Super Manga Blast! #17

Four stylish young women pose together on the cover of this 2001 Dark Horse anthology, spotlighting the Club 9 feature — specifically "Episode 5: Mah First Day a'Workin'!" — with Makoto Kobayashi's clean, cheerful linework giving them a bright, fashion-forward energy in their colorful dresses and heels. At a generous 128 pages, the issue also packages continuing chapters of 3×3 Eyes, What's Michael?, Shadow Star, and Seraphic Feather, previewed in thumbnail strips along the left spine. It's a solid sampler of early-2000s manga variety, all under one affordable cover.