User blog comment:NoCheesecakeRipple/What I thought Aikatsu Friends Season 1 would be like./@comment-3487190-20190122013830

While your conclusion sums it up, I don't think your speculation of "unfriendly friends" was totally impossible. It does feel like if we're in Stars season 2 Elza would had done a business partnership to get what she wants. Who knows, let's see if future season or series would make such thing real.

Personally I think the journey of the main girls is like, Aine and Mio were just being nice, polite and amiable to each other in the beginning and that's enough for normal friends. But how to become the best friends, trust and comprehend,  not just being happy-go-lucky is what they have to learn within this year. So indifference or betrayal is not what the plot wants to focus on in a friendship, that's my guess.