Of all of the historic figures from feudal Japan, they cherry pick one black servant....they have every right to be pissed

日本人は主人公が黒人だから怒っているわけじゃありません。 日本の歴史をねつ造して、史実だと主張して日本人差別を繰り返すUBIに怒ってます。 UBIは訂正して日本人に謝罪すべきです。

トレーラーで村人が弥助に頭を下げている姿は、大昔に人種差別的な表現のエンタメを作っていた頃のディズニーを見ているようで悲しかった。日本人が頭を下げる意味を理解しておらず、「日本人だからぺこぺこ頭を下げさせておけ」というステレオタイプをとても感じた。なんで日本人が人に頭を下げるのか意味を理解しているのか？縁も繋がりもない侍にあんなに直角に頭を下げるのも、赤の他人に当然のように背筋を伸ばして介錯を任せて正座しだすのも、本当に馬鹿みたいな演出だよ。

Ubisoft and Japanese gamers "This game has a black protagonist": A little disappointing, but ok "We have thoroughly researched the history": Obviously wrong, but this is a game. No problem. "Yasuke was a legendary samurai respected by the Japanese": What...? "It is based on fact. Japanese people should learn history.": “Critical comments in Japanese are either white people pretending to be or far-right Japanese people.” : "Those who object are historical revisionists and racists.": Thank you for introducing yourself.

私は署名した日本人です。 少なくとも私自身は黒人侍をフィクションの主人公にすること自体にはそれほど怒りを感じません。 しかし、そこに至る経緯(これはUBIが今現在語っています)と宣伝方法、弥助についての歴史的な歪曲には怒りを感じます。 また、登場人物以外にも、あまりにも間違った文化的建造物や日本の習慣、所作、自然の描き方にも非常に怒りを感じます。有り得ない鳥居の描き方(デザインすら正しくない。配置もおかしい)日本にいない(おそら くは東南アジア系の)猿などひどいものです。UBIのスタッフは正しい漢字すら知らないのです。 これを文化的盗用、尊厳の破壊と言わず何というのか。 我々日本人は怒っています。

Where do I sign up for the movement? Let's make woke illegal.

弥助が武士だったという嘘を訂正させるのが無難な目標かなと思います 嘘を一回許すと何回も嘘つかれるから許してはならぬぞ

「日本人は黒人が主人公だから怒っているんだ」と人種問題に話をすり替えて、私たちを人種差別主義者にしたい海外の方々がいるようですが、 日本人は1度もそんなこと言ってませんよ。論点すら理解できないなら喋らないでください。

Not just Japan. English hate it as well. Only people who will buy this are people who don't care about integrity or the future of the gaming industry. Soy edition will come with a spine and balls for them. I stand with Japan, let ubisoft Crumble.

UBIは日本人の意見を無視するので、多くの日本人が激怒していることを伝えるために署名活動を始めました 動画にしてくれてありがとう

Japan never had an issue with Ghosts of Tsushima

This game is an insult to Japan!!!

弥助はそもそも侍じゃない。ただの荷物持ち

Japan has every right to call this BS game out just like Egypt called out the BS Cleopatra documentary not so long ago

Glad to see Japan calling out ubislop for their bullshit and we need to continue to vote with our wallets.

Most of us that signed the petition don't expect that the game will be cancelled, but we are really getting annoyed that Ubisoft just keeps ignoring our voices. It's just another outlet of expressing our displeasure, really. I mean, for about a month, we kept finding something wrong with their "historical accuracy" almost daily. Their concept arts include modern re-enactment group (at least two of them now, we'll probably find more). Another concept art was filled with copy-paste of old photographs from Meiji-period, which are ~300 years after the time Yasuke was around. Another one had barbed wires and nylon ropes in the corner if you look carefully. They've mixed up some of our important historical structures (literaly mixed up, as in a building that has features of multiple historical structures all over the place). They've mixed up our religion (buddhist practice in shinto shrine, Shito Torii gates in buddhist temple, etc.), messed up many of our religious symbols (e.g. copy-paste image of buddha statue that's been flipped, apparently not knowing that left hand and right hand have distinct symbolical meaning in buddhism). Almost every detail in the game they've shown so far, we find something wrong.... Calling Yasuke as "legendary samurai" is now just one of very, very long list. At this point, that they have audacity to still claim that they respected and paid attention to our culture and history is by itself a serious insult.

It's downright disrespectful. 101% disrespect for Japanese culture and people.

