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Love Quest GN
This one is a serious stinker, and the only quest involved in Love Quest is the quest you will angrily embark upon after reading it, in pursuit of better BL.

Bleach DVD 15
Savor the air up here; it'll be eons before the series scales these heights again.

Review: Dragonball Evolution
It's as bad as the fans said it would be. Wait, scratch that - worse.

Fushigi Yûgi Genbu Kaiden GN 8
Volume eight is another strong installment to the series, one that begins that slow, inevitable circle back to those aspects of the now classic mythos that fans already know.

Ah My Buddha DVD 1
This series about a Buddhist monk-in-training who gets powered up by seeing bare female flesh clearly wants to be a silly ecchi romp in the style of Ninja Nonsense, but instead ends up being dull, lame, and brainless. Even its fan service cannot justify watching it.

D.Gray-man GN 12
Volume twelve of Katsura Hoshino's ongoing tournament shounen manga D.Gray-man represents a major turning point in the Black Order's ongoing war to end all wars against the Millenium Earl's elite soldiers, the Clan of Noah.

Rosario + Vampire GN 5
This volume is, at best, a transition between one major story arc and the next, filling in the spaces with lightweight romantic entanglements.

MPD-Psycho GN 7
If in volume six of MPD-Psycho the plot thickens deliciously, in volume seven it overcooks into a congealed, indigestible mess that one hopes—with perhaps only uncertain confidence—that it will ultimately be salvageable.

Parasyte GN 6
Humans who fight against monsters must be wary of becoming monsters themselves, but what of monsters who find themselves becoming human?

Ghost Talker's Daydream GN 3
This series has finally figured out how to tone itself down and tell an actual story instead of flashing erotic imagery every five pages.

Paranoia Agent DVD 4
Critical truths are revealed and artistic and technical merits continue to be strong as the series wraps up with a satisfying, inventive, and sometimes potent final volume. Certain to rank amongst the best volumes of series anime released in 2005.