What an interesting week, lots of improvements and disappointments. The ones that delivered as I expected are basically my three favourites in the magazine at the moment:
My Hero Academia's reveal wasn't anything partially shocking but the timing and impact it has in the moment and the characters involved is pretty much spot-on;
Chainsaw Man was very mellow and reflective, building up to what is sure to be a climactic finish; and
Me & Roboco pretty much had a Haikyuu!! chapter, and I loved it.
Mashle did a very good job concluding this arc in a satistying way, delivering an awesome double spread, and giving me hope for the longevity of the series. Other improvements are
Jujutsu Kaisen which had me hooked way more with the action than last week;
Mission: Yozakura Family, which is higher in my weekly ranking than ever before by executing a very serious chapter quite well;
Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin is entering a serious story again, so it's already much better than it's comedic efforts;
Moriking was the most fun it's been in weeks, helped, I think, by the rush to finish. I imagine it'll end around chapter 30 with this ridiculous final arc that while sudden also is giving it the last minute jolt it needed. The last series to impress me more than usual is
Ayakashi Triangle. It's still not my cup of tea but it's doing a solid job with the current fight, and that development at the end came way sooner than I expected.
Sadly, while there were some nice surprises there were also some disappointments. The biggest of which being
Agravity Boys, which pulled an
Ayakashi Triangle yet somehow managed to be even less creative with the gender-bending - it's real bottom of the barrel stuff, implying how much the boys have changed now that they're ~girls~. Not funny.
High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku also disappointed me for the first time with its double tennis chapters, neither of which really got a chuckle out of me.
Our Blood Oath also handed us a very generic backstory, which while not
bad feels like the most vanilla set-up for the villains you'd imagine.
Magu-chan: God of Destruction also continues its string of recent chapters that make me think the author is already running out of ideas for these daily hijinks.
My ranking of the chapters compared to last week:
- ( - ) My Hero Academia
- ( - ) Chainsaw Man
- (+4) Jujutsu Kaisen
- (-1) Me & Roboco
- (+6) Mashle
- (-2) Undead Unluck
- (+1) Phantom Seer
- (+2) Mission: Yozakura Family
- ( - ) Black Clover
- (+3) Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin
- (-5) High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku
- (+2) Dr. Stone
- (+5) Moriking
- (+2) Ayakashi Triangle
- ( - ) We Never Learn
- (+1) Our Blood Oath
- (-5) Agravity Boys
- (+1) Magu-chan: God of Destruction
