How I rate this volume would be primarily knowing if it is meant to be the last of the series or not, but I'm not entirely sure. As a last volume the unanswered, unspoken and unresolved issues would keep me from being overly thrilled with the story. As a conclusion to the particularly horrifying tale of the missing children without being the conclusion of the series, well, it would be just fine. I did like that Mai seemed to finally come into her own as a full fledged member of the psychic research team and that she finally realized her own feelings about Naru.

As always the darker panels of the ghostly children are pretty disturbing while the human characters are generally all attractive to look at. There isn't a great deal of attention to background with the exception of a few panels, but the sparse look fits the story.

Although the writing, and so my reading, of the series has generally been sporadic making it hard to keep track of the ongoing storyline, I can say that I've enjoyed the series and truly hope that it is not really over yet. ( )