วีดีโอ

I remember the historical drama I watched where Nobunaga arrived in a devastated Kyoto for the first time with his army and he saw a man stealing a pot full of coins from a man. He then charged at the thief, drawing his sword, cutting off his head, flicked the blood off the blade then resheated it. He called his vassals and announced that he'll kill anyone who disturbs the people in Kyoto, including his own men. Later on, it was known that Nobunaga pacified Kyoto in a month. I always look at Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu are people who developed their personalities due to the experiences. Yes, Nobunaga exhibited ruthlessness but it wasn't because he was that from the start, his experiences shaped that. I remember the brutality he inflicted on Araki Murashige's family and vassals as a punishment for Murashige's uprising and while I don't condone it, I understood his reasons to do so. When he forced Toyotomi Hidetsugu, his own nephew, to commit seppuku, Hideyoshi executed his nephew's family, including his wives and concubines. One of those concubines is Komahime, the daughter of Mogami Yoshiaki, who just arrived in Osaka and wasn't even presented yet. This tragedy led Yoshiaki to Ieyasu, which killed off any chances of keeping the Date on their toes as the Mogami is the only clan who can challenge the Date in Tohoku. Now, with the Mogami and Date on his side, Ieyasu was able to focus on Mitsunari as the Uesugi, now based on Aizu, cannot put a pressure on Ieyasu's back due to the Mogami and Date. I do see a point in Hideyoshi wanted to protect Hideyori's right to inherit everything he fought to achieve but in doing so, he indirectly caused him not to inherit it. I know Ieyasu was also capable of cruelty and ruthlessness and he's my favorite unifier but again, he is a product of his own time, like Nobunaga and Hideyoshi.

This game is dead before it even came out. Rest in piss, it wont be missed.

Thank you for your logical explanation of the relationship between history and representation. As you say, misinterpretation of history is precisely the problem, and it is already causing harm, such as the rewriting of wikipedia on a global scale. In the first place, Ubi is making this game based on a false historical view. In an interview with the gaming media, UBI stated, "So looking at death was a day-to-day occurrence in that period, and the way most people died in Japan during that time is clean Basically, these are the kinds of statements that further promote not only the above historical misunderstandings, but also cultural misunderstandings. These contents are summarized in the form of the "Shadows Policollege Flame Riot(シャドウズポリコレ炎上騒動)". If you can understand Japanese, or by viewing the page with translations, you can get a Japanese perspective on the whole uproar. 歴史と表現の関係性について、論理的な説明をありがとうございました。 あなたの言うように、歴史解釈について誤解を招くことがまさに問題であり、すでに世界規模でのwikipediaの書き換えなど弊害がでています。 そもそも、じつはUBIは誤った歴史観を前提にこのゲームをつくっています。 ゲームメディアのインタビューに対して「So looking at death was a day-to-day occurrence in that period, and the way most people died in Japan during that time is clean decapitations.」と答えており、基本的にはこれらは上の歴史的誤解のみならず、文化的誤解についてもさらに助長させるような内容です。 これらの内容については「シャドウズポリコレ炎上騒動」という形でまとめられており、翻訳をするか日本語が理解できる方であるならそのページを見ることで、騒動の全体を日本人からの視点で把握することができます。

Maybe he didn't want to work with Japanese people. But if he was going to set the story in Japan, I wish he had at least watched a period drama or a Kurosawa film. Even just that would have made him realize that something was wrong.

Thousands of samurais and they chose a black guy 💀. If they really wanted a black guy to be the lead, why didn't they just go for some cool guy in Africa?

Bro you thing the white nerds who sit in mommy basement with Cheeto dust fingers care? When they say you’re wrong then you’re wrong 😂

Yasuke was never a free man. After Nobunaga's death his son returned him to the Europeans who brought him there.

