I can't remember a game that the Japanese have been so repulsed by. I respect UBI in a different way for angering the patient Japanese and uniting three countries that don't get along: Japan, China and Korea.
I am from India and I can say without a doubt that Japanese people should be angry. I mean why would someone go and medle with a country's culture and mythology in such a spiteful and derogatory mannner. Cultural history is and always will be the root of existence of a country. Meddling with such a thing is criminal and immoral.
長文でお気持ち表明しようと思ったけど、 I was going to write a long winded complaint. 読み返してあほらしくなったわ。 Then I read it back and felt stupid. 言いたいのはこれだけ。 So all I want to say is this. ファンタジーならファンタジーと言え。 If it's fantasy, call it fantasy. 史実なら史実と言え。 If it's historical fact, call it historical fact. 史実を元にしたファンタジーならファンタジーと言え。 If it is fantasy based on historical fact, call it fantasy. 想像を絶するバカもいる。 Some of them are unimaginably stupid. 嫌いなものは嫌いで結構。 If you don't like something, don't mind if you don't like it. 日本が憎いなら日本が憎いと言え。 If you hate Japan, say you hate Japan. ただし誠実であれ。 But be sincere. (DeepL翻訳)
刀で首を切るのは非効率的だという事はギロチンを発明した首切りの専門家であるフランス人が良く知っている事でしょう。 The French, the decapitation experts who invented the guillotine, would know very well that decapitation with a sword is inefficient. (DeepL翻訳)
Yep. In the show _Forged in Fire,_ even when the martial artist Doug Marcaida slashes the neck, he cuts deep but almost never decapitates his targets. This only happens with heavy two-handed weapons.
If "Assassin's Creed Shadows" is not cultural theft, what is? And they are even altering history. How can you guys be so duplicitous and so unconcerned?
Theft or not, it's all entirely made up... They don't even have due diligence or don't even care. I think Western weebs know more about Japan than the entire UBI team. Unfortunately, it seems that Ubi, as well as many western media, just pushing their 'image of Japan' into the work, even if it's not even close to the minimum acceptable level...
How could UBI make a good game when they don't respect the Japanese people and their culture? They are just using the Japan setting to make more money for themselves. They couldn't care less what's the rest of the world's perception of Japan after playing the game as long they get their profits.
And like it or not the truth is the actual first non-Japanese person who truly became a Samurai and admitted to be it is a white European male named William Adams 😂 The wokeys just can't get any smarter.
That was informative, I've seen people from both sides, but even in a robot voice i can feel the indignation from the japanese people's comments. Thanks Ubisoft.
It's okay. As long as you tell the world, "I'm just using the names of people from history, and the story part is all fantasy." For example, if Masamune Date wields six swords, a horse flies in the sky, or Nobunaga Oda is transformed into a woman, as long as it is a fantasy work and interesting, Japanese people can enjoy it. UBI should honestly say, "It's hard to research about Japanese Samurai, we don't know their culture, and we don't want to study them, so we made a westerner (black) the main character." Why don't you just say that? After all, they don't know anything about Japanese people or Japanese culture (and don't want to study it), and they want to be poly-colored, so they decided to use a Westerner (a black man) who is just right. This is very disrespectful to black people. Really.
At first, many Japanese people accepted Yasuke as the main character favorably. However, UBI stated that "Yasuke was a samurai," which was a false piece of information, as historical fact. This statement has angered tolerant Japanese people. UBI should have simply said that it was "fiction." I hope everyone will understand that. sorry Google Translate
If UBI had said, "This is a fantasy work," most Japanese people probably wouldn't have been upset. After all, Japanese people love fantasy works. But when they say that Super YASUKE, which they created, "faithfully depicts historical facts," it makes me angry, as it feels like they've tarnished Japanese history and culture.
True. Ubi is trying to sell fantasy as historical fact. Their goal is to mislead game players about the truth and deceive them about history. There is nothing wrong with selling fantasy as fantasy. The problem is that they try to replace fantasy with actual historical facts. You have to distinguish between fiction and reality.
Even if they said it was fantasy, you should still be mad. They are saying that they like Japanese culture, but not the Japanese men that built the Japanese culture.
