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REVIEW: Yasuke

Not established?

loempiavreter wrote:

Not established?

More importantly though, in stories where the character does have anachronistic/fantastic attributes it's done in a way that makes sense in the world of the story. To sound like a broken record, I don't think most people complaining here, myself included, would have felt the same way about the mechs in the show if they were done better. Personally for me it's not the mechs per se, it's everything from the mechs to the fantastic/weird elements. The problem is not that they're there, it's that there's no rhyme and reason behind them being in the story the way they are, there's no real wordbuilding to speak of, just fantastic elements thrown together without no thought as to why they're in the story, how they go together, how they relate to one another, etc.

This is one of the worst takes on this show, or possibly any show, I've seen so far. You've gone beyond the standard: "blaming viewers for not watching source material" and into "blaming viewers for not being familiar with specific media portrayals of a character". Viewers are not expected to do research on a character before watching a show or film about them or featuring them. Far more popular characters like Dracula or Godzilla still establish their mythos within new works about them.
On top of all that, the interview with the creator is about how viewers shouldn't have to know the "truth" about a character to accept the "fantastical". So you're trying to make a defense of a series worldbuilding, whose creator may not even agree with that defense.

Again have you lot watched Kyomu Senshi Miroku? Black Lion? Yotoden? The [expletive] plot twist of Black Lion is that the hunter samurai turned out to be a terminator, in an otherwise fairly medieval period flick. Yotoden and Miroku had alien assassins just there.

More importantly though, in stories where the character does have anachronistic/fantastic attributes it's done in a way that makes sense in the world of the story. To sound like a broken record, I don't think most people complaining here, myself included, would have felt the same way about the mechs in the show if they were done better. Personally for me it's not the mechs per se, it's everything from the mechs to the fantastic/weird elements. The problem is not that they're there, it's that there's no rhyme and reason behind them being in the story the way they are, there's no real wordbuilding to speak of, just fantastic elements thrown together without no thought as to why they're in the story, how they go together, how they relate to one another, etc.

loempiavreter wrote:

Again have you lot watched Kyomu Senshi Miroku? Black Lion? Yotoden? The [expletive] plot twist of Black Lion is that the hunter samurai turned out to be a terminator, in an otherwise fairly medieval period flick. Yotoden and Miroku had alien assassins just there.

I'm lost... Where was the terminator and the alien assassin in Yasuke ?

Almost nothing makes sense, really, for example, the Damiyo.
How is she the Damiyo? Wouldn't that be someone that is ruling over the land and people? But what do we see? An actual wall isolating the lands she controls with her mindless army. What a great villain, staying far away from the supposedly poor oppressed masses living happily in their idyllic lands...

There was nothing of worth in this.

Very fitting in theme with contemporary landlords hiding away and send mindless goons to ehm collect the rent.

loempiavreter wrote:

Very fitting in theme with contemporary landlords hiding away and send mindless goons to ehm collect the rent.

She wasn't collecting anything, one more reason to say that it makes no sense.
Until the last episodes looked the war was all in the past, the lands were in peace and the danger was just her armed forces policing some possible resistance.
By the way, anyone remembers that one episode ended with Yasuke pretender not wanting to join that group's attack, just to go alone behind the wall and the episode ended with him running into battle alone? And then the next episode started with him siting discussing the future attack with the group with the anime finally showing that they where right beside the mordor? Is this level of discontinuity allowed?

Count me out, I'm very accustomed from the beginning about these "strange things" is anime.
I repeat, the problem here is that this anime is just bad written, uninteresting and forgettable... just like many of those old anime.

IIRC some big influences for Yasuke were OVAs like Dangaioh and Bubblegum Crisis. And in that regard perhaps it does succeeded in emulating the late 80s/early 90s era of OVAs. But I'd also argue those days weren't very good to begin with and there's a reason that era is long gone. Bubblegum Crisis specifically was cancelled mid-airing but despite that somehow became an iconic series in the west for a lot of people in that era.

I repeat, the problem here is that this anime is just bad written, uninteresting and forgettable... just like many of those old anime.

But also, please understand that I wrote my review the way I did because I wanted to speak honestly about my own opinion, as well as the impact I personally see coming from Yasuke. Like I said, it's not a perfect series, but I do think it's important, and I fully stand by my review. I know it's not going to be for everyone, but my opinion is just one of many out there.