Selected Brief Updates
1996 Issue 23
Update by Eri Izawa


Me Gumi no Daigo
Soda Masahito

The obnoxious reporter Okano believes that Daigo, by jumping to a neighboring building, has deserted the people stranded on the top floor of their burning building. But Daigo instead tells Okano to extend a bench across the open space between the buildings. As the people start crossing one by one Okano realizes that Daigo is holding up the far end of the bench with his arms and body...


Love
Ishiwata Osamu

Love does horribly against Sazanami because of the presence of Asanuma Yuuko, to whom she had unfortunately blabbed the secret of her true gender. Meanwhile, Yuuko tells Midoriko that she may well expose Love --- depending on her mood.


Grooming Up!
Yuki Masami

The Watarai Farm is having trouble interesting people in the twin foals Hime and Hiko because twin horses tend to be poor race horses. Shunpei gets yet another lecture from Satoru. Finally, Watarai learns that Strike Eagle, a long-distance horse, is going to be run in a short-distance race...


Ghost Sweeper Mikami
Shiina Takashi

Mikami, Yokoshima, and the now incarnate O-kinu have been hired to investigate the evil spirits at work in a "Gothic Horror" mansion, where previous ghost sweepers had been horribly killed. Little do they realize that the people who had hired them are actually running a test of their new corporate product...


Ushio to Tora
Fujita Kazuhiro

Kirio, who had gone back in time to research the Hakumen, recounts how he'd run into a strange old man who told him a cursed story. Ushio, who had fallen into the sea after the Spear broke, seems to be mentally in the same story, reliving the experiences of an Asian Indian warrior name Shagaksha. Shagaksha, though steeped in hatred and anger, discovers two people who live by love instead of hate. But war soon threatens the land...


Major
Mitsuda Takuya

Goro and his team run into the Totsukanishi team which, just like the Mifune team, is reliant on their star pitcher Kyuuta. Kyuuta is first up to bat and hits a home run off of Goro's pitch...