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KAMOSHIKA!
by Muraeda Kenichi
Overview: Momokuri Sanpei is a town employee whose job is to help out the
citizens. With his kind heart and never-give-up stubbornness, he accomplishes the
impossible.
This Issue: Our hero has inadvertently created an enemy of a ranking
city employee, Kamekido Jyoukichi. The man has kicked the whole kamoshika group out into
a tent. Later, Momokuri meets with a young woman whose dream is to be a mangaka, pen-name
of "Tamago." It turns out the aspiring comic drawer is Kamekido's daughter, and naturally
the father disapproves of her chosen path. Kamekido also doesn't approve of Momokuri
helping her out. But "Tamago" doesn't give up, and she is overjoyed when she finds out
her debut work will make it into a magazine...but she doesn't want her dad to see it.
Momokuri makes it his job to tell her father, and in fact drags him out to the local
convenience store to read her work. It turns out the magazine is an adult magazine!
Momokuri is mortified and abashed. But Kamekido buys the whole stack of magazines, and
Tamago realizes how much he really loves her. Later, the Kamoshika group gets back a
little tiny bit of office space indoors.
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MEITANTEI CONAN
by Aoyama Goushou
Overview: Grade-school boy Conan is secretly high school detective Kudou Shinichi,
made younger against his will by a strange Organization (which thinks he is dead). Now, he
and his girlfriend Ran help solve homicides.
This Issue: Conan and his grade school friends are on a bus that has
been hijacked. To make matters worse, Haibara, next to him, has detected that a member of
the Organization is on the bus. In fact, it is Conan's English teacher friend Jody. But
Haibara can't tell him that, not with Jody sitting in front of them. In the meantime, the
bus-jackers are keeping track of Conan's movement through a ringer in the back of the bus,
but Conan figures out who it is, and how to get everyone off safely. He asks Jody for
some lipstick, which she provides. (Jody, for all her supposed English expertise, can't
spell—but we assume that's not her fault.)
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ARMS
by Minagawa Ryouji (with help from Nanatsuki Kyouichi)
Overview: Takatsuki Ryou and friends have been infected with strange and
powerful lifeforms and are now engaged in a deadly conflict.
This Issue: Ryou has gone to the Drakken to get them to help the Bluemen.
He offers to fight them without the Jabberwock's power. As he's beaten up by the cyborg
leader, he listens to them rant about how the Egrigori has taken away their homes, names,
families and memories, but Ryou reminds them that others are also suffering, and that they
are still human beings. He also relates how he had almost lost his own soul to the fear of
becoming a monster, of how that fear was turning him into a real monster. Ryou was saved
by his friends and his desire to save Katsumi, and now he is able to fight the Drakken as
a human. The Drakken agree to help out...once. Later, back with the others, Ryou asks his
friends to stop him if he is ever completely taken over by the Jabberwock. Dr. Hearst
happens to be monitoring the conversation, and goes back to his computer to meet with
Alice, who turns out to be his "daughter." 
Published by Shogakukan
¥ 220
Where to buy
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