Yeah, the racism is really played up quite a lot in that show. I'd be fine with the basic premise (it's completely OK to depict the Japanese as wary of whites and finding some aspects of their foreign culture off-putting, and the main character being especially brought up to hate them) but damn, they really go out of their way to just repeatedly state, literally: "White people are monstrous and disgusting, they will tell you this themselves, it is completely OK to despise them and all prejudice against them is justified." I was waiting for a reversal or nuance but none came, with only maybe a hint of it maybe happening in the later seasons with more white characters besides the villain.

It's just a narrative trope to make the main character, Mizu, an "onryo" and an outcast. It's purposefully jarring that she considers herself "monstruous" but we, the spectators, see she is quite nice, actually.

Calling this "anti-white" (as the now flagged comment this) reveals more of the prejudice of the people claiming so.

> White people are monstrous and disgusting [...] it is completely OK to despise them and all prejudice against them is justified

Many Japanese characters in the show are equally monstruous, and the show's subtext is that it is not ok to discriminate Mizu due to her heritage.

I just don't care. I get enough anti-Whiteness from literally all other media, why would I choose to watch more for pro-White "subtext"? Not interested in how they choose to peddle their latest propaganda.

I am very prejudiced against media that involves killing people for being White. I am very prejudiced against Netflix. I am very prejudiced against Hollywood. They have earned my prejudice.