Avatar roughly corresponds to a shonen anime. Yes, I know Avatar is an American production. And that brings me to my main point.
I think that this differing treatment reflects different romantic expectations of Americans and Japanese in their youth fiction. Americans prefer to see "true love's kiss" for their happily-ever-after endings and the Avatar producers responded appropriately, but I think such a demonstrative kiss at the end of IY would have been seen as massive overkill by most Japanese readers of IY in Shonen Sunday.
Your thoughts? (^_*)










