Hmm… I kinda… don’t agree fully with how other writers get discounted for not being able to produce Bunta’s level of story. Etude & Ballad’s script were written by other writers too, and I think those were good. (Plot by Bunta tho) But 2 the biggest differences in the treatment Bunta gets vs the other writers are: time and degree of freedom. Bunta gets more time, and therefore was able to ponder & polish her stories further. Whereas Coly’s in-house writers had a time limit of… idk, less than 3 months? To come up with an event story. And they have to keep producing without much leeways of researching, I bet. It slowly depletes creativity…

Bunta also gets total freedom and is able to write as many conflicts as she wants. However, what’s outside of the main storyline seems to have this limitation of, “no deviating too much from ms1.5 so new players aren’t confused” rule, so all of the characters end up in a loop ala Doraemon. I suspect this is why the stories and character development end up being shallow; being fillers, these can’t move on too much from the foundations.

(Basically, Coly can only come up with one-shot fanfics!)

I’m not discounting Bunta, of course; her writing is artistic, highly emotional, and I’ve lost count how many times her stories devastated me that I just curl up on my bed and cry about Figaro, FgMt & LenoFau… (lol). It’s just.. kinda. Saddens me when I see people go, “X is better than Y” kinda comments. Those two have different circumstances, and I liked South Concerto and Campeggio. Happy endings are more to my liking 🥹

The Chloe & Owen interactions in the main story are really 😘 though! They’re so cute together..! I hope we get to see more in ms3!