Worth your time!

명탐정 코난 29
아오야마 고쇼 지음 / 서울미디어코믹스(서울문화사) / 2000년 12월

This is a story of a grade 11 student named Shinichi who hopes to become the Sherlock Holmes of the century. He solves challenging mysteries. Shinichi incedently meets some guys dressed in black (Gin and Vodka), who gives him an untested drug and turns him into a child. Dr. Agasa discovers that Shinichi has changed into a small boy and tells him to keep his true identity a secret until they find them.

Meanwhile, Shinichi pretends to be Conan Edogawa and lives at his 'girl' friend Ran Mouri's house also with her father Kogorou Mouri. Kogorou himself is also a detective who is not very smart. Time after time, Conan secretly help Kogorou solve cases, giving him all the credit. With the gadgets Dr. Agasa invents, Conan uses his voice changing bow tie and his watch to 'help' Kogorou explain and solve cases. Conan also returns to first grade and makes three friends, Genta, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko, who later formed the Detective Boys group solving mysteries.

Worth reading!

지옥선생 누베 1
오카노 타케시 지음 / 서울미디어코믹스(서울문화사) / 2000년 3월

Jigoku Sensei Nube is about a school teacher whose left hand is a huge, nasty looking demon's claw which he uses to despatch malicious ghosts, spirits and demons that constantly attack, harass or posess his students, and also to solve other problems of the supernatural kind. His left hand was normal until one fateful day when he attempted to exorcise a huge and extremely powerful demon, and losing his left hand in the process. He was out matched and the only way to fight it was to allow it to enter his body (shades of the movie 'The Exorcist'!). With the help of the spirit his former school teacher he managed to keep the demon under control and locked up within his body, the side effect is that he now has a demonic left hand where his dear departed perfectly normal hand used to be!

Fascinating

그 남자! 그 여자! 1
츠다 마사미 지음 / 학산문화사(만화) / 1999년 1월

First of all, this series begins with an introduction of Yukino Miyazawa, an accomplished student/athlete/teacher's pet/elegant teenager/'actress'/daughter, and finally, sister. At school, she pretends to be sweet, smart, caring, and perfect. However, in reality (and at home) she is bratty, spoiled, and slightly selfish -- like any other normal person! She is in fact very nice and friendly, but she acts extra nice at school to put up a good reputation and become loved/praised by teachers and fellow students.

During the High school entrance ceremony, Arima steals her much loved school presidency seat away. She was ready to make her speech and take on all ther 'much deserved' responsibilities when he came along ! Well, she starts acting very nice towards him -- even though her 'real' side keeps thinking of bad things to say about him, etc. Her real thoughts are shown in a blue face which looks very very ghoulish and also comical. ^_^

The series deals mainly with Miyazawa and her relationship with Arima Souichirou (or so I've seen?). Included is Shibahime Tsubasa, a girl who Arima considers as his younger sister -- even though she thinks otherwise. Then, there's Asapin/Asaba, Arima's well...friend? his ego is larger than his head ... if you can look past his love for himseelf, vanity, and 'dancing sequences' -- he's actually a very nice guy.

Great!

아이즈 15
카츠라 마사카즈 지음 / 서울미디어코믹스(서울문화사) / 2001년 1월

The title of manga comes from the initial letter of the 3 main characters - Ichitaka, Iori and Itsuki. In the beginning, Ichitaka was in love with the very sweet Iori but a certain incident from the past kept him from confessing. However, a chance came when they were paired for a project and hence the name I's as their group name. Slowly, Iori notices Ichitaka's warm and kindness. Ichitaka on the other hand is trying very hard not to take advantage of Iori on so many occasion. However, things took a twist when Ichitaka's childhood friend appear. Itsuki thus enter the triangle of the I's team. Itsuki came back with her heart set on Ichitaka only to find him already in love in another. Yet she encourages him on to keep pursuing Iori. Sooner or later, Ichitaka is bound to realise Itsuki's love for him. Then who would he choose?

Mesmerizing!

천사 금렵구 2
유키 카오리 지음 / 대원씨아이(만화) / 1999년 11월

This is a very complex and tragic story. It is set in the pre-apocalypse of 1999. Long ago an angel, Alexeil leads the demons to challenge the angels of heaven lead by her twin brother, Raziel. However, Alexeil was defeated but with her remaining power she seals her brother within Earth so that he will be imprisoned forever. For this Alexeil is punished by infinite reincarnations which each dying a tragic death. Then the story starts with Setsuna Modou, a young disorientated boy, who is Alexeil's reincarnation. WIthin him lies a hidden desire to love his younger sister, Sarah. Sarah too loves him. But their love are doomed from the beginning.

With Demons reincarnating into bodies of their friends, their sole goal is to awaken Alexeil to lead them again to challenge the heavens. However, Setsuna don't care much except for his love of his sister but fate is cruel when Razeil is freed from his seal. He then plan to kill Sarah. He feels that it's her fault for taking his beloved sister away from him. This time, Setsuna has no choice but to awaken the Alexeil inside him to protect the one he loves.