Title: 少年マガジン (Shonen Magazine) Vol. 13
Issue Date: 3/10/2004
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 528

No Young Magazine this week as XXXholic is off and there's nothing too interesting. Next week however, is the debut of みなみけ (Minami-ke). Wonder if it's not too sickening.

This week's Shonen has a special 19 page one-chapter story titled UMA (Unbelievable Mountain Angel). It's quite short and follows the story about a girl and guy going into the mountains in search of a the mythical Tsuchinoko snake in order to claim a reward. They meet big foot and an UFO, with the ending being that it was made up story for a homework assignment. No Tsubasa this week, I guess CLAMP is on break from both magazines.

Suzuka: ＃２服部 (#2 Hattori): After breakfast, Yamato returns to his room to find 服部安信 (Yasunobu Hattori) in his room reading his magazines. Yamato has a long history with Hattori, and his aunt thinks they're friends. Yasunobu is quite the smooth character and is able to flatter and get any girl, even if it's at Yamato's expense. Yasunobu asks whose this Suzuka person living next to him, he response that it's an old man to prevent Yasunobu from getting any ideas, but Suzuka is right behind him and hears him. After dinner, Yasunobu shows up again in his room. This time, Yuuka and Megumi show up and Yasunobu uses his charm on them. At Yuuka's request, Yasunobu drags Yamato out to buy some persimmons. There, they see Suzuka dragging a new microwave back home. Yasunobu offers to help, but Yamato don't want him to influence her, so he offers to help. Yamato tries to flatter Suzuka, but he doesn't have Yasunobu's magic. After being criticized some more by her, he blurts out that his first impression of her was so much different than how she really is. He thought she was pretty cool when he saw her in the rain, but she's different in real life. Suzuka takes the first comment to heart.

Futatsuki: ６口目/予選開始 (Sixth Taste/The Preliminaries): Tsukasa, Hina, and Futatsuki are at the ramen competition along with a horde of other contestants. In order to narrow down the field, they are first quizzed on very arcane ramen knowledge like how long is an instant noodle, among other strange things. For all the questions, Tsukasa and Hina answer all the questions for the group. The last question is to determine the ingredients of a soup with only a sheet of paper that was dipped in it. Hina thinks she has the right answer, but Futatsuki says she's missing one ingredient.

Negima: ４４時間目　総本山へおこしやす　(44th Hour, To Souhon Mountain): Setsuna and the other classmates arrive to where Negi, Nokoda, and Asuna are and arrive at the headquarters of the Western Magic Faction. Asuna thinks this is the base of the enemy, but in fact, it's Konoka's home and the leader of the magicians is her father. Negi passes the note from the president of his school, the leader of the Eastern Magicians to him, and he declares truce. Afterwards, Setsuna and Asuna are taking a bath and get interrupted by Nodoka's father and Negi coming in for a bath. The girls hide and the guys start talking about Konoka's super magical powers that she doesn't know about and a bit about Negi's dad. Then, the other school girls come in and so the guy's hide. As they're hiding, Negi runs into Asuna and lands in a very suspicious position and is witnessed by the other schoolgirls.

Hamanaka Ai: ０２４　少女敵進化論 (024, The Ways of Femininity): Misaki has been acting very strange lately, tired and cranky. At the tutoring session, Rin, Nakamura, and Ai start talking about mensturation, in front of the oblivious Masahiko. They try to explain it to him using circumlocution, but to no avail.

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