The second season of Yakusoku no Neverland.
Fifteen children escape Grace Field House, a false paradise, hoping for a chance at freedom. Instead,
they encounter plants and animals they have never before seen, and are chased by demons. The outside
world is so beautiful, and yet is almost too cruel to face.
Even so, the children refuse to give up. They are guided in their search for better lives only by a
message from Minerva and a pen Norman left behind in order to fulfill their promise to return to the
House to save those of their family who are still trapped within.
(Source: Aniplex of America)
Note: Episode 1 streamed early on Amazon Prime on Jan 7, 2021. The regular TV broadcast started on
Jan 8, 2021.
# They have treated us anime only fans horrible I was personally a big fan of Promised Neverland Season 1 because of its unique concept and how it played out.~! I really enjoyed the reveal where we realise that the entire orphanage is a farm and its children are cattle. The caretakers of the children are Judas' Goats.!~ This made me extremely hyped for the sequel, The Promised Neverland Season 2. Now that this anime has started airing, I am horribly disappointed. I do not read manga however some of my friends do. And all of the people who do read the manga know this, the anime skipped more than 4 complete arcs including the __Goldy Pond Battle Arc__ which, according to manga readers is the best arc of The Promised Neverland. The hype it had created made me wait desperately for 1 whole year and when I saw that they had skipped the ENTIRE FRICKIN ARC, well, my disappointment and anger cannot be expressed by words. Whoever had the bright idea of making this call...the terms and conditions of Anilist forbid me from expressing my feelings. Even someone who has not read the manga can tell that they are trying to make it a rush job. There are just so many time jumps and blanks. Worst part is, they are not even trying to improve the story or even make it half decent which makes me as a viewer feel offended. I do not expect a sequel to this seeing how the ratings are going to plummet and honestly, we would prefer if they did not release a season 3 just to crush our hopes again. Overall, this anime is just leaving manga readers and anime only viewer fans all around the world incredibly disappointed. They are butchering the characters left and right and jumping through time as if we as viewers are brainless zombies that won't be able to realise it. This is just a speculation but, I believe the reason this is happening is because the manga finished releasing and the reason anime is made is to promote manga sales. As the manga is over, the creators had 2 choices - either abruptly end the anime and not make a season 2 or skip through the entire story as soon as possible with as less investment as possible. The result, hundreds and thousands of angry fans and critics. Well done! I am done with this anime now, seeing as how much of the anime story they have skipped, there is no hope left for this anime. I would suggest dropping the anime and reading the manga instead. I sincerely pray that some studio picks this project up and makes a remake that is not completely money minded. That said, I have no expectations from the current studio of doing a worth it remake. I wasted 180 minutes of my life watching 9 episodes of this anime. That is all
~~~ #"What happens now?" img100%(https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Yakusoku-no-Neverland-2-01-17.jpg) ~~~ It's a question that's familiar to any viewer of *The Promised Neverland* (TPN). Season 1 left audiences' jaws agape on the floor with its many shocking cliffhangers and haunting atmosphere. But unlike the anime's many fans, I took this question a little differently. Sure, stellar direction and smart writing kept a great deal of tension going, but there were only so many ways to keep a season revolving around a single farm locale entertaining. So in addition to being left in suspense, my take on TPN's question would be one of anticipation. For me, the best part of TPN was the uncertainty of what lay beyond the walls of Grace Field. Kaiu Shirai proved themself capable of crafting a tight thriller under creative limitations, and our kids' escape brought with their freedom an endless set of possibilities. When I saw our crew finally stepping into the sunrise and staring ahead at an unknown future, I felt that anything could happen. Hopefully you can understand my disappointment at what they decided to go with. This review contains spoilers for S1, which is worth watching if you haven't already. **Mild spoilers** ahead for S2 as well, so skip ahead to my **Tl;Dr** if you'd wish to go in blind. *** Attempting to pinpoint just how TPN fell from grace may provide an infuriating challenge. Luckily for us, many of S2's major faults can be traced to its opening moments. Let's look at this mess from a few different lenses - the three strikes that marred this adaptation. ~~~ #STRIKE ONE: PRODUCTION ISSUES webm(https://webm.red/E8Ln.webm) ~~~ The premiere's cold open is emblematic of this season's recurring problems. Our first glimpse at S2 involves dramatic shots of Emma and her friends, running in pitch-black darkness. It's hard to miss the ugly CGI arachnid that's revealed to be chasing them, but more subtle is how the animation from these first shots are tacked onto another sequence, near the end of Episode 4. The janky CGI and reused cuts hint at massive problems on the production side of things. Granted, the pandemic posed unprecedented challenges for the whole industry. I hold no ill will towards the animators and fully support their decision to push their release date by a season. With all that said, it'd be fair to expect better treatment for the sequel to Cloverworks' flagship title. One need not look hard into S1 to understand TPN's presentation at its best. Director Mamoru Kanbe and his staff brought Grace Field House to life, almost as a living, breathing being. Through the effective use of tight spaces, POV shots, lighting and haunting close-ups, the team found numerous opportunities to capture tense imagery. A strong OST and sound design elevated many of the show's sequences while accentuating the impossible choices our characters face. ~~~ #Much of that craft is hard to come by in the sequel season. img100%(https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Yakusoku-no-Neverland-2-01-32.jpg) ~~~ Cost-cutting occurs in sneaky fashion, as shots are reused far too frequently for a show of TPN's caliber. Also concerning is the repeated reliance on stills, montages and long shots, which demonstrates a desperate attempt at shaving seconds off the production timeline. The blurred forest backgrounds that mimicked anamorphic lens effects were a nice gimmick that got old real quick, making an appearance in nearly every episode. Adding to the drab environments are the copious lack of wildlife in the Demon woods, with all but the CGI spiders and a handful of lifeless animated overlays populating the space. It's quite the far cry from the many possibilities presented after the Grace Field escape, and a dull disservice to viewers' expectations. Some "Neverland" this is. Now, bringing up these points is not to chastise TPN's production team, which seems roughly unchanged from the last season. In fact, I'd say that S2 looks OK on the whole. The visuals are mostly appealing, the direction still shows signs of brilliance in certain sequences, and the OST still has its moments (albeit at the expense of shoehorning "Isabella's Sorrow" in at every given opportunity.) However, given that Cloverworks rolled out three seasonals this Winter, it's difficult not to observe this situation with a level of scrutiny. Two of them necessitated recap episodes, and lining up the visually-stunning [*Wonder Egg Priority*](https://anilist.co/anime/124845/Wonder-Egg-Priority/) against TPN doesn't yield fair comparisons. Quality aside, such recap episodes in single-cour anime (11-13 episodes) is a clear sign of production problems and, in the ill-equipped Cloverworks' case, possible mismanagement. I admit this is a speculatory claim, and couldn't find reputable sources to confirm such troubles. That being said, these observations are worth keeping in mind, in light of the evidence we're given and to set the stage for the other problems we've yet to cover. ~~~ #STRIKE TWO: REPETITION webm(https://webm.red/XdQy.webm) ~~~ The premiere's cold open is emblematic of this season's recurring problems. Our first glimpse at S2 involves dramatic shots of Emma and her friends, running in pitch-black darkness. Animation from these first shots are tacked onto another sequence in Episode 4. TPN gets away with this in large part because its series structure feels so repetitive. For a franchise known for its many twists and surprises, S2's biggest shock is in its lack of variety. Needless to say, I expected far more of the elements and craft which made Cloverworks' flagship show such a mainstay in the first place. What starts out as patient pacing turns out to be the same content regurgitated throughout the first half of the season. Emma, Ray and the 15 children that escaped Grace Field are left in the woods with little but their wits and a pen from the mysterious William Minerva. His device offers directions, bringing the kids one step closer to liberation from the demons. With minimal spoilers, here's how the next 6 episodes play out: - Ep 1: Children run around in a forest - Ep 2: Children recuperate in a secluded location - Ep 3: Children hike outside of a forest - Ep 4: Children recuperate in a secluded location AND run back into forest - Ep 5: Children recuperate in a secluded location AND run around in a town - Ep 6: A recap episode of the past 5 uneventful romps Ironically the one aspect of this season that felt distinct was the crew's time at the shelter in Ep 4, which even then felt like an off-brand ripoff of S1's setup in the House. Then it's back to the forest for more scavenging and… that about sums it up, actually. What's sad is that plenty could have been achieved with this setting. More dangers could present themselves in the environment, and the cast could learn more about survival within a realm in which they are not welcome. And it appears that the manga did just that, offering ample variety and developing its story into a bestseller. ~~~ #News of TPN going anime-original caused a huge stir, and it's easy to see why. img100%(https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Yakusoku-no-Neverland-2-08-20.jpg) ~~~ Shows that deviate from the source have a track record of going south, and audiences were rightfully concerned about how things would pan out when this was announced in Week 4 of the show's airing. Personally I liked that this reveal was hidden, throwing both anime-onlys and manga veterans alike in the dark. It's a shock that fits in with the nature of TPN's storytelling. Surely this was a creative decision, right? There's no reason for a show with a completed manga source to rush out an abridged conclusion, right? Supposedly the best arc got cut out, but author Shirai themself supervised the script and gave the green light, so that means we'd get something worth the change, right? Of course the show would live up to its name and deliver on its promises beyond the walls of Grace Field. *Right?* ~~~ #STRIKE THREE: IN A HURRY webm(https://webm.red/qvxT.webm) ~~~ The premiere's cold open is emble- OK, look. I'm just gonna jump straight to the point here: just like this season of TV, our characters are in a rush. If you feel that this half-hearted analogy throughout my review could benefit from more elaboration, you may find some serious issues with how Cloverworks butchered their flagship smash-hit. ~~~ #S2 marks the death of smarts and tension. webm(https://webm.red/i4Hj.webm) ~~~ Resident brainiacs Emma and Ray seem to have left most of their intellect along with Phil and Isabella at the House. Ray proves particularly difficult to read; not through complexity, but through confusion. His motivations were somewhat suspect around the latter portion of S1, and his cunning made it difficult to determine his headspace in any given scene. Not helping matters are the baffling decisions he makes throughout S2's initial episodes, and the fact that these actions are left unaddressed^ makes his character infuriatingly suspicious to watch for little reason. Ray's writing does eventually improve, but seemingly at the expense of TPN's main heroine. Emma is a character defined by her resilience and blinding optimism, stopping at nothing to ensure her family's safety. Her arc actually starts off on a promising note, and Ep 2 teased an exciting new direction for her character - one where she sacrifices her righteous morals for a darker path. Expecting