If the complaint was that Assassin's Creed treats Japanese characters badly or something similar, that would a completely different discussion than the one that rose up around this instance. (BTW I watched Yasuke on Netflix, good but not memorable. But most of Netflix's anime aren't memorable so...)
The majority of the complaints that I've read complain about them forcing diversity into the series by sticking a black samurai into the narrative instead of a Japanese character (while ignoring that the black samurai is only half of the main protaganist story and a Japanese character is the other half...but that's another conversation).
The complaints were about forced diversity and an insistence that the black character shouldn't be portrayed as positively as a "samurai". Which is absurd to me because of the long history this specific real life individual has in both Japanese and American media portrayals. He's almost always portrayed as a well regarded member of Nobunaga's retinue, not a curiosity or a pet.
This wasn't forced diversity. It's a well trodden road, regarding Yasuke. Probably the most insane thing about this to me is that it was a bunch of predominantly white Americans complaining about the portrayal of a black character in a video game set in feudal Japan. The people who were most outraged were the people least connected to the story itself.
I might have been more sympathetic if the complaints originated in Japan but they didn't. The Japanese didn't care until the American bleatings reached their ears. And this outpouring of faux outrage from the US into other countries is exactly why places like Australia shouldn't grant Candace Owens a visa, lol.
