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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
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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....
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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.
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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
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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....
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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
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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...
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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
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