@@loudradialem5233I’m Japanese. If they say this is fantasy, we won’t be mad at all. After all, no one has problem with Nioh where you play as white character slaying Japanese Yokai with flaming sword. If Yasuke beat up Japanese mythical monster while breakdancing, I promise you Japanese will love it.
I am Japanese. The Yasuke stands as a sort of miscellaneous servant of Oda Nobunaga, whose name only appears a few times in accurate primary Japanese sources. He was just a rare race at the time, and Nobunaga only recruited him because he liked him a lot personally, and he is not counted as a Samurai, nor did he actually do any such work again. And this is clear from their names, as any Japanese person was not allowed to use the surname unless they were of samurai or higher status at the time. In fact, at Honnoji, where Nobunaga died, even someone of Yasuke's position was allowed to attend the tea ceremony by Nobunaga's insistence, and Yasuke was taken along to show his power to others. Akechi, who killed Nobunaga because he was not actually a samurai, took Yasuke under his protection and politely sent him back to the Jesuits, where he had been. It is therefore common to interpret Yasuke as having left Japan from then on. Please don't call inaccurate information as historical fact. And please don't rush to make things up on the surface because the Japanese are angry, only to reword it as fantasy for the Japanese. The Japanese people are hundreds of times more angry than you think. I will draw the same content in Japanese, just in case someone asks about the Japanese. 私は日本人です。 弥助は日本の正確な一次資料では、名前が数回出てくるだけの織田信長の雑用のような立ち位置です。 当時珍しい人種だっただけで、信長が個人的にかなり気に入り採用しただけであり、侍とはカウントされていませんし、実際にそのような仕事もまたしていないのです。 そして、その事は日本人であれば誰でも名前から見て、当時侍以上の身分でなければ、苗字を使う事を許されていない為分かります。 実際信長が亡くなった本能寺では、他者に弥助のような立場の者すら、信長のゴリ押しで茶会に出席させられる権力を見せつける為に弥助をつれていき また、実際侍ではないため信長を殺した明智は弥助を保護し、彼の元いたイエズス会に丁重に送り返しています。 その為以降は日本を離れたと解釈するのが一般的です 不正確な情報を史実と言わないで下さい。そして、日本人が怒っているからといって、あわてて表面上だけでっち上げ、日本人にだけファンタジーと言い換えるのもやめてほしい。 日本人はあなたが思っている何百倍も怒っています。
Thank you for the information. once I see this, the game looks immature and just put everything all they want, and just for a profit (as some of the others). I think SBI massive movement just became too far, Uugh..!!!
How could UBI be so corrupt? "It's based on historical facts! They're saying out loud that they're doing a lot of things wrong with Japanese culture. I wish they would learn from Ghost of Tsushima and SHOGUN. If the game is like this, most Japanese will not buy it.
About 10 years ago: A hidden coffee shop in a back alley with a reputation for delicious food. Now: A chain store with many young, unsightly employees serving low-quality, unpleasant food and coffee.
ubi "We're releasing a new game set in Japan!" Japanese "Great!" ubi "The main character is a real-life black man named Yasuke". Japanese "Why isn't the main character Japanese? Well, as long as it's interesting. ubi "Yasuke is a legendary samurai who has been passed down through history. Japanese"That's not true. But it is only a fiction, so I will allow some exaggeration. If you say it is fiction. ubi: "It's based on historical research and is faithful to the historical facts. Japanese "What? ubi "We were looking for someone who could be our samurai, that is, someone who could be our eyes who is not Japanese."(Discrimination against Japanese) Japanese "Whaaat?" ubi for Japanese "Oh no, of course it's a fiction." ubi for non-Japanese "Yasuke is a legendary samurai! Japanese "Are you kidding ?" ubi "Please take a look at this" (ubi proudly shows images and concept art that shows no respect for Japanese culture, such as mixing up the seasons, allegedly using illustrations and family crests without permission, reversing kimonos and Buddhist statues (which changes the meaning), etc.) Japanese "have nothing but a part to correct." Crazy person: "There were legendary black samurai in Japan!" Japanese: "There is no record of them." Crazy person: "Japanese people are hiding the glorious history of black people! Japanese people are racist! Japanese "Eh..." (confused) Japanese "Hey ubi, please correct to the whole world that this is not historical fact but fiction." ubi " You are racists. We condemn you and I encourage the rest of the industry and players to denounce them,too." (Pretending to be a victim) Japanese "I'm going to get serious" (Unprecedented anger)
thank you for your hard work and dedication into compiling this I'm glad we overseas fans are not the only ones bothered by the fact that they chose a samurai as the main character instead of a ninja
It is not that the film is criticized because it features a black man. It is that the film adapts his identity and presents it to the world as if it were true to history, and that a Japanese samurai would not have made such an impression. The use of a photo of a Japanese private businessman in the concept art without his permission was also highly controversial. Let me say again, the Japanese are not discriminating against blacks. There is no doubt about that.
