Yasuke

About Yasuke

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.

Yasuke is an action-adventure, animation, and science fiction series that ran on Netflix. It reached one season of 6 episodes from April 2021.

Its themes are action, samurai, psychic power, and science fantasy. The story is adapted from real events. LaKeith Stanfield appears as Yasuke (voice), Maya Tanida as Saki (voice), Takehiro Hira as Oda Nobunaga (voice), and Julie Marcus as Nikita (voice).

Produced by MAPPA. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

Dororo, Manyu Scroll, and Ronin Warriors make useful companions to Yasuke, all filed under fantasy and historical. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 267 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.