Trivia / Yasuke

• Celebrity Voice Actor: Takehiro Hira as Nobunaga and Lakeith Stanfield as Yasuke.
• Fake Nationality: While all of the plot important Japanese characters are voiced by Asian or Eurasian American actors in the English version, but with the exceptions of Nobunaga, Saki, Morisuke and Yami no Daimyo, none of them are of Japanese descent.
  • Ming-Na Wen, who voices Natsumaru, is of Macanese and Malaysian Chinese descent.
  • Gwendoline Yeo, who voices Ichika, is of Singaporean descent.
  • Dia Frampton, who voices Ishikawa, is of Korean descent.
  • Darren Criss, who voices Haruto, is of Chinese and Filipino descent.
  • Johnny Yong Bosch, who voices Ranmaru, is of Korean decent.
• Multiple Languages, Same Voice Actor: Takehiro Hira voices Oda Nobunaga in English and Japanese. It helps the fact that Hira, who was born in Japan, spent part of his teenage life and early adult life in Rhode Island.