Title: A.I.が止まらない (Love Won't Stop) Vol. 5
Artist/Author: 赤松健 (Ken Akamatsu)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 225pp., w/furigana
Volume: 5/8
Original Serialization: Monthly Shonen Magazine Special 9/95-12/95, Monthly Magazine FRESH 8/19/95, 1/96-2/96
First Printing: 3/16/00
Rating: 3/4

I would have really hated to read this in weekly magazine form. It looks like they jumped to different publications for these few chapters from the weekly to the monthly version. It was because of this that I stopped reading School Rumble.

This volume was entertaining. No plot advances, but some cute situations with Hitoshi and the gang.

There's a special chapter in here that I accidentally wrote up (I usually only do numbered chapters). There's also a bunch of commentary by Ken Akamatsu along with a new sketch of the librarian, Yuko.

Special Program: 憧れのハワイ航路 (The Cherished Path to Hawaii): Hitoshi and his programs go to the beach. He finds out about a competition where the winner will get something that has the word "Hawaii" in it. He assumes that it's a trip to the island, so he participates with Thirty. Twenty also has her own ambitions and joins the competition with the male version of Forty. The two couples become finalists and Twenty/Forty get disqualified after Forty transforms into a girl. Hitoshi wins some Hawaiian chocolates.

32. 失恋に乾杯？ (Cheers to Unrequited Love?): Twenty hasn't been having the best of luck with guys lately and has come home drunk in despair. To lift her spirits, Hitoshi dresses Thirty to look like a guy and have her date Twenty to raise her confidence. Everything seems to go well until Twenty gets Thirty drunk and she reveals all.

33. 小さな胸を痛めて (My Small Chest Pains): The school's student librarian, 渡辺裕子 (Yuko Watanabe) asks Hitoshi to help her fix a little data mishap. Hitoshi sends Thirty inside the computer network while testing his new VR glasses and glove. The next day though, a virus has taken over the school's computer system. The culprit is the librarian who injected the virus so that it would inflate her body stats in the school records (i.e. making her bust a bigger).

34. 愛していると言ってくれ！？ (Tell Me That You Love Me!?): Thirty and Twenty aren't around so Hitoshi convinces Forty (male) to participate in the dating sim that he's currently playing. Things start acting strange as weird things happen just as Forty is having encounters with the various CG girls. Finally, Thirty appears in the game and the two guys are caught red-handed.

35. ただ今　修行中 (In the Midst of Training): Because of Hitoshi's perverted attitude, Twenty attaches this belt that automatically detects his sexual thoughts and gives him a whacking right between the legs. He's allotted 30 thoughts/whackings before the thing just explodes. He doesn't even go through the whole day before he's at 29. He begs Twenty to remove it because he doesn't want to be blown up, so Twenty tells him that the key to the belt is somewhere on Thirty's body and that he has to feel around blindfolded to get it. There's an explosion and Hitoshi ends up in the hospital bed.

36. ひさしぶりの I miss you (Long Awaited I miss you): It's Christmas Eve and Hitoshi doesn't get presents as none of the girls requested it. However, he gets a dating sim for himself along with other computer parts from Akihabara. He excuses himself early from the dinner table to go to his room and Thirty concludes that he's there to play his perverted games rather than given presents and spending time with him. She kicks him out of the house on Christmas Eve. Come midnight, Twenty finds Hitoshi outside and gives him a laptop which he uses to communicate with Thirty. He's forgiven and he gives Thirty some jewelry upgrades, which was what he was working on, not playing his game (the game was never opened, they later found).

37. 許されざる者達 (Unforgiven People): Thirty and Hitoshi go to their relatives Shrine. Forty and Twenty say they're at home, but actually sneak to the Shrine to help Thirty and Hitoshi gets some love love action. Their original plan was to film them, but eventually get the trick played on them as the population at the Shrine decide to play a prank and scare them with the legend of the black cat.

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