TPN to tap into its potential subplot turned out to be a mistake, as Emma almost immediately reverts back to her hopeful self shortly after. She carries herself with the unmistakable spunk from S1, minus any substantial results. It's hard to call Emma's expedition outside the House walls a success, given that nothing their crew achieves throughout a majority of the season actually gets the other Farm children any closer to being rescued. Ingenious problem-solving, the franchise's bread & butter, is all but absent here, with Emma's few favorable outcomes instead conveniently handed out to her on a silver platter, by no means of her own. ~~~ #Along with our dumbed-down cast, many scenes feel rushed and largely inconsequential. img100%(https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Yakusoku-no-Neverland-2-02-37.jpg) ~~~ S1 contained plenty of buildup to mysteries and tense sequences, directed capably for strong effect. S2 attempts to make up for its uneventfulness by chucking in poorly-handled chase sequences of our children playing Tag. The first season frequently ended on non-sequiturs, but those anticlimactic cliffhangers get more obnoxious in S2 because of the stale narrative that precedes them. Little attempt is made at slowing down to make each sparse setpiece interesting or distinct, with the writers instead counting on long stretches of exposition to bail them out. Key developments in the plot are revealed too quickly for any meaningful impact, because our cast needs to hike from one setpiece to the next. Brand new deuteragonists introduced in one episode can pull a Bond Villain and reveal their ulterior motives by the next. Of course, these nuances are conveniently never addressed again in subsequent cameos. One of our leads gets a flashback vital to the plot - one that could've easily taken up an entire episode. Yet it comes and goes within 5 minutes, and was made all the more comically pointless^^ since any relevant info was already mentioned in exposition from previous episodes. No time is allotted for any of these moments to sink in, turning threads rich in storytelling potential into merely serviceable sideplots. ~~~ #Squandered opportunities by the script ruin the show's predictable endgame. img100%(https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Yakusoku-no-Neverland-2-08-38.jpg) ~~~ The incessant rushing from one story beat to the next, with no regard for development, leads to lean conflict that lacks weight. As a lenient, anime-only weeb, even I could sense that plenty of plotlines were left on the cutting room floor. A handful of memorable characters from S1 return with barely any fanfare; what could have been hype reveals were devoid of excitement due to the small number of uneventful episodes spent without them. That's right, S2 can't even do cathartic fan service right. The central antagonist for the season's second act is a convincing counterpoint to our heroes' hopes for non-violent escape from the demons, not because of compelling evidence provided throughout the season, but the lack of such; Emma had accomplished so little during this time that we have no choice *but* to side with the villain's methods. Once that heavily-abridged storyline is neatly wrapped up with a bow, the show hilariously fast-forwards to its climactic showdown: a pathetic attempt at making a heist flick, with rushed twists and gaping plot holes that border on parody^^^. The fact that [no screenwriter is officially credited for this penultimate episode is rather telling](https://www.cbr.com/promised-neverland-season-2-episode-10-no-writing-credit/). It's a shame that the same team, who once gave us one of the strongest seasons of anime in recent memory, would even consider disassociating themselves from their own work a mere two years later. ~~~ #How could this sequel to a surefire hit never land? webm(https://webm.red/x1qU.webm) ~~~ A strong IP with legions of loyal fans, capable staff members, and a source material packed with new adventures to tell - Cloverworks had supposedly everything going for them. But given what we've seen this season, I'd argue otherwise. I believe the mangaka's involvement in the anime-original content isn't to blame, but rather a means of providing damage control for their own story and placating the fans through name recognition. Since S2 already suffered a postponed release date and a recap episode, I'm unwilling to accept the COVID outbreak as anything other than a contributing factor to this dismal effort. The only sensible answer I can come up with is as unfortunate as it is stupid: Cloverworks got cocky. Fans are aware that the manga has diminishing returns after the universally-praised Goldy Pond arc, which would have taken place in S2 if adapted faithfully. The studio may have projected a dramatic decline in interest for the series were that arc to conclude, and perceived the subpar reception of the manga's final chapters as a sign to jump ship. Lesser studios likely wouldn't take the baton from Cloverworks and finish adapting potential subsequent seasons, meaning that they were stuck with the series. But rather than adapt Goldy Pond faithfully and leave the franchise unfinished, along with the countless other unfinished anime in existence; the studio gambled on the hopes that an abridged, but conclusive, ending would yield more success than one that was faithful, but incomplete. Tough luck making that work though. "Trimming the fat" left no meat behind for audiences, and the meager result was bare-bones and butchered. S2 reeks of a studio getting things done for the sake of it. Rather than taking the opportunity to bring in exciting new additions in place of the cut material, Cloverworks mostly prayed that their many exclusions would magically make a good anime. Perhaps Emma's carefree optimism got to their heads, I only wish I could have some too. *** ~~~ #**Tl;Dr**: img100%(https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Yakusoku-no-Neverland-2-05-12.jpg) ~~~ Where most sequels would add to or reintroduce the status quo, S2 is defined by what it excludes. TPN returned with less craft, less variety, less intrigue, less surprises and less appeal. TPN bastardized decent ideas and even its own source material, unceremoniously shipping out an abridged final product. Its 4head solution to shaving the runtime of key events is that of wasting all our own, by compressing story threads