One Piece 803: Hmm, I didn’t expect the Mink tribe, though it’s not as though it’s the first time anthro-style creatures appeared in One Piece. We’ll see where this goes! 

D.Gray-Man 220: Back to being at best semi-coherent. Mana is in the Earl, and is not the brother of Nea but one and the same person split in two, and destroyed his face and identity after getting angsty that being the Earl would mean he had to destroy his identity…? Eh. I don’t think Hoshino is winning back many fans here. 

One Piece 803: a nice busy chapter – a shame there’s a break next week, but I liked the set-up here. I’m a little sad Bartolomeo’s stepping out of the series now, presumably for a long while, but we got a few last laughs out of him. It was nice to see a battle set up between the Revolutionary Army and Blackbeard that might not involve the Straw Hats at all, and the little snippet of Buggy was great. This transition has been done well and I’m interested in what’s coming next. 

One Piece 802: it looks like this arc is going to be mostly comedic, with Bartolomeo’s very silly crew, a silly ‘son of whitebeard’ coming to confront Luffy with his money-hungry old mother in tow, and a strange new setting. I look forward to how it develops.