Title: 妹 (Akane) Vol. 8 "Love Love Show"
Artist/Author: 山花典之 (Noriyuki Yamahana)
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 191pp., w/o furigana
Volume: 8/14
Original Serialization: Weekly Young Jump Vol 52, '01 - Vol 14, '02
First Printing: 6/24/02
Rating: 4/4

Looks like what I wanted came true. There's no more pesky third girl that has Shinpei's attention. It's just Akane and Shinpei now. I think the attention is now more on the fact that Akane will have to leave soon, but both do not seem to want to let go of each other.

The color first page is a pullout with a nice illustration of Akane, Marina, and Emily.

81. white lovers: Akane comes to the dealership where Shinpei is fixing cars on Christmas eve.

82. 雪の日はあなたのことを (To You On a Snowy Day): Tetsu and Akira offer to do the work so that he can be with his sister on this special night. Akane gives Shinpei her hand-knit sweater and tells him that she loves him as a girl.

83. Love Love Snow: It's New Year's Eve and they go shopping as well as visit their mom's grave. That night, Akane enters the new year with Shinpei in his arms.

84. 今年もナ・カ・ヨ・シ (Being "Close" This Year Too): Akane borrows one of Mio's kimonos to wear on new years. During their trip to the shrine, Akane needs to go to the bathroom but is unwilling to take off her kimono as she can't put it back on. While Shinpei is helping her, he accidentally gropes her.

85. リンクの王子様 (The Prince at the Rink): Shinpei, Akane, and friends go skating. Akane really can't skate and falls a few times, each time she gets the attention of the guys around her as she's wearing a mini-skirt. Eventually, Shinpei, who also can't skate that well, carries her off. Later that night, Emily calls Shinpei asking him to meet up with her.

86. とまどいセブンティーン (Confusion at 17): Emily is stuck with a date that she really doesn't like so she calls Shinpei over, pretending that he's her brother and using him as an excuse to leave the date. Emily tells him to keep this a secret from Akane.

87. よこうれんしゅう！ (Rehearsal): On the drive back, Emily and Shinpei talk about Akane's real mother, her illness and how Akane will be returned to her after she graduates. Back home, Akane is dressed up as a nurse. She tries playing around with Shinpei, but her uniform rips because it's too tight.

88. あったかいよ、お兄ちゃん (It's Warm, Big Brother): Shinpei and Akane are out and about when they meet an old friend. Akane's quite excited to meet someone from her past and the three of them go hang out, but Shinpei isn't all that happy. When he leaves, Shinpei tells Akane that he's afraid of losing her.

89. ドキドキしたいValentine (I Want an Exciting Valentine): Marina has waited in line to get Akane some erotic chocolates. Akane gives these to Shinpei. These chocolates little messages inside (like fortune cookies) that give suggestions like doing certain things and touching certain parts of the body.

Title: A.I.が止まらない (Love Won't Stop) Vol. 4
Artist/Author: 赤松健 (Ken Akamatsu)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 240pp., w/furigana
Volume: 4/8
Original Serialization: Weekly Shonen Magazine Vol 2, '95 - Vol 8, '98
First Printing: 2/17/00
Rating: 2/4

This volume was significantly longer than the previous ones, and it kinda felt that way. There's a new member in the family, Forty, who has multiple personalities. She's cute and all (when she's nice), but doesn't add much to the story.

Bonus is a color page, some sketches, an interview, and a gallery of Ai Toma phone cards.

25. Touch me!: Hitoshi shows Twenty and Thirty their predecessors, but accidentally releases them into the real world. The girls manage to capture all of them except for #29 who looks exactly like Thirty and only has one little flaw. Hitoshi has to figure out who is who and does so by finding the girl that feels embarrassment.

26. 第３のオトコ！？ (The Third Boy!?): Thirty would like to have an obiedient little sister. Twenty would like to have a rambunctious little brother. They go Hitoshi asking for a sibling. He declines, but Twenty ties him up and the two girls program the computer to produce the sibling, Forty, they want. What they end up with is a boy who loves cleaning. However, Hitoshi finds out as he's taking a bath that he's actually a she. The boy then changes personality to a girl.

27. 蒼い体験 (Immature): As a girl, Forty is quite the troublemaker. Hearing that Hitoshi has never had a girlfriend, she goes and tries to teach him a thing or two about females. Through some clever thinking, Hitoshi discovers that the keyword to change Forty's personality is just to say "boy" or "girl."

28. 端午の節句は女のコの日！？ (Boy's Day Is a Day For Girls!?): It's 5/5, Boy's Day but Twenty says that they never celebrated 3/3, Doll's Festival Day. She tricks Forty into becoming a girl and they create life-sized dolls that cause some trouble for Hitoshi.

29. 初めてのおつかい (The First Errand): Thirty has forgotten to pay Hitoshi's bill, so Forty (as a girl) decides to swim through the networks to the bank. She then wanders off in cyberspace and finds herself caught in an online dating-sim with a player having great interest in her. Eventually Thirty comes and saves her from the otaku.

30. 思い過ごしも恋のうち (In The Mind and In the Heart): It's the first day of school for Forty (as a boy) and he's fallen in love with his homeroom teacher. His teacher gives him some kind words which he takes as encouragement. Later, he figures out his plan and wants to confess his love for her only to find out that she's getting married and retiring. At first he has anger but eventually forgives her.

31. チャイルド・プレイ (Child Play): Both Twenty and Forty are out for the day. Twenty decides that since Hitoshi hasn't had a maternal figure, she'll be his mother for a day. She treats him like a little baby the whole day and eventually decides that she needs to breast feed him. Hitoshi passes out (from his cold) just as he's about to suck.