into the least interesting iterations possible. So much is taken away with this anime-original route, but so little is added. Cloverworks took audiences to a destination, at the cost of a journey. As someone who wasn't very fond of the previous season but saw immense potential for its sequel, all I'm left with are empty promises. Seeing that Cloverworks had such a hand in ruining their adaptation, I think it's only fitting that a representative of the studio assigns the final verdict. [Ai Ohto](https://anilist.co/anime/124845/Wonder-Egg-Priority/), care to do the honors? ~~~ [ img100%(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/e0/e9/ade0e908ceac608038a49d0bc612bd98.gif) ](https://anilist.co/anime/124845/Wonder-Egg-Priority/) ~~~ Well, there you have it. **4/10**~ *** ~~~ #STRAY RAMBLINGS (**SPOILERS**) ~~~ - Disclaimer: my stance on Cloverworks' involvement in TPN (especially in the latter portion of the review) is still speculatory. I'm no insider nor expert in the industry processes, so please take my interpretation of events with a grain of salt. I'd be happy to update this article should the situation develop. - ^After all this time, I still have no clue why the show bothered to show Ray carving coordinates onto a tree. The scene implies that either he's betraying the children once more by leaking their position to the Pursuers, or that he's truly reformed and leaving a rendezvous point for Emma. Both outcomes were likely, and I got overly fixated on figuring out Ray's motives for no damn reason. S1 and its many shocks trained us to pick out details and anticipate smart moves. Disappointed that the writers momentarily forget the kind of show they were making and unintentionally misled the audience like that. - ^^To say the flashback threw away potential is an understatement; the whole sequence was practically useless thanks to the little we actually got to see. It amounts to a superfluous montage, with no attempt at making the breakout anything other than an obligatory means of getting from Point A to B. It's funny how quickly we went from sneaking notes in Rubik's cubes to rigging explosives. Mr. Smee, Norman's self-sacrificing benefactor, doesn't even get a single line of dialogue, only showing up behind Peter Ratri before getting unceremoniously axed off two minutes later. It's appalling how the Lambda Facility lays all its horrors bare and still comes up with nothing to show for it. - ^^^My god, the plot holes. 1) Were there two batches of hot-air balloons? Or just one, where the children were mixed along with the decoy bombs? Couldn't tell, the cuts were too fast. Speaking of which, how do you both remotely detonate bombs and control the decoy balloons' flight path while no such in-universe technology was introduced prior? Were you just praying on the timing of the fuses and the wind? Boy, that Lambda flashback would have probably made things clearer... oh wait, that got rushed too. 2) How did the extra kids successfully sneak in next to Phil's group? Do the new Mothers just not know how to do headcounts? Beats me. 3) Were the Mothers just in on Isabella's coup the entire time? Or was Grandma betting on the Suicide-Squad devices malfunctioning during the siege, after which she could instantly convince the others to join her rebellion over the radio? "What are we, some kind of plot magic?" 4) What happened to Sonju's plan to harvest humans in the wild, remember that plot line? Neither did this wack-ass script, 'cause he's suddenly just OK with starting a demon rebellion and mobilizing a nation-wide attack on the compound. 5) Heck, Isabella's actions make zero sense in Ratri's plans. Their plan to trap the children back in Grace Field would only be fully achieved on the assumption that Norman already located Emma's group. But even if Norman's absence isn't a big deal, you still run into some illogical problems. If Isabella already knew about the shelter radio over a year ago, and given that there's no way you could have known about Norman joining them, why wait for this one convenient happenstance before hatching your plan? Surely a convincing lie could have been used in the transmissions, misleading the group into believing that the kids were all getting shipped ahead of schedule. It's all convenient nonsense, much like the plan itself. - By this point you've likely heard of people comparing TPN S2's approach to that of [*Tokyo Ghoul: Root A.*](https://anilist.co/anime/20850/Tokyo-Ghoul-A/) That's not exactly a fair comparison IMO. TG's mangaka conceived of *Root A's* script beforehand, and approached Studio Pierrot with his untested script while S1 was still in production. Even though the end product turned out bad, at no point did I feel like anyone on the *Root A* team was attempting to sabotage their story. *Root A's* anime-original route did at least spawn from a creative risk; TPN took theirs out of mismanagement. - Confession: I inexplicably feel the urge to fling Rossi's head like a football whenever he's on-screen. - **BEST GIRL**: Let's see, what pick would spare me from getting arrested… uh, Mujika's legal (I think?) img100%(https://64.media.tumblr.com/1689e38d128f250a7b54ea4c7f4f7290/75bd417497df7453-f2/s500x750/11345aba03febd972f215d2d16c6d74c4ab98de0.gifv) *** Three strikes, and he's out! Now that Cloverworks has buried all that potential, perhaps I can find some new appreciation for what S1 did so well. Anyways, really glad you made it this far along with me. If you happen to like my verbose rants, feel free to check out my other [reviews](https://anilist.co/user/AnimeDweeb/reviews) for seasons past and present. I also frequently post writeups under my list updates, so definitely take a peek if you'd like to see me mald over anime as they hit the airwaves. Peace~
