One Piece 712: a bit of a slow chapter, and Sanji’s side story was same-old-same-old, but the snippets at the end presage some exciting things – Luffy in the ring and Doflamingo on the scene. Bring on 713 please!

Naruto 636 was fairly infuriating, in fact. The half-decent cliffhanger last week? On page one Kishimoto goes ‘Oh, it was only an illusion’. The rest of the chapter is spent with cheesy flashbacks getting back to the exact same point, only with Kakashi in a much better position, and then back at the main action we move to a new power that suggests the whole battle with Kakashi was strategically a very dumb move from the antagonists’ point of view. Another bad chapter.