Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I spoke with both Thomas and Jones about crafting Yasuke's story and how they approached mixing fantasy with facts about the most ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

A modern martial artist steps into real samurai armor and weapons, only to discover how brutal and exhausting true samurai ...

In the 1570s, a 6-foot-tall Black man referred to as Yasuke arrived in Japan, quickly drawing the attention of legendary leader Oda Nobunaga. The two became friends, and as the story goes—actual ...

The Netflix series follows Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada), a warrior struggling to care for his sick wife and daughter in post-samurai era Japan. He becomes one of nearly 300 fighters to compete in a ...

Creator LeSean Thomas and writer Nick Jones, Jr. discuss their new Netflix fantasy anime Yasuke and its real historical origins. Netflix’s new anime series Yasuke is LeSean Thomas’ ode to anime ...