ImDOntai Learns About The First Black Samurai 

I know Cory's gonna be happy.

Bro told a better story about Yasuke than the Anime

There was supposed to be a movie made starring Chadwick boseman but unfortunately the project was axed upon Chadwick's passing.😢

I'm just glad they didnt give him the killmonger hair

I feel like chat intentionally interrupts the trailer just to get Dontai on some rampage about something that has nothing to do with it

The silence was swallowing that room whole when she said that 😮

13:56 “First time catching your stream bro…” Dontai: “Get tf out” 😂😂

just so you know, I've heard that they change yasuke's story to fit in with the narrative that they're trying to create in ac, but hopefully it's just as enticing to play as that was to watch

Cory needs to come back just for this game 😊

Dontais videos remind me of my adhd it’s just absolutely all over the place he reacted to like 5 different things while reacting to the main video and I’m here for it keep up the good work bro

Dontai the type of guy to turn a 3 min trailer reaction into a 30 min video.

I would hate to be in the movie theatre with some of y'all in chat. LET HIM WATCH THE TRAILER

it's a ubisoft game in 2024 90% chance it's gonna be bad

The people saying “yasuke wasn’t a samurai and was a retainer” Have the be the most annoying people I have ever interacted with online, I promise a simple search will tell you they are LOKEY the same shit. What is a samurai? “Samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s during the Meiji era. They were the well-paid *RETAINERS* of the daimyo, the great feudal landholders. They had high prestige and special privileges.” These people seem like the type to say “Person X wasn’t a Swordsman he was a fencer” Like bruh 💀

There is not a lot we know about Yasuke. He’s more or less a footnote in history who came from somewhere in Africa, may or may not have been a slave, became a retainer of nobunaga with all of the perks that entailed, may or may not have been a samurai, and then disappeared after the death of Nobunaga and nobunaga’s son. If Yasuke wasn’t black we probably wouldn’t have heard about him at all. He stood out in central Japan at the time because of his skin color and his height (he towered over the average Japanese person at the time. If you want to know more I would suggest looking up Metatron’s video on the subject.

Yasuke was about that life bro, he really really spun back for his boys.

Gimmie a live action movie with Idris Elba watch that man COOK

Cory getting revived from the dead for one sponsored video and he’s leaving again

If this was the type of sh*t they were teaching in my history class I would have passed with flying colors.

"You ask about Yasuke, who is known to have worked as a retainer of Nobunaga Oda during the Sengoku period in Japan. The only thing we know about him is that he was probably from the area around present-day Mozambique, and that the Jesuits brought him to Japan from India. He worked as a missionary escort in Japan, but it is not known in what capacity. There is no conclusive testimony, as he was said to have been a slave or to have been of a certain rank. Missionaries used many blacks as slaves, but rarely brought them to Kyoto. Since it was very rare to see a dark-skinned person in Kyoto, many people gathered to see him, which is said to have caused some trouble. However, it seems that this did not happen with him, but among the onlookers. Nobunaga Oda was one of those who took an interest in him. Initially, Nobunaga suspected that his black color was a trick, so he had him wash himself and became more and more interested in him as he learned that it was not artificially colored. Eventually, he was hired by Nobunaga to be his retainer. According to some accounts, he was not a slave but a true retainer, which would suggest that Nobunaga at least considered him one of his regular retainers. However, he was a retainer of Nobunaga for approximately one year. In June 1582, a year and two months after he became the talk of Kyoto, Oda Nobunaga was ambushed and killed at Honnoji Temple. At this time he is captured by his attacker, Mitsuhide Akechi, who orders that he not be killed but turned over to Christian missionaries because he is an animal, and he is transferred to one of the churches that were being built at the time. It is not clear whether Mitsuhide really thought he was an animal or whether he lied to get him off scot-free, and the truth of these words remains a mystery. And since going to church, Yasuke's whereabouts have been completely unknown. Taken together, Yasuke is almost certainly real, but he is a great enigma. We do not know what language he could speak, nor do we know what Oda Nobunaga's other retainers thought of him. This kind of existence is perfect for describing the imagination that historical fiction likes to have about him. And perhaps you are one of them. In any case, he is a great enigma."

This is probably one of dontai's only videos which doesn't have the word "reacts" in it

i was just lurking for a new upload ayyy lets goo ❤❤

Yasuke...He was also in NIOH 2,Samurai Warriors,but then the public knowledge awareness was not as huge as today.

I wanna know why they didn’t choose a Japanese man as a main character in a game based in feudal Japan. “It’s too boring” don’t make sense cause they Samurai’s so I’m lost.

The guy is likely sourcing a romanticized version of history from a popular book. Not much is even known about Yasuke and many of the things he said aren't even recorded or things you can easily assume. He is, however, depicted as a samurai or just a warrior in fictional media even if it's unclear whether he was one or not irl.

