One Piece 666: Another reason to wish that the anime had the little chapter title pages included – confirmation Bon-chan made it through alive! Hoorah. Otherwise, this demonically-numbered chapter was a fun diversion and a bit of intrigue about the arc’s antagonists. I loved the silly centaur guy trying to be mysterious and pretend the Yeti Cool Brothers were so mysterious while rattling off facts about them.

Naruto 585: The best chapter in quite a while, mainly because it was chiefly about how the stupider parts of this fight are no longer of much use. Kabuto actually looked quite cool, we got some familiar old faces and things are moving on.

Half Prince 56: with these characters vanishing, it’s becoming obvious that the end of the series is starting to approach. On the other hand, while noble sacrifice is of course a staple of these fantasy stories and the dynamic is changed by the fact that they’re not actually real people, I’m a little uncomfortable at how the series seems to be glorifying suicide bombing…