“これからの

「契約」の

話をしよう”

from. Thus Spoke Kyuubekyusthra

Back again; this time a little earlier than expected. Though, it certainly didn’t feel that way. At any rate, this part of the book is rather short, but it makes up for this in density. There’s a fair bit crammed into these sections, and there’s a lot of hidden concepts or ideas that the prof. just slots in here and there, referring to them in ways simple and easy to digest but never actually naming them. Frankly I think it’s a really smart move; but anyways.

This part can be seen more as a primer for PMMM analysis than a full-blown monograph; probably most evident by the fact that an entire semester’s worth of lectures have been condensed and stripped down all the way to a bare 100 pages or so. Here, the prof. quite deliberately avoids any deep reading or anything that you’d expect to find in a paper. And in fact, it doesn’t quite qualify as a close-reading, though some segments are certainly like that.

Perhaps I can best describe as something like a student’s guide? What with the broad multitude of ways in which he introduces concepts, touches and goes. After all, the book itself was used as a textbook for his second run of the MadoMagi lectures.

Nonetheless, it’s a rather comprehensive primer, so I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we have. As it is now, the translated text might be a bit turgid to read, primarily because I didn’t bother to reparagraph it and left it mostly to the original formatting of the book — and boy, there are some long sentences there — but on the whole it ought to be okay to read. We’ll probably spruce it up for a final release, as well as add on more depth and breadth to the TL Notes and the Appendix. (Bong Bong Bong really wants to create an annotated version of the script; I think she’s getting one out for Kimi no Gin no Niwa right now actually.)

Right then, below is the link. (There might be errors too, fyi. I mean, we churned out almost a hundred pages in barely a month. The small stuff can fall into place later, yeah?)

Next up is the part on Rebellion and the closing chapters. Maybe we’ll do a doujin or too in the meantime. Or catch up on some of the other projects.

Any questions or comments, don’t be shy. But don’t be rude either.

Yeah, I know, it’s a tough life.