I'm really sad that Chadwick Boseman never got to do that Yasuke movie cuz a lot of y'all woulda been put on

Yasuke anime so bad that dontai forgot he reacted to it😭

He is based off of a real person of the same name. He is the first documented African to arrive in Japan, and did so in 1579. In real life, Yasuke has a fascinating but mysterious history. It was that history, and the various groups he intersected with, that inspired Ubisoft to include him in the game

Out of nowhere, everyone cares that Yasuke was a Samurai or not, just because Ubisoft wants to do a game about it lol, No one said sht about the anime nor previous games about it.

Isn't there like a hundred Romeo and Juliet's I do not give a damn about this particular thing They can do anything with it at this point

I wanna see dontai play through assassins 1-4 at least I’m begging 😭

To summarise what Oda and Yasuke was, they was basically the first Rush Hour before The Rush Hour

Cory BETTER come back.

people are going a bit overboard with this, no AC game has been %100 following reality, they get historic characters and fit them in their story. In history he was a retainer, basically a samurai

bro i love how chat started talking bout bro cut i was thinking the same thing

This is the one thing i like about assassin’s creed current runs is they understand the two different elements between stealth and combat is more enjoyable when fully fleshed out instead of crammed into one character

if they made a movie about him i think Michael Jai White would be a good choice to play Yasuke

to make cinematic trailers, ubsoft is a lion!!! Now to make a good gameplay, it's a mouse.

This is the only assassins creed game I'm a little excited to play...

I think you can choose who to pick but if you can't I know for sure you'll be able to play as both and they'll choose

Yasuke never was a samurai he was a retainer/servant

6:20 Why they wouldn’t cast Zendaya as Juliet I’ll never know…

It’s crazy this hasn’t had a tv show or movie about this yet?

bro really said “how is that racist?” but I’m sure if someone made the same joke slightly differently he’d see it 💀

There's some serious anti history weirdos in this comment section, some of them just plain racist, have no clue what happened to my last comment but apparently RU-vid doesn't like truth I guess

Dontia not a hater, that’s toxic tai

They done bought kung fu Kenny to assassins creed

Yasuke wasn't a samurai he was a retainer

Bout to eat spagetti my sis cooked, and gonna watch this And the Memes A good day

Birthday release date go hard

They need to make this movie and have Micheal Jai White play Yasuke

This is the game if they let you choose im going as the black samurai

Oh man theres gonna be idiots saying “YASUKE ISNT REAL ITS WOKE PROPAGANDA”💀

All races have played Romeo and Juliet in plays. It’s cuz it’s Tom Holland and a famous British production that this is getting news In plays, race is not as important as in other media. Especially when not historical at all aka fictional

bro, was reading an article of gizmodo?

So Assassin’s Creed Shadows was (Project Red) and was being developed while Assassin’s Creed Mirage (recent) was being made. There’s another AC game simultaneously being worked on called Project Hexe which is going to take place during the Salem which trials. Also Assassin’s Creed take actual historical event and revolve the game around that while sprinkling fiction

Fire

That vid was so fire

It’s so funny that the yasuke anime was so bad ppl keep forgetting it exists

When I heard Chadwick was prepping to play Yasuke i immediately got the book the script was gonna be based on. "African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan" by Geoffrey Girard and Thomas Lockley. It's 300+ pages but its so detailed it literally feels like a MOVIE . I really hope AC stays as historically accurate as possible even if Yusuke only has a supportive role in game.

"He was just a Retainer!!!!!" He was in the field catching bodies and was having dinner with the head hancho on the regular.

They are making a movie about it coming in like the next 2 years or something

Yasuke wasn’t the first thought

I wanted to love the Yasuke anime so bad, but I couldn't 😢😢 It Hurt. I just hope his game debut will be good at least

How’s Yasuke gonna blend in with the crowd? Lmao

I was so hyped when Yasuke was fighting back that army only for dude to be like SIKE!

I'm a pirate

I’ve heard from a lot of the cultured folks that he was actually a servant not a samurai. He carried a weapon around but that never justified him being an actual samurai.

Ubisoft already giving us proof they don't plan on giving a historically accurate Yasuke

Can I get a link to the video please I can’t hear the guy over all these twitch popups and ai voices

he wasnt the first black samurai or even a samurai at all he was a retainer this games for brownie points man

7:20 maybe they just hired the best actress for the job? lol

Bro just heard of Yasuke

Hopefully there’s more than 2 animations for fighting. Ac Valhalla would’ve been great if the combat was just more fleshed out. An Ac3 style samurai game would be hype.

I don't think the anime is that trash, only problem is it's not realistic. They got magic and robots and shii but its cool.

