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This is so far removed from a comment u made and maybe my memory is hazy since it’s been a while since I read performance and perhaps my interpretation is influenced BY the supposed retcons but. For some reason I interpreted wataru relationship to the theater program members as being not on good terms bc due to wataru’s ya know way of not being forthcoming with the truth all the time. Isn’t it like. Wataru has to play multiple roles bc there were not enough ppl available to perform in Romeo and Juliet. I felt like they said that oh they were all busy and while normally they would help no one could show up! So in my brain I maybe twisted that around to be like. Wataru just saying something nice to avoid negative feelings around the fact that literally no one in theater track wants to be involved with drama club… IDK I MIGHT HAVE BEEN MAKING ALL OF THIS UP. The fact wataru has to recruit other idols to act of course is like. On a metatextual level. Due to the fact this game is about the idol characters. But idk I feel like I was viewing it in the way that yea none of the theater track is willing to be a part of their productions… I could very well be wrong tho like I said it’s been a while since I read that story!!!
tbh my original comment was less about watarus precise relationship to the theater program and much more the like History Of The Theater Club (as a club)!
Performance imo gives the impression that the theater club has existed for a while (like other clubs) and only has three members because Wataru as a theater club member is a lot to deal with. iirc theres mentions of previous members leaving with those three being the like last ones standing, and the rewriting of the romeo & juliet play as a bit of a "tradition"
generally speaking i agree that like the way wataru talks abt the theater program in performance can be read that way, iirc the specifics of the performance we as readers end up seeing is also that like "theyre busy rn and theyll come to help later", it definitely doesnt really track with watarus whole thing leading up to this point that they WOULD just have Friends there.
id still call it a bit of a retcon bc i think the lack of theater program students at the time of writing was for reasons of "these are not characters who actually exist, but they would help (even if wataru is maybe overstating their relationship to them)" whereas i think atlantis implies it was just fully a lie. but idk thats like my personal interpretation.
i could also never fully make piece with how wataru talks about having friends etc in the theater program so that not being entirely the truth fully tracks to me.