It would be one thing if the Frieren writer had done the opposite, and said demons were misunderstood and were, in fact, redeemable...and Frieren still hated them. That could create an interesting moral dilemma, and we could argue about whether the protagonist's feelings were right or wrong.

Which is one of the reasons I like Eight-Six: 86 so much. It is a more straightforward message about racism being wrong, but it also shows that both sides of the fight are wrong, and does so repeated.

The Alba's who are in charge of San Magnolia would rather see their entire nation fall and their people massacred before they would ever even conceive of admitting the 86 are even human, let alone worthy of rights. And at other points in the story, you see another nation fighting the Legion who doesnt have those issues and is in a much better position to be fighting the war with walkers that are actually worth a damn instead of the walking coffins the 86 pilot. And that very much fits in with what you would expect of a hamfisted anti-racism story in the West.

But the 86 are shown to be just as prejudiced, want to see the destruction of all of those "white pigs", and will gaslight themselves over any Alba who treats them well. Even the ones who fight for their rights or those who actually come to the field to fight and die alongside them. And of course, it extends to those who had lived among them, or their children, or those of mixed ancestry.

Can you name a single modern Western work that shows that the discriminated against minority is capable of being evil and that this is shown as a bad thing?