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| Publication Date: September 2, 2009 | |
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| Anime Adaptation: Episode 4: If You Don't Mind Starting As Friends | |
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Chapter
19: 転校生
Tenkousei
(Transfer Student)
Rinne and Rokumon discuss the lack of requests for exorcisms left in the weather hutch lately, when they are surprised to see a young man expertly, though somewhat roughly, banishing a wandering ghost. The boy sees Rinne and ensnares him with a rope, after mistaking him for a ghost, and tosses sacred ashes on him. It hurts Rinne, who manages to flee, but once he removes his hakama, the ashes effects subside. Rokumon finds a photograph that the boy dropped, and is surprised to see it's a photo of a very young Sakura Mamiya. Back in class, the teacher welcomes a new transfer student, Tsubasa Jumonji, who happens to be the same boy Rinne just scuffled with. Tsubasa approaches Sakura, and asks if she remembers him from elementary school. He tells her he went to school with her briefly before his parents work caused his family to move away. Like Sakura, Tsubasa could also see ghosts as a child. When he realized Sakura could too, he felt that he had found someone that could understand him. Tsubasa promptly asks Sakura out, just as Rinne enters the room. When Tsubasa sees Rinne, he tosses his ashes at him once more, but this time they have no effect, as Rinne is not wearing his hakama.
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20: 友だちからで良ければ
Tomodachi kara de yokereba
(If You Don't Mind, Let's Be Friends First)
Tsubasa continues to make advances towards Sakura. Rinne, unsure of what to say, starts to distance himself from Sakura, saying he can exorcise the bespectacled ghost, Usui, himself. Sakura asks Rinne directly if he's avoiding her because of Tsubasa asking her out, but he replies he's not interested in that sort of thing. This surprises Sakura a bit, but she accepts Rinne's decision. Rinne finds out that Usui's lingering attachment is Sakura's friend, Miho. Using his haori, Rinne gives Usui a corporeal body so that he can ask Miho out. As soon as she agrees, Tsubasa arrives at tries to warn her that Usui is actually a ghost and she should not trust him. Before he can say this though, Sakura steps in and stops him. Miho decides that Sakura and Tsubasa should go on a double date with her and Usui, which leaves Rinne the odd man out. He disappears before anyone notices, leaving Sakura a bit miffed. Rokumon tries to cheer Rinne up, but Rinne is unsure of why he's feeling awkward in the first place. In class, Rika, Sakura's other friend decides she wants to go on the double date as well, and decides to invite Rinne as her date. As the date starts, Rinne warns Tsubasa that he's there as Usui's bodyguard so that he can pass on peacefully. Tsubasa makes it clear that if Usui turns into an evil spirit he'll quickly dispatch him.
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| Publication Date: September 9, 2009 | |
| Pages:3 (full color) 18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 4: If You Don't Mind Starting As Friends | |
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Chapter
21: 楽しいデート
Tanoshii Deeto
(A Fun Date)
On their triple date, Rinne soon finds himself mortified over the cost of everything. Rika, the girl who invited him keeps wanting him to buy her food, and Tsubasa seems willing to spend money in order to upstage Rinne. Thankfully, Tsubasa is more intent on having a good time with Sakura rather than trying to exorcise Usui, the ghost who is trying to pass on to the next world. Rinne continues to have a miserable time until Tsubasa tries to win a stuffed dolphin for Sakura in a claw-grabber machine. Unable to do it, Rinne easily retrieves the dolphin, and Sakura tells him she'll treasure it always, which helps lighten his attitude. During lunch, Rika mentions that she thinks Rinne likes Sakura, but Sakura denies the infatuation, after noticing Rinne is concerned about the amount of money he's spent. Later the evening as they get ready to ride on the ferris wheel, Rinne realizes that Usui is close to passing on. He poses for a picture with his date, Miho, and then vanishes. Miho and Rika are shocked, but Sakura calmly explains that he must have been a good ghost. Back home, Rinne admits to himself that he finds Sakura cute, while Sakura sits in bed, studying the dolphin he won for her and realizing it's not cute at all.
