Of course, I say this as a diaspora Asian of sorts.
Noizumi is half-Japanese, and she found herself thinking, “Why am I so excited that my daughter has blue eyes? What’s the big deal about that? And why am I so excited that I have a baby who looks more white?”
This is the kind of statement that would get a white celebrity cancelled for saying it, but apparently it's just a fun tidbit for Netflix.
In their early creative conversations that would eventually span 15 years, they started spinning a tale about how “back in the Edo period starting in 17th-century Japan, it would’ve been illegal to be white.
Wtf based Edo period.
CW: Rape
According to some of the promotional materials, the main character is a product of rape of a Japanese woman by a white man, which is a terrible and insensitive if they play it straight and a weeb fantasy if they redeem the dad at the end.
Idk if the series is as good as they say, but how the fuck did they think that publishing any of this was a good idea?
Meh I am enjoying it. Yeah it has some bad takes, but it makes the British evil and has pretty colors.
Edit: Lol having watched the show and read the article, yall are a bunch of psychotic reactionaries. Yeah it's from a lib perspective, because basically all media is in our liberal society, but the main themes of the show are literally racial hierarch and patriarchy are bad. It also explores the concept of beauty standards and why whiteness is the apex of that. The show is also decidedly anti imperialist from a lib perspective. The woman in question in the article is literally asking why she has an implicit bias toward whiteness and is disturbed that she feels that way about her own kid. The show literally has the villan say that the fact that Edo is burning down is because whiteness is equivalent to violence and imperialism, because all white people can do is violence.