Title: 4. まほろまてぃっく：　いろいろ夢見るマイドさん (Vol. 4 Mahoromatic: A Maid With Various Dreams)
Artist/Author: ぢたま某 (Bow D(z)itama)
Original Creator: 中山文十郎 (Bunjuro Nakayama)
Book Size/Pages: A-5, 174pp., w/o furigana
Original Serialization: Comic GUM 4/01-9/01
First Printing: 10/10/01
Rating: 4/4

Good volume. There's a nice mix of story as well as the trademark Mahoromatic humor. The stories are a little more varied in this volume than last volume, where the focus was primarily on Ryuuga.

4 panel comics decorate the inside covers. It looks like the anime was just announce the time this volume was first published. There are 4 color pages to start the volume, and a short summary of what's happened so far.

1. 兵どもが夢の跡 (Remains of the warriors' dreams): The title comes from a passage in a famous haiku. Ryuuga and Slash are still on bad terms. Slash follows him around, suspect of all his actions and finally gets to have a showdown with him. Before they start fighting, Mahoro jumps in and stops them, telling them that she wants peace.

2. 夢はおっきく (Dreams Grow): Mahoro gets a breast enlarging gadget. Hilarity ensues.

3. 一夜の夢知りせども。。。？ (Despite Conveying A Night's Dream): Suguru is on a trip and Mahoro is alone. She asks Shikijo sensei for some company and they get drunk together. Meanwhile, in NYC, The Keeper attacks two people who talked about an alien incident in 1962.

4. 夢見るお年頃 (The Teen Who Dreams): This chapter is split up into two chapters, both with the same name. Mahoro has enrolled in a private girl's school to find the last two remaining bombs planted there. She makes some friends, one of whom is Shikijo-sensei's little sister. Her clue is a cross, but the same word can also mean a type of flower and that's where she finds bomb #49.

The next bomb she finds has the clue from an old James Bond film, "You Only Live Twice." She finds it and is about to cut the wires, but Suguru stops her from doing so. The bomb only goes off if the wires are cut. After she disarms the bombs, she makes a sad departure from the school, having only been there for 10 days.

5. 悪夢〜THE KEEPER〜 (Bad Dream ~THE KEEPER~): The Keeper appears to be the new enemy and another girl (android?), #370. While Mahoro and Suguru are out on a picnic, she's fighting off some machine and manages to escape. Mahoro and Suguru see her floating in the river and Mahoro spots The Keeper's machines.

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