フィクションであれば、 トム・クルーズでも 弥助でも問題はない。 ユービーアイソフトが、これが日本の歴史だと言った事にはとても怒っています。

Japan shouldn’t be happy having their culture changed.

Good to see people pushing back Ubisoft's woke nonsense. I hope more people stop giving them money. Ubisoft really needs to go out of business. The sooner the better. And I say that as a longtime Assassin's Creed fan, but they have long since steered that franchise into the rocks with feminism and woke nonsense.

It should at least be banned from sale in Japan by the Japanese govt

弥助は侍ではありません。日本人の多くがこのゲームによって歴史が変えられたと怒っています。 日本では発売を中止する署名活動が起こっています。UBIは日本から出ていくべきです。

Ubisoft, in addition to disrespecting the entire nation of Japan, has disrespected the previous entries in their own series as well. Terrible company.

この署名も最初は日本人ばかりで1万人以上署名が集まっていましたが、今日は日本人以外の人たちも参戦してきているようです。 ただWLMや黒人を排除しろなとどいう、署名の趣旨とは全く関係ない書き込みが増えてきているのを懸念しています。 私たちは弥助が主人公でも歓迎したいと思っていましたが、それ以前に日本という国が雑に描かれすぎています。 綿密な歴史舞台考証がこのシリーズの売りの一つだと考えていたファンはがっかりしています。 黒人が主人公だから、ではなく、インチキな日本をさもこれが真実だというような製作陣の傲慢な態度に怒っています！ まとめてくれてありがとう！

Yet, journalists demonized "Ghosts of Tsushima," even though Japanese gamers liked it. Shows their double standards, and selective outrage.

現代で、白人の政治団体や活動家の手によってWOKEのシンボルにされた弥助もあの世で困惑していることだろう。

Always remember the real life tsushima honored the devs with naming a bride after them so screw this hypocrisy

弥助の功績を矮小化しているというコメントも見られますが、彼が日本にいたのは約3年。信長に拾われた期間はのは1年と3ヶ月程度です。 功績はのこせませんし、歴史的根拠として上げられるトーマス・ロックリーの書物ですが、彼は日本大学の『法学部』の『英語教師』です。『歴史や考古学の教授』ではありません そんな人物が書いた本をあなたは、歴史的根拠があると言えますか?

I'm Japanese and I think it's ironic that they're being the things that they're supposedly against, being racist. and even though the petition might not cancel the game, it will still send a message on what we feel about it and that's the big part

It's not going to do well here (US) either. We've developed an allergic reaction to wokeness.

Simping for extreme activist Americans makes no sense when looking for a "global, modern" audience.

This game is the one all those people who boycotted Hogwarts should be boycotting

I’m Japanese American and I’m annoyed at how much the game is getting wrong the devs claim there’s historical accuracies with this game What the hell…

i like how IGN still want to try and market it.

I look forward to this game failing miserably. Schadenfreude.

Not buying or preordering the game will send a much louder message than a petition.

The fact that the « inclusive » people said that asian people have « enough » representation…in THEIR own culture, is actually despicable. they even added hip hop of all things because Yasuke happens to be black. How "progressive" of them.

現実的に発売を中止させるのは不可能だということを理解してる人は多いだろう。 史実に基づいてると言わなければ少なくとも日本では問題になっていなかったはずだ。 歴史修正行為を許したら後々このゲーム以外でも同じことが行われかねない。 間違った事には毅然と対応するべきだから 例え発売中止させられないのはわかっていてもオンラインに記録として残すのが目的だと思う。 別に弥助を主人公にするのはいいけど、史実に基づいてるというのであれば もうちょっと調査して欲しかった。 日本の歴史の教科書にほとんど記述もない男が黒人初の侍？英雄？馬鹿馬鹿しい。 ほとんどの日本人が知らない男だ。 本当に英雄であれば、何かしらの記録は残っている。 日本人からしたらなんだコレ？と思う部分が多々PVで見られたけど、本当に日本の歴史研究家を雇ってるのか？ 歴史に詳しくない日本人でもすぐにおかしいと気付いたのに...。 弥助が悪いわけではない。弥助を利用しようとしたUBIが悪い。

It’s an Ubi game. If they follow recent form, it will only be half done by release.

People need to spread the message to not buy this game AT ALL, not even buying it to dunk on it or showcase how bad it is, we already know from the trailers. Completely abstain from purchasing it.

We Japanese are not asking for inaccurate depictions of Japan in video games to be fixed. We are angry that Ubi is calling inaccurate Japanese history "accurate." If Ubi thinks this video game is historically accurate, it is an insult to the Japanese people.

