I read the manga when it first came out and my teen self liked it well enough. I think the problem with this movie is that they take a tale that was meant to be about morality and justice (not just a notebook that kills people who’s names are written in it) and turns it into a tropey American melodrama, with a dash of…

You also have to realize that Japanese people who live in Japan don’t face the same kind of problems in regards to racial representation as we do in the West. Your comment is so ironic because Japan is a xenophobic country with a weird inferiority complex towards the West.