Talk:Episode 06 - ROCK! Rock Girls!/@comment-5141379-20160512234914/@comment-24848025-20160513052729

The whole scene is entirely shippers bait, and it's a look into the personality of Ako.

I guess I could break the scene down even more - please keep in mind I have a very limited understanding of Japanese but I feel I got the feel of the scene enough to understand it, though it'll be obvious once the English subs are out:

The director feels the scene feels too off, thinking that there isn't a good enough reason why M4's characters should be trying to beat Rock Rock Girls (S4). Subaru suggests perhaps adding a girlfriend character to add a additional reason for M4 to compete in the rock competition. The Director obviously chooses Yume (also, LOL that fourth wall look at the audience), with Yume wanting to turn it down. Subaru baits Yume by saying by not doing it, she can't fulfill her dream as a idol and all because she's too scared. Yume falls for the bait, and goes off on one of her usual tirades at Subaru. Subaru then hugs Yume and ad libs lines off of her tirade to the effect of - "That's right. I'm going to work as hard as I can to win this Rock Competition because of you." Director cuts the scene, Subaru thanks the director, then Nozomi teases that Yume acted as if she really was Subaru's girlfriend. Yume then comments something to the effect of "What girl would ever fall for that guy." Which Subaru then responds with how rude that comment was, and walks away by calling her "Little Tomato" (a nickname he gave her in ep 4, after their first encounter in ep 1.) As Yume was saying "stop calling me that" - Ako shoves Yume and is angry she got to be the girlfriend character. Subaru then calls over to "Little Tomato", with Ako responding "Subaru-kyun!" Subaru then tosses the water bottle to Yume and leaves, and Ako is like "OMG you got Subarus water!" to which Yume offers it to Ako (bet the 4chan trolls loved that, Ako *IS* thirsty for some Subaru.) Ako initially accepts before going to tsuntsun mode - then Koharu straight up asks if Ako likes Subaru, which flusters Ako. Then Laura chimes in by noting that Akos face is completely red - which causes Ako to run off. The scene ends with Laura noting something to the effect that shes easy to read despite how perfect her acting is, Koharu saying "Kawaii", and Yume thinking of her as someone interesting.

Wow that is a big ol' wall of text. Anyway, it's all pretty standard shoujo-esqe storyline fluff - but knowing Aikatsu there probably won't be any major romance shipping going on. Just the teases here and there in the interactions between the characters. I just like that for once - we got a Love Triangle effect going, instead of the obvious pairs that had no rivalries (see: Ichigo/Naoto, Akari/Sena). However, I don't expect anything to come out of this and is obvious shoujo fanservice to bump ratings.