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 ½ and the currently popular MEITANTEI CONAN.

Last issue's SHONEN SUNDAY update (1998 Issue 49)

Selected Brief Updates:

INUYASHA
by Takahashi Rumiko

Overview: Kagome is a modern student teamed up with the strange boy Inuyasha in 15th or 16th century Japan, seeking to retrieve the fragments of the magical Shikon No Tama.
This issue: Miroku has quietly left the group to get a wound on his hand repaired (without healing, the magical hole in his hand will grow larger, hastening his death). He remembers his father's death from the same curse. He seeks out an old monk who was a surrogate father, and gets his healing help. Kagome and friends, meanwhile, discover the Naraku they'd been pursuing is a fake, a lure. Kagome suddenly gets a bad feeling and urges them to find Miroku. Meanwhile, the old monk is taken over by Naraku's agent, and is ready to kill a sleeping Miroku.

ME GUMI NO DAIGO
by Soda Masahito

Overview: Asahina Daigo is a young firefighter with the "Me" Company, who has an unusual ability to find and rescue people in danger.
This issue: Daigo has been caught trying to steal an impulse water cannon, for which he is thoroughly chewed out by the officials. Amakasu, through Kondou, realizes that Daigo intended to take the impulse and go to Sumatra, in search of Ochiai (who is somewhere in an area threatened by wild fires). Kondou meets Daigo herself. Despite her burning jealousy of Ochiai, Kondou remembers Ochiai's depth of character, and unexpectedly tells Daigo to go rescue her. At last, Daigo returns to look for an impulse again. To his shock, Gomi is there, and Gomi personally hands him the impulse and tells him to take it.

LOVE
by Ishiwata Osamu

Overview: Takagi Ai ("Love") is a girl who, in a bid to have a re-match with her old tennis rival, has entered a high school tennis club disguised as a boy.
This issue: Ai and Sazanami have broken through both Yamashiro's and his mother's emotional barriers. Yamashiro is now facing Ai not through a wall of hatred and bitterness, but through his own innate love of tennis, something he'd long lost. Though now a more formidable opponent, he resigns from the match for physical reasons: his body, long stressed by the "doping," can't take any more. There are now no more obstacles to the match between Ai and her old rival and friend Youhei.

JAJAUMA GROOMING UP!
by Yuki Masami

Overview: Although originally a city boy, young Kuze Shunpei has taken to working as a farm hand at the Watarai racing horse breeding farm; he also has taken to Watarai Hibiki, one of the Watarai daughters.
This issue: Days have passed since Shunpei's father's hospitalization, and days have passed since Shunpei has spoken with Hibiki. Hibiki, back at the ranch, feels lonely and angry, and even begins fantasizing that Shunpei's fallen in with his old girlfriends. Shunpei is stymied by minor phone fiascoes, and gets into a slump when Ume suggests that horse-girls like Hibiki won't give normal guys a second glance. After all, horses have strength and beauty beyond that of normal men.