One Piece 730: Back sooner than I anticipated thanks to Jump’s rather odd dating system! And a cracking chapter – some short but impressive fight scenes and a new character on the scene that if I’d really thought about I could have predicted appearing here but who came as a pleasant surprise to me. Glad to see that there’s not going to be too long a break.

Naruto 656-7: well, one of the two baddies of the season did indeed turn out to be as much of a wet blanket as feared. Deeply unimpressive. Thankfully, yes, Madara is still around and can be the series’ main antagonist after all.