The game creator asked the Japanese why they were unhappy. I ask those who are watching the comments: Wouldn't you be unhappy if people said, "Dr. King was able to carry out his cause only because of the help of brave white people, and he could never have done it alone"? Let me put it another way: "Thomas Edison was an incompetent who couldn't have invented anything without stealing ideas from black people. This is a historical fact." If it had been promoted as a completely fictional story, it would have been accepted. The problem is the arrogance of trampling on the history of other countries and other races.
Yeah, all that's happening with a lot of people all over the world and all throughout history. In regards to UBI, it's all performative and driven by "focus tested groups" to maximize profit, supposedly.
@@sonyblank1487 Through this game, their thoughts become apparent in a paradoxical way. 1) Japanese people don't matter. They're all yellow anyway. Right? 2) There's no history of black people, right? So we have to piggyback on other history. Right?
@@sonyblank1487 Even in Japan, a kind of propaganda organization specializing has been formed to pressure government agencies and companies and to have a negative influence on legislation. There was a man who accused such an organization of improper use of public funds, but he was pressured by dozens of lawyers and bashing reports in the media and on TV. It is said that what happened in the U.S. will happen in Japan in a few years. Decisions made by the U.S. Congress will have a negative impact through the internal regulations of the U.S. branches of Japanese companies. As for the Japanese government, it is at the mercy of the US Democratic Party, and the Japanese vulgar gossip magazines start bashing any politician who crosses them. Some politicians used to endure it...but now they don't exist. Those familiar with Japanese politics will know who I am talking about. Even after his death, he continue to be bashed with the stigma of lies.
The opposite signature of Assassin's Creed Shadows is being done online. It's Japanese, but people from all over the world can participate. Everyone who loves Japan, please join us.
this remember me when they make assassins creed 3 have a level that take place in brazil and they received a lot of backlash either because of how sterotyped and even ofecive that level was and also because they portrait brazil in the worst way possible and ubi even ask sorry for that, look like this guys don't know how to portrait nothing that aren't european and they still think like imperialist europeans, you know there's a reason why there's a lot of stealed treasures from another countrys in europe lol!
The reason why Japanese people are criticizing this work is because UBI has announced that it ``faithfully reproduces based on historical facts'' things that many Japanese people point out as incorrect history. If it was called fiction, Japanese people would be more tolerant. Family crests are used on armor and flags, but they are clumsy (family crests are the same as European emblems. Descendants of the Oda family still use family crests). Yasuke has no last name and is clearly not a samurai. This is because samurai at that time were like royal guards for the nobility, and were given special surnames. In addition, during the Kamakura period (1985 AD～), an order was issued prohibiting human trafficking and slavery, so there was no slavery in the country. Beheadings are said to have been commonplace, but samurai needed permission to use their swords in town. Therefore, it is not a daily occurrence. As mentioned above, there are many things that do not respect Japan's culture and history, but rather disrespect it. It has also become a problem due to the presence of insulting remarks and expressions.
The Japanese word for an incident that results in criticism from a large number of people on the Internet is called "flaming". Ubisoft has been throwing firewood into the fire so that it will never be extinguished. We hope that the fire will continue to burn until the release date.
As a British person who has lived in Japan, has a Japanese wife, and has come to understand the etiquette and societies of both nations, it's bizarre to me to see how obsessed some Americans are with "race", judging people by the colour of their skin, and putting everyone into groups of "oppressor" or "oppressed". Of course, we know that these American leftists/race grifters like to attack white people, who they see as some kind of enemy. While Japanese people are not ethnically "Caucasian", I have heard these race grifters refer to Asians as "white adjacent". This means that they see Japanese and other East Asians as on the same level as white people, and therefore as "privileged, oppressors" etc. I wonder if this is why they feel comfortable criticising Japanese-developed games for their character designs and replacing Japanese characters, whereas they would complain if someone did the same regarding games developed by or featuring characters from "oppressed" groups.
