Title: 少年マガジン (Shonen Magazine) Vol. 20
Issue Date: 4/28/2004
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 544

Featured girl is 平山あや (Aya Hirayama). She has a photo book set to be released on 4/22. Tsubasa returns with a color page this week. According to the preview, Yuuko-rin will be featured in the next two issues! Joy joy!

Negima: ５０時間目　このかのために・・・ (For Konoka...): Negima arrives too late. Using Konoka's powers, Chigusa has summoned a super monster. Asuna and Setsuna, Negi's "partners" come to help, but to no avail. A petrification smoke spell is cast and the three of them get out in the nick of time. However, Negi's right had touched the smoke and is slowing turning into a rock. At this juncture, Setsuna reveals her true self. She sprouts wings and says that she herself is just another monster, like the ones they were battling. She has kept this a secret from everyone, especially Konoka since she might hate her. Asuna refutes that belief and says she's quite cool. Setsuna flies off to save Konoka.

Suzuka: ＃９自覚 (Conscientious): Yasunobu and Yamato talk about Yamato's apparent love situation with Suzuka. That night, a storm hits and the lights go out at the apartment. Suzuka crawls over to Yamato's room, quite quickly as he notices. They try lighting candles around the room, but that just makes the mood more scary and occult-like. They resort to having one candle. When banging sounds happen outside, Suzuka grabs on to Yamato, each time claiming that she slipped. From their talking, Yamato infers that she's afraid of the dark, unfitting for someone as strong as she is. The lights come back on and life goes back to normal.

Tsubasa: ４１　永遠の友 (Eternal Friend): Shaoran is training with Kuro and is doing especially well. However, he still has his weakness in his left eye. Kuro tells him to blindfold himself and walk home. This is to train his ability to sense, which is much more important than seeing. So he stumbles home and on his way, he encounters something that's attacking him. Ryuuou jumps in and tells him to take off his blindfold and he sees a monster. They vanquish it. They then take a walk where he explains to Ryuuou what he's doing. Suddenly, the human-like monster appears and it's none other than Seishirou, the person who has the same eye injury from the "X" and Tokyo Babylon stories.

Hamanaka Ai: ０３２天野ミサキ (Misaki Amano): On the day of the test, Misaki is sick so she hands over the title of class leader to Ayana because a class can't wait until the next test for a class leader. Even with her abjuration, Ayana still waits for the next test to challenge her.

Futatsuki: １２口目／桃色の衝撃 (12th Taste, Pink Shock): For the next competition, it's going to be a 4 way. Futatsuki has 2 opponents and the third opponent is a team that had a bye in the first round. The judges for this competition are 3 idols who won't eat ramen because it's low-class and potentially not good for their slender bodies. So for the next round, they have to think up (and cook up) something that isn't ramen. The other teams have chosen pasta and such. Futatsuki and his two teammates head back to the school where they're welcome with great applause, but they know that they have a serious challenge ahead of them.

Title: ヤングマガジン (Young Magazine) Vol. 20
Issue Date: 4/26/2004
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 474

Same girl as Shonen, back page girl is 小川すみれ (Sumire Ogawa). Minamike is a once-every-two-week, as I thought it would. Actually, I thought it would disappear quickly, but it doesn't seem to be holding. I still like it though, although it should be in Shonen rather than Young if it wants to stick around.

Redlight: 3: Work is finished early, so rather than having Satoshi wait for his ride, Chiko takes him back to her place (on her scooter) for the time being. There, he finds out that her family works in a little factory making nuts and bolts. She's currently studying for her driving test. They take a nap (not together) and eat a meal together with her family. He helps out around the house when some burlish guy comes in collecting some debt. The family members ignore him and when that guy grabs and questions Satoshi, the family doesn't help out either.

XXXholic: 47: Kimihiro is chased by another spirit and as he's running away, he sees a boy who tells him to throw some salt on the spirit and it'll disappear. They hang out for a while. From Kimihiro's name, the boy, deduces that his birthday is April 1st. He says that the day is important to him too and tells him to meet him and he'll give Kimihiro a present. On that day, He gives him a present and like a ghost, disappears. He mentions that the day is important because it's the day that he'll have to part from Kimihiro. The present he gives him is his bone...which later turns into Sakura petals.

Minamike: 第６話「点で勝負」 (Points Competition): Kana got her test back for math and isn't too happy about her 65 point score. Her friend Keiko got 100, but Kana waves it off saying that her score is more realistic of a human, not a calculator. Fujioka, who previously expressed interest in Kana, got a 66 and so Kana feels defeat. She then tries to compete on the score she got in English. She got a 61, but tried to make the score look like a 66, and later a 68. But Fujioka got a 69.

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