Is it necessarily a zero sum game between having fun at band club, and striving to win the prefectural and national championships?

For Reina, definitely yes. She’s always put results before everything else. Always been a bit unfeeling about how others feel when they fail. I think that’ll be her arcs this season. It gets worse when Taki-sensei is involved in why people failed. She’s incredibly biased after all.

It doesn’t help that she personally hasn’t failed yet. I kinda hope she fails at some point during this season. Not because I don’t like Reina, but because I think she needs to learn.

Reina more or less disavowing Kumiko as president, because she dared criticize Taki-sensei, was not unexpected, but certainly sad and a bit closeminded. Not being able to criticize your leaders is not a good thing.