Japanese Historian Yūichi Goza Speculates That Yasuke Was Simply Oda Nobunaga's Bodyguard And Entertainer Rather Than A Samurai ...
Japanese historian Yūichi Goza speculates that Yasuke was not a samurai as video game developer Ubisoft has claimed, but was rather just Oda Nobunaga's bodyguard and entertainer.
He was probably the monkey being kept around as an oddity for amusement than anything actually useful or important. That ain't racism as you need to remember this is Japan BEFORE even WW2, just remember how they treated PoWs and then put the ONE Black guy in a country like that.
He got the same treatment as when animals from different continents were brought over only he could actually clean after himself.
Given how prolific a writer Nobunaga was, Yasuke clearly wasn't real. The myth claims Nobunaga was so surprised by his appearance that he ordered him to try and scrub off the color, but nothing like that is in his writings. Literally the only source is the journal of one Jesuit.
And given they were Catholic and the Japanese had a very.....messy history with them, it's even less believable.
It would be more creditable if it was an account from a Dutch Protestant as they were lifelong friends for centuries.
Source?
press f to doubt
He didn't exist
he was a court freak, an entertaining, but ultimately unimportant person kept around because he was different enough from the local population to be novel.
I speculate he was a foot washing slave oddity.
An ochinchin washer
If they're going to be this goofy about it, make the character a fucking Eskimo or an alien or something.
I don't get how you couldn't just run with exactly this as an assasin's creed game.
Yasuke is a unseeming bodyguard who is intimidating to others as Nobunaga's body guard because he's literally big and black. However, he's secretly a assassin that has to fight off ninjas.
This shit is easy if you're not retarded.
Those are lies too though.
This is literally historical fiction. They're supposed to be lies.
Although I find it laughable they want to act like this was an organic decision. If the was tasked with making a game set in feudal Japan he would not be my focus. Seems very current year. He is in that one game from the early 2000s as someone you fight. Can’t remember the name
There's all sorts of cool stuff you could do in Feudal Japan. There's a ton of useful history that could be used. I would have gone with the Sengoku period. But if you want to Yaske, you could still do it in a way that could work.
If you're not a retarded Leftist.
Yea, and the fact that we have experienced the past 10 to 12 years with the diversity obsession just makes this more annoying
It would be, but they can't. For the same reason they can't write, they can't avoid lavish over-the-top ham-handed nonsense. To the present cultivated crop of industry writers messaging is the only important thing. Every element is examined and re-examined during development for alignment and clarity. Nothing can be allowed to offer a questioning thought for even the merest of moments or to the most imaginary of audiences.
Yasuke can't be unassuming or humble, because then we couldn't have the imagery of him being overtly and rightly worshiped by the Japanese plebeians. Even the female ninja in this story whose role it is to be invisible (for which being unassuming and humble would be tools) must be rude to any man and cut him down verbally in all instances. If these things weren't so, the writers might give the impression to their stupid right-wing audience that it's understanding of reality has any merit and shouldn't be gouged from each of their brains with the urgency of an ice-pick through the eye.
Their propaganda flounders because they lack subtlety, which they're having to slowly (glacially) re-learn. They lack this because they were all raised to be the most unthinking adherents of radical world-ending philosophy, so that they can't imagine anything else being given primacy in their minds.
It's also impossible for a committee of ideologues to maintain subtlety because they will fight for their individual interpretation of the Gospel and insist on its inclusion and the reversion of those moments that violate it. So a writer can't even get a bit of character development or narrative twist through them because they can't see past their egos or abandon their holy, godly thoughts that must be added right here right now.
From every vector, in every way, the industrially standard creative system present at this political moment is unwavering in its mission to crank out blunt, overt inanity. Even if I believed in the message on offer, I'd cringe to death trying to consume it and still look back ravenously for the time when a story could just be internally coherent and compelling, rather than trying to sell me on The Party's righteousness.