One Piece 690: after a few slow chapters, this one was absolutely awesome, unexpectedly because it swung back to Vergo, Smoker and Trafalgar Law – Smoker got to make an awesome gesture and Law just got the arc’s best moment. Now Oda just needs to maintain this level of brilliance and a troubled story arc will become an awesome one.

Naruto 611 carried on the mess of the last few chapters, but then made some story progress at least by having the cavalry arrive. So I suppose the war is no longer absurd, but what happened to the others keeping this lot at bay?

Half Prince 58: I believe Meatbun-bun can deal with the baguette – now there’s some dramatic dialogue! It was all a bit random, but the end of the chapter, with Prince urged on alone, was nice, and the art was very clean and crisp. Nice!