Does anyone else feel like the pace in recent chapters has been awful? More than half the chapters recently have been completely useless. This last chapter (234), was a filler. Literally nothing happened. If you read chapter 233, then they're still in the same position by the end of chapter 234. Nothing happened.

It almost seems like the author is stalling because he's not sure what to do. It happened at times earlier in the manga, but it feels like it's been getting worse as time went on. Maybe it's because I'm caught up and waiting for the weekly release (and going on break every 3 weeks probably doesn't help either), but it does feel like the pace has come to a severe crawl.

Thoughts?