One Piece 968: Some nice scenes as Roger’s voyage comes to an end. We should be wrapping the flashback up soon, after Kaido deals with Oden. I’m looking forward to moving on from this, I must say.

Haikyuu! 380: No, no, this is all wrong. I don’t like this at all, even if the reunion feeling is nice. I hate that Hinata is that tall. I hate that the story wasn’t about a group of talented high schoolers who did their best but players who would be on the elite international level and nationally famous. I liked it much more when they were just strong, plucky regional players, not gobsmacking best-in-the-world international-level talents. And I’m increasingly worried Noya is dead.

Chainsawman 54: a big laugh at the end of the chapter with our wonderfully simple-minded protagonist, but also yet again a whole lot more boundary-pushing. Naked orgiastic groups of freakish girls, a paedophilic old man and a very head-on depiction of animal death and how similar or dissimilar it is from killing a teenager. Chainsawman might be distasteful fairly often but it still always manages to be fresh and fun to read. Maybe I should check out Fire Punch.

Dr. Stone 135: Nice to see Senku being assertive – though so much could have gone wrong with his plan. This might be a huge development in the manga, though – now that the Kingdom of Science has the petrification weapon, what will they make of it? And can something like that be explained through science?

The Promised Neverland 164: the demon kids are so much cuter than the human kids, lol. But this was a good chapter on an emotional level, after the series got a bit distant. While I still think this arc is sure to be anticlimactic, ending with the ‘humans can be more wicked and corrupting than even the demons’ angle is probably wise.

Samurai 8 34: ooh, fudo myo-o, I talked about that god in my Narita video. But this chapter is still a good example of how the scale seems all messed up in this title. Planets exploding, millions or billions dead but barely a moment to acknowledge it. So why should we care about our basically robotic heroes?

Boruto 42: okay, the weird bulky older man was an interesting design for this manga but I’m not sure he had to get naked, even if it’s a Ken doll situation down there. The rhythms of this fight felt a bit off – but the end was cool. And perhaps we get a non-useless female in this title now. Perhaps.

Shingeki no Kyojin 125: I never thought for a second Levi wouldn’t return. And seeing Annie in action again is fun after all this time. But honestly I thought a lot more would happen in this chapter than we got.

One Punch Man manga 126: very funny extra content we didn’t get in the original webcomic. Poor Saitama. Flash recognizing his power in this way is also great. Wonder how this will alter their later dynamic.

One Punch Man webcomic 119-120: Great expressions from Saitama here, though he was a bit too much of a jerk, not even listening to Amai Mask’s big reveal about himself – confirming long-held fan suspicions. I actually found myself surprisingly siding with what Amai Mask had to say, even if he took it to extremes. But yeah, he has no idea how to deal with Saitama. I’m actually enjoying this angle quite a bit, though, and want to see what happens when the action kicks off next chapter.