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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:Back in modern day Japan,
Kagome has run into a malicious ghost of a little girl. The girl,
it turns out, wants to kill her brother because she is angry that
her mother did not save her from a fire. However, her ghost is
accompanied by a strange spirit that turns out to be a "Tatarimokke,"
a guardian of children's souls that helps them reach spiritual
peace. More importantly, the Tatarimokk has a secondary job:
it sends souls to Hell if they are about to turn into evil spirits
which this little girl seems to be intent on doing. Of
course, Inuyasha doesn't seem at all interested in helping
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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: The rescue squad in-training
is at the site of a raging apartment fire, where they mistakenly
believe someone is inside. Ara's gamble is paying off; he sees
clearly that Daigo has the same "sixth sense" of danger that he has,
and the same love-hate relationship with the thrill of braving fires.
Ara and Daigo seem almost the same in this regard almost.
When the word comes that the person thought to be inside is actually
safe, Ara and the rest of the team start to leave. But Daigo has
sensed something that even Ara has not, and has lapsed into his
powerful rescuer alter-ego. |
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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 and her team are competing
at the Inter-High School competitions. But Love finds it hard to
concentrate on her current game since she senses that her new friend
Chinami has wound up in some sort of bad situation with Love's current
opponent, the obnoxious Otokoyama. Chinami, desperate to see Love win
so that she does not become Otokoyama's woman (in the bet she
accidentally entered), goes so far as to declare a false fault
against Otokoyama. But even this "help" does not seem to be enough
to help Love, whose concern for Chinami continues to hurt her game. |
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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: Oblivious to Tazuna's
increasing devotion to him, Shunpei daydreams again of confessing
to Hibiki that he likes her. This time, though, it actually happens
in the heat of the moment (that is, when Shunpei vehemently objects
to Hibiki's efforts to hook him up with Tazuna). Unfortunately, due
to a poor choice of words, Hibiki winds up rebuking Shunpei, who runs
off weeping. The next morning, Hibiki discovers that Shunpei has left. |
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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: Three gorgeous and ridiculously
powerful female demonic agents of the evil Ashtaroth have at last
hunted Mikami down, in order to find out if she is the reincarnation
of the demon Mephisto, who had stolen an energy capsule (see
previous review of GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI
volume 23
for more details). Mikami secretly leaves her body when they test
her, giving them a false negative result. But Yokoshima, enraged
by what they have done to her, attacks them. Impressed but unhurt,
the youngest of the three demons decides he would make a great pet,
and hauls him back to their base. There, Ashtaroth is being prepared
for his rebirth as the new evil ruler of Heaven and Earth. |
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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: Brash and arrogant, Honda insists on seeing the
captain of a rival junior high school's baseball team. Ayane, a girl
in love with the captain, watches as the spectacle unfolds: the
captain (to Honda's surprise) is Toshiya, an old friend and rival.
Toshiya agrees to test Honda's pitching abilities to see if he is
worth practicing with. Honda throws with confidence, and is shocked
when Toshiya hits the ball; more, he is speechless when Toshiya
praises him for having come so far in just two or three years after
switching to left-handed pitching. |
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DANDOH!!
Sakata Nobuhiro and Banjou Daichi

Overview: Dandoh is an earnest young boy who has found a calling in
golf. With his friend Yuka and Shou, he uses sincerity and
determination as his guides to becoming a pro golfer.
This issue: Dandoh is in America,
playing against an African-American
golfer named Cutter (suspiciously nicknamed "Cool Tiger"). At the
last hole, the spirit of the boy named Will helps him relax, and he
makes his miracle shot, bouncing the ball off a metal grate to
reach the green at the other end of a pond. Later, Dandoh learns from
Cutter that his friend Taku has won a tournament the previous week. |
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KYOU KARA ORE WA!!
Nishimori Hiroyuki

Overview: Blond Mitsuhashi and spike-haired Itou are two high school
guys who hang out, fight, and generally get into and out of trouble.
This issue: Mitsuhashi's enemy Sagara has sent a gun-wielding guy after
him. But with some help from his friends, Mitsuhashi escapes long
enough to grab gasoline and splash it on the would-be gunman, who
decides firing the gun is not worth the fireball risk; the rest is
settled with a fist fight. Later, Sagara gloats quietly over the
worthiness of his opponent. |
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ARMS
Minagawa Ryouji

Overview: Takatsuki Ryou has a mysterious right arm that is a powerful
and dangerous weapon. He soon realizes that whatever happened to
him is part of something much bigger.
This issue: Ryou and his other ARMS
friends try to befriend "Al," a
member of the mysterious enemy who has been, up until recently,
fighting against Ryou. While Al angers most of them with his
arrogance, the group is finding out more about the mysterious
"Egrigori" organization.

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