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REVIEW: Yasuke

I rarely read reviews here on ANN, I didn't read and don't plan to read the review. I'm here just because this is the thread to comment about this anime that I watched, that's it.

I wish people stopped talking so much about other anime and other's tastes. Can we just talk about Yasuke and judge it by it's merits?
I tried to give examples about why I don't think this anime is well made and how it affects the enjoyment, can we stop talking about other anime peoples and talk more about Yasuke?

At lease it surprised... I wasn't expecting that they would make the scenario of the sengoku war so much a "cultural war", and they would even use the tired "gay villain gay bad" card.

You know, I didn't expect it to be an "actual history", but I didn't expect so many lasers and robots (along with magic). I think I watched the trailer without paying much attention and don't remember seeing any of this.
And what about all those machinery artifacts buried in the ground? So random and was there just to look "cool" (it didn't). Like other pointed already there was zero sense of place and time in this ting, overall the conflict was very incoherent, without much logic and reason.

While I continued watching the only thing that I was fearing that didn't happened was they reveal that the "Damiyo" was the mythical Empress Himiko. Wasn't her, but the actual reveal was worse.
Seriously, the big villain was an old rugged woman that wanted to live more? And the way she could do this was to suck the life of a young fair maiden? And said maiden was the big savior against the corrupted women? Oh Satan, give me patience.

That's the problem.
Is not that the anime is bad, that the story is bad. If it was just bad, ok, we watch and forget. But can we point that there where a lot of "wrong" things in this?

Can't say I'm disappointed because what could anyone expect from something made by westerners about japan (and it's "culture")?

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?

And this is my main take on the defense. Your offensive to this title because a fella from outside of Japan is in the directors seat. Cannon Busters wasn't great. But then again Im not the biggest fan of early 2000s anime sensibilities like Trigun, so maybe im not the intended target group. But Yasuke suited my taste much better, and it was fine! Japanese or a Gaijin in the directors seat, it doesn't mattter.

loempiavreter wrote:

And this is my main take on the defense. Your offensive to this title because a fella from outside of Japan is in the directors seat. Cannon Busters wasn't great. But then again Im not the biggest fan of early 2000s anime sensibilities like Trigun, so maybe im not the intended target group. But Yasuke suited my taste much better, and it was fine! Japanese or a Gaijin in the directors seat, it doesn't mattter.

I think that's an expected criticism. A westerner attempting to educate people on Japan's own history and culture could easily be interpreted as being in bad taste, if not outright cultural appropriation. Given the discourse from comparisons between Raya and the Last Dragon and Avatar the Last Bender recently, it certainly seems like a topic a lot of people would take issue with in this day and age for people of non-Asian heritage attempting to speak and mold history for Asian people.

You guys should do a story on how LeSean Thomas essentially stole $150K+ from his kickstarter backers for his last Netflix project. Until that is put right I don't think I want to support someone who has done that kind of damage to the community (over 2.2K people).

Professor Thomas Lockley will tell the amazing story of Yasuke, a man from Africa who served and fought beside Japan’s infamous warlord Oda Nobunaga and became the first foreign-born samurai. When Nobunaga was assassinated, Yasuke stayed by his lord until the end, and is traditionally held to have rescued the severed head from capture. Afterward, the real Yasuke faded from history, but his legacy was revived as an anti-imperial icon in the 20th century and a media giant in the 21st.