Title: A.I.が止まらない (Love Won't Stop) Vol. 7
Artist/Author: 赤松健 (Ken Akamatsu)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 200pp., w/furigana
Volume: 7/8
Original Serialization: Monthly Shonen Magazine Special 9/96-2/97
First Printing: 5/17/00
Rating: 4/4

The artwork in this volume is significantly better than the first volume. While the character design is the same, it looks like it's slowly progressing to Love Hina quality. For all purposes, Cindy could be in Love Hina and I wouldn't know the difference. In addition, the Naru punching theme is starting to show itself here with Thirty becoming more and more violent in that sense. The 3 chapter long mermaid story is probably the best "arc" so far out of the 7 volumes. The only gripe I have is that Cindy is introduced a little late for how much she loves Hitoshi.

There is a gallery of merchandise, mostly telephone cards and a few pages of Ken Akamatsu interview where he has some comparisons with Love Hina.

44. 海の女王の恋人は？ (The Beach Queen Girlfriend Is?): Hitoshi, the three AI girls, and Cindy go to the beach for a summer vacation. The girls enter a beach queen contest with Hitoshi as the judge. Thirty and Cindy end up as the last two finalists and have to do a limbo contest with Hitoshi as the bar. Thirty loses, but there are no bitterness and they enjoy a night of fireworks.

45. ゴンドラの誘惑 (Temptation of the Gondola): Cindy tricks Hitoshi into going to the amusement park to discuss their plans for the cultural festival at school. Thirty gets wind of this and sneaks around to spy on them with them while they enjoy the various rides. Cindy and Hitoshi go in a ferris wheel, which like all love stories, gets stuck. Since Thirty can't be there, she sends herself to Hitoshi's PDA and sees them almost kiss before the ride starts up again. When Hitoshi and Cindy leave and go their separate ways home, Cindy reveals that she knew Thirty was spying on her and says she's serious about Hitoshi too.

46. ラストシーンは私に１ (The Last Scene, For Me..., Part 1): Instead of the dance party, Cindy decides that the class should put on a play for the festival and chooses the little mermaid. Hitoshi reads the script and notices that the screenplay doesn't have an ending. Meanwhile, Thirty reads the original story (to remind us what it's about). While Cindy wants to be the mermaid, she finds out that the mermaid isn't allowed to talk once she's human. In exchange for legs, the mermaid had to give up her voice. And if she were to marry the prince, she would disappear into a bubble. So, Cindy plays the princess who's the mermaid's rival for love. As the play starts, Cindy tells Thirty there's no ending because Hitoshi, the prince, has to choose who he wants to be with.

47. ラストシーンは私に２ (The Last Scene, For Me..., Part 2): Thirty realizes that the little mermaid is an allegory of her existence. The play finishes and Hitoshi kisses Cindy. He doesn't know that Cindy and Thirty are taking his choice serious, and so when he kisses Cindy, Thirty resigns and disappears. Forty and Twenty find out that she has rebooted herself, but instead of reloading her memories from backup, she decides to take them and leave. Hitoshi comes back home to find that the floppies are gone and Cindy realizes that Thirty wasn't real. Hitoshi goes out and finds Thirty just as she hurls the last of the backups into the river. He jumps in to save them.

47. ラストシーンは私に３ (The Last Scene, For Me..., Part 3): Hitoshi manages to keep two of the floppies from touching the water, but is now being swept away by the currents. At first, Thirty can't use any of her Program Options. Cindy tries to save Hitoshi, but gets caught in the water too. Miraculously, Thirty pulls through with some magic/Program Option and saves them. Hitoshi and Thirty make up.

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