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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 kind and gentle female ex-ghost O-kinu.
  This issue: This issue: Shiro (the cute female werewolf) and Tamamo (the cute, female, regenerated nine-tailed magical fox) have been teamed up to solve a tough murder case ... but Shiro discovers the murderer is a possessive entity who has taken over Saijou. After feigning death to avoid getting taken over, she communicates via the universal dog-family language to warn Tamamo, and Mikami wraps up the case. Will the wolf and the fox finally get along now...?


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 Kaidou high school, he is facing new challenges.
  This issue: Honda, despite being told to leave conformist Kaidou if he ever wants to become a baseball star, has chosen to stay and learn everything about baseball—even if it's from the outfield instead of the pitching mound, where he belongs. Satou quietly helps by laboriously copying the pitchers' lessons and slipping them to Honda. At a late night practice, Honda is impressed to see one young man able to catch outfield balls in the dark. But this young man dislikes Honda's attitude toward the outfield, and won't divulge his secret....


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 and Guy are still hearing about the story of the living puppets from Lucille: With her village destroyed by puppets and the survivors suffering from Zonopha, Lucille and her friends had partaken of the aqua vitae created by the strange traveling alchemist named Shirogane (Silver). But they discovered this aqua vitae had dissolved its owner's body and soul, and now his hatred of the puppets was within them all. Thus was born the Shirogane, those driven by one man's hate-filled desire to destroy the puppets. Of all whom have had aqua vitae, only Narumi hasn't had this strange effect. But as Lucille tells the story, living puppet Aleluquino arrives, and Narumi now has to save Lucille.


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 up against a new evil....
  This issue: The word comes that Fuuko has been saved from the magical soul-draining container by the enigmatic but heroic Raiha. Now, with all their loved ones safe, they can fight without handicaps against the mind-reading Kirin, who is the last obstacle to the door through which the evil Mori has gone. Recca gets thoroughly trounced, but when Domon steps up, even the powerful Kirin finds herself unexpectedly topless (clothing-wise) with one strike from Domon. (Now, is this due to Domon's "stupidity"?)


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