Assassin's Creed Shadows is already being labeled as "woke" and "disrespectful" following its announcement trailer, primarily due to main characters Naoe and Yasuke, the latter of whom is historically considered Japan's first black samurai.

Ubisoft has finally lifted the lid on the next mainline Assassin's Creed, revealing that Assassin's Creed Shadows will be available on November 15 later this year. While we didn't get any gameplay, we did get a lengthy cinematic trailer going into the backstories of the game's two main protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke. Naoe appears to be a Shinboi from the Japanese provinces, while Yasuke is considered to be Japan's first black samurai, and came into contact with several prominent figures in Japanese history.

That means Assassin's Creed Shadows will center around a woman and a black man, and some people on social media have reacted with exactly the kind of behavior we have come to expect nowadays whenever a protagonist isn't a straight white man. In the replies of Ubisoft's announcement tweet, you don't have to look very hard for people decrying the game as "woke" and "disrespectful", with a sprinkling of DEI in there for good measure.

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke Is Somehow "Disrespectful" To Japan

Most of the vitriol revolves around Yasuke, with some people taking issue with the fact that they're being made to play as a black man in a Feudal Japan setting, despite the character being a key figure in Japanese history. Some claim that it's inappropriate for Ubisoft to have someone who isn't native to the country as one of the main characters, though I don't think these same people take issue with the fact that the incredibly Welsh Edward Kenway was sailing around the Carribean in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

You've also got some stating that Yasuke wasn't actually a samurai, but was a retainer to Oda Nobunaga, and that this somehow "disrespects" Japanese culture. However, people are already pointing out Yasuke was Nobunaga's Kosho, which is essentially the bodyguard or personal servant of a general or lord and is considered a samurai in Japanese history. Just because Yasuke didn't belong to a Samurai clan, it doesn't mean he wasn't one.

!nooticers that last line lol

Japanese homos making a game and calling him:

Yasuke (known in-game as the Obsidian Samurai)

While some western devs making this game with the wholesome black samurai and the interned breaks.

Like frick this homosexual shit

Japs also makes him with big dildo:

No one blinks.

A westerncels give him a dildo and:

He is also aint a ASSin he is like the brute in the game like historically accurate he was described to be:

the latter source specifically records his height as 188 cm (6'2").

But I don't see homos crying that there wasn't any ASSin's in Japan and there weren't any noodle holes that could jump higher than 10 inches. Like watch Japanese girls play basketball.

You are just haters because Yasuke granddaughter tells Japan is better than US

If you want historically accurate shit, take a bullet because you ain't going to find historical accuracy shit here so try in after life

Point is stop with racism and gatekeeping Yasuke

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Mental Redditor (oxymoron) decided to write his larp

Now this is no incel redpill bullshit but this thing happened again last night while I was on a date with a beautiful German girl and this time it really pissed me off.

I may have exaggerated a bit to get the point

I was at a bar with a gorgeous Chilean girl who had an amazing sense of style. Two blonde girls from Atlanta that were in NY that night for work started talking to us, and actually first said that "we were super cute together." We kept talking and eventually the conversation devolved into both of them saying that my date was absolutely stunning and could get any guy in the bar, and that they would never expect a woman like that to be with a guy that looks like me.

By the end of the night though, they were a little nicer and one of them even told me that "she could understand why my date found me attractive."

Though it might come across as a bit incel-ish

Absolutely not

I think it is important to point out that this has has only happened when I've been with women that are clearly foreigners.

WTF is even foreigner in NYC

Regarding what was going on during the date that might've "set some alarms" for the woman that ended up saying this to my date. I did say to my date that "I really wanted to kiss her," but I did it in what I perceived to be a respectful way. I told her that, she said not right now, and we kept having a good time. Eventually she kissed me there, at the bar, and then outside, and then at her place (we ended up spending the night together). She also texted me this morning thanking me for a wonderful time, so it really, really didn't feel like she took it the wrong way. Like I mentioned on the original post, she even stood up for me when this woman walked up to us. But yes I did tell her that I wanted to kiss her and she initially said no, and the woman next to us might've heard this which could've made her come to certain conclusions.

Seriously why do he even wrote that shit ?

The only time when people came to me like this is when I was 16, I asked a girl out to six flags on Halloween she said yes and the whole event she was showing me could shoulder so some guys came to me and told I can do better and should leave that b-word and focus on other girls.

And it was legit wired she would keep 6 feet distance from me and when we entered scary room I hoped she would hug me but she started hugging another guy who was with his gf and a b-word fight started I just ignored them and headed to the exit sadly then she found me and started bitching on me for not protecting her and leaving her. It was a bad day. And the b-word seemed had enjoyed it and even mocked me by writing to me if I came home and if I am not angry at her.

It was obvious to every one around I was hurt back then so it made sense some grown up men would come to me to try to cheer me up.

But this Redditor just writes poor bs.