The sad thing is that she's not the stupidest person from back home by far. She's just-- generally oblivious when it comes to certain subjects.

"Okay," Akane says. "Good. I mean, back home we wouldn't be forced to go to high school either--compulsory education's only through the end of junior high--but I wasn't sure how it works in Johto. And I'm glad it's not... American high school. Our principle went to America--well, Hawaii--for a couple years and he came back with some really weird ideas on how to run a school. Mandatory haircut ways."

She affects a really terrible island accent, "'All da wahines gotta get bowlcuts, all da keiki's gotta get buzzcuts.'" Then back to her regular voice, "He tried to teach me to swim once. It didn't really work.

"So how is he your uncle? Is Jack your aunt?" She assumes that Jack is a gender neutral name in English.