Shine Post

[shinta|hikari]

I think you guys are reading too much into this. Haru is the typical pure and honest protagonist. Naoki's power is infallible. Those are the conclusions with the least amount of assumptions from what we've seen so far.

As for what Haru changed, she shifted her focus from coordinating and balancing her two team members to observing the reactions of the audience. She watched how the crowd reacted and what they focused on and adjusted her performance based on that.

The fact is with her being the center, the audience will look at her the most. Her previous attempt at supporting her other teammates was detrimental because it led to her losing focus on her own performance.

A good thing to note about this is her eyes while performing. Previously, her eyes darted left and right to check on her teammates and coordinate their movements. That is a no-no because the dancers, especially the center, has to be looking and smiling at the audience, regardless if you have her observational skills or not. Her darting eyes would be seen as amateurish and a sign of a lack of skill/talent/practice, or worse, a lack of interest in pleasing the audience.

With her trying to make herself "shine", and using her observation skills on the audience to see how to best do that, she was able to improve the entirety of the performance, or at the very least how it was perceived by the crowd.