Yasuke Archives

In honor of the release of anime Yasuke, Netflix drops a stunning behind-the-scenes featurette "Yasuke: East Meets West" on YouTube, a combination of beautiful visuals, sounds, and the promise of a good story waiting to be told In the video, the minds behind the project's story, visuals, and music discuss the story, the process, as[...]

This week, Netflix released Yasuke, a new anime from creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) and MAPPA (Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Jujutsu Kaisen) with a fast-paced and solid storyline with stunning visuals and fantasy elements all blended into a wonderfully bingeable concoction Yasuke does a great story of just giving enough background[...]

Prior to the anime's release on Thursday, Netflix and creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) released the opening theme to the highly-anticipated Yasuke Set in alternate fantastical Japan during the feudal era, Yasuke is the story is about a samurai warrior of African descent who must return to his life of sword and violence[...]

Anime viewers have been treated to preview images and a teaser for series creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) and Netflix's upcoming highly anticipated anime Yasuke Set to hit the streaming service this Thursday, April 29, the 6-episode series is under the guiding hands of revered Japanese animation studio MAPPA (Attack on Titan: The[...]

Early last month, anime series creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) and Netflix unveiled first-look images for the highly anticipated anime series Yasuke Flash ahead to April 1 with Netflix offering what was definitely not an April Fool's Joke: the first official teaser Set to hit the streaming service on April 29, the[...]

On Monday, anime series creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) and Netflix unveiled first-look images for the highly anticipated anime series Yasuke Set to hit the streaming service on April 29, the 6-episode series is under the guiding hands of revered Japanese animation studio MAPPA (Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Jujutsu Kaisen)[...]

Chadwick Boseman will go from playing a fictional African hero Black Panther to real African samurai in the film, Yasuke. Chadwick BosemanPhoto by Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Yasuke was the first non-Asian to become a samurai Originally from Portuguese Mozambique, he was brought to Japan as a slave to Jesuit missionaries As the first black man[...]

For you kaju lovers out there, we're getting a Pacific Rim anime, and for you Altered Carbon fans, a series to 'explore story mythology'. Here's what we know so far about the shows (from our friends over at Collider): Pacific Rim: Returning to the epic battle of Kaiju and Jeagers, this original anime series will expand upon the story of the[...]