Title: 美鳥の日々 (Midori no Hibi) Vol. 2
Artist/Author: 井上和郎 (Kazurou Inoue)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 191pp., w/furigana
Volume: 2/8
Original Serialization: Weekly Shonen Sunday Vol 1 '03 - Vol 12, '03)
First Printing: 5/15/03
Rating: 4/4

I'm still loving the series. The situations are as cute as ever. While all the chapters are great, my favorite story probably has to be when Seiji tries to buy Midori some warmer clothes and meets the otaku, Shuichi, at the store.

Bonus comes with a 4 panel comic on the back flap and a bonus author manga where he recounts being visited by the god of manga.

11. さよなら美鳥（前編） (Goodbye Midori, First Part)
12. さよなら美鳥（後編） (Goodbye Midori, Last Part)
13. オトリ作戦 (Decoy Plan)
14. しらない一面 (Unknown Side)
15. ポマード小僧 (Pomade Boy)
16. 妻の役目 (A Wife's Duty)
17. 情熱の視線 (Passionate Glance)
18. 悪夢ふたたび (Nightmare Revisited)
19. 本当の母親 (Real Mother)
20. 王様のキス (King's Kiss)
21. 伝わぬ想い (Unconfessed Feelings)

Title: 魔法先生ネギま！　２月：いたずら３人組 (Magic Teacher Negima! February: Trick Trio)
Original Creator: 赤松健 (Ken Akamatsu)
Vocals: 狩野茉莉 (Mari Kanou), こやま　きみこ (Kimiko Koyama), and 板東愛 (Ai Bantou)
Release Date: 11/26/04
Catalog No.: KICM-3059
Rating: 1/4

The second to last CD and they're really grasping for air now. This CD features the twins, Fumika and Fuuka Narutaki, along with Misora Kasuga. Their image song is supposed to be cheery and happy, but it's quite poor. The lyrics don't hold any meaning for me as I don't really remember their personalities that well, but that's more of my fault I guess. The remix version tries to make it sound a bit more latin with the trumpets, but it doesn't work.

The drama has the three girls trying to snare Chachamaru. They set up traps for her and see her walk by talking to Eva (from last drama CD). However, the three girls fall for their own traps. The cast free talk has the seiyuu talk about an embarrassing mistake they've made. Ai's moment is when she tried to a door with her train pass. Mari was confused about the meaning for "hello" when she was in elementary school. And Kimiko's has gotten lost despite having maps. Yawn...

First edition comes with a tarot card with the twins.

Title: やえかのカルテ (Yaeka's Karte) Vol. 2
Artist/Author: 武田日向 (Hinata Takeda)
Book Size/Pages: A-5, 136pp., w/furigana
Volume: 2/3
Original Serialization: Monthly Comic Dragon 3/02-11/02
First Printing: 3/1/03
Rating: 3/4

The manga portion of this manga are still just a collection of short, but sweet stories with Yaeka and friends. Like last volume, each chapter is supplemented with two pages of text. This time, it has the conversations between the characters and short diary entries that Yaeka writes. To be honest, the text is a little more interesting that the chapters themselves, but in all, I still like it.

Bonus contains a short fold-out chapter along with the essays.

10. WHALE WATCHING
11. SPECIAL NIGHT
12. STAMPLESS LETTER
13. ALL THE WAY
14. BOND
15. COMPOSITION
16. LACKS, First Part
17. LACKS, Last Part
18. BIRDCALL

Title: xxxHolic Vol. 5
Artist/Author: CLAMP
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 181pp., w/o furigana
Original Serialization: Weekly Young Magazine Vol 26, '04 - Vol 42, '04)
First Printing: 11/17/04
Rating: 3/4

This is the first volume of xxxHolic that has chapters after I cancelled my subscription to Young. To my surprise, I've already read most of it and only had a few chapters, maybe 2 or 3, that were new to me. I used to be able to follow the parallel story with Tsubasa as I got both magazines at the same time. With only the book now, it's a little harder as there aren't any publication dates associated with the chapters. Yuuko does make a disappearance in the last few chapters, which I remember should correlate with her appearance in Tsubasa several weeks ago.

No bonuses, and apparently no chapter numbers either.