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Originally Posted by Tri-ring

Spoiler for It's mostly a Japanese thing:

If this kind of situation was to develop in an American TV drama, Sumire would have just said yes with tears in her eye at the point Kitamura declared his feeling towards her and let Kitamura chase Sumire to the end of the world for all it's worth.

That's a difference between East and West, I guess.

In the East, if two people want to come together, they would want to have the approval of everyone around them, their blessings, their support, their acceptance etc etc.

In the West, who cares?