Monday 29 August 2016

The Promised Neverland 004: The series took a positive turn with Ray involved, a colder and more calculating figure. Perhaps, then, this series will go towards a situation where the characters keep delving into the outside world. We’ll see. 

Sunday 28 August 2016

One Punch Man 65.2 – useful addition to the redrawn manga, showing how Tatsumaki bothers to show up if Fubuki is in danger, and illustrating the unbalanced relationship between them. But I really wanna get back to Saitama.
Haikyuu! 219 – I should really stop spoiling the anime now, especially as I don’t like how the manga switches between nicely-drawn for emphasis and really ugly for the rest. But it’s good to see the main duo finally reunited!

One Piece 837 – this is the way that shounen usually works – a power-up is the pinch-hit path to victory against the big boss of one arc, but then becomes commonplace after that. But this guy is a swordsman, so I expect Zoro to take him. 

Tuesday 23 August 2016

The Promised Neverland 003: the title has now set itself up not as a horror title, but as a Death Note-style battle of wits. Probably a good route, but I'm not really attached to the characters or setting yet. 

Thursday 18 August 2016

One Piece 836: Some action! That’s nice to see. But there’s no real sense of anything much at risk at this stage, so…


Haikyuu! 218: go Tsukki! Go Hinata with your bird’s-eye vision! I’m waiting for the anime, but this was fun to read. 

Thursday 11 August 2016

Boruto 004: though he’s about to be conveniently interrupted, Boruto is in trouble. I have to say, his reaction to his father’s praise was cute. It seems bizarre Naruto grew up to a man who can’t express his emotions, but on some level it works well.

The Promised Neverland 002: from last week’s chapter I thought this one might be off to a real running start, but this second chapter put the brakes on, and I’m not sure I like that. The kids have to slowly figure out their way out of the trap they’re in, but the whole chapter just established that and that the mother has a tracking device. Not enough!

Saturday 6 August 2016

One Piece 835: another kind of boring set-up chapter, but it at least moved Luffy and co to a more interesting place and explained a bit more about what they’re up against.
One Punch Man 65: also not a particularly interesting chapter, focusing on a Fubuki fight. Some nice art, but nothing very funny or compelling.
The Promised Neverland 1: a bold new grimdark direction for Jump. Not sure how well the title will fare but I’ll keep reading. The strange thing was how obvious it was, what was being set up here.

Haikyuu! 217: I occasionally read random chapters of Haikyuu! to see if Hinata is being cute. I wasn’t disappointed.