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The Golden Gods of Poverty first in 1978 in Shonen Sunday Extra and is a cute story featuring Takahashi's favorite Japanese gods Benten (Benzai-ten), whose name will appear again in the Urusei Yatsura series.
This supernatural tale is about a very dysfunctional family, Sake's parents who are scientist use him to perform scientific experiments in attempt to create gold but instead they invoke the Seven Lucky Gods: Jurojin, Ebisu, Daikoku, Fukurokujin, Benzai-ten, Hotei and Bishamon, and hope that they will reward them by giving them gold so that they will never have to work again.
Only one problem the gods themselves are broke and very hungry and are planning to eat Sake's parents out of house and home. So Sake's parents have a plan, they want Sake to give into Benten's advances so that she will give them money. But Sake thinks Benten is too old and is reluctant, but because he wants his parents approval he decides to take the gods on all out law-breaking excursion.
Tamuro Gomi and Yura Enjoji are the stars of this whacked out spy dramedy. Tamuro and Yura are agents for the HCIA or Japanese CIA (JCIA). They are special agents who work under the Psionic Division. Psionics are people with super human powers, Tamuro can teleport or trashport (he can only teleport from piles of garbage to other piles of garbage-giving him the nick name roach boy) and Yura posses superhuman strength and hates it when people call her gorilla girl.
Their JCIA liaison is Special Agent Sekoi a serious yet bumbling man who is responsible for informing Yura and Tamuro of the Pig Syndicates plots against Japan. The three meet at the JCIA secret meeting place and number one source of income, a Japanese Style House of Pancakes (One of Takahashi's favorite meals which also be a running plot line in Ranma 1/2).
Wasted Minds is a five-part of mini-series, which appeared in Shonen Sunday Extra in 1979. All five of the stories: Mr. Pig, The Pig is Dead. Long Live the Roach!, Water Whirled, The Forest of No Return, and A Total Waste are featured in Rumic World Part 2.
The 35-Gram Club is a high school medium club, that took its name from the belief that when the soul leaves the mortal plane it weighs only 35 grams or less than 1 pound or approximately .008 pounds. The story opens with Mayumi a forlorn high school student who wants to contact her boyfriend, Yoshio, who recently killed himself. So she goes to sign up for the 35 Gram Club's fundraiser, which for a reasonable fee will invoke the spirit of the deceased. Ryoko is the medium and Toyama is her partner, these two are the coordinators and only members of this club, and for the following prices they are willing to make contact with the dead and for a mere 1000 Yen even channel a spirit.
Unfortunately Ryoko's ability to contact the dead is stronger than she realizes as every forlorn spirit of their high school whose friend, enemy, or lover who sat in on the séance comes through, with the exception of Yoshio. And a debacle of all sorts arise as chintzy friends and spirits collide over why no one tried to contact them and how cheap so and so was for not committing to a séance.