Assassin's Creed Shadows' portrayal is full of mistakes, even without Yasuke. Even though the history is exaggerated for Yasuke's sake, the worldview is something indescribable that cannot be called Japan. The design of the environment is extremely uncomfortable from a Japanese point of view, and there are many mistakes in the small things. However, Ubi says that this is a game "with experts," "created under the supervision of historians," and "can be enjoyed by history buffs as well. In fact, they said so in an interview and have not corrected it. In the history, Yasuke was a baggage handler, and UBI and DEI don't care about the later portrayal of Japan as long as they can bring Yasuke up to the ideal position. They don't care if it's a collage of messy images. There is probably only one reason why Ubi would market a game that is so crude by advertising that it was "made with experts in mind. Ubi wants foreigners who are unfamiliar with Japan to believe in the image of Japan that Ubi has created and to have a false historical perception of Yasuke. I won't play into their hands. アサシンクリードシャドウズの描写は弥助を抜きにしても間違いばかり。 弥助の為に誇張した歴史を用意してもその世界観は日本とは呼び難い名状しがたい何か。日本人からみて違和感極まりない環境デザインで小物の間違いも多い。 ところがこれはUBIからしたら「専門家を入れた」「歴史家の監修でつくった」「歴史好きにも楽しめる」ゲームらしい。実際インタビューでそう言ったし訂正してない。 史実では荷物運びをしていた弥助、UBIやDEIは弥助の事さえ理想の立場まで持ち上げることができたら後の日本の描写はどうでもいいらしい。雑なイメージのコラージュでもいいらしい。 ここまで雑なゲームなのにUBIが「専門家をいれてつくった」という宣伝で売り込む理由は多分一つしかない。 UBIは、日本をよく知らない外国人に、UBIが作りだす日本像を信じてもらい、弥助に対して誤った歴史認識をもってもらいたいのだ。 その手には乗らないよ。

Here's how we cancel it just don't buy it give Ubisoft the 🖕. If they want to play out the same way Disney is let's do it.

Of course "game " journalist aren't gonna cover it. They'll try to protect it like the pathetic sheep they are.

EVERYONE should boycott this game simply for it being a ubisht game!

私たち多くの日本人は、黒人男性である弥助が主人公に選ばれたことについて怒っているわけではありません。ゲームは最大限自由に作られるべきです。 しかしながら、私たちが怒っているのはUbisoftによるインタビューでの日本人差別発言や、シンボルの盗用疑惑、偽りの歴史を史実かのように広めていることです。 そしてこの点に日本人が触れると、差別発言やシンボルを謝罪もせず削除したり、wikipediaを改竄したり、挙句の果てにこの批判をヘイトだと封殺しようとしています。 Ubisoftは余りにも酷い。

Nice bit of cultural appropriation and racism from Ubisoft 🙄

if they just said this game is purely fiction, it would have been less problematic instead they rather edit history instead. Well, next time when any DEI/Woke activists journalist and consultants come after Japanese games, demanding censorship because certain things are offensive, inappropriate. Japanese developers should point at Assassins Creed Shadows and tell them to get lost. Edit: and I think it is better this way. If Western devs wants to make things that are offensive and inappropriate fine. Japan devs should also be able to make things that could be offensive and inappropriate to the West. Instead now people are finding issues and suppressing creative freedom and expressions. It should have never been like this. Once I thought game development is a place for all and anyone can freely make all kinds of games and put them out for people to enjoy but the Woke activists have twisted those ideas, forced in weird diversity rules, cancel culture and claim how all fiction will influence what people do, insisted that this ideas be the global standard and environment going forward. Now everything has to be suppressed and tone down because reasons. It just so frustrating and sad.

The double morality on the woke movement is just...outstanding, not only do they see this Game the greatest Game ever, but they also went out of their way to not even investigate correctly the culture of feudal Japan, its structure and even with the special editions...THEY WENT OUT OF THEIR OWN WAY TO EVEN BUTCHER THAT AND INSULT JAPANESE PEOPLE FOR AN EXTRA TIME!

Ubisoft should either replace Yusuke with a Japanese samurai or cancel the game entirely. Japanese culture should be treated with respect and reverence.

This is how i felt about Gods of war 2 with them disrespecting norse culture by making a character that is African for DEI brownie points when there are no Africans in norse mythology. It was cultural appropriation in the real sense. Taking a culture and changing it to suit their agenda.

