Title: 魔法先生ネギま！　８月：長谷川千雨 (Magic Teacher Negima! August: Hasegawa Chisame)
Original Creator: 赤松健 (Ken Akamatsu)
Vocals: 志村由美 (Yumi Shimura)
Release Date: 5/26/04
Catalog No.: KICM-3053
Rating: 4/4

This CD is quite interesting. The two sides of Chisame (the serious recluse) and her other life, Chiu (the Internet Idol). The seiyuu, Yumi, performs her two personalities with completely different voices. As Chisame, her voice is low and serious, at times it sounds evil. But when she's Chiu, it's high pitched and cute. The first track has disgrunted Chisame showing contempt towards the previous character CDs.

The song included this time is okay. The song is sung as Chiu, so it's supposed to be really cute. The tune is good, but the lyrics seem kinda dull. Like the others, they describe the character. The remixed version is about the same in my opinion.

The drama is where this CD shines. It has Chisame coming home from school with her new costume (which was accidentally switched with the cheerleading uniforms from last CD). She answers fan-email given comments as Chisame, but responding as Chiu. As she's taking pictures of herself to post on her web page, Sakurako comes by to see if Chisame has her uniform. Chisame tries to pretend that she's not home so she won't be discovered as having this alternative lifestyle. In her panic to hide, she messes up her computer and related equipment.

The cast talk has only Yumi, so she has a more personal message much like Akemi's and Ai's for Asuna and Konoka. She sounds very "valley-ish" (if that word even applies to Japanese speakers).

First edition comes with a Chisame tarot card.

Title: 彼氏彼女の事情 (His and Her Circumstances) Vol. 2
Artist/Author: 津田雅美 (Masami Tsuda)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 191pp., w/furigana
Original Serialization: Monthly LALA 7/96-12/96
First Printing: 2/10/97
Rating: 4/4

The manga hasn't strayed much from the anime yet. One thing that I get bogged down with is all the little text outside the text bubbles. They're usually using handwritten fonts or just handwriting themselves, which makes it a little harder for me to read. I do enjoy them though, since that's almost like how I write. I like to write a lot of parenthetical text (for context, just like this) which I believe is what those handwriting texts do for manga.

There are little letters from the author interspersed in the book as well as a comic at the end. There's also a full alternate story chapter with the characters.

4. ACT4 恋になる日 (The Day We Fell In Love): Yukino is having regrets about not responding to Arima's confession. She loves him, but hasn't told him. So, she tries various ways to get him alone so she can confess to him, but her plans are always thwarted. When she's finally asked, Yukino for some reason can't answer and just runs away. The next day in homeroom though, Arima grabs her hand and that's when she knew they started dating.

5. ACT5 学校迷路 (School Maze): Although they're going out, Yukino hasn't seen much of Arima so she tries to find him. Since the school athletic festival is just a few days away, he's been real busy and is hard to get a hold of. She is finally able to spot him a day before the festival and they spend some time on the roof where he gives her a kiss.

6. ACT6 彼の野望 (Ambition): 浅葉秀明 (Hideaki Asaba) and Arima are buddies as well as being the most popular guys at school (according to the girls). Yukino however, gets a lot of bad vibes from Asaba. At first, they're constantly bickering and fighting as they fight for Arima's attention, but eventually, Asaba becomes one of her best allies.

7. ACT7 クレイジー・フォー・ユー (Crazy For You): A short chapter where the same events are shown from both Arima's and Yukino's perspective. It's after school and the both of them meet up after doing school chores. As they wait inside due to the rain, they almost kiss. This gets Yukino's head spinning.

Title: 少年マガジン (Shonen Magazine) Vol. 27
Issue Date: 6/16/2004
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 542

Well, Futatsuki is ending this week. It's not that surprising though, I can't really imagine what else the author could have done with it (although there's another cooking manga running and that seems to have gone on for a while). The color pages are adorned with the finalists for Miss Magazine.

Suzuka: ＃１５決意 (Determination): After being rejected by Suzuka, Yamato decides to join the track team so he can be with her. At first, Suzuka is against the idea as she doesn't think he can cut it. She finds out later that Yamato is actually very talented in running.

Negima: ５５時間目　恋のトライアングル・マッチ！　 (Love's Triangle Match): It's the first day back at school and Negi arrives to find Kufei in an altercation. She defeats all the boys who were attacking her as well as saves Negi from a blow. After homeroom, he asks to meet with her privately. This raises the suspicions of some girls, especially Ayaka. That afternoon, Asuna and others invite them to go bowling. Ayaka, thinking that Negi is going to confess to Kufei suggests that they have a bowling contest to determine who will go out with Negi. Kufei scores a perfect 300. At the end, he reveals that he just wants to learn Kufei's chinese martial arts.

Tsubasa: 47遠き落日 (The Distant Setting Sun): The gang, Kuro, Sakura, Kusanagi, Yuzuriha, Souma, and Ryuou, finally exit to find that the monsters also exist in reality. Chitose explains that Seishirou must be stopped otherwise the monsters will be a permanent fixture outside the game. Kuro spots Seishirou and prepares to battle.

Changing Now: ＃６再戦　髭男の秘密兵器 (Rematch, Mustache Man's Secret Weapon): Dog Fighter meets the English speaking enemy again, whose secret weapon now is a machine translator which he can't properly use. Meanwhile, another enemy is prepping at the hideout.

Hamanaka Ai: ０３７あらためて天野VS若田部 (Tenno vs Wakatabe Again): Ayana Tenno, who became class leader by default for the first test reminds Misaki that they had promised to have another battle of the wits during midterms, which is now. They have their test and the others comment about why their doing it.

Futatsuki: １７口目／キング・オヴ・ラメン (King of Ramen): Futatsuki is back at the school making ramen for the students. He's visited by his grampa who inspired him to become a ramen chef. He serves his ramen to him and it's met with approval (he drinks the broth dry). Later, all his competitors from the MK competition come and set up shop outside to keep the pressure on him. Futatsuki welcomes this challenge and finally he's presented with his MK first place metal.

Title: ヤングマガジン (Young Magazine) Vol. 27
Issue Date: 6/14/2004
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 510

Again, the magazine is continuing with its four week run of the Morning Musume girls. It also has more of the Miss Magazine girls.

Love Lucky: 3: Fuuta turns flaccid as he remembers how he used to be like the other fans who like Kirari because she's pure and innocent. Kirari tries to figure out to get him "excited" again and suggests that he wear a bra and panties. While he finds this mildly entertaining, it doesn't do much for him. The next thing he knows is that Kirari is asleep, so he lets her be. Meanwhile, her manager comes to the apartment suspecting that something is wrong and sees Futta wearing women's underwear.

Minamike: ９説明せよ (Explain!): Chiaki is trying to study but Kana bothers her and asks various questions to test her. They eventually get caught up on asking inane/trick questions to each other.

Redlight: 9: Satoshi is still very stoked that Chiko confessed to him. They go to work again and after she leaves, his boss tells him that she quit her job. He tries to find her in the following days, but her sister tells him that she hasn't been around. One night at work, Chiko shows up driving a truck.

XXXholic: 50: Kimihiro and Toumeki are walking back after encountering that mysterious girl. Kimihiro takes notice of a hydrangea bush and suddenly gets captured by in. Inside (I think), he meets this young girl who tells him that she has to go somewhere she doesn't want to and asks if he wants to go with her.