Title: A.I.が止まらない (Love Won't Stop) Vol. 4
Artist/Author: 赤松健 (Ken Akamatsu)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 240pp., w/furigana
Volume: 4/8
Original Serialization: Weekly Shonen Magazine Vol 2, '95 - Vol 8, '98
First Printing: 2/17/00
Rating: 2/4

This volume was significantly longer than the previous ones, and it kinda felt that way. There's a new member in the family, Forty, who has multiple personalities. She's cute and all (when she's nice), but doesn't add much to the story.

Bonus is a color page, some sketches, an interview, and a gallery of Ai Toma phone cards.

25. Touch me!: Hitoshi shows Twenty and Thirty their predecessors, but accidentally releases them into the real world. The girls manage to capture all of them except for #29 who looks exactly like Thirty and only has one little flaw. Hitoshi has to figure out who is who and does so by finding the girl that feels embarrassment.

26. 第３のオトコ！？ (The Third Boy!?): Thirty would like to have an obiedient little sister. Twenty would like to have a rambunctious little brother. They go Hitoshi asking for a sibling. He declines, but Twenty ties him up and the two girls program the computer to produce the sibling, Forty, they want. What they end up with is a boy who loves cleaning. However, Hitoshi finds out as he's taking a bath that he's actually a she. The boy then changes personality to a girl.

27. 蒼い体験 (Immature): As a girl, Forty is quite the troublemaker. Hearing that Hitoshi has never had a girlfriend, she goes and tries to teach him a thing or two about females. Through some clever thinking, Hitoshi discovers that the keyword to change Forty's personality is just to say "boy" or "girl."

28. 端午の節句は女のコの日！？ (Boy's Day Is a Day For Girls!?): It's 5/5, Boy's Day but Twenty says that they never celebrated 3/3, Doll's Festival Day. She tricks Forty into becoming a girl and they create life-sized dolls that cause some trouble for Hitoshi.

29. 初めてのおつかい (The First Errand): Thirty has forgotten to pay Hitoshi's bill, so Forty (as a girl) decides to swim through the networks to the bank. She then wanders off in cyberspace and finds herself caught in an online dating-sim with a player having great interest in her. Eventually Thirty comes and saves her from the otaku.

30. 思い過ごしも恋のうち (In The Mind and In the Heart): It's the first day of school for Forty (as a boy) and he's fallen in love with his homeroom teacher. His teacher gives him some kind words which he takes as encouragement. Later, he figures out his plan and wants to confess his love for her only to find out that she's getting married and retiring. At first he has anger but eventually forgives her.

31. チャイルド・プレイ (Child Play): Both Twenty and Forty are out for the day. Twenty decides that since Hitoshi hasn't had a maternal figure, she'll be his mother for a day. She treats him like a little baby the whole day and eventually decides that she needs to breast feed him. Hitoshi passes out (from his cold) just as he's about to suck.

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