warriors but administrators.
Onna-bugeisha were female warriors who defended their families and property and onna-musha were female warriors who fought in battle and wars
Female "ninjas" existed. They were called "kunoichi". But they were nothing like the characters from manga and anime. Just like "ninja" weren't.
The main purpose of the MALE shinobi was to spy, cause confusion, spread misinformation and such. They might set something on fire or kill someone but the latter was rarely the case. Overall, their life was to be invisible by blending in.
As for the jobs of the kunoichi: it was gathering and passing on information, secretly opening doors, signalling. At any costs.
You wouldn't want that for your daughter. If you love her. Guess why the members were recruited from the low classes...
@@borismaric130 This isn't the only source I've seen this from, but the easiest to show: ua-cam.com/video/IEpd2SVw0F8/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared&t=1291
Damn, I wish we could've gotten that original model for Naoe. Just the hairstyle instantly transports me to feudal Japan while her clothes identify her as someone lurking the shadows. It goes to show Ubisoft not only traded away its talent, it's actively stifling what talent is left or what talent is being hired to do the job. They're deliberately making poor decisions.
Ironic how the "progressive", "inclusive" people are so boringly predictable and reductive.
Considering the "inclusive" people's blatant bias against asian people (even calling them "white adjacent") and their cultures in general , i can’t help but think that the laziness and disrespect (which there’s a LOT of now) here is targeted and malicious.
Asian people are racist against black people so they don't get sympathy.
Also weren't you Trump supporting Nazis the ones going after Asian people during covid because you blamed them for it?
Crazy how the tables have turned. You people flip your stance on things at the drop of a dime.
I bet you if Ubisoft came out and said they supported Trump and added Red Hat DLC to the game you would all buy it even if they didn't change anything in it
Yasuke is a historical figure who was actually black 😂
"Dont buy the game!" - Daniel Vavra
"OK, only because you said not to." - Me
DEI in history-based games is simply destructive
Thank you for the great video Endymion. I appreciate your care and respect for the Japanese culture. I just wanted to further explain the significance of seppuku. Even though I’m a white Canadian, I have extensively studied Japanese culture and learned the martial art of Iai-Do (the art of the Samurai sword) from several Japanese grandmasters. One of these masters taught me the concept of seppuku and the role of the second.
If a Samurai had dishonored themselves, this would also bring shame upon their family. The only way to prevent their name and families from being disgraced in society was to commit seppuku. But seppuku wasn’t just something that you could do. The samurai had to get permission from his lord because it was viewed as a privilege. Depending on the transgression, the samurai could just be executed. Sentencing their families to live in disgrace.
In Japan suicide never had the stigma that it did in the west. So committing seppuku was never about being killed vs suicide. Seppuku was viewed as the ultimate act of courage and best way to prove your honor. The second was chosen by the dishonored samurai and was usually a family member or close friend. The job of the second was to ensure that the samurai committing seppuku didn’t suffer more than was necessary. The second was also there to ensure the samurai followed through with the act.
The job of the second is almost never depicted correctly in movies. Like in the beginning of “Last Samurai” when Ken Watanabe’s character acts as a second. He yells and cuts the old general’s head clean off. When in reality the whole process is meant to be refined and disciplined. The second is supposed to stand quietly in a particular stance with sword drawn. When the samurai committing seppuku indicates he is ready, the second raises the blade and again waits in a particular stance. Then after the samurai commits the act and has proven his honor. Without saying anything, the second makes one very strong but controlled cut. The goal is not to cut the head clean off. But to leave a small bit of skin and the front of the neck. That way to head just drops right into the lap of the deceased samurai. It was seen as disrespectful for the head to go rolling across the floor.
There is much more and the philosophy behind the whole act of seppuku could fill a book. Sorry for the history dump. I just wanted to share some knowledge on a subject that is often depicted incorrectly.
Anyways, thank you to anyone who made it this far and thank you for what you do Endymion!
I always get excited to watch the new videos!
That has to be the best Editor intervention ever. 😆
No female samurai were more like the Army reservist while the male samurai where the real Army
Wow, they really did some minmaxing with Yaya, going all in on the unarmed build with 'warrior monk' AND 'sumo' classes.
Oh, oh god... i did not make the connection regarding the kid character and the consultant. I guess i was distracted by the waste of story/spoiler that came after that in his description.
As a Portuguese, i cant wait to see how they are going to represent us. I think they are just jealous we were the first Europeans to get to Japan. Not only that, im not entirely sure, but i think we helped to create Nagasaki.