Brits should not comment on this game but on the disrespectful behavior of a British man at the Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, where he attacked a Shinto woman who was worshipping and reprimanded him, calling her a "right-wing racist." Right now, the Japanese are extremely angry at the Brits. The Times also reportedly stated that while it's fine for British people to play at the shrine, the woman who reprimanded them is abnormal. You are well aware of this uproar, aren't you?
Hypocrites don't seem to be satisfied unless black people are in a "poor position" all the time. Are you getting some money? It's Asian discrimination, but the opinions of us Asians are ignored because they don't make money.
As a British person you have no right or place to put Americans all in the same boat. Worry about your own problems instead of lumping an entire country in together like that. All you had to do was put some Americans but that one brain cell didn't think about that
@@shirankedo-ib8uv This is so irrelevant, you are racially targetted him using an incident as a backdrop linking it to his ethnicity. Nothing insightful given. No comment on the controversial nature of the topic. Nothing relevant at all about the game and topic. This whataboutism is embarassing.
@@angkear6267Brits in Japan are united in attacking this Japanese woman with false rumors. This stems from British nationalism, exclusivism, and racism. We are waiting for one of them to feel shame, sincerely apologize, and restore the honor of the UK people.
I agree with all the comments in this video, AC used to be all about historical accuracy, it used to be a way for people to relive and experience key events that happened in a culture/region. Now they only care about making woke games
I'm Japanese, but don't UBI care that black people are portrayed as shadows? In Japanese, the word shadows is used in a negative sense, such as " a person who cannot appear on stage.'' It's a word associated with slavery, so I don't understand why they chose Yasuke.
@@SaintKines Your point? Does Nioh belong to Ubisoft? Is the game from 2024 where SBI’s influence is vast? There are plenty of games using foreigners as protagonist in old Japan, but the focus of topic is on Ubi and their current motive.
@@SaintKines Long answer. For starter, Assassin Creed as a series was known to be faithful towards the history and culture of where each story takes place, while utilizing the natives to tell stories. AC: Shadow, however, had broken this rule by bastardizing the Japanese culture during Sengoku period. Many elements, from architecture, seasonal traits, custom, emblems, etc, were all wrong. Instead of doing their research, Ubi created a fictional Japan where they just dumped all popular aspects of Japan into it, aiming to satisfy Westerners' fantasy of orient. Yasuke is no different. He wasn't a samurai, and had done nothing significant during the Sengoku era. While his blank slate makes it easier to tell a story of growth, Ubi team advertised him saying, "We want our own samurai," to tell a foreign perspective, which is like jumping the shark from the AC series as a whole. People can only conclude that Ubi's motive wasn't being respectful towards Japanese culture, but appropriating it as a platform to fulfill recent trend of DEI, and to avoid criticisms from SBI.
@@Cyberium As an Asian man, if both protagonist isn't close to a Japanese person - it already broke something within the AC storytelling formula. Based on the setting, they could've use other race too (Portuguese, Netherlands, basically European because of the trades) - and it'll also upset many people. Why when it come to Japan, they suddenly grasping straw for a protagonist from other racial background? Yasuke could've been an NPC (supporting character) that we crossed path with, to furthering the point that YES, he existed at that particular era.
It's rude to compare him to Little Boy, who is a willing hater. Yasuke was a missionary slave when he was alive, deprived of his freedom and When he dies, he's feted by the Samurai of Diversity and forced to slaughter the Japanese. Yasuke is a victim. He's just a plaything for the whites and the righteous of the time.
If it was set in Japan, I wanted a Japanese person to be the main character. I guess from a foreigner's point of view, they don't want to control an Asian.(；；)
I have never been that interested in Assasin's creed games, but the assasin's creed games has been a garbage video game serie for a long long time. The "quality" of the context or characters been like this in these creed games is not something new to me. I really hope the developers hit rock bottom with this new one and stop releasing more garbage.