I can't wait to see the "shock" that this will flop.

I'm not Japanese but have been a fan of Sengoku Jidai since 2004 when playing Nobunaga Ambition game, then start reading everything Sengoku Jidai. I do felt insulted by AC:Shadow. 1. Of all historical character they can choose, they pick the lowest important character, and boring at that. If I'm Ubisoft, I picked Kamiizumi Nobutsuna. This guy real Samurai, master of Katana, Nodachi, Spears & Bows. Also, he has many hardcore followers which can be fictionalized to become the Assassin Brotherhood. His Legacy was the birth of multiple Martial Arts schools, which till this day still exist in Japan. 2. Sengoku Jidai have rich stories, from the West to the East. The Politics, the War & The Individual Struggle. But what do Ubisoft do ? ... making this about Democracy. Look at the latest trailer. Both Naoe and Yasuke yelling "JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE". There's no fricking "The People" in medieval Japan. There's only Master who owns the land and Subject who work for them, and all of them are servient of The Emperor. Even to this day. Ubisoft make this about B-EL-M & Antyva.

I think the funniest bit of this is that you can tell journalists who are covering this are absolutely PISSED, but by the rules they've set they can't figure out a way to call the Japanese racist for not accepting the game as it is.

Yasuke was never a samurai…he was kept around because they have never seen a black man before and when he showed up they tried to scrub away his black skin. They now are trying to say it’s our take on history…HAHA

If there's a petition, count me in. 🎉

"250 stoning" probably a mistranslation of ２５０石, where 石 was a unit of land property value back in the days. In theory, 1石 can produce enough rice for one person. "Flag book" is probably a mistranslation of 旗本 or hatamoto, which is a title of samurais that served Tokugawa directly. Sort of like a Royal Body Guard, if you will. So Tokugawa Ieyasu gave William Adams a land that can feed about 250 people and made him a samurai of a very honorable position. man the machine translation is terrible...

完全なフィクションやオリジナルキャラで黒人侍を出すのことに問題はない。 しかし、UBIは「弥助」が侍であったことを歴史資料などの根拠もなく歴史的事実だと世界に吹聴している。 そんなことは許されるべきではない。 UBIの対応や言い訳も酷く同情できる部分もない。

I can’t imagine how dissapointed they are. We all were looking forward to a Japan setting too and they do this.

They ain't wrong. Don't try to rewrite Japan's history, especially to fit the DEI narrative.

Like a Dragon: Ishin is a better samurai story, made by the Japanese, with foreign side characters and you can even have a small farm with cats and dogs you adopt around the city. And it's from 2023.

Considering that Blackrock is buying manga and anime to spread its DEI crap, I hope this game convinces Japan to reject it.

Many of the structures shown in the game are Chinese in design, with Japanese accents.

The Japanese have always been a nation of record-keeping people. Even Yasuke, a black man who came to Japan as a slave, kept records. Therefore, if Yasuke was a samurai or played an active role, someone always keeps a record of it. If there is no record, it means the opposite was true.

As an American, I don't want to play as a black man IN FEUDAL JAPAN HEARING HIP HOP WHEN I FIGHT!. If anything is racism on both fronts to the Japanese and Black people. That's how a gaming company thinks of black people in an ancient world and hip-hop needs to be played. You can't make this shyte up.

Ubisoft is the worst company in the industry right now, but normies will keep buying their games. Valhalla was ridiculously popular. Personally I'm apathetic towards anything they make. The worst corporate slop.

I shocks me that they actually changed the original mc from a monk (which would have been hella interesting btw) to the single token in Japanese history.

I'm half Japanese and I'm not buying this garbage. Also skipped the viking AC because I'm half English.

All they have to do is not buy the game, and then not buy any other game published by that company ever again. Speak with your wallet and things will change.

The most important part its not to stop the release of AC Shadows, since everyone know its impossible, but to show the rage of the japanese people.

According to Ubisoft, the story was based on old Japanese folklore in which Yasuke appears. According to it, he was respected as a great samurai. But there is no such folklore in Japan. Yasuke did exist. But nothing is known about the truth of his life. They just found someone who was convenient for their agenda and adapted him on their own. Or does such lore actually exist?　I would say to them. If you say there is, give me your sources. You do know, don't you?　But don't mention the name of the novelist who proudly claims to be a professor teaching at the best university in Japan. He is neither a historian nor a professor of folklore. His title is associate professor, but he actually teaches English. His novels may be interesting as fantasy. But Ubisoft said the story is based on 'historical facts'. Therein lies the problem. If we don't speak up now, this false 'lore' will one day be passed down as authentic history. Don't underestimate it as just a game. It can happen, especially in the online world. Why did 'edit war’ happen in the Wikipedia entry on Yasuke?　Because there were people who wanted to turn a false story into an authentic history for their own convenience. We Japanese will never allow that (...smiling politely).

