the JP response to NA/EU getting mad about yasuke in ac: shadows has ranged from "it's not that serious. calm down" to a very sympathetic "wow it's a shame you don't know about yasuke he's very popular. maybe you will learn something."
funniest thing was seeing some dude ask a JP person how they felt about "DEI" in ac: shadows and their response was "we've seen nobunaga portrayed as a little girl and honda tadakatsu as a gundam. why are you so bothered?"
hot limit is legendary..!! and honestly will be interested if ranmaru does show up?? i just wanna know if we're gonna see men loving men.. please ubi..
People mad at Assassin's Creed have stop playing it (and paying for it) eons ago. They are no longer considered the target audience from my former employer. :)
I played about 20 minutes of one ages ago at a friend's and went "neat" and haven't touched them since, so I'm neither here nor there, lol. But the, ahem, discourse in this case has been... "interesting".
They claim to care about Japanese culture being "colonized", but then don't give a shit about actual Japanese people who think they're being ridiculous.
that's just like when they fight over "localization" and it turns out it was exactly the same in the original, those aren't real reasons, they're just the stick they think they can beat you with
Because they don't care about actual colonization, they just care about their imaginary invented image of the pure anime japanese culture nothing more.
white weebs finding out that Japan's pop culture loves Yasuke and constantly uses him as an example of a cool outsider who adopted Japanese tradition and thrived is so fucking funny to watch.
Like, yea dudes, most non-insane Japanese people think he owned, it's a cool story!
yeah! he's v popular! it's so goofy to see them try and ask JP people how they feel about it when the response is like "we love it!" and them try to pivot the convo away to no effect lmao
I was explaining the drama to a friend in Japan because obviously she doesn't poison her brain like I do and her response was just 'lol people are only upset here because they didn't really show him fighting enough'
the people crave Yasuke kicking ass
no one (gamers [negative]) is allowed to talk to me about yasuke unless they have a ph.d in japanese history and focused on the warring states period
i don't have the emotional energy to argue with those stupid chuds today
it's def bc yasuke is an MC and not a side character. and Nioh is way less popular by comparison to AC. there are a lot of factors with all of these things boiling down to racism.
For sure, if he was a side character the racist whining would probably way less prominent (but probably not totally gone). I do think it's weird they thought Japan was going to be on their side at all, but research isn't exactly a strong suit amongst that crowd
I find that more often than not when I discuss things with my Japanese family that the reaction is overwhelmingly “ they’re ( white boys) are mad about what now ? “
yeah I was noting the other day how weird it was that this was only getting controversial now, given all of his past appearances: bsky.app/profile/egal...
You'd think that with the number of times that Yasuke has already been depicted in pop culture, that people would be used to him, and thus wouldn't get upset by Assassin's Creed joining the list, but ah well, I guess not:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#...
Unfortunately the most ignorant of Americans are also the loudest (see the former POTUS) so I hope in Japan they don’t think the small number of people who are like OMG NO WAY don’t speak for the rest of us who know he was a famous samurai.
