Recently, it seems as if the world has just discovered that at one point there was an African Samurai. Yes, you read that correctly: A black man named Yasuke was a samurai in feudal Japan at one point. He will be the subject of an upcoming Netflix anime and a live-action movie. He will also be appearing in a new game. No, it won’t be a Ghost of Tsushima-like game, although that would be awesome. Instead, it will be the next Samurai Warriors game, Samurai Warriors 5. In a new trailer, it is revealed that Yasuke will be a playable character in the game along with many other characters, some of whom were previously announced.
Listed below is every playable character announced so far:
- Hanbei Takenaka
- Hanzo Hattori
- Hideyoshi Hashiba
- Hisahide Matsunaga
- Ieyasu Tokugawa
- Kagetora Nagao
- Kanbei Kuroda
- Katsuie Shibata
- Kazuuji Nakamura
- Nagamasa Azai
- Magoichi Saika
- Mitsuhide Akechi (Youth / Mature)
- Mitsuki
- Motonari Mori
- No
- Nobunaga Oda (Youth / Mature)
- Oichi
- Sandayu Momochi
- Sena
- Shikanosuke Yamanaka
- Shingen Takeda
- Tadakatsu Honda
- Takakage Kobayakawa
- Toshiie Maeda
- Toshimitsu Saito
- Yasuke
- Yoshimoto Imagawa
Yasuke’s role in the game will the same he had in real life. He will serve as a samurai bodyguard to Nobunaga Oda, who is also playable. The game’s official website reveals the following about this depiction of Yasuke:
The website also has a description for two different versions of Nobunaga Oda. Here is the young Oda description:
This is the description of mature Oda:
