Title: A.I.が止まらない (Love Won't Stop) Vol. 3
Artist/Author: 赤松健 (Ken Akamatsu)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 224pp., w/furigana
Volume: 3/8
Original Serialization: Weekly Shonen Magazine Vol 36, '94 - Vol 40, '94, Monthly Magazine Special 11/94-1/95
First Printing: 1/17/00
Rating: 3/4

Ken Akamatsu introduces a pre-cursor to Love Hina in this volume with the main character making a promise to another. Overall, the story seems to be a little more interesting. I didn't have the urge to put down the book while I was reading it (unlike the last two). Still pretty typical romantic comedy stuff, though.

This re-release version has a color page (same as cover), interview with Ken Akamatsu, some sketches for the original art, and a few character intros between chapters with new art.

17. サーティ危険一髪 (Thirty in Slight Danger): Twenty has been participating in a pyramid scheme. When Hitoshi tells her that it's illegal, she goes through the computer to try and catch the perpetrator but ends up in trouble so Thirty goes after her. The girl's travels in cyberspace are monitored by a computer genius boy who is working with two cronies in the scheme. After going through some traps, she finds Twenty.

18. デス・トラップ (Death Trap): After finding Twenty, she is accosted by PETER4, the same virus that terrorized her at the end of volume 1. After some fighting, she and Twenty come out victorious. They emerge out of the computer into the room with the two cronies and get them apprehended. Meanwhile, genius boy makes an escape, but not before witnessing the girls materialize out of the computer.

19. 狙われたA・I (Targeted A.I.): Computer boy manipulates police files to release his two partners in crime on the condition that they help him capture Thirty. The two guys manage to get Thirty in a room before she realizes what's wrong. She tries to escape through the computer in the room, but that's a trap which gets her programmed compressed onto a floppy. Hitoshi traces down where Thirty disappeared and meets the boy, codename Billy G, the creator of the virus. When Thirty comes out of the computer again, she has been reprogrammed to dislike Hitoshi.

20. 蘇れA・Iの記憶 (Resurrected Memory): Billy G has apparently extracted the software module that allows the girls to come into the real world. He summons a fire breathing dragon program to attack Hitoshi. Twenty decides to delete the monster and Thirty, but Hitoshi grabs Thirty and gives her a kiss which brings back her memory. The dragon goes berserk and burns the room down. Hitoshi and Thirty thinks that the software module has been destroyed, but no self-respecting computer programmer would do without a backup.

21. 突撃取材にご用心 (Caution With the News Flash): 宮原貴子 (Takako Miyahara) from the school newspaper has witnessed Thirty emerging from the computer, so she wants to investigate and see what she really is for her news scoop. She follows them to his house, but bumps into a underwear thief who's been in the area. She accidentally takes a picture of him. The next day, she pretends to be in love with Hitoshi (sends a love letter) to try and sucker him in into talking. She manages to get mingled with that pervert again, who this time demands that roll of film. Hitoshi and the girls come to the rescue and while Takako is still suspicious, she stops following them around and releases a news scoop on the underwear robber.

22. パピーのいる日常 (Life With Puppy): Thirty and Hitoshi find a lost puppy and they take him in. The puppy has a collar though, so eventually they would have to return him. When they do so, Thirty is reluctant to and feels like she's malfunctioning, but Hitoshi assures her that letting go is part of being a human.

23. 聖なる夜に２人は・・・・ (The Couple on a Sacred Night): It's Christmas Eve and Twenty wants Thirty and Hitoshi to spend a romantic night together. She primes Thirty by showing her some adult videos and then proceeds to make arrangements so that Thirty and Hitoshi can spend the night in an expensive hotel (with her monitoring the situation, of course). Unfortunately, the night doesn't turn out as Twenty expects.

24. 吹雪の夜に山小屋で (At the Mountain Hut in a Blizzard): 神戸紀久子 (Kikuko Koube) is Hitoshi's cousin whose parents are in charge of a ski resort. There's also a little tension between her and Thirty as Kikuko has a crush on his cousin (as a child, he promised Kikuko that they'd get married and she still remembers). Kikuko and Hitoshi get lost in the hills and end up in a mountain hut for a while before getting saved by Thirty. Kikuko realizes that Thirty is more appropriate for Hitoshi and wishes them well.

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