Talk:Hinami Fueguchi/@comment-10733658-20160424172841/@comment-10733658-20160424184204

Japanese media tends to portray a lot of things that are not nearly as acceptable in actual society. There's a lot of wish-fulfillment going on, and expressions of stuff that people don't actually do.

Most Japanese people aren't nearly as openly emotional as the characters in their media. There's a huge focus on social harmony, so people will go out of their way to avoid disagreeing with each other, and a lot of subtle ways of conveying things. A ton of these things get lost on a Western audience.

But back to the point of romantic gestures, these are common things in Japanese society that pop up in the fiction. Since these are things boys and girls do to convey affection or interest, that's something fictional characters would do as well.