[Akira joins her in sighing. This is terrible, just dreadful. How's he going to continue hitting on this woman if they don't even exist in the same version of Japan...?]

Either I live under a rock or you're hyping this magazine up a little too much, but it's probably the mysterious third option. What year is it in "your" Japan?

[Don't tell him you're actually like, eighty years old, Maya. Akira has some standards.]