There really was a Black Samurai named Yasuke – but the tales told in the new Netflix series take the character into fantastical realms

From this first half of the season we have no sense of where he comes from, what drives him or what he thinks. Really, he is nothing more than a Black body on screen helping us, the viewer, access what is otherwise quite a strange world the show has built.

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