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Original run. July 27, 2021 – July 27, 2022. Volumes. 2. Yasuke is a Japanese-American original net animation (ONA) series loosely based on the historical figure of the same name, an African warrior who served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period of samurai conflict in 16th century Japan.
May 21, 2021 · Decades before the 2021 Netflix series, the legend of Japan's Black Samurai appeared in Japanese popular culture. In 1971, famed novelist Shusaku Endo published a book about the samurai. But it was Kurosuke , a children's book about Yasuke published in 1968 by children’s author Kurusu Yoshio (来栖良夫), that provided a spark for the 2021 Netflix series.
Mar 9, 2021 · Yasuke is the newest anime coming to Netflix, and on Monday, the streaming service released the first few images from the show. Along with a few teaser images and a preview of the story, Netlfix ...
Yasuke ( Japanese: 弥助 / 弥介, Japanese pronunciation: [jasɯ̥ke]) was a man of African origin [3] [4] who served as a samurai to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ, Afuro Samurai, stylized as ΛFΓO SΛMUΓΛI) is a Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series written and illustrated by manga artist Takashi Okazaki. It was originally serialized irregularly in the avant-garde dōjinshi manga magazine Nou Nou Hau from November 1998 to September 2002. Inspired by Okazaki's love ...
Mar 8, 2021 · by Amy Ratcliffe. Mar 8 2021 • 5:00 PM. The story of Yasuke, the first African samurai, will soon come to life in a new way: as an anime. Series creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas is ...
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May 12, 2021 · Afro Samurai, the protagonist in Takashi Okazaki's manga of the same name, is said to have been inspired by Yasuke. As for the man himself, until last month, when Netflix premiered an original six-episode adventure fantasy series bearing his name, the samurai had been largely absent from animation, leaving the rest of the world unfamiliar with his story.
