While Assassin’s Creed Shadows is no doubt a massive open world game, the beginning is fairly linear. In the games prologue, which takes about 90 minutes to complete, players will alternate between ...

"Yasuke" starts off on a strong note but loses sight of its main character and compelling source material as the show progresses. “Yasuke” is purportedly a show about history’s first Black samurai.

It’s just as significant that this story has manifested through anime. Japan’s animated exports are beloved by Black audiences, but only a precious few series and films that portray Black people or ...

This year the Animus, Ubisoft’s memory-hopping time machine, is taking us back to 16th century Japan in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Naturally that means we’ll be exploring the life of a Japanese ...

Yesterday saw the launch of Yasuke, a six-episode series from Netflix which fictionalizes the story of the eponymous historical figure, an African man who ended up fighting as a samurai in feudal ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ dual protagonist system is an intriguing one. While Yasuke and Naoe are both the main characters, this isn’t initially the case. You don’t have immediate access to both ...

This 1605 drawing of a Black sumo wrestler may depict Yasuke. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons under public domain Seconds into the first episode of the Netflix anime ...

The legend of the real-world Yasuke (LaKeith Stanfield) follows Japan’s first black samurai. The story goes that he once served the feudal lord Odu Nobunaga in the early days of Japan, with Oda ...

At a young age, David has always enjoyed exploring fiction. This has been evident in his love of reading, films, and video games. As a result, it made sense to pursue writing as a career. He has ...