This is a review of the first season of the Netflix anime series, Yasuke, which is currently available to stream. Based on the real-life historical figure of the same name, Netflix’s latest anime ...

"Yasuke" starts off on a strong note but loses sight of its main character and compelling source material as the show progresses. “Yasuke” is purportedly a show about history’s first Black samurai.

The legend of the real-world Yasuke (LaKeith Stanfield) follows Japan’s first black samurai. The story goes that he once served the feudal lord Odu Nobunaga in the early days of Japan, with Oda ...

Yasuke is a groundbreaking new anime that fuses fact and fiction. The six-episode original series streaming on Netflix now is the brainchild of comic artist and animation director LeSean Thomas ...

A jaded Black samurai faces off against mechs and magic in alt-reality feudal Japan Yasuke immediately drops its viewers into an alternate reality: a science fiction/fantasy version of war-torn feudal ...