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MANGA REVIEWS


Published by 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.

Last issue's SHONEN SUNDAY update



Selected Brief Updates:

GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI GOKURAKU DAISAKUSEN!!
by 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: After two months of seeming peace and normality, Mikami had gone out on a date with a mysterious man who seemed just like Ashtaroth, but who was proven not to be. As they kissed, however, Mikami suddenly realized he really was Ashtaroth after all. Now, in this issue, Mikami suddenly discovers the truth: the last two months have all been an illusion, generated in a separate space-time. Mikami's mother is still ill; Ashtaroth is alive and well. Even worse, Ashtaroth has now seized Mikami's soul, which she had exposed in her brief moment of openness. As her friends arrive to rescue her, Ashtaroth presents them with Mikami's lifeless body....


MAJOR
by Mitsuda Takuya

Overview: It has been 4 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, Satou, and Komori arrive at the Kaidou High School try-outs, to attempt to qualify to enter the prestigious baseball magnet school on scholarship. Out of 212 candidates, the school plans to take only five, at most - and the previous year, none had qualified at all. Moreover, those who do not qualify are guaranteed to never wear the Kaidou uniform. While Honda gets both angry and eager to fight when hears the strict and cruel rules, Komori loses confidence. First up in the selections process is an elimination race....


Randomly Selected Brief Updates:

KARAKURI CIRCUS
by Fujita Kazuhiro

Overview: Masaru is a grade school boy who is the heir to a vast fortune. Shirogane, a French woman who controls a powerful puppet, is his bodyguard.
  This issue: Masaru is helping a young woman animal-handler and her lion chase down and battle a killer tiger. But as he helps her, he realizes that she has no intention of surviving. In fact, she tries to sacrifice herself so that the tiger may be killed. Masaru stops her and learns of how she had been so emotionally abused by her elder twin sister that she wants not only to avenge her sister's death, but to be reunited with her so that she can be abused again. Masaru tells her that living freely - even if imperfectly - is better than living in spiritual bondage to another. He elects to act as the decoy for the tiger.


RECCA NO HONOO
by Anzai Nobuyuki

Overview: Recca is a fire-wielding high school freshman ninja. He and his friends, who are aligned with the four elements, are in a long-running deadly tournament.
  This issue: Recca had won; Kurei had lost. As Recca had hoped, Kurei has, in private, at last begun to let go some of his mad hatred and rage. But as he stands thinking peacefully, his long-ago supporter Mori attacks him. Mori has created a monster, a young girl cloned from Kurei's and his deceased girlfriend's genes. The girl Renge, thoroughly brainwashed to obey Mori, fights the shocked and enraged Kurei. Kurei falls, badly injured, but is rescued at the last minute from death....


DEBI DEBI (DEVIL DEVIL)
by Miyoshi Yuuki

Overview: Demon Soudo and angel Ios, after a catastrophic battle, wound up inhabiting the human bodies of twin brothers Souma and Kanna. Both somehow wind up fighting together to defeat various demons that have come to the world as a result of their battle.
  This issue: Soudo has been sealed up within the body of Souma by Ranfuu the demon-hunter. But as Kanna/Ios fights a demon, the human Souma (originally a weak-willed kid) reveals he'd been aware of all that had been happening while Soudo controlled him. He comes to help Kanna/Ios. Unfortunately, Kanna's body is taken over by a demon. Now Souma aids Ranfuu the demon-hunter, who defeats the demon. Afterward, Souma asks Ranfuu to let Soudo loose once more....


NAGISA ME KOUNIN
by Kitazaki Taku

Overview: Nagisa is cheerful high school girl who is a brilliant long-distance runner. She is in love with Masato, a brooding runner who is having trouble adjusting to longer distance races.
  This issue: Masato races an uppity young freshman who, like Masato, had become resentful when told to get out of short-distance racing and enter the 800-meter world. To the young freshman's dismay, Masato easily wins; in fact, Masato sets a personal best. As he explained later, Masato had wanted to impress upon the newcomer just how much of a great challenge the 800-meter is.


DANDOH!!
by Sakata Nobuhiro and Banjou Daichi

Overview: Dandoh is a earnest young boy who has found a calling in golf. With his friend Yuka and Shou, he uses sincerity and determination as his guides for becoming a pro-golfer.
  This issue: Dandoh is suffering from exhaustion in the game. Even though he'd passed the point at which he'd promised Taku he'd stop, with Taku's encouragement, he has gone on. Now he can barely think, or hear, or move. In the meantime, his caddy's enemies have seen him on TV. After a brief moment of anger and surprise, they grant him a grudging respect. Finally, coming to the 18th hole, Dandoh begins to wake up again...


KATTE NI KAIZOU
by Kumeta Kouji

Overview: This is a new gag series about a gullible high school boy lost in a dream world of science-fiction conspiracies and alien invasions ... all only in his own mind.
  This issue: Kaizou becomes convinced that some common mold he finds is actually part of an alien plot to take over the world. Let's just say the story winds up revolving around disinfectants, toxic fumes, swollen testicles, and tons of mold.


Shonen Sunday ©1998 Shogakugan
¥220


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