I've been following along with your playthrough and it's been really interesting! I don't want to be too agressive in trying to influence your order/pacing but I will say that in my opinion the one thing that the stageplay could spoil if you catch onto it is possibly The Biggest Spoiler in the game and is something that I think is probably impossible to tell from episode 1 of the VN? (Or even of the manga, though I agree its best to read episodes 1 - 4 of the VN before looking at the mange.) This is a thing I figured out way later (like after episode 4 later) and would have been really upset to have felt like I caught unfairly earlier on. Obviously I can't say more than that, but I know that knowing what I know now, I can see a hint in the stageplay to something I'd have really hated to learn just after finishing episode 1.
ty!!! i'm glad you've been enjoying the liveblog!!! <3
the stageplay thing being The Biggest Spoiler uh. changes things a little i think. i've been assured that i should be safe to go through it but if we're playing with Big Stuff like that i guess it depends on how much of a risk it is that i'll end up catching on. it's hard because this is a Conflicted Topic where nobody can actually tell me anything. there's still a good bit of time to go before i finish episode 1 so i'll keep this line of conversation open and maybe make a final call then?
