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Vol 2 Issue 7
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ORETACHI NO FIELD
Muraeda Kenichi

Overview: Takasugi Kazuya is a young ace soccer player in the J-league, struggling to help his team to victory against the world's best.
  This issue:Aiko and Kazuya's mother belatedly arrive in search of Kazuya's World Cup game. On the way, they wind up in the same taxi as an Iranian grandfather and boy heading to the same game; clearly, like Aiko, they are friends and family of (in this case) the rival Iranian players. The little boy, an obvious fan of the Iranian side, gets into fights with Aiko, who ardently wants the Japanese to win. They arrive at a stadium, but discover it is the wrong one. Aiko, as much as she is in a rush, takes the time to find the Iranian family and get them back to the taxi. They arrive at the right game in time to see Japan losing, but Aiko remembers the elderly Iranian man had told her of the power of faith.

MONKEY TURN
Kawai Katsutoshi

Overview: Hatano Kenji is a young man intent on becoming a professional speed boat racer. He and his peers train at Motosu.
  This issue: Kenji, on a rare bit of free time, has met his old girlfriend. She promises to be faithful, and demands that he promises to graduate as number one in his class. Later, the students compete against each other. Kenji, using a tactic he had thought of while visiting with his girlfriend, pulls into the lead to his delight and wins.

MEITANTEI CONAN
Aoyama Goushou

Overview: Grade-school boy Conan is secretly high school detective Kudou Shinichi, made younger against his will by a strange organization. Now, he and his girlfriend Ran help solve murder incidents.
  This issue: Conan and his grade-school friends have stumbled into a plot to counterfeit money. With the help of Conan's devices, they manage to escape certain death and alert the police. However, the woman who Conan thought was a member of the mysterious organization which had turned him into a child was not who he thought it was. Later, as he walks his newest grade-school friend home, the young transfer student abruptly changes demeanor. She is, she reveals, the inventor of the drug that had turned him into a child. And, in fact, she had taken it too. Her code name, she tells him, is Sherri.

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