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Shonen Sunday Briefs (continued)
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: Yokoshima is once
again facing Ashtaroth, who has told him that Luciola is dead.
Yokoshima refuses to believe that, and fights on. Meanwhile, Maria
and Mikami's body (with O-kinu inhabiting it) arrive at the scene.
In the confusion, Yokoshima, at the prompting of Luciola's spirit,
leaps into the dimensional egg that Ashtaroth had been guarding.
Yokoshima converses with Luciola's spirit as he travels, promising to
resurrect her as well as Mikami. But Luciola turns his attention to
the now-enraged Ashtaroth, who has followed him in.
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 and Satou (but not Komori) have
survived to the last stage of the Kaidou baseball entrance "exam."
Teamed up with three others, they face the challenge of winning a
"game" with five people against five. Honda is unhappily stuck playing
the outfield. He watches as his team's pitcher ignores Satou's
signals, which costs them two points. Satou reorganizes them when he
points out that a five-person baseball team can only survive with
teamwork and strong leadership.
by Adachi Mitsuru Overview: Kunimi Hiro is a high school ace baseball player, facing friend Tachibana Hideo at a rival high school. This issue: Hikari's mother has just
died, so Hiro, Hideo, Haruka, and all the others attend the funeral.
Later, at school, Hiro leaves as Haruka and Atsushi discuss the upcoming
season. In the men's room, he remembers Hikari's mother and how she had
been a friend and a comfort to him through his early boyhood.
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: Kurei awakens with nightmares of Mori
and Renge ringing in his mind. Neon, who has been caring for him,
is overjoyed to see him awaken. She comforts him and suggests he stop
fighting and live in peace, and even offers to stay with him forever.
But Ura-uruha "Maa-kun," a monstrously huge enemy, has tracked them
down. Kurei snaps as Ura-uruha tries to kill Neon; he turns back
into cold, fire-ninja Kurei, for whom there is no rest from peace.
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, Shirogane, and the circus crew
have gotten involved in a tense hostage drama at a bank. With their
circus skills, Nori and Hiro (both in love with Shirogane, who also
reminds them of their late adoptive mother), help end the conflict.
Afterward, Shirogane slaps Masaru for foolishly risking his life, and
Masaru, seeing her anguish, apologizes. Shirogane also praises Nori
and Hiro for choosing to help the hostage (a young mother) over
Shirogane. As the event draws to a close, Nori and Hiro realize that
Masaru is a lot like a younger brother to them.
by Sakata Nobuhiro and Banjou Daichi Overview: Dandoh is an 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 has at last gotten a clue as to
his mother's whereabouts. He has traveled to the town of Shiomasu,
from where his mother had sent a private letter to his father and
sister. After he inquires at a post office and is turned away, he
overhears the story of his mother. Long before, she had been a truck
driver who had accidentally killed a man and his son. Torn by guilt
and the anger of the surviving wife, Dandoh's mother had deprived
herself of her own happy family life and had come to this town to
make a living. For ten years, she had faithfully been sending a
monetary remittance to the surviving wife of the accident. Dandoh
spends the rest of the day waiting by the post office box, but by
nightfall his mother has still not 
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