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I just think its funny that when Nioh, a Japanese-made game called Yasuke a samurai nobody cared about historical revisionism, but now that you're playing as him it suddenly matters.

Fact is it doesn't matter whether he really was a samurai or not, because in the realm of popular culture he is universally depicted as one. Even if that is a "misunderstanding" it really doesn't matter what a bunch of Americans and Europeans think constituted a samurai in 1580. This game or this understanding is not going to impact academia or proper research into the matter.