Psycho Busters Volume 5 by Akinari Nao and Yuya Aoki

Kakeru Hase thought he was just your normal, everyday schoolboy, until a strange girl appeared to him and asked him for his help to hide her and her friends. The girl was Ayano, and her friends were Jôi, Xiao Long and Kaito, and each of them was a psychic on the run from a place where they were being trained, a place called "The Greenhouse", being run by shadowy figures who raise psychics by means that are cruel and inhuman. Their deputy director is Ikushima, who sends out psychics of his own to bring back the ones taking shelter with Kakeru.

When the psychics were attacked, Kakeru found he had powers of his own- powers over time itself, making him one of the fabled "Type Zeros". And when a later power resulted in the Death of Ayano, Kakeru went mad and forced himself through a crack in time, where he was confronted by the girl named Tomoe. Kakeru found he could use his powers to reverse time, and used them to bring Ayano back. Now, Summer Vacation is over, and the four psychics are going to the same school as Kakeru.

Now, having fallen in love with Ayano, Kakeru finally gets up the courage to ask her out on a date. It's an unusual sort of date, with Ayano and Kakeru going to Akihabara to do all the sorts of things he usually loves doing on his own. Ayano says this is because she wants to see him doing the things he likes. But just when he's gotten up his courage to tell her how much he likes her, and to find out that she likes him just the same, she is attacked and kidnapped by a psychic who wields exactly the same powers as Kakeru, and who is stronger than him as well.

Kakeru charges into battle with Todoroki, but with them sharing the same powers, and Todoroki having better control over his powers over time, Kakeru is helpless... isn't he? And the synergistic effects of their powers in close proximity is tearing at the fabric of time itself- so unless Kakeru can discover a new way of taking on Todoroki, he may end up destroying reality!

I found this series interesting at first, but the threat level has escalated, and unfortunately I can say I no longer feel as close or as interested in the characters. I am slowly but surely losing interest in this series. I just can't get over the sameness of it all. There wasn't anything really new or original in this story or these characters.

From a "Wow!', this series has, with slow, sure thoroughness, become a "meh". I can no longer muster interest in the characters, and while your reaction as a reader may be different, to me it is merely "same old, same old".

I may read other books in the series, but my enthusiasm for it as a whole is just gone. It's an okay story, but there is nothing that really sets it apart.