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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.
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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
Shunpeiwho had once been a promising studentback 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. |
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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. |
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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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