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This article is from the Manga FAQ, by Steve Pearl starbuck@cybercomm.net with numerous contributions by others.

05 Aro Hiroshi $@$"$m$R$m$7(B

Most of Aro's stories have a clear, clean appearance with a surreal quality.
This could also be said of his characters, tone, and attitude. He uses hentai
with its double meaning of `metamorphosis' to describe weird backgrounds,
assorted personalities, and other strangeness. His humour-oriented stories
usually share the same universe.

In late 1994, Aro and Yano Kentaro started the quarterly manga magazine Comic
Will together.

(Aro Hiroshi is a pseudonym.)

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Morumo 1/10 - serialized on Shonen Captain 1985, 2 volumes @ Y550.
A combination of the superhero, comedy, and love story genres. Morumo is
an alien girl raised on earth. She is 16.3 meters tall at age 16 and
weighs 43 tons. She looks human (with pink hair); if you are far enough
away, her proportions look human. She occasionally takes a shrinking serum
that reduces her body by one-tenth in size.

You and Me $@M%!uL%0a(B - serialized on Shonen Jump Monthly, 1986-89, 5
volumes @ Y600.
Yo is a boy who just moved into the equivalent of a boarding house.
Everything is not as it first seems, even the boy. Living in the same room
is a ghost (female) named Me. The series is a combination of love, humor,
and a general parody of anime and manga.

Futaba-kun, Change! $@$U$?$P7/%A%'%s%8(B - currently serialized on Shonen
Jump Monthly, 7 volumes @ Y390.
Another high school hentai slapstick manga. Futaba changes his/her gender
when he/she gets excited. But it's not only him. His family is filled with
gender-changing people.

Hunter Cats $@%O%s%?!=!&%-%c%D(B - currently serialized on Shonen Captain,
1992-present, 4 volumes @ Y550.
A semi-parody of the trouble-shooter genre. Basically, it's about 3 women
with inhuman capabilities who solve cases. It is derived from, and an
improvement over, his earlier work Sheriff. One of the members is also
from Sheriff. The names and titles are: Mei the cyberqueen (super hacker),
Akira the iron fist (great strength, very athletic, has scars all over her
body), and Hikaru the quick (unmatched pick pocket, has super speed, can
grab a fired bullet from the air and steal bullets from guns without the
user being aware; when she was younger she was in Sheriff and was a thief,
but she reformed).

Tottemo Shonen Tankentai $@$H$C$F$b>/G/C58!Bb(B - published by Shueisha,
1993, 2 volumes @ Y390.
The story of a bunch of explorers on a fantastic school campus. Each
member of the team has their own special feature or quirk. The school is
vast, a kind place that might might be considered heaven to Calvin of
Calvin and Hobbes. While I do not have all the original stories to
compare, I have noticed that Aro decided to add extras to the last story
(the story of Noah's ark and the tower of babel). The extras are pages
186-187 (Yukari eats Babel Parfait and finds out why people refer to these
places as tourist's traps when she gets the bill), 189-193 (a golem
attacks and is destroyed by Cleo), 197 (this is hindu mythology (?) of a
tortoise going through the heavens with elephants on its back, which
supports the earth (not to sure if I remember these religons correctly)),
202-203 (the impressive effects of the pieces of Babel crashing into the
earth). 204 (primarily the addition of Cleo to the scene).

Project A-ko 3 $@%W%m%8%'%/%H#A;R(B - anthology, published Rapport, 1988,
Y580.

Unkai no Tabibito $@1@3&$NN9?M(B - published by Tokuma Shoten, 1989, Y680.

4 Spirits Plus [$@%W%i%9(B] - anthologies, - published by Rapport, 1989, 7
volumes @ Y800.

Sheriff $@%7%'%j%U(B - published by Shueisha, 1989-90, 2 volumes @ Y370.

Boogie-Woogie Alligator $@$V$.$&$.(B$@%"%j%2!<%?!<(B - published by
Shueisha, 1990, Y600.

Para no iya gekijo $@$Q$i$N$$207`>l(B - published by Shueisha, 1991, 2
volumes @ Y600.

Fuin $@Iu0u(B - published by Rapport, 1991, Y500.

Omisore! Tora Burikko $@$*$_$=$l!*%H%i$V$j$CL<(B - published by Shueisha,
1992, Y800.

Battle Angels $@%P%H%k!&%(%s%8%'%k%9(B - with Yano Kentarou, published by
Rapport, 1994, Y800.

Muteki Eiyu Esugaiyaa $BL5E(1QM:%(%9%,%$%d!<(B - published by Hakusensha,
1994, Y520.

Trickster - published by Kadokawa Shoten, 1995, Y900.


 

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