User blog comment:Mizuki Raimon/What do you think they're gonna be doing 10 years later?/@comment-3976990-20110715045105/@comment-3565856-20110715071735

As usual, you're a bit harsh toward Aki, I think... but that kind of character is one of JAPanime's widespread cliché. It doesn't really make sense for us, but for Japanese folks it DOES. Keep in mind that the initial target population... is JAPAN. On the cultural aspect, Inazuma Eleven is therefore close to the famous Captain Tsubasa. I remember many criticisms about the romance between the main hero Tsubasa and the former tomboyish supporter Sanae, when the latter changed into the classic archetype of the Japanese wife remaining at home while the husband is away working. It's not bad, it's cultural difference, and we better not judge because we absolutely don't know what is it, to live in another culture.