I'm (almost) completely caught up after basically skipping a week (I'm addicted to video games)
Figured I'd add my 2c and get my thoughts a bit organized
First time reader btw
I really liked the last arc and how it turned out
I expected it to be a traditional rivalry between the two of them, but was pleasantly surprised. Yonagi didn't like Chiyoko at first because she couldn't get a read on her. She only learned later that there was nothing to read. Chiyoko didn't like Yonagi because she was an AMATEUR who was causing chaos on set. There was also this sense of pride from her, thinking she needed to put the fucking noob in her place. But what it comes down to is that opposites attract. It's directly stated that their methods are opposite eachother. But to expand on that, what I think that means is that Yonagi acts out of pure, untrained instinct, while Chiyoko acts out of autistically developed intuition. Chiyoko learned how to see herself from the perspective of the cameras/audience, but her issue is that she can ONLY see herself like that. Because of this, there's nothing inside her because she acts entirely from the outside-in. This is how she's able to put on great performances, because she's expert at control. Her act is so flawless it looks real. Meanwhile, Yonagi acts from the inside-out. If she understands a character, she embodies it and the line between acting and reality is blurred because she herself believes she's the character in the moment. After acting together, they understood eachother and both drew something out of the other that made them improve. Yonagi was able to learn how to see herself in third person, while Chiyoko was able to act in first person for the first time. What helped them, too, is that when Yonagi saved her from the current, she wasn't just saving her in-character, she was also saving her from getting injured because she knew she had a million other projects that relied on her. She cracked her mask by being so fucking real