Warning Contains Spoilers and Plenty of Profanity Seriously WTF is this garbage. Why the fuck did they remove one of the best arcs in the manga and skip towards the end. This Season is so bad that a non anime youtuber made a rant about it. youtube(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn7GYqHolY&t=9s) I’ve seen [Many](https://anilist.co/anime/384/Gantz/) [Garbage](https://anilist.co/anime/189/Love-Hina/) [Ada](https://anilist.co/anime/2993/Rosario--Vampire/)[pta](https://anilist.co/anime/116006/The-God-of-High-School/)[tions](https://anilist.co/anime/20605/Tokyo-Ghoul/) But I had to witness it with my own eyes as someone who had read the manga prior to watching the anime. It’s also bad that you're skipping from the first arc to the final one. It’s like if Bleach’s anime went from the Substitute Shinigami (Or Soul Reaper) arc to the Thousand Year Blood War arc, or Naruto’s anime went from the Land of Waves arc to the 4th Great Ninja War arc. WTF! I loved Season 1 i really did it, I love how they handled the first major arc in the series, and how they made an amazing OST in Isabella’s lullaby FFS they even removed one of the best characters in the entire manga img220(https://64.media.tumblr.com/8afa881779faaca4de2bcc76eac01462/tumblr_pt7hwek7RR1x7tsaoo5_500.jpg) ------- Story? 1/10 WTF is a fucking story craming 143 Chapters (while skipping a couple) into 11 fucking episodes is not a fucking story it’s just cramming a bunch of shit to get done with it. To be fair as someone who has read the manga the manga did had its problems and the final arc (Particularly the ending) was just underwhelming (And to be fair was better than the one we gotted), and when it was announced that the series was going anime original i wished that it would fix the major problems of the manga, but instead it made everything worse. It was so bad that it made me reread the manga and in retrospect as flawed as the manga was it was better than this clusterfuck of an adaptation. ------- Characters? 1/10 To cram everything to the end, they did it at the worst expense possible, they ruined every single character. To be fair the manga itself did wasted some characters but the anime but it much much worse Ray? Phil? Everyone else that’s not Emma? Fuck you, you’re gone. There’s 0 Character Development whatsoever everyone is the same as they are. Fuck you Character Development. -------- Art 7/10 Aside a couple of whatever you call these: img220(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WD135kqRb-s/maxresdefault.jpg) The Art itself overall is fine i guess. Though it doesn’t help that Cloverworks were working on two other series in Wonder Egg Priority and Horimiya when they were working on this as well. -------- Enjoyment? 1/10 WTF is there to enjoy? Cramming 143 Chapters into 11 episodes? One of the best arcs in the manga being skipped? Every character that’s not Emma being pushed to shit. Fuck this shit. Fuck this Garbage. And Fuck everything it stand for. If I could find every copy of this shit I'd smash them with a hammer. The only good thing about this is both the it’s fire opening and the ending youtube(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRwcGr8yTws) ---- Overall I’m fucking frustrasted The Promised Neverland was one of the first manga I’ve read that I’ve seen got it’s anime announced, now it’ll be with the Soul Eater, the Pandora Hearts, and the Rosario + Vampires of the world fans wanting desperately for a remake aka the Brotherhood treatment. And unlike The Promised Neverland those series anime aired when their manga was still ongoing, The Promised Neverland Season 2 meanwhile was airing when it’s manga ended nearly a year ago. Not to mention the receptions towards Beastars and The Quintessential Quintuplets (Two series that aired in the same season as The Promised Neverland Season 2) manga endings weren’t that good either but you didn’t see their mangaka telling the people who were working on those anime to skip towards the end. At the end of the day like [Many](https://anilist.co/anime/384/Gantz/) [Garbage](https://anilist.co/anime/189/Love-Hina/) [Ada](https://anilist.co/anime/2993/Rosario--Vampire/)[pta](https://anilist.co/anime/116006/The-God-of-High-School/)[tions](https://anilist.co/anime/20605/Tokyo-Ghoul/) The Promised Neverland like many anime would be more known for it’s anime instead of it’s manga, since after all most anime a just Cash-Grabs just to boost manga or light novel sales. Overall I give this garbage a 20/100 Just fuck this anime and everything it stands for.
-This review will contain spoilers of the anime. _____ Gone are the days when I thought the second season of _Psycho-Pass_ was the worst sequel I had seen. There is a new king and that is this season of _The promised Neverland_. I am dumbfounded as to how to even begin to describe the things we were shown. Whatever expectations I and plenty of others had, were quickly shattered and replaced by disappointment, and for the fans of the source material, anger. The climax of the first season left me feeling like the world outside of the house was going to be not just insane but big and full of wonders, yet what we ended up seeing was...a weird mixture of a desert and a generic town of any isekai of your choice, and a forest with a few weird creatures (Those slimy fish were shown too much and it was the strangest thing to focus on but moving on). There is nothing that is interesting about how the world looks and it is not just the world-building that is lackluster, the story itself and the development, or lack thereof if I'm honest, of the characters, are also hard to not notice. If I had taken a tequila shot every time something stupid happened, I would have died of cardiac arrest. The best thing besides the opening and ending theme, no kidding, was the recap episode since it made me remember why the first season was great. Back then, the direction of the show helped establish the mood. We felt tense, and the impending doom of what was to come, but now that has been replaced by bad comedic timing, hollow morality choices, dumb actions by characters that were supposed to be smart as hell, lack of continuity, plot convenience, and a return of a character that had no buildup for me to even care, and whose return seemed to just be to bring the plot device that would solve everyone's problems. Imagine this: the first season was like the Hereditary movie, and the second season is like watching The Nun (these are both horror movies but of very different quality as far as jumpscares are concerned. Seriously, watch Hereditary.) To end a show, that has many whats and possibilities in its story, in just eleven episodes, is madness. As soon as the episode count was revealed, that was a big red flag about how this season was going to go. No, a show having eleven episodes doesn't necessarily mean it will be bad, but given the type of show this was, I was worried. I just wish I had walked away as soon as I saw Emma doing the naruto run on a rooftop back in episode five. Even after everything that happened, I still