Wannabe asian 😂

ドラマ「SHOGUN」になぜ黒人が出ないのか！という抗議がおきたり、日本の戦国時代には当たり前のように黒人侍がいたはずだと思っている人がかなりいるのがアサシンクリードシャドウズの騒ぎでわかりました。 Netflixのアニメ「弥助」はロボットや魔法が出てくる、どう見てもファンタジーなのにあれが史実だと信じている人もいます。 弥助のように資料が少ない人物はそこを想像でおぎなってロマンあふれるキャラクターとして描くのは面白くなりそうですが、それにはまず日本の歴史を学ばないと不自然にしかなりません。 「戦国無双５」で初めて弥助がプレイ可能となったときはカッコイイ！弥助のストーリーがどうなるか気になる！と好意的だったと思います。 アサシンクリードは黒人侍という面白い素材を見せたいだけで日本の歴史や日本人には敬意を感じないのが短い動画でもわかりました。 そしてつい先日、プレイ動画が公開されましたが本当に酷かった・・・ そして「鬼武者」の話が出てきてあなたのゲームの知識にさらにびっくりしました。 大好きなゲームです。このゲームに影響を受けた作品は多いと思います。

Saw this link on a Grummz tweet. Very interesting! What I love about the AC games has always been the history one can learn from it. Unfortunately, this seems to be history I'm learning to correct the game as opposed to enhance the game. Learning about the information behind Last Samurai helped a ton, as I absolutely adore that movie. Thank you for the indepth information! Left a follow, can't wait to see more.

It's literally inaccurate with the entire game, however Ubisoft has strayed from what made the AC series great. Now, they've been using characters for some sort of "Political agenda" without outright saying it. Mirage had a Muslim character, i.e. Current war down there. Now this game has a black guy as its main character. Would've at least preferred an actual character from Japan or just a random Japanese guy meeting with people that were important to actual history of Japan.

If they used a more prominent figure people would say the portrayal was inaccurate. It would limit what they could do within the story. It’s like using George Washington in an AC game. So much is known about him that you can’t really develop a “new” character around him.

You white people sound so obviously jealous. You are really reaching on this "He was not a Samurai talking point" saying your "butt hurt" is beyond an understatement.

I’m just saying , it’s Ubisoft’s fault for standing their ground on calling yasuke representation in game historically accurate but any person who ever played Ac knows that exaggerations on real historical characters in Ac is not a first, for the love of Christ we battled the freaking pope and da Vinci literally made a medieval Batman jet pack, where were the Sunday morning historians then, most historians that follow Ac know that there are a lot of inaccuracies in those games , I mean ubi called valhalla historically accurate and in the climax of the game you fight a god in a simulation genjutsu in your mind, the outrage is blown out of proportion and in my opinion it comes from people that barely play Ac , the only ones justified in having some real outrage are the Japanese who actually play the Ac games and feel insulted and the ones defending their history, but damn have I seen some racist and moronic comments, like calling yasuke a freaking butt slave of nobunaga or a monkey or some sort of stupid beast, that’s just stupid in my opinion especially since most of them wouldn’t be so up in arms if they played the last 4 games and for those who don’t know in mirage you could freaking teleport (an animus bs glitch) before that in odyssey it is canon you hold the power of several gods in your staff why did the historians not come out the woodworks or when kassandra fought in the Olympics ? when in that time period it wouldn’t have being allowed to women or her getting trained in the agoge in Sparta which is even more ridiculous

And those who combat my comment with what if they make an Africa ac with white protagonist or make MLK movie with a white man or black panther with a white man I will watch and play those to because I don't care GG

No one truly cares, by making videos about how assassin's creed is unfair and all this blah blah bs your just creating advertisement for the game, your trying to force your narrative on something that people like myself are still going to buy and enjoy regardless of all the crying and pouting about aww it's never fair we don't have a Japanese protagonist, non representation if you don't like it don't buy it, because obviously your opinion doesn't matter to ubisoft or other gamers like myself who just enjoy videos games and dont care about twisted narratives for views and pay so just accept what happened and go about life

You know what with so much controversy over Yasuke I think they should have just avoided showing him in pop culture if it’s so offensive to Japanese samurai culture and history. We are getting a Yasuke TV series from Netflix as well as a Yasuke movie from Warner Bros. With all the controversy sparked by this game I have a feeling those projects are going to be boycotted straight away too it appears the film will be titled Black Samurai. They should just forget about him and focus on more significant black historical figures. Even in projects about Oda Nobunaga they shouldn’t depict him in my opinion.

