Nvm that Yasuke was a real person.
Ok I don’t have a horse in this race and didn’t know who either of these people were until I saw this meme, and spent some time googling.
As far as I can tell Anjin is based on William Adams, an English navigator, they literally just call him “Mr pilot” he doesn’t have a Japanese name. And Yosuke is supposedly just a Japanese guy. So like, while I don’t care, it does seem like there’s some room for misrepresentation.
Anyway, I’m probably wrong, wogi out
Yasuke was literally an African retainer in 16th century Japan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke, don’t know how hard you googled but it was the first hit on DDG.
Not very. If he’s African then he’s African I don’t see what the problem is.
The anti woke “historical accuracy” crowd is getting pissy that an african samurai is represented in a game set in feudal Japan, ignoring the existence of Yasuke who served Oda Nobunaga, who is a pretty big deal in Japanese history.
And Ubisoft is going to do Ubisoft things and tell a historically inspired but ultimately fictional story about secret organizations running secret proxy wars trying to gain control advanced magical technology from an ancient prehumanity civilization, and how magical genetic bloodlines let you access the memories of your ancestors.
An often forgotten historical detail: it was possible to travel to another continent before the invention of the airplane.
