Talk:Episode 10 - Yume's Start Line!/@comment-28417557-20160613230513/@comment-24848025-20160616070151

I think you are on to something - the tension has to be strong, otherwise viewers won't believe it. In this case, we have to see Hikaru as someone who will continually throw Yume into the fire. If Hikaru was more like Orihime and coddled her idols in the way Hime would want - it's possible that Yume wouldn't be pushed enough to perform past her abilities.

In a way, Hikaru has to be an antagonist or the tension doesn't work - the viewers won't believe the tension (oh, he's not REALLY going to kick her out - ehhh) - and then people stop watching.

Additionally, I think BNP want to shove Yume down through bad situations in the same way they did with Akari because it pays out later when they come out on top.

I really think though that Hikaru belives that in order for Yume to use "Yume Mode" (yea, I'm calling her special power that) she has to be pushed to the absolute brink. Meanwhile, I think Hime sees the activation as not that and is unnecessarily cruel to Yume but since she's too busy to see Yume, she has no way of knowing how to train Yume to use "Yume Mode" at will.

I think episode 11 will be more telling toward us knowing Yume perhaps more then we already know then getting to know Hime.