You literally a weeb, stop being delusional 😅

英語が話せない為、翻訳字幕を利用して観させて頂いています。よく対比として挙げられる作品と今回のアサクリの違いを分かりやすく説明してくださり有難うございます😊最後の方で仰っていた通り、今回の炎上に関しては誤解を招く表現を制作陣がコメントしている点が何より問題だと思われます。実際に現実と創作の線引きを曖昧にしすぎてゲームの範疇を超え真実だと勘違いしている海外の方が多くいらっしゃる状況です。 日本人は比較的寛容的であり、表立って声を上げることはしません。ですが昨今、国内の法律を無視した不法滞在者の地元民への暴力行為、不起訴処分。歴史的建造物への破壊行為、海外の迷惑系TH-camr関連のトラブルで声を上げなければならない状況になりつつあります。日本の伝統や決まりを重んじるモラルのある人々が存在することは 理解していますが、それ以上に安全を脅かす事件が後を経ちません。そういった背景もあり尚更、フィクションを史実だと受け取り好き勝手に盛り上がる人達に対して違うと声を上げる日本人が多いように感じます。 感情論に左右されず冷静に分析してくださる貴方の動画に感謝します。良い一日をお過ごし下さい。

0:00 Pure AC fantasy? 0:25 Non-AC titles are . . . 0:53 NIOH is visibly fictional 2:22 Yasuke in PC 2:54 Why I care 3:02 Yasuke served as a? (Preview) 3:22 Icing on the cake for NIOH 3:30 NIOH spoiler 3:39 NIOH spoiler fin. 4:06 Before NIOH & AC:S=ONIMUSHA 4:20 Japanese studio & history 4:38 Clear historical fantasy 4:40 ONIMUSHA spoiler 5:06 ONIMUSHA spoiler fin. 5:06 How else to tell ahistorical? 6:03 SAMURAI WARRIORS 5 & Yasuke 6:33 Characters in history games = Always real? 6:45 Added real & fake 6:51 Original character & other fictional elements 7:31 Yasuke’s accuracy ✅ 7:40 More history on Yasuke 8:00 The issue at hand - Yasuke’s reception 8:15 Sky is the limit 8:31 About presenting history 9:18 Dynasty Warriors 9 relates 9:49 More fictional history 10:33 Anything wrong w/fictional liberties? 11:17 Outrage on AC’s Yasuke? 11:42 The Last Samurai 11:50 No outrage on Caucasian samurai = Hypocrisy? 12:00 Based on a true story? 12:24 Historical Last Samurai 13:18 Pushed caucasian legendary samurai? 13:28 Whitewashing = Asinine 13:49 Raceswapping = Asinine 14:04 Goal is fiction or fact? 14:35 FX’s Shogun 14:40 Not like The Last Samurai 14:46 NIOH protagonist again? (William Adams, Miura Anjin) 15:10 Shogun shows history? 15:42 William Adam’s (caucasian samurai’s) history 16:00 English from England 16:42 How Adams is a samurai 17:12 More than a samurai 17:53 AC Shadows M 18:09 Pushing faux history? 18:22 Yasuke fully completed samurai training? 18:30 Unfortunately misleading 18:42 Categorically false 19:27 We will see 19:59 Closing comments 20:54 Outro (Let’s talk!)

