One Piece 639: not a highlight of recent years, but setting up some very nice fights for the upcoming chapters. This arc has been a bit anticlimactic, but it’s getting somewhere now, and already there are some hints at what comes later.

HunterXHunter 316…showed me I’ve been underestimating Togashi. Finally we see the major characters…albeit Gon only in shadow. And it’s obvious that he actually has planned all this out and isn’t just cruising along to bring the arc to an awkward, rushed end. He’s got some good things planned and the Reina twist was done deftly. I just want there to be some more chapters so that Gon gets some closure with his father. Without him being shoehorned into this arc. Oh, and Kurapika and Leorio back, too.

Naruto 555 was typical Kishimoto disappointment. He tries the shounen conceit of some clever trick working to beat an impossible opponent, but it’s such a stupid trick and so easily-done that it feels like an unimportant piece of padding.