Assassin's Creed Shadows: Feudal Japan Sneak Peek

Watch our Feudal Japan Sneak Peek video broadcasted during Apple WWDC 2024. Get a small glimpse of the world of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, launching November 15th

About Assassin’s Creed Shadows:
In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you will live the intertwined stories of Naoe, an adept shinobi Assassin from Iga Province, and Yasuke, the powerful African samurai of historical legend. Against the backdrop of the turbulent late Sengoku period, this remarkable duo will discover their common destiny as they usher in a new era for Japan.
From chaos to purpose, from darkness to light. A new Creed rises over Japan.

About Ubisoft:

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[whiskywolff]

A groundbreaking game that allows you to experience racism without going to France

[rk-qeuy]

日本版のアカウントだけで謝罪か…
すげぇな
やっぱりフランス人は考えることがちげぇや

[ポリコレ嫌い]

日本人は、
アサシンクリードの舞台に日本を使ってください！
なんて頼んでない。
弥助は、
日本人に尊敬された伝説の侍だった！
なんて1度も言ってない。
全ては、白人や黒人が言い出した事だ。

日本人は、それに対して
「こんなのは日本じゃないですよ」
「弥助は侍だったという証拠は一つもないですよ」
と否定しただけ。

すると、白人と黒人が一斉に叫びだす。
「嘘を付くな！日本人はレイシストだ！」

そして、私はこう思う。
「嘘付きなのはお前らで、レイシストもお前らだ！」

[ポリコレ嫌い]

否定したら、即差別主義者と言われる
現代の魔女狩りですね。
さすがフランス。

[smollfrog]

Simon

So we didn’t want to shy away from it, although you can turn off the violence if you want. There’s options for it. You can turn off the blood, you can turn off the dismemberment and stuff. So it’s more trying to be faithful to the war aspect of Japan at that period. Death was a common thing and decapitation was not a strange sight in Japan.

これは一体どういう意味ですか？
450年前の日本で斬首が日常風景なんて初めて聞きました。
まともな歴史教育を受けた日本人なら全員同じでしょう。

[tsukioka]

今まであまりピンと来なかったが
完全に「文化盗用」の概念を理解したわ
これ、やられたらガチで苛つくな

[noLucas]

To quell this controversy, Ubisoft has no choice but to declare to the world that "the black samurai Yasuke depicted in this game is a fantasy inspired by Thomas Lockley's fiction novel and has no connection to actual Japanese history."

[kazzyt]

たったそれだけで日本の歴史を学んだと言えるのか？
さらに間違った歴史を学んでるし

[tamuta-mjhn]

Why are there differences in your answers between interviews in Japan and overseas? It seems that you lied in your overseas interviews, saying "Yasuke was always involved in important historical events." Yasuke rarely appears in important Japanese historical documents from that time. There are so few documents that in Japan, Yasuke was initially said to be a fictional character. If Yasuke was involved in many scenes as you say, there should be more records in historical documents from that time. If there are historical documents from that time that Japanese people don't know about, could you make them public? It would be a major historical discovery. Overseas experts who say "Yasuke became a samurai in one year. Yasuke was probably originally a warrior, not a slave" (it is clearly written that Yasuke was brought as a slave. So why did he become a samurai in one year? Is it interpreted as meaning he must have been a warrior?), and Mr. Lockley's book, which wrote the Yasuke novel. Are you saying that these are more factual than Japanese history books?

[hasibiroindustry]

実はナポレオンは黒人で
クーデターを起こしてフランス人を虐殺したストーリーを作って
”これは史実です”
って言っても笑って許してくれるよな！

お前らがやってんのはそういうことだからな！

[komenoakami]

Do you understand why Japanese people are angry about this game?🤔

Now, imagine this.

Your country's past is animated.

But it's very violent and not real history.

The anime production staff answered in an interview.

"People in this era were very violent. But this anime is fiction."

↑ In this case, the word fiction does not apply to false history.

To be honest, this is closer to hate crime.

...Now, do you understand?
When promotions with nuances like "true to history" are used, the word "fiction" that protected the inaccurate historical depictions and simple mistakes in the game no longer works.
The protection that the word fiction gave is lost.

Sometimes, what was just an entertaining fiction can become hate.😵

[tebasakitori]

I am Japanese.

The Yasuke stands as a sort of miscellaneous servant of Oda Nobunaga, whose name only appears a few times in accurate primary Japanese sources.


He was just a rare race at the time, and Nobunaga only recruited him because he liked him a lot personally, and he is not counted as a Samurai, nor did he actually do any such work again.

And this is clear from their names, as any Japanese person was not allowed to use the surname unless they were of samurai or higher status at the time.


In fact, at Honnoji, where Nobunaga died, even someone of Yasuke's position was allowed to attend the tea ceremony by Nobunaga's insistence, and Yasuke was taken along to show his power to others.


Akechi, who killed Nobunaga because he was not actually a samurai, took Yasuke under his protection and politely sent him back to the Jesuits, where he had been.


It is therefore common to interpret Yasuke as having left Japan from then on.


Please don't call inaccurate information as historical fact. And please don't rush to make things up on the surface because the Japanese are angry, only to reword it as fantasy for the Japanese.

The Japanese people are hundreds of times more angry than you think.

I will draw the same content in Japanese, just in case someone asks about the Japanese.(T^T)(;∀;)


私は日本人です。















その為以降は日本を離れたと解釈するのが一般的です




日本人はあなたが思っている何百倍も怒っています。

[ysyijej]

UBI「日本人の侍は見飽きたなぁ〜」



UBI「そうだ！黒人の侍にしよう！」

我ら「は？」

[rk-qeuy]

このゲームは海外の人が
日本の歴史に対して大きな勘違いを生む原因になる。
もう文化的な政治に日本を巻き込まないでくれ。