am clueless as to what the anime was trying to accomplish. What was the point we were to focus on? Emma having to choose a side? The kids planning an escape to the human world? to slowly morph into a weird slice-of-life and adventure anime chimera? to end the show faster than a bean bag in a hurry? to see how many asspulls they could have? hard to know but let's say it was Emma's struggle to protect her family but also not wanting to kill others, even if said others are demons. Many times the show attempts to show us this conflict but fails miserably. It was a decent action to show her giving back an apple to an old demon back in episode five, and then to make said demon tell her about the hunger they are facing in the demon world. However, everything that comes after this exchange just comes off as a dumb drama and there is not enough depth to Emma's feelings to even pay attention to how this choice, save or kill, will affect her. Emma is a child, so it is no surprise that many of the choices she makes, and/or thoughts and ideas that come to her, sound incredibly naive. Before explaining what those are, I want to sadly announce that the smart and brave Emma from season one is nowhere to be seen here. In episode seven, Emma is attempting to sway Norman from killing Mujika and Sonju. She claims they are nice and tells him they saved the children and her. To Emma, saving them and teaching them enough to at least survive in the world, is enough to categorize these demons she met as nice. Norman had told her what he and the others had gone through, and rather than hear him out or try to talk about the whole thing, the first thing she chose to focus on was how she didn't want to kill demons since not all of them ate meat, like her friends in the forest. This behavior of hers fits with her shounen protagonist role, but it is completely tone-deaf considering she is talking to someone she has known since she was smaller. Just because Mujika and Sonju were nice to them, does not mean they will be nice to everyone else. The whole conversation Norman and she have, just sounds like the equivalent of a friend telling another: "hey, this person hurt you badly, but they have never hurt me particularly, so please reconsider and let us all be friends again". In short, she sounds selfish and is not really thinking about the worst-case scenario, and willing to make a bet where countless lives, including those she calls her family, are at risk. After having talked with Norman and coming to an agreement to bring him Mujika and Sonju, Emma and Ray head back to their hideout in order to talk with the children and explain what they are going to do. This whole scene felt empty and all I could think of was what the hell is even going on here? Emma says she cares about demon babies and kids, yet she didn't care about the demons who were killed back in episode five. Did she just assume they had no family? this makes no sense. The kids at first were hesitant, and it looked like Gilda was not going to agree with Emma's plan, but this issue got solved in the same episode in a span of fewer than five minutes. What did Emma even think about doing? if a demon nicely asks her to please give one of her siblings up or one of her arms, so that their demon kids can eat, will she comply? the whole thing is a mess. Another instance when Emma's intellect is nonexistent is when she is confused as to why demons would continue to eat human meat, even if they didn't need it to keep their form. This is not the same Emma that formed a big ass plan to save Ray from setting himself on fire back in season one. Well, I bet Emma would love to know that nobody, not animals or demons, need to be hungry, or depend on a certain "food" in order to want to consume it. I assure you I will go apeshit on a bag of chips if I am stressed, hunger or not. It just baffles me how surprised she was that the demons not needing humans wouldn't necessarily mean they would stop hunting them. Like Norman tells her, "if your favorite food asked you not to eat it, would you agree?" and this argument is valid. If demons like the taste of human meat, they will continue trying to get their hands of it whether they need to or not (this comes back later in episode ten in the most hilarious way, since now apparently the demons are willing to stop eating children since they don't need them anymore. Surely I don't need to explain why this is a terrible resolution to come to, especially since just two episodes ago all of those demons wanted to desperately eat human meat .) It is infuriating how the show makes Emma (to be fair, everyone looks like a fucking dumbass in this show) look like a total idiot. What made Emma great was how relentless she was and how despite being the protagonist, she knew how to use her head. None of that is present at any point in the show and she became just another boring shounen protagonist. The series has plenty of issues besides Emma's asinine ideas. The direction doesn't add to the mood, there are plot conveniences galore, there is no continuity, the show relies on heavy exposition between characters talking to each other back and forth, etc. The way the scenes play out, the ridiculous montages of the children hunting and/or having fun (this happens even in episode ten, though we are supposed to buy into the idea that they are in a hurry to get to the human world), the lack of atmosphere and suspense, all make the show incredibly boring and it is just not what I would expect of a show where kids are being sold as merchandise to be eaten by demons. Do not even get me started on how the show usually ends up in cliffhangers that you know will amount to nothing. It is useless to have ended the first episode with Ray and Emma realizing Sonju and Mujika were demons when you have the whole ending theme dedicated for them, thus making me assume that they will join forces with the protagonist (and they do. I know, no surprises here.) just like how it is ridiculous to try to make Vincent seem like a potential traitor, when nobody who has watched this show can possibly believe he would do this, given the bunch of baloney we've had to sit thru for the majority of the series. If the idiotic cliffhangers aren't enough to worsen one's mood, mix in the fact that none of these characters have enough sense of danger until conflict arises, and this just gets worse. Back in episode three, they found a