Talk:Episode 11 - Stuck To! A Day with Hime Shiratori/@comment-24839987-20160613030016/@comment-24848025-20160616071417

I feel part of the dynamics of the schools play a part in the relationships between Mizuki/Ichigo and Hime/Yume. At Starlight, everyone is gunning to be Queen, and Mizuki still had one more year of title defense. In that light, Mizuki might have kept her distance because she knew deep down she had to work that much harder now that she had some really naturally gifted and talented kouhai gunning for her. Mizuki is a lead-by-example type of Senpai and was really a loner - she had issues fitting in with STAR ANIS, and even after she left Starlight - it took someone like Mikuru to really get her to open up. In Ichigo, you had someone who literally changed the attitudes of the entire school from being cunning, backstabbing rivals to being friendly but pushes you to the limit idols (hrm, sounds like Yume a little...)

Hime on the other hand is -- well, Akari - honestly. Akari was the type of senpai who would push you a little by showing you how hard to work and push herself to the absolute limit and it would make you want to do the same. You could probably say the same for Hime, though she's not there as often as she'd like because of her S4 activities. Also, there is no pressure on Hime to push Yume away - someone is eventually going to replace her in S4 and she doesn't have to defend her position from a younger kouhai in S4.

I still feel there is some awkwardness in Hime/Yume at this point too - it's still early and Yume is still wearing the worship idol shades whenever she's around Hime. I think this is going to be the episode where that comes off and they really start becoming friends and evolve past a simple Kouhai/Senpai relationship.