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REVIEW: Yasuke

all-tsun-and-no-dere wrote:

They're all over MAL bro.

So looking through all the top rated reviews, and pretty none of them could be boiled down to "it's historically inaccurate so it's bad". Some of them don't even mention the subject whatsoever, and when they do they go into specific detail about aspects of that inaccuracy that they think didn't work and why. I have no doubt there are reviews like that on the site, just like there are facile reviews for just about any show. But that's not exactly a majority to base a stance on, especially if you seemingly want to take the perspective that people have ulterior motives for a hypocritical stance on Yasuke vs. other similar anime.

If you're going to make an anime about historical figures, you would expect it to be true to history. These people walked around in real world Japan and you would expect to respect that. Yasuke's backstory was pretty true to life, but in the story itself, somebody had the bright idea to add magic and giant robots in the anime.

I could sit here and expound upon the exact ways in which it’s historically inaccurate—how the real Yasuke wasn’t even a samurai, but rather a mere retainer who Nobunaga kept around as a circus freak who’s dark skin fascinated the culturally isolated (and kinda racist) Japanese who had never seen an African before—but I think we all expected this going in. If the insane, unrestrained visual cacophonies of garish CG and headache inducing visual effects didn’t clue you in, this series doesn’t really seek to be historically actuate with all its crazy magic and mechas, despite the fact its alleged history is really the only excuse it has to exist.

Lemme get this straight, this anime is a wack. If you're expecting a historical anime that is faithful to history, then you'll be disappointed just like me.
I'm not gonna spoil everything, but let's just say that this is still historical accurate, well until the first episode happened where they threw me off with giant robots and magic bullsh*ts.

I fully understand that there are not many accounts of Yasuke’s life, so the creators don’t have much to work on. There are not many accounts of even major warlords, let alone regular warriors like Yasuke. As a result, it can’t be helped that most of this anime is gonna be based on fiction.

HOWEVER, I think that demonic giant robots and an overwatch-style futuristic flying robot character is going too far. Especially that yellow robot character. He completely destroys the atmosphere of Edo-period Japan.

I’ll give the shape-shifting Russian bear lady a pass, but I wish the band of international mercenaries was used less often, otherwise it destroys the atmosphere of Edo-period Japan.

Mechs and magic when it could have been a historical series. What a [expletive] let down.

A lot of these reviews give other reasons for disliking the show, and I don't have a problem with that! But once again, this many people complaining about historical accuracy is unprecedented.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't a big marketing point of Yasuke that it was a historical piece about a real person who existed in Japanese history?

Don’t we have a black Brit that just won an academy award?

Boseman was a good actor but we have other black actors who could also potentially play Yasuke..

A lot of these reviews give other reasons for disliking the show, and I don't have a problem with that! But once again, this many people complaining about historical accuracy is unprecedented.

And I'm sure all the people fussing about historical accuracy also had similar complaints about Sengoku Basara, and basically every anime ever made about Oda Nobunaga, right?

...it’s like saying, listen to this analogy, 'your biggest successes on our menu were pea soup, the shrimp pizza, and apple strudel with vanilla ice cream. Now you take those motherf***ers and put them all in a bowl and they’ll taste great.'"

Hollywood has conditioned us to not accept the fantastical before truth...You've gotta have Lincoln by Daniel Day Lewis before you have Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." Yasuke, from start to finish, channels the spirit of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to its core.

Not established? Where were you guys when they showed stuff like Karasu Tengu Kabuto, Yotoden, Kyomu Senshi Miroku, Samurai Resurrection and even Black Lion?

They have established this Oda Nobunaga having futuristic arms, weapons and robots for yeaaars, mostly because of the legacy of Oda using foreign weapons or the myth on being aided by demons or whatever. It's established for years that his stories are always connected to either Aliens or Demonic pact.

So therefor the first I saw the robots and stuff i was like ah it's kind of like this throwback to these kind of stories. So I get what they were going for. They didn't need to explain me the setting... that fault is on you guys.