Thread:Unok/@comment-24494906-20140902202329/@comment-24494906-20140902222139

What I posted above aren't translations of the chapter titles. The kanji often don't form a Japanese word, so the only thing left to translator is to get a feeling what Ishida could have meant.

Rather, I translated the words that can be read the same way as the chapter title. Ishida likes wordplay. That's also part of the reason why he doesn't give furigana for the chapter titles: You are meant to think for yourself how it could be read and then you discover some hidden meaning.

The trick is to construct all possible readings and then look into a dictionary if (a) there exists a word that is read the same way and (b) that word has some connection to the chapter. If you find such a word, then you've probably found the intended reading. This method fails sometimes, though. Sometimes, you don't discover the pun or he makes two puns at once.

Chapter 132's title should be something like 'Festival Opening' and 131's is something akin to 'Revised Question'. But any translation can't fully capture the meanings of Ishida's chapter titles :-(