YASUKE: Official Teaser & Poster (for Animation Series on Netflix)

SYNOPSIS: "A peaceful boatman once known as the Black Samurai is pulled back into conflict when he takes a little girl with mysterious powers under his wing. Once a slave, now a samurai." This is YASUKE.



Since my last STILLS reveal (reposted below this post), the first teaser for animation series "YASUKE" has dropped, in anticipation of it's "April 29" premiere of the first season on Netflix. Poster featured up top from IMDb.

Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield ("Knives Out") voices "Yasuke" in this action fantasy from LeSean Thomas ("Cannon Busters"), with animation by MAPPA.

WHO-IS: "Yasuke (variously rendered as 弥助 or 弥介, 彌助 or 彌介 in different sources) was a retainer of African origin who served under the Sengoku period Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga. In 1579 Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India." (Wiki)