I just watched the stream VOD. I didn’t catch the line in question, but I did hear them say they’ve finished recording episode 7. THAT SAID, let’s think a bit about how anime production works. The episode scripts are not always finished early, so the voice actors sometimes don’t know how the anime will go. From Morita’s perspective, as someone who knows the source, it’s possible he said something “unofficial” in the sense that he knows episode 7’s content reaches “half of half the full story of Rewrite,” but this could be unrelated to the actual anime scripts. Again, I didn’t catch when he said that so I don’t know the real context, but I’d take it with a grain of salt. Regarding the Japanese person who interpreted it one way, also remember that Japanese is inherently ambiguous and even native speakers can misunderstand things without follow up clarity.
Kai also definitely said something like “it’s difficult to adapt all the heroine routes into an anime, so when Tanaka Romeo and I were figuring out how to do it, Tanaka decided, ‘ah we’ll do a 6th route.’” Contextually, it doesn’t make sense to include a 6th route as the solution to the difficulty of adapting 5 routes into an anime. My source is only the stream and my own Japanese knowledge; I don’t claim this is confirmation of anything.
There are also Japanese people suggesting split cour is still possible, which just goes back to my previous post that the episode count announcement doesn’t really say anything absolute. I still think it’s likely they’ll hold out until after the season’s over to officially announce a 2nd season. Regardless, everything is still speculation at this point but Kai said Rewrite will definitely be the best anime of summer season, so at least there’s that.
?
If I believe it then it’s basically confirming (from Morita’s mouth) that it isn’t only 13 episodes. However, I can’t confirm that because there is no official statement whatsoever yet.