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I am going to be honest with you, the arguments are terrible. Like, they completely lack logic and boil down to: “the work was not published by Ryukishi07’s doujin circle, therefore it is not canon,” as if the company that publishes the visual novel were, by itself, what determines its canonicity. Within 7th Expansion itself there is a ton of canonical material published by different studios, so this stance simply ignores all the evidence in favour and sets up a false dilemma of “either 7th Expansion publishes it and it is canon, or 7th Expansion does not publish it and it is not canon.”
There are other minor arguments, but they are even worse than the one above, so you can already imagine.
There are people who literally invent interviews that do not exist, such as claiming that the cosmological model of the work was conceived before Ryukishi07 joined the project, when that is not only false, it goes against the very essence of the project, which was to create a world that would take shape through the union of the ideas of the three guest writers.
There are also people who split the routes as if they were self contained works and say that since Ryukishi07 wrote Lucia’s route and not Terra’s route, then nothing counts. But that is so nonsensical that only someone who has not played the novel could use an argument like that in a non ironic way.
I am going to refute all of this with evidence in the blog and put an end to the debate once and for all. The amount of evidence in favour of Rewrite’s canonicity is, ironically, superior to the number of connections that exist between the titles of the When They Cry franchise. It is astonishing that we are still having this debate in 2025.