The mistake is "this is true to the historical facts" and professing their own fabricated fantasies. I agree with the comment in the video, "UBI making fun of black people in a roundabout way. I like black people in spite of their painful history, because they have many great people and a great culture. But when I saw Yasuke() slaughtering all the people who looked smaller and weaker than him in the demo movie, I was disgusted. It's just bullying the weak. Yasuke likes to bully the weak? Are they the kind of people who relish being told that they are of low humanity who relish such things? We are strong! huh? UBI are just say they should be happy that white people have made you the main character (Yasuke = a little guy with a cause, but who is a jerk bully the weak) in a popular content! from higher perspective. There is no respectfor black people and japanese. Play it and you'll see how fun it is？ I wouldn't want to buy a game that makes me feel so bad just for a glimpse. I think the series of events related to this game might trigger a sense of racism. I think Most Japanese are less discriminating than Westerners, but if we or our culture and history are taunted to like this extent, I will have a bad preconception about them.
Apparently Akechi Mitsuhide/明智光秀 is Yasuke's enemy in the game? Furthermore, Yasuke's role is to save the Japanese people from oppression. But Akechi Mitsuhide is considered the benefactor of Fukuchiyama/福知山 and worshipped as a god in Goryo Jinja/御霊神社. It's disrespectful to steal the achievements of a god and belittle him as an oppressor. Is Ubi making fun of Japanese religion?
ロックリーの新事実発覚 wiki弥助ページ編集履歴の中に、長年そこを編集してる「トットリトム」って奴＝ロックリー 根拠① ロックリー本出版の数か月前に記事の出典としてロックリー本を引用 、出版後に引用部分を完全なタイトルに置き換えた 根拠②トーマスの愛称はトム、ロックリーは日本の鳥取県で英語を教えてい た There is something that has been a hot topic recently. Everyone knows that the source of Yasuke's story is a book by Thomas Lockley, but in the editing history of the Wikipedia page for Yasuke, there is a person called "Tottoritom," who has been the main revamper of the page for many years. Oddly, Tom cited Lockley's book as the source of his article months before it was published, then replaced the citation with the full title after the book was actually published. The only people who know the contents of a book before it is published are those involved, those who can predict the future, and the author himself. Who would you choose? As an added note, we all know how Tom is used as a nickname, and Lockley taught English in ""Tottori"", in Japan.
❝This work of fiction was not designed, not developed, and not produced by a multicultural team of various beliefs, sexual orientations and gender identities. ❞ ゲーム開始時に流れるテロップはこう変えるべきだね。
Everything is so messed up. The mysterious claim that Yasuke was a samurai, unheard of by the Japanese, seems trivial now. To the Japanese, this is another fantasy world, perhaps a parallel world in another universe. ISEKAI😂
@@LukeHartman-ro7hl he said he was a pet, which is bullshit and a blatant attempt at diminishing his role. Yasuke worked for Nobunaga. Don’t be disingenuous.
@oktusprime3637 Nobody but the fantastical afrocentrists are being disingenuous. The guy was an ornament. He was not what they are trying to rewrite him as. Foreigners were not taken kindly in Japan at that time.
I still find it hilarious that ubisoft doesnt even do enough research into their own stuff yet they want to claim historical accuracy. Yasuke was barely in japan for 18 months if that. So how exactly did he become this "legendary samurai" that people claim that he is? What battles did he fight in? He didnt save Nobunaga nor did he commit seppuku like any self respecting actual samurai would do. Hell Nobunaga had people try to rub his skin cause he didnt even think he was actually black. All these facts and people still wanna call him a samurai? He didnt even have a last name which samurai had and he only carried one sword. Which samurai carried 2 of them. All these things and some people still claim he was a samurai. He was a circus act that Nobunaga let carry a sword. Nothing more nothing less
Lol love the new ASSassin Greed Shallow game. Next time, maybe they should make Ancient Korea with a white male protagonist and a black female protagonist. It will be called Assassin Creed Black and White :)
Я русский, посмотрел я на это и у меня вопрос вопрос а нафига покупать игру если даже главного героя сделали черным в угоду западной культуре , ладно бы его просто добавили в игру ведь и в правду был такой персонаж, но писать игру про Японию где нет главного героя японца я считаю глупо
