Question: Don’t know if you recently watched Netflix’s Yasuke (it could have been better) which was created by LeSean Thomas who also had notable projects in Legend of Korra, The Boondocks, Cannon Busters, Children of Ether. Based on popularity of recent animesque black characters in Afro Samurai, Boondocks, Black Dynamite, Seis Menos, also seeing teaser […]
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