One Piece 946: not exactly the billed fight, but it wouldn’t make much sense for Queen to stand up to a Yonkou. Satisfying to see her stomp, but I’m wondering where things go with her now. And Big Mon’s facial expressions were great this time. Wonder how well Luffy will match up!

Haikyuu! 354: Azumane gets a great moment of smart play. Satisfying to watch, but not a great highlight of this tournament.

The Promised Neverland 139: It was obvious we’d enter this grey area of morality as soon as the narrative became Norman wanting genocide and Emma wanting to avoid it, but I like how we’re seeing it playing out through this side-story. I like Aishe a lot more now we have her backstory and I’m interested in seeing Don and Gilda developed more.

Chainsawman 27: I’m a little lost as to who lived through this and how many of the adversaries made it through the assault, but it was interesting seeing Makima’s overwhelming remote power.

Dr. Stone 110: heeheehee! Ginro-chan works rather well. A nice unexpected addition to this infiltration mission.

Samurai 8 07: on the verge of dropping this just skimmed the chapter and nothing was of interest at all. The fated meeting was incredibly anticlimactic, just brought together by an administrative decision. This needs to get more fun fast.

Beast Children 01: not what I expected from the title! Jump's new manga is based on a cute, short, pretty boy getting obsessed with rugby. Makes sense since the World Cup coming this year. This isn't terribly original, putting in the staples of sports manga right away - plucky young protagonist with a simple mind and a pure-hearted obsession, smart and devoted best friend and broody, tortured but highly gifted rival - and the homoeroticism is going to be bringing in the female fans too. I'll stick with this one!

One Punch Man (manga) 110: More nice art, but not really that engaged by this chapter. I know Atomic Samurai is strong. I care a lot more about various other fights.

One Punch Man (webcomic) 114-116: wow, a triple! And it's probably good that all were released together, as 115 would have been a bit dry as a standalone. The silly names can't quite carry it. I'm a little sad Flash didn't acknowledge how he almost died and his master schtick won't be funny long term like Genos' apprentice schtick. But I love reading new OPM and eagerly await more, even if it's still this less interesting ninja stuff.

Samurai 8 06: Eh. Hachimaru is an unlikeable brat and little appeals about this new princess character, or indeed the setup that brings her into the story. I’m sure many people will be dropping this manga soon.  

Haikyuu! 353: Well, if we were going to focus on Azumane, it was going to be something plain like this. A long flashback to his childhood would have been lame. But this was fine for a bit more tension this chapter.

Dr. Stone 109: While this was a very puerile chapter, I suppose I kinda hope for puerile humour with this title. It was pretty fun. And yay, Ginro got to do something moderately useful, if hardly heroic. His ‘secret technique – let someone else handle it’ was hilarious. I’ve only just noticed how much like Usopp he is.

The Promised Neverland 138: I thought I’d be annoyed by this diversion, but I actually quite like these characters, especially the interesting new wolf girl, Aishe – even if she’s being put up on a bit too much of a pedestal. The friendship attempt was pretty funny.

Chainsawman 25: I’m guessing the casualty here will be this noble sacrifice, not just…everybody, which it looked like we might see. And now a pretty cool fight is on the cards. I’m liking this, and it looks like we’ll have major antagonists, bringing more focus to the story.

Boruto 35: Hrmm, the flashbacks to Naruto just remind me how much more invested I was in that story than either this or Samurai 8. But hey, I’m at least a little interested in what happens here, and the moment of the rivals coming to treat each other as brothers was both very cute and very much in the Naruto spirit.

One Punch Man manga 109: Another silly fluke for King. For some people this has been taken too far now but I enjoy it every time. Not much progress on the arc this chapter but it’s going to get very exciting very soon, following the original.

One Piece 945: Haha! It’s so satisfying to see Big Mom in action again, especially fighting bad guys. More than any of the Straw Hats she feels like the real wildcard in this arc and I’m really curious where things will go with her after this.

Chainsawman 24: wonder if the whole main cast was actually just killed off? Since Denji will obviously be fine I can't think of the other deaths as permanent either. This feels like subverting expectations for its own sake and I'm not currently on board.

The Promised Neverland 136: also not on board for all this nonsense. I hope whatever Emma has figured out makes this a bit more rational because lots of nonsense and characters talking about how it's nonsense is not compelling.

Kuroshitsuji 151-152: I see it as a kind of retconning, but I'm glad to see that Toboso has done her research now and it's being pointed out how totally wrong for an Earl the household we've seen so far has been. We got the general idea that the staff was acknowledged as absurdly small but now we also have recognition of the idea that an earl running a toy manufacturing business is absurd. It definitely would have been noted plenty before this, though, and there still the issue of surname and earldom being conflated. Still, both these chapters seem mostly to cast light on the fact that Toboso now seems to understand a lot more of how stately homes were run and is acknowledging that she was basically making it up based on vague notions before this and I suspect the title will get a lot more mature and realistic as a result. Too bad I still don't care for the current storyline or the idea of the staff finding work in Yorkshire. Lovely art as always, though.