 Pflugfelder regards the siblings' switches as an example of gender performativity, he notes that each of the siblings will have to re-learn courtly manners in their birth gender, but that their performances as the opposite gender were "convincing", and suggests that in Japanese, gender roles are spoken of with modifiers that make gender seem "mutable" or "superficial".The heroine of "Ariake no Wakare" is similar to Himegimi, and like Himegimi, she has romantic relationships with other women.Although it may seem strange that the siblings pass, Nishimura points out the male-role actors in the Takarazuka Revue.