Title: 電撃大王 (Dengeki Daioh) September '04
Issue Date: 9/1/2004
Publisher: メディアワックス (Media Works)
Pages: 560

Dengeki Daioh is the other magazine I've started subscribing to after stopping my Young Magazine subscription. Since it'll take some time for me to synchronize with many of the series in here, I'll only outline the ones that I can actually write about, either they're the first chapter or chapters in series I've already been reading. As I read more, I'll add more in later editions.

This week's highlight is Muv-Luv Unlimited which is just starting based on that story arc of the game (sigh, will I ever get around to playing it. I'm holding the DVD-ROM in my hand, but don't want to start it as I've got too much on my plate already). The comic is in a separate booklet with highlights of all of Age's works including Kiminozo and Kimi ga Ita Kisetsu. There's also a bonus poster with the artwork from the cover.

Next month's new manga is Uta Kata.

Muv-Luv: 1: Takeru wakes up to Sumika's incessant banging at the door and finds Meiya sleeping in his bed. He looks out the window and sees a large pieces of twisted metal and turns around to find that Meiya has disappeared. He goes outside and finds that his house is in the middle of a wasteland and he gets take in by the UN. At the military facility where he's held, he sees Yuuko-sensei, who apparently doesn't recognize him and then sees Meiya and Sakaki, who also don't know him. Yuuko explains that he's from a parallel universe. Yuuko has him enter Meiya's and Sakaki's unit (much to their objection) and explains that in this world, they're having a battle with aliens.

KuraKURA: 1: 月島流奈 (Runa Tsukishima) is young high school girl who apparently has the power to defend the world. However, she tells her mom that she's not going to do that today as she has something more important -- confessing to her crush and fellow co-class leader, 早川 (Hayakawa) at school. However, she chickens out at the last minute. After class as they're cleaning the hallways, she and and friend, 時雨 (Shigure), talk it over where Runa is told that she won't go anywhere if she doesn't work at it. Runa then looks outside to see a large beast, one that only she can see. She phones her mom and the mother explains that the beast was what she was trying to do. She reluctantly transforms and heads outside to defeat the beast, but comes back tired and exhausted.

Yotsubato: 19よつばとぞう (Yotsuba and the Elephant): Yotsuba and her dad go to the zoo. They feed the goats (Yotsuba punches the older goat who bites the carrot she was going to feed the younger goat, hilarious), see the guinea pigs, stare at the owls, and observe the elephants. Yotsuba remarks that it's larger than Jumbo.

Ichigo Marshmallow: ??: Matsui needs to go back to the school to get her recorder, so she has Nobue accompany her. Miu and Chika decide to get there first and scare them using the ghost tales of the school, but end up scaring themselves.

Kashimashi: 2(?): After a failed confession to his crush やす菜 (Yasuna), はずむ (Hazumu) encountered aliens who turned him into a girl and now has to deal with living as a female. Being late for class, Hazumu runs out to meet his friends, but the male friend notices he doesn't have a bra. She asks female friend, 来栖とまり (Tomari Kurusu) to accompany him to the lingerie shop, where it just so happens that Yasuna is a sales attendant. He gets his measurements from the girl who rejected him and as they're walking home, he thinks how strange the situation is.

Siren: 2: The Sirens are a special women who can suit up in "Psi" suits to combat terror. However, 波好めるな (Meruna Namiyoshi)'s Psi levels have been down recently. It stems to an event 5 days ago where she dropped some ice cream on some guy, 水凪総一郎 (Soichiro Minagi) and felt really sorry for being such a klutz. She has a talk with the directory, 天城 (Dr. Amagi) who tells her that she's still more than competent as a Siren. Meruna and her partner,　北斗 (Hokuto) get called to do a patrol for some strange activity in a neighborhood. There, Meruna encounters Soichiro again, who quickly avoids her by running in a building nearby. Suddenly, a monster/alien appears and attacks, bringing down that building to rubbles. Meruna sees this and runs to the site looking for Soichiro. What she doesn't know is that Soichiro is working for the enemy and has a camera pointed at her as she talks to a "doctor." He comes to realize that she may be a Siren.

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