Creativity Liberty is understandable,I just keep in mind it's a video game,People get political on either side take the fun out of games,if they don't like something easier to vote with your wallet, In rise of the Ronin it is even eaiser to make a self insert,In my head canon,I made a character who was a child that was foreign mixed that got adopted with there village friend whose village got destroyed,they both got then adopted as shinobi,during the Tokugawa period

To be fair Ubisoft makes it pretty clear at the start of every ac game that it is historical fiction

Thank 💯 12:00

Do blue eye samurai next

poor man *pat pat* i feel your pain

Im Asian and it sickens me what that Asian female said in her video ! She is so ignorant and obviously part of the problem She said a derogatory comment to caucasians in her tic tok video, without even all the correct facts ! Just because you are asian doesn’t make you an expert !

The daimyo armor armed with a tesubo in a game about sneaking and assassination is the only thing that really bothers me. Also, we have a no name kunoichi as a lead in the golden era of iga and koga shinobi, where there were many famous shinobi they could have chosen for the time period. The DEI is obvious, its not even well hidden.

I heard there is a lot of historical inaccuracies in ubisofts forward for the game. Pls cover it

I don't unstable where people are getting that yasuke is gay. Where's the gay?

Honestly, Assassins Creed as a series has always been *loosely* based on historical events, and has never truly been "Historically Accurate", as Creative Liberties have been taken in every game. So changing Yasuke from a Retainer to a Samurai, isn't that big of a stretch. Far less of one than inventing a secret war between assassins and templars, much less magic cubes and alien overlords. Especially since its plausible, albiet unlikely, that Yasuke *could* have been one. The simple fact is, we dont know for sure, as there is just enough existing documentation to suggest both possibilities, but not enough to completely prove or disprove it either way. It comes down to: -Strict Japanese cultural traditions, distast for foreigners, & preference for pale skin, vs Oda's love of foreign culture, open-mindedness, & progressive meritocracy -the years worth of martial arts and cultural arts training Samurai have to go through starting from childhood, vs the less than 2 years Yasuke was in Japan prior to Oda's death -yes, Oda gave him a house and sword, but that just makes him a Retainer and a Bushi (Warrior). And while Samurai can be considered Bushi & Retainers to their Daimyo, not all retainers & Bushi were Samurai. A Samurai is similar to nobility, so the vast majority of Bushi were not Samurai, most would have been Ashigaru (foot soldiers). -the fact that Oda didn't give him a sir name, and that he didnt commit seppuku upon Oda's death, also makes it unlikely that he became one. -however, the fact that he isn't the only foreigner in history to debatably be granted the title of Samurai, is in his favor. There is also the Englishman, William Adams, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu, and later, during the Boshin War, the Frenchman (not American), Jules Brunet (who the movie the Last Samurai is *loosely* based on) also served the Tokugawa Shogunate during its fall. -More to the above point, the fact that Tokugawa Ieyasu was Oda Nobunagas former retainer, may mean that his decision to promote William Adams, was possibly based on the precedent established by Oda Nobunaga when he promoted Yasuke. Anyways, regardless of whether Yasuke was or wasn't a Samurai, the possibility isn't too far removed from the truth to feel out of place in a Historical Fiction game such as Assassins Creed.

The enemy will be the Japanese Templars, not Oda himself, otherwise they just spoiled the entire game…not gonna happen! It’ll be interesting to see Yasuke split his loyalties to Oda and the Assassin’s, especially if both have conflicting agendas!!

Ever since recently watching Shogun (and I would recommend it to anyone) and correct me on the historical accuracies of the show but it felt legit coming from an American perspective. I feel Yasuke would be akin similar to that of John Blackthorne's character. Treated as a Barbarian. Most likely would have been killed if not for Nobunaga's enjoyment and fascination of him. I imagine Yasuke like the character John Blackthorne, despite getting certain honors and even given swords. He is Samurai in name only. He has no real skill or respect in the over all community.

