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Shonen Sunday briefs (continued)
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 the kind and gentle female ex-ghost O-kinu.
This issue: Mikami and company are on a
plane with movie star Kinki Gouichi: an old schoolmate, friend and rival of
Yokoshima's. Unfortunately, star "Gin-chan" (as Yokoshima calls him) has
a crazed fan... a female demonic stalker who is now trying to crash
the plane. Mikami is accidentally swept off the plane, leaving
Yokoshima to save it. Using Gin-chan as a lure, he successfully bags
the demon (shouting in forceful Osaka-ben just to make his point).
Later it turns out Yokoshima and Gin-chan's old rivalry over a girl
had been won by Yokoshima... but Gin-chan doesn't tell Yokoshima
this, so, for now, their rivalry will continue.
MAJOR
by Mitsuda Takuya

Overview: Honda Goro, from his early years in grade school, has been
striving to become a professional baseball player like his deceased
father. Now, in high school, he is facing new challenges.
This issue: Honda and Satou are surviving
at the Kaidou High training camp. Back home, Satou's adoptive grandparents
receive a letter from Satou reassuring them he is all right and getting stronger.
Honda's adoptive mother, meanwhile, runs into Shimizu, who is now at Seishuu
high school and doing softball again. Meanwhile, the coach at Mifune
High is facing another bleak, hopeless year... until he sees the new students
Yamane, Ohbayashi, and Komori (Honda's old teammates from junior high) in
action. Watching them and hearing their enthusiasm, he suddenly has
high hopes for his team.
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. Far away, their friend Narumi is becoming embroiled in
an ancient battle against evil living puppets.
This issue: Narumi, Guy, and Lucille
have left the battle scene. They pass over a town that had recently been
brought to ruin by the midnight circus, Le Cirque de Minuit. They continue
on, and the old woman Lucille brings them to an empty well that had once
contained "aqua vitae." Narumi asks about the evil puppets, the Zonopha
disease they cause and the life-saving "aqua vitae" that is in his own
body; even Guy wants to know more. So Lucille begins to tell them about the
town that had been near the well which, 200 years before, became the
very first town to ever be destroyed by the midnight circus.
Meanwhile, the puppets hear about their defeat and have become
interested in Narumi...
SALAD DAYS
by Inokuma Shinobu

Overview: This is a series of short stories about romance.
This issue: Fukawa is introduced as a high
school boy who usually acts as the go-between for other boys who want him to
pass their love-letters on to the girls. This time, his best friend Hitoshi asks
him to deliver a letter to a girl named Satou Mao. But Satou Mao turns
out to have a crush on Fukawa. Fukawa finds himself liking her too,
and is now in the difficult position: should he deliver Hitoshi's love
letter and hurt Satou Mao's feelings, or should he just go out with
Satou Mao and hurt his friend Hitoshi's feelings?
MEITANTEI CONAN
by Aoyama Goushou

Overview: Grade-school boy Conan is secretly high school detective
Kudou Shinichi, made younger against his will by a strange
Organization (which thinks he is dead). Now, he and his girlfriend
Ran help solve murder incidents.
This issue: Haibara Ai (Sherry), the
ex-Organization chemist and now a fellow small child, has been dragged into
an Organization-related murder by Conan. Unfortunately, she was kidnapped,
and now, while temporarily in adult Sherry form, she has been found and shot
by Jin. Conan races against time, in the process unmasking the murderer and
saving Haibara. Luckily, neither Haibara's nor Conan's true
identities are discoveredthe only person who notices Haibara is
Sherry is conveniently eliminated by Jin. Now, more than ever
before, Conan wants to destroy the Organization.
TOKYO DEKA (COP IN TOKYO)
by Suzuki Kei-ichi

Overview: Kagami Kazuya is a 20-year-old rookie cop and former gang
leader, bringing his own form of justice to the stuffy ranks of the
police.
This issue: (This is a relatively new series by the author
of TOKYO BANCHOU.) Last issue, Kagami caught a girl
stealing a computer, who gave him a sob story about wanting to play networked
shougi against her brother who lives far away due to a divorce. When she
offered to have sex with him in exchange for freedom, Kagami ditched his
partner and went driving off into the night. Now, in this issue, his partner
is unable to report him because of the embarrassing way in which he'd
been ditched. Meanwhile, instead of going to a "love hotel," Kagami
has taken the girl to the giant garbage dump Yume No Shima. There, he
announces he will build a computer. After ignoring him awhile, the
girl finally gets interested and they toil together all night to build
a working computer, and she finally gets to play shougi with her
brother. She even privately wishes her brother would grow up to
become a man like Kagami. Later, Kagami has trouble kicking the girl
out of the police station, which she has decided to hang around
because "it's a warm place." 
Shonen Sunday Copyright © 1999 Shogakugan
¥220
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