Here is a true question, How many characters in Assassin's Creed (AC 1 through AC Valhalla) were playable and if any of them were true historical people from the past? The ANSWER is very simple, 15 Playable Fictional Characters and “NONE” of them were true historical people of the past! All the "playable" characters in AC 1 through AC Valhalla were all fictional characters, Yasuke was a real historical person who was nothing more than a retainer, not a samurai. Yasuke IS A REAL HISTORICAL BLACK MAN WHO WAS NOTHING BUT A RETAINER FOR Oda Nobunaga! "Real Historical Person," Yasuke was and is but a "Retainer." The other Assassin's Creed characters from Assassin's Creed 1 through Assassin's Creed Valhalla are "Fictional," characters that DO NOT EXIST IN ACTUAL HISTORY. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (Fictional Character), Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Fictional Character), Captain Edward James Kenway (Fictional Character), Adéwalé (Fictional Character), Aveline de Grandpré (Fictional Character), Bayek of Siwa (Fictional Character), Alexios and Kassandra (Fictional Characters), Basim Ibn Ishaq (Fictional Character), and others that are not based in our past historical history. That is why I always stated to other people that 80% is Fact because of True History for Assassin's Creed Video Games, then there is the 20% Fiction that has "People", Places, Items, and other things that are in the game, are not in our past history. Yasuke "IS A TRUE HISTORICAL PERSON IN JAPAN," NOT A FICTIONAL CHARACTER, you can say, "fantasy," all you want but we all know that Yasuke is a real black man who was a retainer, not trained to use the katana, he cleaned Nobunaga's Katana's and other weapons that is what a retainer does. Sorry to say in true historical words and more true blunt historical words Yasuke was a retainer meaning he was a servant to Oda Nobunaga. Not my words but in actual dictionary definitions, Retainer is a person attached or owing service to a household especially a: SERVANT or b: EMPLOYEE. There’s discrepancies in Japanese history about Yasuke and we don’t know he was a retainer or a samurai that was trained. There is basically no actual documentation except for a few stories, but stories can change over time because of different perspectives, different things happening different mindset. Just like for example, that if you say something from a long time ago by word-of-mouth, then someone says it in a different word or words than that word-of-mouth or whatever you said can be different. And we cannot forget about WWII that many things could’ve been lost because of the war, and we may never know from certain items to certain documentations were burnt or been completely annihilated because of the two bombs, but we don’t know. I’m not saying that this can be a true story or not but all we know that he was nothing more than a retainer and that is it. I am sorry to say, but until there is actual more evidence like where is Yasuke Katana sword? Where is it? Does anyone know? Because if you have that sword and it has his name on it and approves that he was a samurai, but in the end, no sword, no proof that he was a samurai. Both Greed and WOKE is the message and agenda on both UBISOFT and Sweet Baby Inc. and Black Gamer Girls, and DEI Money. There is no story or the Hero's Journey in this game. Assassin's Creed is just now a "Shadow Shell," of itself and an empty husk. You know if only the Baka writer read Japanese History a lot closer than instead of 2 characters to play, there could be only 1 character to play. There was an opportunity they could have used instead of a fictional black samurai character and in real history he was a retainer not a samurai. If only they read Japanese history carefully and throughly they could have made the only one Japanese Female Assassin Character. Combined both true history and fiction, Japanese women at the time did learn to use a particular weapon called, "Naginata," a Polearm weapon with a curved blade at the top. While the katana sword tends to be associated with male samurai of Japan, a distinctive weapon called the naginata has been traditionally associated with women and female fighters known as onna-bugeisha. This could have been the base of a Japanese Assassin's Creed Story, with a Japanese Woman who learned to use the Naginata and eventually learns the way of the Assassin's Brotherhood. Do you know why they don’t want to make a game based in Africa, especially in Assassin’s Creed well because in actual history, many of the warring tribes enslaved their own kind. In about 90% or even 80% of the black population of today, don’t want to admit that their own kind in Africa, their own ancestors in Africa enslaved their own kind. This is why they don’t want to make any Assassin’s Creed games based in Africa. I know they already did Egypt, but I am talking other African countries or places in Africa other than Egypt like South Africa, Algeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and the other 48 African countries.

They also have another one coming up as well!!

If we get a live action of Yasuke I suggest Micheal Jai White

aint no gonna talk about the video about Yasuke using dog shit ai art?

Play Afro samurai there is a anime too

Dontai’s locs looking great

Im not really complaining , just curious. What happened to the intros?

This needs to be a real life movie

Why are all these comments talking about Cory?

She didn’t have enough swag to say that shit.

This should become a canon variant of Logan

people get too comfortable bcs you don't do sht anymore. in the 90s, black people used to f them up but the media softened y'all up

7:09 anyone who's upset about her being black already didn't like black people to begin with

praying this one is good. I BEEN waiting for a Japanese assassins creed game! Ghost of Tsushima was probably the closest to that i guess

I dont see how Dontai can ever get anything done lol

Trying to watch a video with the most unhinged text-to-speech messages playing is literal hell, I would never have that if I was a streamer.

Wasn't Yasuke a servant and a retainer?

The black samurai is off a real person

Why is bro in Japan this makes no sense 💀

been a damn min since i watched a dontai vid fr

BRO MAD AT BLACK PPL!?

I missed you 😢

I hope dontai plays assassin's creed

Honestly it’s about time we get yasuke rep

How do you not know about the first black samurai in japan yasuke no they did not kill him they took his castle from him he was going to be a lord