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| Publication Date: September 16, 2009 | |
| Pages:18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 4: If You Don't Mind Starting As Friends | |
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Chapter
22: 10万円
Juu Man En
(One Hundred Thousand Yen)
Rokumon runs into the club house where Rinne is living and shows him a wanted poster for a ghost worth 100,000 yen. Rinne realizes that this amount of money could help make up for all the money he lost on the previous date. Inside the school Tsubasa, Sakura and their classmates find handprints all over their classroom, even on the ceiling. They handprints are small, as if they belong to a child. Whomever made the handprints wrote "grudge" on Tsubasa's desk as well. Suddenly, Tsubasa tosses his sacred ashes onto the chalk board, and the ghost from Rinne's wanted posted springs out and dashes down the hallway. Tsubasa chases him, but Rinne, desperate for the bounty, springs out and toss his his haori over the ghost and carries it away. Once he gets back to his home, he unwraps the ghost, but finds a little girl spirit instead of the 100,000 yen spirit. The ghost explains that her name is Hanako of the Toilet, and she once haunted Tsubasa's elementary school until he tried to exorcise her. The exorcism failed, but she was kicked out of her toilet haunt and forced to roam the skies looking for revenge. Tsubasa arrives and the two begin to fight, but Hanako's powers increase rapidly as the 100,000 yen ghost arrives and begins to pump more power into her.
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| Publication Date: September 30, 2009 | |
| Pages:18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 5: Hanako-san | |
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Chapter
23: 力の代償
Chikara no daishou
(The Price of Power)
The school bathrooms are vandalized once again by Hanako, this time with grafitti calling out Tsubasa. Meanwhile, Rinne learns from Tamako that the evil spirit helping Hanako is Toichi, a massive creature made from the combined spirits of others. By lending Hanako of the Toilet his power, he'll eventually absorb her into himself as well. Back at school Tsubasa shows up with a bazooka to launch his ash-balls at Hanako, who quickly calls on Toichi to back her up. As she tries to take more power from him, Rinne arrives and warns her that she'll soon be absorbed if she continues. He tosses Hanako to Sakura and Rokumon brings him a scythe to fight Toichi with. It seems that Tsubasa and Rinne will both be battling to collect the bounty on Toichi.
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| Publication Date: October 7, 2009 | |
| Pages:18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 5: Hanako-san | |
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Chapter
24: 死神のカマ
Shinigami no kama
(Shinigami Scythe)
Rinne battles against Toichi using the scythe that Rokumon brought him. Toichi seems to think it will be no use, but a single swipe rom Rinne purifies one of the clones Toichi made of himself, sending them on into the next life. Tsubasa then steps up, frustrated at being out done by Rinne and irritated that his sacred ashes were ineffective. Looking for a new strategy, Tsubasa uses his Bible against Toichi, but when the ghost tells him that it is the wrong religion and has no effect, Tsubasa uses it to smash him over and over repeatedly with the corner of the holy book. Finally Rinne is able to purify Toichi and Tsubasa realizes that his heavy-handed approach to dealing with Hanako of the Toliet was wrong. He apologizes, and Rinne escorts Hanako to the Wheel of Reincarnation, happily collecting the 100,000 yen bounty on Toichi's head. Unfortuantely, the money is immediately confiscated to repay Rinne's debts.
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| Publication Date: October 14, 2009 | |
| Pages:3 (full color) 19 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 5: Hanako-san | |
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Chapter
25: カボチャ頭の誘惑
Kapucha atama no no yuuwaku (sankai matsuri)
(Lure of the Pumpkin Head)
Sakura's school is have a festival day when one of her friends, Mika, gets a visit from an old crush. The older student, Kimura, flirts with the girl, though no one except Sakura and Tsubasa and Mika can see him. They both quickly realize he's a ghost, and Tsubasa causes him to flee using sacred ashes. Mika gets an invitation to meet Kimura on the roof, and hurries up to see him. Upon arrive there, the spirit attempts to lure her to follow him, nearly causing her to fall of the school roof. Luckily Rinne arrives and tosses a pumpkin at her head, knocking her out and saving her from falling. Back inside the school, Rinne explains that Kimura is actually a damashigami, a spirit that tries to lure people into the afterlife before their time. Rinne met this particular damashigami a year prior, he was originally a pumpkin headed spirit who found Kimura and switched faces with him. Now the deceased Kimura resembles a Jack-o-Lantern with a school uniform, while the damashigami is using his dashing good looks to lure girls into the Land of the Dead. Rinne and the others hear a commotion outside and rush to see the damashigami taking a group of schoolgirls through a portal into the next life. Rinne is too slow to stop them, but tosses something into the portal before the evil spirit vanishes with the girls.
