One Piece 763: two different backstories today. And it seems Doflamingo’s is the darkest we’ve had yet – which makes sense if he’s the most twisted of them all. This is class violence taken to an extreme, and it makes sense. Then there’s the reason Law and Doflamingo are estranged – which at some point is presumably going to involve Doflamingo’s brother going up against Doflamingo...and that ending badly for him. The pacing of the arc has stalled, but I’m still interested.

Naruto 695: only five chapters left of Naruto, and I’m glad about that. It’s well outstayed its welcome. And how do these precious final chapters get spent? Stupid giant blob fights to start, schmaltzy flashbacks in the middle – as though we haven’t already pretty clearly got the picture that Naruto and Sasuke have a deep bond – and to end, set-up for an annoying talking chapter.