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Vol 2 Issue 5
[MANGA REVIEWS]


shonen sunday.
1997 Issue 28
Shogakukan
Update by Eri Izawa

What is SHONEN SUNDAY? SHONEN SUNDAY is one of the largest weekly manga magazines in Japan. Containing some of the latest and hottest boys' manga series in Japan, SUNDAY has hosted such notables as RANMA 1/2 and the currently popular MEITANTEI CONAN.


Selected Brief Updates

INUYASHA
Takahashi Rumiko

Overview: Kagome is a seemingly normal student who finds herself in fifteenth or sixteenth century Japan, where she meets the strange boy Inuyasha. Now, they are on a quest to retrieve the fragments of the Shikon no Tama, whose powers are sought by evil beings.
  This issue: Kagome and Inuyasha, newly returned from modern Japan, have resumed their search for the fragments. They meet a young fox-boy, Shippou, who tries to steal the fragments they have already accumulated. The boy is seeking to avenge the murder of his father by the evil thunder beasts Hiten-Manten. Leaving Inuyasha stuck in a trap, Shippou runs off with the fragments, and he and Kagome come face to face with Manten.


ME GUMI NO DAIGO
Soda Masahito

Overview: Asahina Daigo is a young firefighter with the "Me" Company, who has an unusual ability to find and rescue people in danger.
  This issue: Daigo, still feeling disgraced from the fire truck incident, is facing the reporters who have seen his daring and almost suicidal rescue of a window maintenance worker. Gomi seemingly praises him in front of the press, and Daigo takes that to mean that he is really fired. Ochiai (his girlfriend) slaps him for his stupidity. Meanwhile, however, Ara, one of the top Rescue officials, had been watching on TV. Later, when Gomi is reproached for his apparent support of Daigo, Ara steps in and asks if she may be responsible for Daigo. Cold, calm Ara had secretly been electrified as he watched Daigo's rescue action.


LOVE
Ishiwata Osamu

Overview: Takagi Ai ("Love") is a girl who, in a bid to have a re-match with her old tennis rival, has entered a high school tennis club disguised as a boy.
  This issue: Love, at the Inter-High School competitions, is facing an opponent whose team has practiced at the best tennis clubs in the U.S. Her opponent's topspin creates an effect to match her "dolphin" shots, and Love finds herself quickly losing.


GROOMING UP!
Yuuki Masami

Overview: Although originally a city boy, young Kuze Shunpei has taken to working as a farm hand at the Watarai racing horse breeding farm; he also has taken to Watarai Hibiki, one of the Watarai daughters.
  This issue: Tazuna is less and less happy about how Nikaidou, Shunpei's old high school girlfriend, is hanging out at the farm. Even Hibiki is a little affected by Nikaidou's comments about forcing Shunpei—who had once been a promising student—back into normal student life. Later, Nikaidou and Shunpei come along to a horse auction, where the filly Hime is to be sold. Shunpei is selected to walk the horse. Hibiki notices how well Nikaidou and Shunpei seem to get along.


GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI GOKURAKU DAISAKUSEN!!
Shiina Takashi

Overview: Mikami Reiko is a money-hungry, gorgeous female ghost buster, aided by her sex-starved and underpaid male assistant Yokoshima Tadao, as well as kind and gentle female ex-ghost O-kinu.
  This issue: Mikami and O-kinu have been trapped by the magical writings of a mad writer's spirit, who is inhabiting the body of a young woman author named Anna Mira (apparently famous for writing fluffy, shallow, but very popular girls' mysteries). Mikami and O-kinu dodge heinous trap after heinous trap, each created with the mere writing of the author's pen. But Anna Mira regains control and changes the writing. Mikami and O-kinu rush back to find Anna Mira defeating the spirit: the mad writer can't tolerate the idea that writing so shallow, so cheesy, and un-literary has actually sold a hundred thousand copies. Needless to say, Mikami and O-kinu wind up in Anna's next book.


MAJOR
Mitsuda Takuya

Overview: It has been four years since Honda Goro put together the Mifune Little League. Now, in junior high school, he is reunited with his old friends and is faced with a new baseball crisis.
  This issue: Honda's team is facing a team notorious for defeating competitors via causing injuries. Honda, who was nearly hit in the head while at bat, is now kneed in the back when he slides into first base. Now realizing what's going on, he takes action. After a series of strange movements, he runs back to first and deliberately slams head-first into the first baseman.

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