Einander posted:

After Sayumi's scene in the bathroom, I'm not actually so sure. That guy's talk of "being a reader" and wanting to see a more interesting story strikes a pretty different note after the revelation that fairies are using their world as a glorified TV station. And the club also has powers, which are fairy-granted.

Now, two points of data isn't a pattern, and both of those can be explained away... But I'm starting to suspect we got a double fake-out, where the main characters are involved in fairy reality TV, just not the battle kind of fairy reality TV.