このような正しい歴史の動画をあげてくださってありがとうございます。今、弥助＝偉大な侍という事以外にも坂上田村麻呂も黒人だったという話まで広めようとしている人がいるようです。今回のUBI会社もこのゲームを「史実に基づく」と言ってしまっていて、日本人が批判の声を上げても訂正しようとしてくれません。海外のSNSで訂正しても、日本人になりすました差別者だと決めつけられます。そんな中で、このような動画を上げてくださっているのを観て、とても嬉しかったです。心から感謝を申し上げます。

After watching Jackie Chan Adventures, I assumed "AIYA!" was Chinese.

Don't call yourself a fucking teacher then cry about a FUCKING FICTIONAL GAME

日本人です。あなたの歴史の考察はすばらしいです。 アサシンクリードは日本では人気がありません。 では、なぜ日本でも炎上しているのかというと 開発者が「伝説の黒人侍」「日本で尊敬されている黒人侍」などど嘘をついているからです。 事実は黒人侍などいないので日本人は弥助のことを知らない。 彼がただの雑用係であったため、なんの活躍もしていないからです。 また、いくら私たち日本人が黒人侍などいないと訂正しても「白人が日本人になりすまして書いている」と認めない人が多すぎる。 wikiの書き換え、歴史の書き換えは日本への文化盗用であり日本への差別です。

I mean Templars think of peace through control tho, so I think that he can be an antagonist without being a "villain" yk? Like an anti hero of some sort, if they play the cards right it could be a GREAT story but if they dont it could flop HARD

Yasuke was never a samurai, he was a house retainer (house servant). He was never presented with or allowed to wear a katana. This is the product of black fetishism and cultural appropriation of japanese culture. Making him gay further showcases the agenda

That's indeed alcatraz. Pretty awesome. I live on the East Coast in delaware, Atlantic Ocean side. ❤❤ from the USA

Explain to me if the white people who are against this obvious woke DEI nonsense are in fact "racist" then why in the heck would they care about a different races history being represented accurately in the first place?? The logic or I should say lack thereof completely falls flat..

Ain't it funny how nobody is agreeing with you, bro your flogging a dead horse, there's a photo of his family, couldn't make a family if he was gay

It's simple if you want an lgbtq game 'make your own game stop jumping all over known games and turning them gay & black thats what I've got a problem with

I really don't understand why they've made him gay when he had a misses so 'why

In the first place, the Christians of the time would not have allowed their slaves to have dreadlocks. Especially if it was a long boat trip. The later slaves taken to America would not have been transported with dreadlocks.

Some people like to bring up Nioh as an example of a game that has depicted him before and that based on that notion, somehow he's accepted as being samurai. But ironically, in Nioh, Yasuke himself explicitly states how the Diamyo never gave him the title of Samurai. I just find that fascinating. I think many people are far too ensconched int he visual aspect of having swords and robes and their minds automatically make the connection to samurai, without much nuance or understanding of the context of class and society at that time.

The "legendary" samurai who spent a grand total of 15 months in Japan and didnt see any combat and then surrendered thereby stripping him of any honor as a samurai he may have had. Also hes gay now. What a legend. Hurry white, fat, blue haired activist women! Scrap the idea of a Japanese character that was originally planned and make a game about this instead!

The fat white women who wrote this game were like "Lol, a game set in Africa?? Come on, no one is going to buy that. Lets just put the black guy in a different setting that is more visually appealing and popular. Look what we did for you, black people!!"

Nobody cares. We want Japanese representation in a game about Japanese culture. People let activist groom black people's minds into just eating the tablescraps of other ideas instead of dedicating time and resources to making a game to depict THEIR culture instead.

brother...the problem for me is that he's real, you see ... people are saying the fact that nothing much is known about him makes room for creativity? excuse my language but ... that's BS to me, because it means you're going to fake everything about him, and if everything is fake anyway, why including him instead of any other fake Japanese character? I don't even need to guess the answer to that . and yes people should really educate themselves more before engaging in useless conflict

We already had got AC Japan , its called Ghost of Tsushima