One Piece 949: wasn’t too convinced by Luffy giving a speech while facing the pain head-on. Gon did that many years ago a lot more convincingly. But when he foils the bad guys’ plan and looks very cool doing it, it made the chapter work.

One Piece ‘covers’ 1 – Boichi: This is great! The Dr. Stone artist takes on a classic old chapter of One Piece, from back when Oda’s art was…less impressive than it is now. Boichi is great at dynamic action scenes and overreactions and both were in evidence here. It’s really fun seeing this redrawing, not so different from what we get with the One Punch Man manga, and I’m very interesting to see who else does this. Man, I’d like to see Obata Takeshi try his hand.

Haikyuu 358: This felt like a meaty chapter, which is great for a transition between sets. We got more insight into the strengths of the opponent, fun character moments and some straightforward love of the game.

Chainsawman 31: the training is kinda fun but where’s it gonna go? Wonder what terms the ‘future devil’ will impose too.

Dr. Stone 114: haha, Ginro had another good moment this chapter. He should get more and more chances to shine in his own special way. And the science was actually good this chapter…even if just for making plaster expand.

The Promised Neverland 143: a really satisfying chapter for the first time in a while. We don't know what Emma has to sacrifice but we know it's very meaningful to her, and then Don and Gilda's story actually got really meaty, with double-crosses upon double-crosses and the guys we really sympathize with in this situation - even though everyone can be called a good guy in a sense - have the upper hand in a visually pleasing scene. Classic shounen, which this series in general is successful at transcending, but when it dips back into it for some action scenes, it can make for some great moments. 

Samurai 8 11: Kishimoto continues to just barely keep me engaged enough to keep reading. I still feel as though what we're seeing here was meant to be held in reserve for big twists later and the series not getting a great reception encouraged Kishimoto to show it now, but at least it made for some exciting action. And it's something quite peculiar to visual storytelling like manga that two close-up shots of our young hero and heroine can make me more sympathetic to them without any dialogue.