Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Beginning Story

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Translations courtesy of symbv from evageeks forum

Scheduled for release on November 25, 2011, this 244 page book will contain complete disclosure of all scenarios of Puella Magi Madoka Magica by Gen Urobuchi, including the Draft 0 that started the whole story.

Urobuchi Twitters

About The Beginning Story The following are translated Gen Urobuchi's twitters regarding the book:
Butch_Gen Original tweet	Umm... somehow the word "draft" 稿 had lots of misunderstandings, so let me explain it. "Draft ~" means "the screenplay that was submitted in the ~-th screenplay meeting". Which means Draft 0 is the rough draft that was never submitted in meeting. For this, first it went through certain self assessment and had weak points corrected or scenes cut in order to fit the length requirement, then it became the first draft and would be submitted. うーん、なんか０稿という言葉が多大な誤解を招いてる節があるんで説明しとこう。「～稿」というのは「～回目の脚本会議に提出した脚本」という意味。つまり０稿とは会議未提出の草稿のこと。こいつをまず自己採点で駄目なとこ修正したり、尺に合わせてシーン削ったりして初稿にして提出したわけ。
Butch_Gen Original tweet	So, as I talked here and there, for MadoMagi the first draft was already quite smooth and it went through only small changes to become the final draft. In short, the contents did not change much compared to what you saw in the broadcast. At most there may be a few scenes dropped because of the length issue. But since they were not really significant scenes, they were cut. で、あっちこっちで喋ってる通り、まどマギは初稿がつるつる通っちゃって微調整だけで決定稿になっちゃったんで、ぶっちゃけ皆さんが本放送で見た内容と大して変わらない。せいぜい尺の都合で欠落したシーンが数場面あるぐらいだが、それだって大して重要性ないシーンだから削られたんであって。
Butch_Gen Original tweet	On the other hand, for action scenes there were no description at all and for the settei on that part it was all built into by Inu-curry-san. So the material where you could double-check all these and perhaps give a wry smile or find it amusingly ridiculous -- that is what you can call MadoMagi Draft 0. むしろ、アクションシーンがいかに何にも記述されてなかったか、どの辺の設定が犬カレーさんによって盛り込まれたのか、そういう検証をして苦笑いするぶんには面白可笑しいかもしれない資料──それがまどマギ０稿と言えよう。
Butch_Gen Original tweet	And then, right, things like what all those people who got possessed by the "box witch" tried to mix in the bucket -- they were all described in stark details. That is Draft 0. 後は、そうね、ハコの魔女に取り憑かれた皆さんがバケツの中で何を混ぜようとしてたのか、赤裸々に記述されていたりする。それが０稿。べつにまどかマギカの前日段の書き下ろし、なんていう御大層なもんじゃないので、妙な期待はなさらないでいただきたい。

Note: "box witch" is H.N. Elly/Kirsten