Toussaint Egan (he/him) is a curation editor, out to highlight the best movies, TV, anime, comics ... is far from the last we’ll see of the Black samurai.

Instead, this Yasuke, voiced by LaKeith Stanfield, is a washed up ex-samurai ... trying to make anime spaghetti. Everyone loves spaghetti. LeSean Thomas But the dearth of Black characters in ...

When it comes to Black samurai, heads may quickly think of the likes of the Wu-Tang Clan or Afro Samurai, but in a new anime Netflix is about to put us on to the legend of Yasuke, an actual Black ...

More than a decade ago, American animation producer LeSean Thomas opened a PDF of a Japanese children’s book called Kuro-suke, or “Black ... eponymous samurai, but like other anime retellings ...

The anime series references a range of other moments documented in the life of the Black samurai who lived more than 400 years ago. Interest in Yasuke is bound to grow since, as Lockley says ...

A new anime series on Netflix brings a little-known figure from Japanese feudal history to the small screen: Yasuke. A Black samurai portrayed as an aging, stoic loner reflecting on his past.

LaKeith Stanfield brings the legend of Yasuke, the real-life Black samurai in feudal Japan, to screen in the trailer for Netflix and MAPAA’s latest anime series that premieres this week.