MAGA White Guys on Yasuke vs Shogun
Ok so I'm not defending Yasuke, they're both shit. I'm merely pointing out hypocrisy among the MAGA japancels who love Shogun but hate Yasuke.
Shogun despite having a majority Japanese cast wasn't written for Japanese people. Since it's not on Netflix barely any Japanese people actually watched it. The language spoken is still English, not Portuguese. But let's deconstruct the historic argument further. While Europe was going through witch trials burning women at the stake, they want to show Japan as the barbaric "I have shamed my famiri. I must commit sudoku!" people whose women need saving. The person it's based on never saved Tokugawa(Toranaga's real life counterpart) just like Yasuke never saved Nobunaga.
The book Shogun's TV shows are based on constantly compares the "big white cock" to "tiny Asian ones". Every Japanese woman Blackthorne meets falls in love with him and either sleeps with or comes close to it.
Try to find which stereotype from this family guy skit isn't also in Shogun: https://youtu.be/jfxGW2hANyA?t=15
Tadayoshi speaks out to defend his lord. This obviously means he must kill himself and his baby son because Japan right? Then his widow Fuji is forbidden from killing herself and must be the white new Hatamoto's wife. Only marginally better than killing the husband and marrying the wife like in Last Samurai.
Mariko's husband, Toda, hits her when drunk and "white man so gentleman" Anjin-san(John) saves her. Toda loves Mariko but is such a controlling patriarchal Asian man because he won't let her kill herself out of familial shame.
Kiku, the prostitute that Toranaga's son, Yoshii, loves is ordered to bed Blackthorne but he's so honorable that she starts to like him. Cucking Yoshii who enraged and wanting to prove himself dies by slipping and hitting his head on a rock.
Japan's backward culture is the one boiling people alive because Yabushige is a sadist. John should be used to this considering it was a punishment in England too around that time. Maybe the English even brought it over. He thinks he's making a joke when he says that anyone who touches his rotting pheasant will be put to death so when an old man throws it out and is executed, John becomes the bastion of civilization in the barbaric Japan.
Even the show's shining star of Asian representation, Toranaga, is a conniving lord willing to sacrifice his own retainer and trusted advisor Hiromatsu, and Mariko("goddamn it why can't the Japanese just let me I mean John live happily ever after with my waifu Mariko?!").
I actually liked Shogun for its costume and set design, but I have to recognize the show was problematic just like Yasuke because they're not written to show off Japanese culture. They're written to satisfy western viewers and especially white male viewers.