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Weekly Jump Briefs (continued)
by Kazu Hajime Started in #52, 1997 (9 volumes available) Overview: Goto Seijurou has been the reckless student body president of Meiryou High School. His abusive behavior is known wide in and out of school, and has given him the nickname Meiryoutei (Emperor of Meiryou). He had led his council (Cliff, Kasumi, Hayata, and Rihei), his Four Kings (Takumi, Munenaga, Kiichi, and Eiji, the four most troublesome students of Meiryou HS after Seijurou), and the council's pet dog Niku through many a laugh as well as troublesome affairs... but his friends knew that no matter how reckless Seiji's behavior was, it always ended up (for one strange reason or another) for the best. Now, the series ends—exactly two years after it
started—but this ending is surely not a definite ending. Seiji
doesn't mend his ways (even after the whole ordeal of a possible
recall by the Nijou siblings), Cliff is still masochistic with his
snide comments to Seiji, and the whole group is just one rowdy bunch.
Hayata sums it up nicely in the closing pages—that the council
has no days of calm, and a big hubbub is part of the day's work... but
though all of the rowdiness, they learn new things and grow
up—because he had been, and he will continue to. Perhaps this
is a fitting end for such a wild group—Kazu herself has mentioned
on her personal website that the group from Meiryou High School will
continue to live on forever although this is the last episode of MEIRYOUTEI in JUMP... and that
she is confident that she will be able to draw more about them in the
future.This Issue—Ballot 95. (final) A Big Hubbub -
Cliff asks Hayata if he has seen Niku, but Hayata shakes his head. The
two wonder if Seiji really went through and ate the dog... but upon
asking Seiji, the president gets upset that someone else had eaten the
dog before he did. While Hayata looks around town for Niku, he spots a
boy being lynched by two others for money. Hayata interrupts the scene,
and the two punks turn to Hayata—when Seiji appears, asking why
Hayata wasn't looking for Niku... and proceeds to beat the punks up.
Seiji runs to the huddled boy, who cries that death is his only escape.
Hayata sees an image of his old self (from episode 1), and tells the
boy (without realizing that the rest of the council was eavesdropping)
that he will be all right—that because he knows what pain is, he
can be strong. In return, the boy tells the council that he has seen
Niku—the council goes to where the boy said, and find out that Niku
is courting a gigantic bulldog. On the way back, Seiji mentions to
Hayata that he has gotten much stronger from when they met—because
strength was more a mindset than mere physical prowess.
by Oda Eiichiro Started in #34, 1997 (11 volumes available) Overview: Monkey D. Luffy is a boy set out to sail the Grand Line, find the legendary treasure One Piece, and become the king of pirates. His small crew consists of swordsman Roronoa Zorro, navigator/cartographer Nami, gunner "Captain" Usopp, and chef Sanji. The five after an eventful stop at Logue Town manage to get themselves on the Grand Line, a navigational route where anything can happen. At Whiskey Peak, the group gets blacklisted by Baroque Works, a shady bunch of bounty-hunters led by Crocodile (who is one of the 7 great pirates of the world). As if that wasn't enough, they are asked to escort Nefeltari Vivi (formerly known as Miss Wednesday), princess of Alabasta, back to her home country... This Issue—Episode 114. Route - Luffy grabs
Sanji and Usopp, and drags them across town into their ship. Zorro
raises the anchor while Nami and Vivi (and her bird) enter the boat.
They set sail, much to the dismay of Usopp and Sanji (who slept through
the whole ordeal)... but a mysterious woman laughs at them from the
second floor. This woman, Miss All-Sunday, is the partner for Crocodile
and also was the one who just blew up Igaram (Mr.8)'s ship. Luffy's
crew prepares to fight, but are no match for her mysterious
telekinetic (read: Devil Nut-related) powers. She tells them that
they cannot possibly survive their next destination, and hands them an
Eternal Pose (a compass that doesn't run out of gas like the Log Pose)
for an island next to Alabasta. Luffy crushes the Eternal Pose,
telling All-Sunday that she is not the one that determines their
destination. All-Sunday leaves, and the group head for their next
destination—Little Garden, where wild animals roam around...
huge footprints!?
by Katsura Masakazu Started in #19, 1997 (12 volumes available) Overview: This is a story about Seto Ichitaka and his love life. Now that Ichitaka and his long-time crush Iori have realized their feelings for each other, he thought things would go smoothly from then on. However, Iori starts having less time for dates as she gets more popular as an idol. Ichitaka spends his idle time complaining to his neighbor, who is also in a long-distance relationship. Iori starts to feel as if the relationship isn't working out... This Issue—Episode 122. Those Feelings from Back
Then - A bad feeling falls on Ichitaka. Thoughts of happy days
with Iori race through his mind... and how he was at the same place
last Christmas, but it felt so much different when a realtionship
was starting and not ending. Iori finally opens up and confesses that
her acting hasn't been all fun, that she felt she was at a bind and
wanted to quit... but she had relied on him to support her for all
this time. Iori continues that she didn't want to hurt Ichitaka
anymore, so she wanted to break up. The scene flies a few months
to October, where we see a happy Ichitaka and Iori eating a meal
together. What happened after Iori's comment was—Ichitaka asked
if she no longer loved him. Iori shook her head. Ichitaka apologized
for everything he's said to trouble her, and that he still loves her
so he wanted another chance... and Iori cried because she was glad he
didn't hate her. And since then, Iori has stopped by in the mornings
to eat breakfast with him when she was free until the afternoon...
and Ichitaka felt that they would be all right, as long as they
remembered the fear and relief they felt about each other that one
night.
by Fujisaki Ryu, based on the translation by Anou Tsutomu Started in #28, 1996 (17 volumes available) Overview: Taikoubou is a sennin (a wizard of sorts) sent on a mission to seal away the souls of the evil temptress Datsuki and her henchmen because she is ruining the land of Chouka by controlling its emperor. This project, called the Houshin Project, is more than meets the eye—but the project is slowly nearing completion. Taikoubou's Paopei (magical weapon of sorts), the Dashinben, gets an upgrade; but when he rejoins his troops in the final fight against Chouka, a "modified" version of Chuuou, the king, was waiting along with Datsuki and her sisters. This Issue—Episode 163. Battle of the Pastures
(4) ~ Prince Chuuou - The armies are in awe as they see their
king (who is supposedly over 40 years old now) as... a sobbing child.
The next moment, the sadness of making their king cry turns to fear
as Chuuou declares the death sentence on every soldier, and attacks.
Datsuki claims that the king now has the "lost power of the ying",
and sits down to rest. Youzen tells Taikoubou to rest as well, while
Sengyoku, Igo, and Raishinshi attack Chuuou... to no avail. Nataku
and Youzen prepare to attack, while Tenka sits down next to Taikoubou
to rest for a while as 
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