Ladies and gentlemen Netflix has been putting alot of anime as of late and well they have just released another new Netflix original anime series. I will fully admit that I had no intention of taking a look at this particular show that is until a few days ago which was when I saw the first trailer for this show on the official Netflix Youtube cannel and so here are my first impressions of the 2021 Netflix original anime series with the Netflix original anime series in question being called simply "Yasuke" and so enjoy this post everyone.
The plot of this particular episode is that Yasuke is an ex samurai who after seeing his master and lord die spends alot of getting drunk until one day when he tasked with helping a mother and daughter sail to reach a special kind of doctor all the meanwhile Yasuke himself has to deal with things that have happened in his own past. In terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this particular episode in all honesty I thought that the plot of this particular episode was fairly decent since there was nothing that really stood out to me plot wise about this episode and as such the story for / of / to this particular episode just feels like the standard plot to any first episode of a fantasy / history / action anime and nothing more.
Now then since the version of the episode that I personally saw was the English dubbed version of this particular episode I there for have to say that starring in this in this particular episode is and possibly even the rest of the show is Lakeith Stanfield as Yasuke. Also starring in this particular episode and possibly even the rest of the show is Ming-Na Wen as Natsumaru , Maya Tanida as Saki , Darren Criss as Haruto , William Christopher Stephens as Achoja and the only actor to also be playing this role in the Japanese dub of this show we have Takehiro Hira as Nobunaga Oda.
In terms of what I personally thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this particular first episode. In all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in this particular first episode is alot better then what I personally thought that it was gong to be simply because I had no idea who was even starring in this show and as such I had no idea what to expect from this show acting wise and so I was pleasantly surprised to see that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this first episode was in honesty really freaking good with all of the actors that are starring in this episode and possibly even the rest of this particular show are in my opinion at least well and truly giving us some really freaking fine performances.
Doing the animation for not only this particular episode for this entire particular show is MAPPA who are currently doing work on Attack On Titan: The Final Season. As for what I personally thought / feel / felt about the animation that's featured / presented to us in this particular episode in all honesty the felt that the animation that we saw in this particular episode was really freaking good but at the same time this show feels like that it's not MAPPA at their best tho.
Netflix have really taken ahold of the anime industry at least in American in the pas few years with the company putting out new anime at least every single anime season and heck just yesterday it was announced that Netflix would be adding both of the new Sailor Moon films this summer. As such I personally do feel that Netflix is slowly but very surely becoming the go to home for anime fans but Netflix will have to be very careful because if they do become the go to home for anime and for anime fans then they run the risk of not anime not being as popular over in America simply because of the fact that Netflix nine times out of ten likes to wait at leas a year before releasing whatever the next show is which is bad considering that again nine times out of ten that same show has already been released out in Japan.
Now then one of the big things that I can see websites like Kotaku and even a website like The Mary Sue picking up on in this particular show is the fact that the main character is a person of color. I can see websites like Kotaku and The Mary Sue picking up on this fact simply because all those websites is the color of someone's skin and not how well written or even how well acted the character in question well and truly is.
Speaking of how well written the characters in this episode are I personally feel that the characters that are in this show aren't going to be very well written at all. Simply because just based of this first episode we've not really gotten any kind of hint as to what the personalities of these characters nor are we given any kind of reason to like these characters but if that changes over the following fives episodes of this six episode show / firs season then i'll gladly give the show the credit that it well and truly deserves but so far this episode didn't really impress writing wise also because of the fact that the characters seem to be pretty freaking generic as all heck which makes sense for Yasuke because he was an actual person but it doesn't make sense for any of the shows possibly made up / fictional characters tho.
Now then boys and girls this particular episode is thirty minuets and twenty eight seconds long which I personally felt was the right amount of time. Simply because this episode was the first episode of an anime show and as such to expect the story in this episode to be fully told would be pretty daft / pretty freaking stupid since an anime can take several episodes to tell one single story and / but I will admit that this episode really did fly by in certain places but the particular episode also felt alot slower in other parts / places of this particular episode as well.
Now then boys and girls this anime is an action anime and there is some action to be found in this episode and that means / which means that I have to talk about the actual action that's featured / presented to us in the actual episode itself and in all honesty the action that we get to see in this episode wasn't that bad. Simply because of the fact that the animation in this particular episodes action sequences was so good but the actual action was at best pretty freaking average tho but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.
Overall this episode was a pretty decent episode and I do hope that this show finds a fanbase and that this show gets better as it continues on through the remaining five episodes. Now then boys and girls since i've talked about both of the good and as well both of the bad things that are in this episode in this review I will not be giving my overall rating for this series simply because this isn't a review but as the title suggests is rather just my first impressions of the show as a whole.
As for where I got the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls I got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Yasuke fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my preferred website to use from images from this show (because yes I couldn't find that many pictures from just this first episode nor could I personally find a cast list for just this first episode either) being Google Images since there are alot of images from this show that are now up and on Google Images.
