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MAJOR
by Mitsuda Takuya
Overview: Honda (Shigeno) Gorou, from his early years in grade school, has been
striving to become a professional baseball player like his deceased father. Now, in Kaidou
high school, he is facing new challenges.
This Issue: Even after being told that Kaidou's most powerful baseball
administrator Egashira intends to use him as a tool by turning him into a media star, our hero
remains firm in his desire to stay—but only long enough to defeat the elite team and then
dump the high school. But Gorou is worried about his straight pitches, which were insufficient
against the true elite, until Taizou approaches him and offers to help him develop his pitching,
purely because Gorou reminds Taizou of his and Shizuka's late elder brother. First task: Gorou
is locked into a room and is told to fold a thousand origami cranes. At first rebellious, he
suddenly realizes the exercise might develop his finger strength. He finishes the five-day
task in two days, but is next told to fold a thousand "helmet" origami forms...
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TENSHI NA KONAMAIKI ("A CHEEKY ANGEL")
by Nishimori Hiroyuki
Overview: As a young boy, Amatsuka Megumi was magically transformed into a pretty
girl. Now a totally gorgeous high school student, she has been cursed with misfortune, and
she and her constant admirers must deal with the consequences...
This Issue: After having successfully wrapped up an incident with would-be
murderers and a woman thief in need of help, Megumi and Miki need only deal with Megumi's
lecherous father, who also makes a point of telling Genzou and Fujiki how hopeless their
pursuit of her is. Megumi is unusually pensive, and agrees to go on separate dates with both
Genzou and Fujiki in thanks for their help. While Genzou and Fujiki get into a shouting match,
Miki checks with Megumi and discovers she is planning to go to Germany to live with her
mother—all to avoid getting her friends into more danger. Miki threatens to slap her
for that kind of thinking, which Megumi tells her to do, but Genzou, who has overheard the
discussion, offers to do it instead...
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KARAKURI CIRCUS
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. Far away, their friend Narumi
is becoming embroiled in an ancient battle against evil living puppets.
This Issue: Despite having beaten back the automata within the airplane,
Shirogane faces the new threat of automata attacking from outside. While Lucille pilots
the plane, Guy, still suffering from the damage he received for protecting a small boy,
prepares to go outside with his puppet Olympia, outfitted with miniature, specialized jet
engines. He bids Narumi a farewell that lasts well over half a dozen pages, foreboding a bad
outcome for his brave venture. In the middle of his farewell, however, the viewer catches a
glimpse of Guy's memory of a small child—perhaps the young Shirogane. Guy leaps out into
the air with Olympia and starts taking down automata...
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MARVELOUS
by Takemura Yuuji
Overview: Hitotsuya Yuu is a young man aspiring to become a top-notch boxer to get
revenge against his cold-hearted boxing trainer father.
This Issue: Yuu is training hard for his first debut match. But his opponent
is a KO-powerhouse... and also a family man with a cute, tiny daughter.
Yuu is reminded of his own childhood with his at first loving father, before the desertion. He
wonders about his opponent's family, thinking back to how his own family had fallen apart after
a boxing loss. Will the same thing happen to the other's family? Yuu has the advantage of
youth and a spectacularly built body, but in the ring, his heart just isn't in this fight...
PASSPORT BLUE
by Ishiwata Osamu
Overview: Magami Massugu is a boy who is working hard to fulfill his dream of becoming
an astronaut.
This Issue: Acting in spite of the officials and administrators who tried to
cover everything up and punish the good guys, Massugu and his friends have already taken away the
computer and data of the malicious students who had kidnapped Sayaka and forcibly taken scandalous
photos of her. In revenge, Kosaka has called upon his gang-connections to declare war upon
Sayaka's protectors. He distributes a nasty fax that makes Sayaka's classmates whisper and gossip.
Massugu's friends move into action to protect Sayaka. They even exhort Kikuike, one of Sayaka's
tormentors, to this time grow up and protect her instead. Massugu rushes to Sayaka's side, exposes
her classmates' inner ugliness, and throws back the administrators' words at them: "Nothing ever
happened!" Unfortunately, the gang that bloodily forces its way in to meet Massugu and Sayaka is
strong and dead-set on wreaking revenge.
Published by Shogakukan
¥ 230
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