shelter. As soon as they get in, they get incredibly cozy. Why did they not bother first searching the whole place? they bathed, cooked, one kid even played the piano. Remember how there are demons outside? they clearly don't. I love how it is the year 2040+, and the ones sent to catch these kids are a bunch of dudes that look like they were kicked out of the army. Why did not one of the kids die or suffer injuries when all these people attacked them? you are telling me kids were able to beat a bunch of what I think are trained soldiers and escape unscathed except for maybe a higher heart rate and a good workout? even with suspension of disbelief, this makes no sense. Then a CGI monster appears and it is incredibly convenient how it kills most of the armed men and then Ray is able to blind it with an arrow. This is peak fiction. I thought Nana had the biggest plot armor, but it was the kids of Grace field all along who had it instead. Continuing on this, in episode ten Ray is able to knock out a demon with a fucking pipe and I just burst out laughing. How weak are these demons anyway? Ray doesn't do much in the story, besides being Emma's sidekick and pulling impossible stunts to the likes of Assasin's Creed, but Norman does so let's talk about him. Norman makes his debut in the show by telling us about his journey and about how he now has the ability to mass-produce a drug that will make all demons degenerate. If this show was about how Norman became this big ass boss of the underworld maybe this show could have gotten interesting again but alas it didn't. Norman and his league of villains are completely one-dimensional. They are on their quest to kill all the demons, and most of the time all they do besides talking is make "scary" faces or pose randomly. It was a mistake to make Norman and his lackeys be the "antagonists" since there is no way one would ever believe them to be the main big bad. In episode eight, we finally get to see what happened to Norman after he was shipped out. The flashback lasted seven minutes and was arguably the best thing to happen in this season. After this, the show never picked up itself, at least for me, and it became worse and worse. Norman never planned to wait for Emma and Ray to bring Sonju and Mujika. He began bombing the demon town a la Joker style and then had a meltdown when he realized he now had blood on his hands. Remember the old demon that Emma gave an apple to back in episode five? neither did I. This old man ends up being important to the story (so much that he gets a name) and him screaming his granddaughter's name, is what made Norman come back to "reality" and face it. As soon as I heard his granddaughter was named Emma, I knew they were going to pull this dumb ploy. This is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. We are supposed, or at least that's what I got from the show, to buy into the idea that the demons are in agony. The show even shows them panicking, crying, screaming, and getting eaten by other demons. This felt forced and if this had been shown earlier, it might haven't been so bad. If you only have eleven episodes, you need to show these types of things as soon as possible so that we can digest them properly (No, the demons who were struggling to feed their families earlier are not enough for the audience to fucking know how this world works or care). The old man from episode five becomes even more important, since he too possesses the same blood that can make demons not need human meat to keep their form, just like Mujika, and because of that now all the remaining demons from town get saved. Pushing this series even further into the point of never return, Norman's arc ends abruptly in one of the most pointless and quickest ways I've seen. He started bombing the demon town in episode eight, then in episode nine, his conflict between wanting to kill the demons and not wanting to kill, ends in five minutes. Five damn minutes and just because he had a heart-to-heart talk with Emma. Two minutes after, Barbara who seemed to harbor the most intense hatred for the demons, also decides to follow Norman's orders to not kill them. What was the point of bringing in Norman and his lackeys, if they weren't even going to be used to add some much needed tension in the series? this is insanity. This whole Norman is now a bad guy subplot is dreadful, but even more so is the fact that Ratri is what I would say is the big bad besides the demons. He is never fully characterized and was overall just boring to watch. They didn't even try to make him memorable. I wish I could tell you the plot armor of any of these characters, the plot convenience, and nonsense end at some point, but they don't. They just increase episode by episode. A pen is magically granted to them and said pen contains the entire layout of the farm and even a cure for Norman and company, the kids sneak in the farm with fucking hot air balloons and none get shot, the civilian demons band together to help the children escape and are able to fight off demons who are accustomed to battle (I mean, they weren't able to kill one fucking kid with their spears and they pass the fuck out by getting hit with a pipe so maybe they really aren't great. Who fucking knows anymore), none of the children die or get injured, Isabella made all the other moms agree to betray Ratri, and now wants to be free of the system but still claims it is not because she actually cares for these kids, not one fucking child questions how Norman is still alive, Emma gives yet another hollow speech about freedom and tells Ratri to live together, it is all very much a damned tragedy. Neither the studio nor whoever participated in this monstrosity cared enough about making a decent or at least average show. Season two of The Promised Neverland is worse than Ex-arm in my book and I wish I was fucking kidding, but I am not. The thing with a show like Ex-arm, is that once I realized it was that shitty anime in the trailer Crunchyroll dropped back in December, I lost any expectations of the show being anything other than garbage. The Promised Neverland, however, had a shit ton of promising ideas and characters who were fairly likable but decided to set itself up in flames hotter than the Sahara desert and deliver a story with no build-up, no world, and make its cast dumber than your usual sitcom character. Truly one of the worst shows that came out this season.