The French have been trying to usurp Portugal's role in the development of Brasil, so I can only assume that you're right. Another thing, I haven't played the game, but someone told me that one of this franchise's "assassins" caused the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. If so, screw the French.
@MrColuber yep, that was Assassin's Creed Rogue. Actually a fun game. I enjoyed the portrayal of Lisbon in that game, I feel they portrayed the earthquake really well, and i think it was a strong motivation for the main character to defect to the templars, and credit where it's due, the Portuguese NPCs were speaking Portuguese from Portugal, so that was nice to see. Hey if you liked AC Black Flag, I actually recommend AC Rogue, the gameplay is just copy pasting from AC4, so if you liked that one, you will like AC Rogue. One last thought, I remember when AC Shadows was announced and they revealed Yasuke, my immediate thought was "I bet the Portuguese are going to be the villains", after all it was because of us that Yasuke is even in the game 😂
We barely get any good Portuguese representation in fictional media, and this will not help the case at all.
Well, since the Portuguese are European Mediterranean whites... Don't hold your breath, my dude.
It's a shame that Portugal might be the bad guys here.
Assassin's Creed Shadows are way beyond doomed before, but they are surpassing themselves this moment.
The sad thing about AC Shadows regarding their take on what they believe to be progressive is the fact that Japan has a well documented history of same sex relationships by famous historical figures. At the time it wasn't even an issue and was morally accepted within the boundaries of their culture. But no, Ubisoft had to impose their "modern progressivism" without even looking into the extensive cultural material they had available. If they fucked up so bad on the things they ACTIVELY wanted to show, I won't even give a look into anything else.
The female samurais existed in Kyoto in Sengoku Era as the Divine Emperor's Bodyguards. But waa very rare that they got out of Kyoto as the Emperor was bunker down in the city.
The word "ahistorical" is not anti-historical. Ahistorical means "not historical", a = not. Just like asexual, agnostic, and atheist. Anti-historical would be against history, anti = against or opposed.
Finally, someone who understands the structure of the English language.
@@ProgrammedForDamage I know the English language, I'm not gonna pretend I understand it, because some of the rules are ridiculous!
Still no excuse for creating divisive crap.
@saymyname2417
You're the ones being divided, nobody else cares about a video game wotg a black character and a woman.
@dillonblair6491 What are you talking about? The point of the video is that people are pissed about the inaccurate history, not the race or gender of the main characters.
You've never heard the name of Chinese philosopher "Confuscius"? That is what Confuscianism is based on... the teachings/principles of Confuscius... it is pronounced basically like "Confusion" but the scius is pronounced like "shus"
I'm pretty sure it's "Confucius", without the s. And Endymion is (accidentally) not that far from the truth, because another popular transcription of his name is "Kung Fu Tse"
Can't even find the leak now, they scrubbed it down good.
i really can't believe that this is the same Company that made Far Cry 2, All AC games up to Unity and many other great games just goes to show that the Companies and Brands don't mean shit without the ppl that made them Good same goes for literally all AAA companies today like Ubisoft, Playstation, Bethesda, Activision, EA and hell all the rest
Ubisoft isn't mad of the art book. They are mad that the art book was leaked early which could affect the game's sales.
I don't care what they told you in school, Yasuke singlehandedly prevented the Mongol invasions of Japan.
Yasuke caused the dinosaur the die off. Not a meteorite,that came afterwards.
Yasuke was really the first on the moon, they're gaslighting us with the Armstrong story.
Yasuke stormed the beaches in Normandy and held them until the allies landed.😊😊😊😊
@@ejkr2051 Also, Yasuke wrote the bible, us constitution, EU constitution and LOTR series, but he's just not in the credits.
I seriously wish Yasuke had a voice to truly speak up for himself.
Instead it has always been other people defining and dragging him through their mud. To this day.
Love the subtle editing, LOL. But great work as always, really appreciate what you do.
One picture leaked, "got deleted,"
Internet: over nine thousand!!!!
I learned about Wakashu when I was a child trying to find out what a eunuch was; if you want to know more about them I suggest looking up “Eunuchs and their courtesans”.
They were most often kept specifically by eunuchs, often bought from their parents at a very young age…it’s pretty tragic what a lot of them had to go through ngl.
So they were Japans version of the Catamites, not exactly something to brag about or glorify.
I'm willing to bet that "Wakashu" was used as a derogatory term during the Edo period. It sure sounds like it would be to me
No, it wasn't. It basically described an adolescent male between the ago of about 13 to 25.
They were objects of many desires, though.
Confucian- "Con-few-shin"
Such a damn shame as it could have been incredible