Title: 鋼鉄天使くるみ (Steel Angel Kurumi) Vol. 8
Artist/Author: 介錯 (Kaishaku)
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 180pp., w/o furigana
Volume: 8/11
Original Serialization: Monthly Shonen Ace Next 9/01-2/02
First Printing: 3/27/02
Rating: 3/4

Nothing in particular stood out in this volume for me. The story is progressing, but nothing too spectacular. There are some good action sequences here though.

There are two bonus chapters included. One is a one-shot "Dreaming Angel Saki" and the other has the main characters visiting the studio where the live action Kurumi is being filmed. The back of the dust jacket bonus is the page from the comic Kurumi was reading in vol. 7.

41. 愛のエプロン (Love's Apron): Steel Angel Sela arrives wanting to be a cook at Reiko's cafe. Her master wants to know a bit more about Nakahito so he has her infiltrate by becoming the cook. Sela challenges Kurumi to a cook-off, which Sela wins easily. However, Reiko can't afford another worker. Kurumi and the girls think they're going to be fired, but Reiko says that this is a cafe and a cook can't just displace a waitress.

42. ３人目のエンゼル・オブ・エンゼル (3 Person Angel of Angels): 4 Angels try to gang up on Steel Angel Aoi whose mediating in a remote temple, but quickly get defeated. After Aoi's victory, she realizes that it's that time again for the Steel Angel fight.

43. 卒業事変（前編） (Graduation Incident, First Part): Nakahito with Kurumi get called into the shrine deep inside the school where he meets Jinkuji-sensei and Amato. Amato explains to him about the dispersal of the Angels after graduation and how they're going to be transformed with their memories erased. Meanwhile, outside the school a group of Steel Angels are preparing to attack the school, protesting the custom of graduation.

44. 卒業事変（中編） (Graduation Incident, Middle Part): As the two teachers and Nakahito are performing the ritual to rid him of the curse, fighting goes on outside. When the infiltrators close in on the shrine, Excelia is called to fight them. She unleashes the power of her two Angel Hearts and gets a little carried away before Karinka jumps in.

45. 卒業事変（後編） (Graduation Incident, Last Part): As Excelia and Karinka are scrapping it out, the exorcism unleashes powers that blow the roof off of the shrine. Nakahito is suffering and Kurumi wants to stop the procedure, but she's told not to interfere. The other Angels see the evil that been unleashed and give up their little revolt. Things settle down again, but Nakahito isn't cured.

46. １００年の終焉 (100 Year's End): Amato reveals to an international council of Nakahito's true self, that he's a Kagura. Back at the restuarant, Reiko gives Nakahito some words of encouragement. The 3 Angels try to find Jinkuji to get some help into defeating the devil, but as they're running to the school, they miss Jinkuji who arrives at the restuarant and talks to Nakahito. The last page gives an foreboding warning that the peace is about to end.

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