The anime’s debut is now shortly thereafter Yasuke On the Netflix platform, slated for April 29th and released after the latest trailer, the staff at the MAPPA studio, in collaboration with producer LeSean Thomas, shared new pictures showing some of the most important moments, and it became the full cast of speakers announced.
The story of the legendary ronin of African origin The company, which was in the service of Nobunaga Oda, an important daimyo and one of the key figures of the Sengoku period in the 16th century, will develop in six episodes. In the following we report on the full line-up of the speakers involved in the project:
- Jun Soejima as Yasuke
- Takehiro Hira as Nobunaga Oda
- Kiko Tamura as Saki
- Toshiko Sakakibara as Yami no Daimyo
- Shigeru Ushiyama as Abraham
- Fusako Urabe as Natsumaru
- Yu Kamio as Morisuke
- You were Kitamura as Ishikawa
- Kenji Kitamura as Achoja
- Shunsunke Kubozuka as Hart
- Hiroki Nanami as Nikiita
- Rie Tanaka as Ichika
To promote the anime’s upcoming release on Netflix, the four images you can find below have been shared in addition to the main visual and preparatory drawings for the characters from Yasuke, in the design we’re likely to see in the first episodewithout the iconic samurai armor and Nobunaga Oda. We remind you that an absurd controversy has surfaced on social media about the color of Yasuke’s skin and we leave you to the great illustration published by MAPPA.