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From Dephender, regarding confusion over how to interpret the gift from Ash to Serena at the end of the date episode:
>One thing that's important to keep in mind is that this is a Japanese series written purely by Japanese writers. No matter how consciously they attempt to avoid filling the series with things that aren't going to resonate with an international audience, they're still human. No one who hasn't spent a significant amount of time living in other countries are completely aware of exactly what constitutes "normal standard human behavior and etiquette" and what constitutes "cultural-specific behavior and etiquette some random person halfway across the globe isn't familiar with". That's just how it is. A Japanese TV series is always going to have characters act in "Japanese ways" because the writers are Japanese and are going to write what *they* know as "normal behavior" because that's what they know.
>I'm not super familiar with Japanese dating culture and social rules, but I think it's pretty safe to say that if Japanese fans saw this episode as a very major deal and you non-Japanese fans were disappointed by it, the episode *was* meant to be seen as a very major deal and you just misinterpreted it due to cultural differences.
