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For the record, I’d be ignoring this bit of culture war nonsense if they weren’t making and planning fictional works based on this little known historic figure, a trivia footnote in the history of the samurai. This is happening for cultural reasons rather than historic accuracy or good story reasons, so the end product is destined to fail based on recent media failings. It is funny watching the people who complain about cultural appropriation (like in the recent Daily Video where a black girl in a kimono using the word “kawaii” bothered everyone except the Japanese) are now guilty of it with something that actually matters to the Japanese. Apparently they learned nothing from the “black Cleopatra” debacle.
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[…] was revealed to the world, the usual suspects when crazy over the “black samurai”. Except he wasn’t a samurai. He was just the guy who carried the shogun’s weapons. He could probably defend himself, but […]
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[…] Except he wasn’t a samurai, he was a retainer, something for the emperor to show off. And I meant something, not someone. He also got sent back to slavery once the emperor was killed off. Or Shogun or however it worked back then. Point is, they elevated him to main character status when he was a supporting character at best just to have a black man. Fans didn’t even want to play a samurai regardless of skin color. Even I know they were demanding a ninja story, since the Assassins game mechanics are practically that of a ninja despite being set in Italy or Spain or something. They wanted to see what Ubisoft would do with a proper ninja, and then you only play one part of the time. Nobody even minded they went with a kunoichi, a female ninja, rather than the usual male shinobi. It might have been better to play both ninja types, using the skills unique to each ninja, while still playing the media depiction of a ninja in the game. But Ubisoft couldn’t wait for the Civil War or a game set in Africa. They needed their black character right now, and he’s not even an assassin. They made him a powerhouse samurai type because the Japanese character wasn’t diverse enough in the mid 2020s. […]
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