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Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: April 29, 2021 |
Summary:
Yasuke (voiced by LaKeith Stanfield), the first African samurai, is tasked with protecting a young girl from warlords and dark magic in this anime set in an alternate feudal Japan created by LeSean Thomas.
Genre(s):
Animation, Action & Adventure, Fantasy
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Positive:
6
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
The Daily Beast
Apr 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The first episode does an excellent job of hooking you in, but it’s the gorgeous animation, fantastic dubbing, and excellent music that’ll keep you coming back for more. If you’ve been looking for a reason to return to the feudal era of Japan, consider this your sign.
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Apr 30, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There are far worse critiques a show can sustain than the observation that there's not enough of it, or that it stuffs too many attention-grabbing elements in too small of a space. It simply means "Yasuke" would be better if there were more of it, and either by accident or intentionally Thomas and his collaborators leave enough about this hero shrouded to make room for that to occur.
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Apr 26, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
Season 1 Review:
While liberal with its influences (Dororo and Samurai Champloo come to mind), the show sometimes struggles to find its own individual identity. Fans of the Castlevania anime will notice Yasuke follows a similar formula, jampacking its short-form season with gradually bigger (leading to gargantuan) enemies until an explosive final battle. Nevertheless, the show is certainly worth watching if just for its sumptuous animation and impeccable score.
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Apr 28, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Yasuke” is an action adventure at heart, and in its excited rush to layer twists, genre elements and mythology in six half-hour episodes, it feels hurried and overstuffed. ... Still, there’s a lot to see and hear and like in this story: the balletic swordplay, the hallucinatory visions of psychic combat, the subtler battles between competing conceptions of honor. By fancifully filling the gaps of history, “Yasuke” has created an intriguing hero, even if you may end it wanting to know him a little better.
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Apr 27, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s tempting to try and look for something else going on in Yasuke, because everything else about it feels somewhat slight. The action scenes are fun to watch—because how could they not be when they involve a samurai and robots and magic—but there are diminishing returns when every fight has a bigger robot or a more foreboding monster.
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Jan 14, 2022
Very good anime. with all pretty characters. Highly recommend you to watch this on Netflix.
1 of 1 users found this helpful10
May 12, 2021
Amazing story, amazing score, incredible characters. The flying lotus production is a real experience.
2 of 3 users found this helpful21
May 12, 2021
This show has so much emotional depth to it & amazing action. It's also connected to real history in the fact that Yasuke was a real African Samurai. Of course this show is more mystical but it's so unique!
2 of 4 users found this helpful22
May 5, 2021
In contrast to others i like the low information world building that creates silent wild, wide and narrow mystiques and possibilities for everything you might want to know or feel and that it can always return back to what it wants to be
1 of 1 users found this helpful10
May 6, 2021
Yasuke is a very cool anime with an amazing atmosphere and original soundtrack. The animation level and style are good, the characters are pretty awesome, Story is very straight forward you won't see any side moments everything is to the point. I like this kinda fantasy mix to real history.
2 of 4 users found this helpful22
May 21, 2021
2 of 3 users found this helpful21
Jun 3, 2021
0 of 3 users found this helpful03
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Air Date: April 29, 2021
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