Someone who didn't actually exist, too. They had plenty of people to choose from, but they decided to go with someone mentioned in the account of a single Jesuit's journal that was proven to be filled with countless fabrications, who was never mentioned by any other historical account, and who was never even mentioned in the trip heading towards Japan in the first place, to be the most eligible person to choose as their main character.
The whole project was retarded from start to finish.
It's actually impressive. Most famous assassins in all of history? Nah, let's make the MC a black dude that happens to be a samurai.
Someone who didn't actually exist, too. They had plenty of people to choose from, but they decided to go with someone mentioned in the account of a single Jesuit's journal that was proven to be filled with countless fabrications, who was never mentioned by any other historical account, and who was never even mentioned in the trip heading towards Japan in the first place, to be the most eligible person to choose as their main character.
The whole project was retarded from start to finish.