Haikyuu!! 377: Okay! This boring arc is over. Now big bulky non-cute Hinata can go and at least hang out with Bokuto. So as long as he actually gets onto this team that’s a plus. But what pay-off can this lead to? Will Hinata win an adult game? Will we care? Will it be the Olympics? Will we care?

Samurai 8 31: I should probably just drop this rather than moaning about it every week. But yeah, no emotional impact here whatsoever for me. I really don’t care about this battle or expect it will resolve in any but the most cliché way.

Dr. Stone reboot: Byakuya 8: I keep expecting this miniseries to be over, but not yet! This one raised a smile with the 50^th anniversary. And it is quite interesting to see how the little robot kept the earth safe. Seems like it should have been able to preserve more for itself to keep its operation up and running, though. Ah well, that’s how we get to a tragic ending next chapter, I’m sure. One downside to this added level of detail is (1) Europe’s people are mostly completely shattered, one would assume, and (2) this just makes it far more obvious that Senku and the others should all have been buried deep in the earth rather than lying on the surface.

The Promised Neverland 161: The stakes have been raised well and now it’s a small group versus a small army, which takes it TOWARDS a satisfying conclusion, and taking the setting full circle helps, but there’s still a long way before I feel like this is going to be a conclusion as satisfying as taking down the demon queen. Though maybe there’ll be one more arc after this with the weird metaphysical stuff again and THAT will satisfy.