MAPPA with character designs by
Takeshi Koike. The show takes place in an alternate version of 16th century Japan where magic and robots exist. While scores of people have eagerly awaited the day when the story of Yasuke would become an anime, the end result is a disappointment.
Yasuke is a middling anime that squanders its extremely rich historical source material.
The series takes place 20 years after the last known historical records for the real-life Yasuke. The story of the real-life Yasuke as we know it is reduced to backstory told through flashbacks. Of course with any historical fiction, a certain level of fabrication and creative liberty is to be expected. Especially in a case like Yasuke s where much of the available information is in the realm of speculation and debate. But the extent to which