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She offers to partner with Kazuki and make him No. 2 in sales, but Kazuki declines, wanting to make it on his own right, and instead partners with Aya (through intervention by Taishi, of course)!! 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Kazuki has problems with the story for his next doujinshi, so Mizuki convinces him to go out and enjoy the summer with her. In exchange for doing what she wanted, she agrees to do one thing Kazuki wants. He asks her to be his poster girl to help him sell doujinshi, which seemed pretty bad by itself, but then Taishi tells her that part of being a poster girl is cosplay (costume play). Taishi enlists the help of Reiko Haga to convince Mizuki that cosplay isn't all bad. Reiko succeeds and Mizuki starts work on her Card Master Peach Costume. Kazuki, realizing how hard Mizuki is working for him, decides that he must finish his doujinshi in time. He ends up overworking himself and getting sick, so Reiko, who happened to come over to return a video game, calls her friends to help him finish. With everyone working together, Kazuki's doujinshi is finished. 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A mutual friend, Taishi Kuhonbutsu, calls them out to attend a Doujinshi Exhibition, or 'Comic Party' (a.k.a. 'ComiPa'). Doujinshi are self-published manga that can be stories\/parodies based off of famous manga, anime, and movies, or can be original works. Separated from his friends in the crowd, Kazuki first meets Yuu Inagawa, long-haired, glasses-wearing head of the doujinshi 'circle' (or group) 'Karamitei' ('Spicy Restaurant' is a possible translation), who's also a spunky artist from Kansai. Yuu ends up in a fight with rude customers, a fight Kazuki tries to break up before a member of the Comic Party staff, Minami Makimura, shows up. Still looking for his friends, Kazuki encounters the innocent, clumsy girl Chisa, who has lost control of the cart she was pushing. Chisa thanks Kazuki as 'oniisan' (big brother) and runs off, only to crash again.  Next, Kazuki reunites with Yuu, who is picking a fight with the egotistical doujinshi author Eimi Ohba, who runs studio 'Cat or Fish' which sold out all 5000 copies in the morning. Kazuki finally finds Taishi, only to be asked by Taishi to draw doujinshi with him as a step to world conquest. Kazuki thinks about it, ends up agreeing, and the circle 'Brother 2' is born. Afterwards, Mizuki gets upset at Kazuki skipping classes to do such a childish thing as drawing manga and refuses to acknowledge his new hobby. Kazuki still starts drawing manga with Taishi's support, however, and Kazuki has a doujinshi ready for the next month's Comic Party. Coincidentally, Chisa, the girl he met at the prior Comic Party, works in the print shop he has it printed at. Now with a booth at Comic Party, Brother 2 (though mainly Taishi) promotes their first work, being checked out first by Comic Party Staff member Minami, who knows Taishi. Mizuki stops by the convention and despite her disguise is noticed by Taishi, who has her read Kazuki's manga and then help out at the booth.  Kazuki, meanwhile, stops by another booth with an original doujinshi 'The Sun and the Moon,' which he really enjoys, written by a shy girl who claims no one has bought from her in a long time. Before catching her name though, Kazuki has to run off to stop a fight near his booth, which turns out to be once again between Yuu and Eimi. After the fight is broken up, Yuu reveals to Kazuki that she enjoyed his doujinshi and offers for their circles to pair up for the next Comic Party. Preparing for the next Comic Party, Kazuki goes around with Yuu buying art supplies and even stays overnight in her hotel room working on manga, making Mizuki really jealous. After finishing their own works for the month, they decide to work together on one doujinshi at the last second. The copies Yuu makes on her own however end up getting soaked in a downpour, and Yuu has to steal Eimi's personal copier in order to get copies made to sell. When she succeeds, however, the books sell like hotcakes. 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Soon after their encounter, there's an explosion, and the two of them work together with Minami to find out what happened. All they find is a note from a Kingu Jacky saying that he will destroy the next ComiPa. During all the mayhem, Mizuki, Yuu, Eimi, and Taishi show up, and Subaru adds herself and Kazuki to the team she calls Comi Rangers, the force who protects the Comic Parties. 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