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Thursday, May 4, 2006

No, seriously, I'm almost done this time.
Well, the Kasimasi piece is almost done (and only two months late, too). I just need to edit the hell out of the thing and then sketch a little one page ending, and it's over with.

Contrary to my expectations this was much harder to write than the Saikano one, although it ended up shorter. The central phenomenon in Saikano (eros) shows up through the entire thing and basically always stays the same, so the task of writing was just to gradually uncover it and show it out in a well-organized way. With Kasimasi I'm looking towards the movements of one scene (although one with parallels throughout the rest of the series), which is extremely suggestive but very unclear, and in the process I have to set aside the main concerns of the latter half of the show (how to behave justly towards the one you love). Not only that, but I have to trace the phenomenon which takes place in that one scene (which I have given the somewhat obscure name "tilling") through its transformations until it arrives at the form it takes for those of us who live in in the era of technology. And I have to do ALL that without making value judgments.

I think my reading is a good one, although I'm worried that it departs from its source much more than the Jigoku Shoujo or Saikano ones. As usual, I'm just hoping someone can get something out of it.
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