I stand with Japan

or sue it, japan..

Japan never had an issue with GoT yet thats supposed to be the colonizer rahc1st work

This game is disrespectful not only to Japanese but also to Yasuke. He would never squash people’s heads with his feet

I fully support the Japanese. The same people doing this to Japan are the same types who have "pulled a Yasuke" on White figures and characters over the past decade, because it isn't "diverse" enough.

我々日本のゲーマーは粛々と行動するのみ。日本人の誇りを貫くのみ。先祖が紡いできた歴史を侮辱したことを後悔するまで、俺達の怒りは収まらない。

今さらフィクションと言っても遅い。

No wonder BlackRock just put massive ammount of money to manga and other type of Japan's entertainment industry now 😂💀

I haven't bought an Ubisoft game in years

The stone thing roughly means how many rice pads(or territory) you have. William Adams was a samurai with his own territory given from the shogun.

Some people use The Last Samurai as an analogy for this issue, but Japanese people don't complain about fiction. Will the French be happy to hear that Joan of Arc was actually Japanese?

Now they know how the Egyptian people felt about Cleopatra. :x

its better for them to release it and let it flop on its own.. all the trailers were so god awful, including the brief "gameplay" they showed, the only people willing to buy it would be the relatives and friends of ubisoft employees

The evidence of his existence is so flimsy I doubt he was even real. The “black samurai” was a slave of the ☪️’s freed by the Spanish, which means he was a eunuch as that was (still is) the standard ☪️ protocol for blacks. Do you think the Japanese would have allowed an “intact” black guy off the boat!!!

They won't cancel it, sadly. The best we can hope for is horrible sales, like less than 1000 units sold in Japan.

GOT was loved so much by the Japanese, it restored a historical building actually in Tsushima. Ass Creed Shadows has only invoked ire from the Japanese people. Japan has a rich deep history and Ubislop has grabbed a footnote in history, warped it and taken a collective dump on all great things about their culture.

Let's hope that those amongst the Japanese blacklist Ubisoft

In Japan, whites and blacks are equal. The Last Samurai is a laughing matter, but they didn't say, "Learn history from me."

wanna hear a joke??? here is one :ubisoft. Wanna hear another one? Ok here it is:The people who pre-ordered Assassins Creed Shadows. xD

They have ancient statutes of this man being a samurai

I wouldn't to much worry about it I'm pretty sure Ubisoft will go the way of the Saints Row studios 😏

At least in Japan you don’t have to live around them.

This is amazing! To all those saying Japan isn't offended by it or its their #1 pre-order, get fucked!

Your short news about Blackstone basically own Japan's biggest E-Manga platform ruined my day. I hate these corporations...😔

Nate Fox, the director of GoT said in an interview that the collaboration of Japanese history experts and SIEs was crucial to making GoT. So even if it was a fiction game, they knew they couldn't make it based on their stereotypes. Ubisoft didn't know that. That's the big difference.

5:56 The article is AI translated. "flag book" is supposed to be "Hatamoto", a direct vassal of the Shogun, an impressive rank, especially for a foreigner. "Stoning" is supposed to be "Koku", a unit of volume measurement. 1 Koku is supposed to equal the average volume of rice, a single person eats in a year. It was also used to measure a samurai's stipend. Basically it means that William Adams made enough as a samurai to eat for 250.

この問題を取り上げていただき、ありがとうございます。 Assassins Creed Shadowsは、事実に基づかない内容や事実と異なる内容が多く含まれています。UBI softはこのような指摘を無視し、あまつさえ声を上げた人を人種差別主義者と言いました。 この署名は、他文化への理解・尊重の欠如、アジア人軽視の現状を変えるべく行われています。 日本人は黒人主人公を問題にしていません。 もちろん、日本を舞台としたAssassins Creedで、日本人主人公を動かしたかった、という声は多く聞きます。

Remember how the media acted over Resident Evil 5? Think about the hypocrisy

Ubisoft would go bankrupt soon enough. The CEO of Ubisoft have caused all the troubles, throwing Michel Ancel under the bus, and worst, leaving Rayman, Beyond Good and Evil in the dark!