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| Publication Date: October 21, 2009 | |
| Pages:18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 9: The Wig's Disappointment and the Pumpkin's Temptation | |
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Chapter
26: だまし神の館
Demashigami no kan
(Hall of the Damashigami)
As the school festival continues, Rinne decides to steal a maid outfit from a boy who was on his way to the "Mr. Lady Contest". Donning the outfit, Rinne reveals that the object he tossed into the portal was a love letter intended to lure the damashigami back to the school. Sure enough, the spirit wearing Kimura's face returns and grabs both Sakura and the cross-dressing Rinne and whisks them into his haunted house. The real Kimura (wearing a pumpkin head) and Tsubasa follow as well, but are immediately locked into a cage. Inside the house, all the girls the demashigami kidnapped are flirting and chatting with numerous immitations he created to entertain them. Before their souls can be turned in however, Rinne uses a wand called the Beacon of Truth that destroys the illusions the demashigami has created. It reveals his true appearance, that of a pumpkin head, while returning Kimura's face to its rightful owner. Unfortunately all of the girls are still in love with Kimura, even after discovering he has died. They claim they'll follow him into the afterlife, and so to severe their ties with him, Kimura promptly announces he only likes older women. Throughly disappointed, the girls lose interest in him, and the demashigami explodes. Back in the world of the living, Rinne arrives just in time to win the Mr. Lady Contest, and happily accepts the dozen packs of instant ramen as his prize.
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| Publication Date: October 28, 2009 | |
| Pages:18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 9: The Wig's Disappointment and the Pumpkin's Temptation | |
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Chapter
27: 私を描いて
Watashi o egaite
(Draw Me)
Sakura, Miho and Rika go to investigate a scream they heard in the art room. When they arrive, they discover a boy laying on the ground with black ink covering his face. Upon further investigation with Rinne, Sakura learns that a faceless ghost woman has been asking the students in the art, manga and anime clubs to draw her, but when they start to draw her face, she insists that they render something other than a blank void. Whenever the students draw an imaginary face, she always gets angry, destroys the drawing and tossing ink in their face. Tsubasa learns of the strange spirit as well, and seeks to lure it out so that he can use his ashes to exorcise her. The faceless spirit gets the better of him, and when Rinne tries to use his haori to give her a corporeal body, she floats through it, surprising everyone. Rinne hypothesizes that she's not a spirit at all, but the embodiment of some powerful emotion. The following day Rinne returns with "emotion dust" which he says will help to connect the faceless being with the source of the emotion that created her. The next time they see her though, she is lurking behind a handsome young student, who calls her "The President". The faceless girl tells him not to draw her and runs away, just as Rinne flings his emotion dust at her.
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| Publication Date: November 4, 2009 | |
| Pages:18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 52: The Cursed Ace / Draw Me | |
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Chapter
28: 黒と白
Kuro to shiro
(Black & White)
The boy with the glasses turns out to be the president of the art club, Suguru Egawa. Egawa tells the others that the spirit looks like the former president who had retired that autumn. Rinne follows the trail of the emotion dust to a house in the suburbs where he finds a faceless drawing left inside a desk drawer. The next day, Rinne brings the drawing to school to show Egawa, to confirms that it was a stolen drawing belonging to him. Rinne left a note in the house demanding that the theif come claim the drawing, and everyone is surprised when Hitomi Egusa, the former president appears to claim it. It turns out that she stole the drawing and erased the face, which crushes poor Egawa who had a crush on her. After talking with Sakura, Hitomi reveals that she erased the face because she was drawn wearing glasses, which made her feel ugly. That's why the faceless spirit refused to ask Egawa to draw her. The spirit returns and tries to paint Hitomi's face white to match her own, but Rinne intercedes and prevents her. Once the misunderstanding is cleared up, Egawa draws a new face on the drawing, and the faceless spirit is put to rest.
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| Publication Date: November 11, 2009 | |
| Pages:18 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: Episode 52: The Cursed Ace / Draw Me | |
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