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The historical Yasuke was a warrior who served the 16th-century Japanese feudal lord Oda Nobunaga.
At first, it s not clear who s fighting whom. All you know is that it s Kyoto, 1582 and dudes are getting absolutely sliced up. Then come in the big mechas, and they have huge guns and swords for arms that contribute to the bloodshed. And then there are the sorcerers summoning beams of arrows that would cut their opponents down if not for those other sorcerers conjuring protective shields.
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Yasuke, the new anime series on Netflix about the real-life Black warrior who served under Oda Nobunaga, one of the great unifiers of feudal Japan. The show s creator, LeSean Thomas, first read about Yasuke in 1960s children s book