Title: 7. まほろまてぃっく：　涙で動くメイドさん (Vol. 7 Mahoromatic: A Maid Who Sustains By Tears)
Artist/Author: ぢたま某 (Bow D(z)itama)
Original Creator: 中山文十郎 (Bunjuro Nakayama)
Book Size/Pages: A-5, 164pp., w/o furigana
Original Serialization: Comic GUM 2/03-8/03
First Printing: 10/10/03
Rating: 4/4

Everything is revealed in this volume and it looks like this series should wrap up soon (actually, recent news says that volume 8 is the last one). Once things go rolling in this chapter, I couldn't put it down.

Bonuses are 4 panel comics on the inside covers, a color page, and the back of the dust jacket features Serra and Shiina (誰?).

1. 宿命との対峙 (A Confrontation With Destiny): Using a little child/cyborg, #773, Felderance lures Suguru into a church where he's to be bait so that Mahoro would come. When she does, Felderance tells Suguru that Mahoro killed his father.

2. 解放の瞳 (Liberty Bell): Mahoro tells the story about how a corrupt leader started the whole conflict between Vespa and the Saints and the Keeper. She also describes the anguish he had to go through when she had to shoot his dad. After the story, Suguru admits that he kinda knew she had something to do with his dad's death and apologies for not telling her. At the end, Felderance grabs Suguru and makes Mahoro make the decision again.

3. ごめんなさい（前編） (I'm Sorry, First Part): This time, Mahoro can't shoot. Fortunately, she doesn't have to as Ryuuga and Slash come to help defeat Felderance and the Professor and his bots. Felderance goes outside with Minawa and tells her that the professor would have disposed of them anyway, even if Minawa had helped out. She also tells her that the brains of the destroyed cyborgs, like #369 end up as cheap computers.

4. ごめんなさい（後編） (I'm Sorry, Second Part): With her newly found rage, she goes after the professor and his machines. Just as she's about to confront him, her body starts "malfunctioning." The professor tells her that she was defective and that her body can't handle the stress. Mahoro jumps in and saves her while a robot ends up killing the professor. Mahoro tells her that she shouldn't go down so easily and then collapses from her own wounds.

5. 涙のあとさき (Imprudent Tears): Minawa is "fixed" and she takes on a new little sister, #733, or rather, Nanami. Mahoro is also repaired and learns of her new sister. Meanwhile, the Management blows up Air Force One to instigate another conflict. Mahoro then gets told that she has no time remaining until she "dies" and could do so at any minute.

6. 花降る夜 (The Night Flowers Descend): Things seem to be back to normal again at Suguru's house. They have a large feast. After the dinner, Mahoro sneaks out. Shikijo sensei catches her as she leaves, and Mahoro responds by giving her thanks to everything she's done. After Mahoro leaves, Shikijo seems to realize what's going to happen. Mahoro is outside crying, saying that she doesn't want to "die."

Title: 少年マガジン (Shonen Magazine) Vol. 26
Issue Date: 6/8/2004
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 560

How nice of them to provide the page number on the cover (they do it occasionally). This week's feature girl is 深田恭子 (Kyoko Fukada). This 21 year-old has been featured in Magazine since 1998 when she made her debut in issue 33 of that year.

It looks like Tsubasa has incorporated some elements of "The Matrix" into the story line as well as introduced another character from Chobits.

Suzuka: ＃１４出発 (Departure): Yamato is still in the dumps after being rejected by Suzuka. Megumi and Yuuka pay him a visit and drinks with him. After Megumi passes out, Yuuka and Yamato have a heart-to-heart talk on the roof. She tells him how she used to have someone she really loved too. Despite being rejected, she kept trying. Upon hearing this, Yamato also vows to keep trying.

Negima: ５４時間目　地図とお熱とチョコレット (A Map, Warmth, and Chocolate): Asuna has a strange dream where she is a child and sees someone strangely familar. She wakes up in her own room to find Negi studying a map of Mahora that his father had created. She notices some chocolates on the table and eats a few. Soon after, all the other girls come into her room. Negi decides that he needs more training so he asks Eva if he could be her pupil. She reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile, Asuna feels a little strange and has gotten a strong attraction towards Negi. She tries to deny it, but her heart beats faster whenever he's around. Turns out that the chocolates where a failed experiment, and instead became a aphrodisiac, causing the consumer to fall in love with the first person he/she sees. Asuna calms down knowing that this is only temporary.

Changing Now: ＃５招集　秘密結社 (Convocation, A Secret Society): The aliens have a meeting where they try to figure out what new creature to create. The leader of the gang gets some ideas from fan mail. The meeting boils down to a discussion about what to order for take-out.

Hamanaka Ai: ０３７沈黙の部屋 (Silent Room): Nakamura thinks that they haven't been concentrating enough recently so during the study session, she makes every hush and communicate only by writing notes. Things go awry when Masahiko's mother comes in and slips on the papers used to write the notes.

Tsubasa: ４６夢の世界 (Land of Dreams): Seishirou kills Shaoran. Shaoran then wakes up in his dream capsule and sees Fye outside. Apparently, the world they were previously in was just a virtual world and he was just playing a game. This is the real Ooto country, an amusement park where he was just enjoying one of the attractions. It takes a while, but he finally remembers how she started playing this "game." Later, he meets 千歳 (Chitose, landlady from Chobits) who tells him and Fye that she created the game and wants to get more information about Seishirou since he's interfering with the game.

Futatsuki:　１６口目／オレのラメン (My Ramen): Futatsuki makes his lamb organs ramen, which turns out not to be completely organs, but pomegranate (I think) made into ramen. The idea was instead of making ramen that won't increase weight, he'd make ramen that would make the girls look better. This ramen does exactly that, making them look cuter and having their figures improve/increase. Futatsuki wins and is leading in the competition.

Title: ヤングマガジン (Young Magazine) Vol. 26
Issue Date: 6/7/2004
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 526

This issue comes with the second set of Morning Musume mini-cards. First set was in last week's volume. Cover girl is 熊田曜子 (Yoko Kumata), a 22 year old. There's also a promotion for some 4th-7th grade girl group in the back.

Redlight: ８見逃したらやかんやで (Don't Run Away): Satoshi has just purchased a cell phone in hopes of using it with Choko. Almost a week passes and he doesn't get a call. When he finally gets a call, it's from a guy friend. After he and his friend have dinner, Satoshi rides to Choko's house and ends up telling her that he loves her.

XXXholic: 49: Yuuko is quite annoyed that Shaoran and gang hasn't given her White Day gifts. She's been waiting since March. It's currently pouring and when Kimihiro curses the weather, a girl appears and gives him a whack. This girl is something like a rain fairy. She makes a deal with Yuuko as and she requires Kimihiro, and only Kimihiro, to help him out.