img5000(https://i2.wp.com/anitrendz.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Promised-Neverland-Season-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1) To preface, I only recently got into anime this past Summer and The Promised Neverland was one of the shows I wanted to go ahead and watch since the synopsis was so interesting. I watched the entirety of Season 1 at the beginning of this year and absolutely loved it. So, obviously, I was going into Season 2 with high expectations. # __At first... __ The first three episodes of Season 2 weren't bad at all if we're being completely honest here, until I heard some manga readers complain about the pacing and how Episode 1 apparently adapted 8 chapters into 1 episode. I wasn't completely alarmed especially when I also read that the manga had its ups and downs after the arc in Season 1 and how Season 2 was going to get "original scenarios" so I still had hope and I was still at least optimistic. And well, you know how it goes from here. __But...__ By halfway through, it's a complete trainwreck. Once again, I'm an anime only watcher, but as unfortunate as everything is, you can tell things were skipped AND rushed. I personally am not sure who decided to write it this way but the middle episodes of Season 2 were just abysmal. Writing was all over the place, pacing was just __bad__ and things didn't make sense, at all. Some scenes were even recycled and there were also a few scenes that was repetitive. Obviously the manga readers were not happy at the noticeable differences and cuts to certain arcs (including a fan-favorite) and characters but even as an anime-only, it was also disappointing. It's just easy to tell that by halfway through, there were cramming so much plot in each episode and you had to hope things would make sense. This is a no-brainer, the kids, they all escaped at the end of Season 1 so you would THINK that the stakes would be higher since they literally are going up against the world of demons here, but no, it just doesn't feel that way. I don't think you can blame this all on CloverWorks, they still did a decent job animating the show but the writers...man I don't know what happened. The OP, ED and OST is still great as well. There are a LOT of inconsistencies that make the show have many questions and it's almost like we have to come up with our own conclusion and I'm not a fan of that. Then you got the characters. I love our main trio but they all seem like their development just took steps back. # __To put things in another perspective if Season 2 was handled better...__ Something else I want to say and I think a lot of people can agree as well, is that Season 2 of The Promised Neverland feels like an imaginary Season 3. So many details, so many plot points were crammed into this, which is why things feel so fast, especially in the backhalf of Season 2. IF, and a very big IF, if TPN Season 2 had more episodes than 11, then I could possibly somewhat justify some of the decisions the characters make. If Season 2 were 13 episodes or 16 episodes, things would make more and more sense and there would be a lot more screen time for plot points that NEED the screen time. 11 episodes just cannot cut it at all. There's just no time. If anything, I find disheartening that it only got 11 episodes. # __To conclude.__ Overall, Season 2 is a disappointment, but it's more than a disappointment. It's a failure of a sequel. It's riddled with pacing and writing issues and you could tell from the beginning of the season that the pacing was off. Literally every episode is riddled with issues and that makes me sad. Our characters aren't as badass anymore and many scenes fall flat. The stakes should be higher but it just didn't feel that way. I'm telling you right now, I think this season would have been rated higher EASILY if it had more than 11 episodes and explained things more thoroughly rather than the pace it went. I don't think I've seen a show like this before speedrun so many plot points into 11 episodes. So, if you are reading this and have watched Season 1, Season 2 is just bad. You can still watch this season if you want but that's your decision but just watch Season 1 then read the manga. If you are a manga reader and have only watched Season 1, don't attempt to watch this unless you wanna get mad. I'm sure for many people, they want to forget Season 2 even happened. I honestly feel bad because there is untapped potential for the anime now. Anyways, you already know what I'm doing at some point in the near future... __Reading the Manga.__ img5000(https://i2.wp.com/butwhythopodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Promised-Neverland-Season-2-Episode-4.jpg?fit=1276%2C670&ssl=1)
__~~~(I avoided specifics, so this review should be mostly spoiler-free, but it does contain spoilers for season one)~~~__ ~~~img(https://i.ibb.co/TB14pgc/catshitone.png)~~~ #~~~The Tragic Fate of Sequels~~~ --- Following up on a big hit comes with a great number of difficulties. This applies to many different things in life. For example, if a football team wins the Super Bowl, the expectations for the team’s success will obviously be quite _high_ for the following season. It’s only natural to feel that what comes next is greater than what came before. These assumptions cannot be helped; to a certain extent, they are subconscious and out of our control. As human beings, we just can’t help it. _The Promised Neverland_ and its first season on the big screen took the world by storm. The series was intricately woven together and seemed to do very little wrong, while doing almost everything right. It had a compelling premise with dynamic, fleshed out, characters. These factors, paired with the sound & art combination, was a recipe for immersing audiences. The world of the children from Grace Field House is something people (myself included) couldn’t get enough of. #~~~Thesis~~~ --- The second season of _The Promised Neverland_ came at a time when fans were left wanting for more. The first season gave birth to an overwhelming hype--a thirst for a continuation of the torrential and stressful, yet heartwarming, journey of the Grace Field kids. There were a lot of expectations for this second season. It might even be accurate to say that the first season established some unrealistic standards. Regardless, _The Promised Neverland_ season 2 was very underwhelming. I honestly think that loyal fans of the series deserved better. #~~~Story~~~ --- The anime picks up directly off of the end of the first season after they avoided Isabella’s clutches and grasp. The 15 children having escaped from Grace Field House, now being beyond the wall, are in search of the “Neverland” with the indirect guidance of Minerva. This is thanks to the pen that Norman left behind. It doesn’t take long for the kids to realize how brutal the outside world is. Being chased by monsters and demons becomes routine. They have to figure out how to survive on their own now. Their continued survival and progress only becomes possible due to acquaintances they encounter along their journey. Thus, they press on toward their destination while keeping the rest of their brothers and sisters back home in mind. #~~~Unpacking the Issue(s)~~~ --- Written above is a generic summation of the anime’s plot. It in no way, shape, or form provides a detailed account of the show’s narrative structure. Through my words alone, I am not able to completely illustrate how and in what ways that this show is lacking. One has to watch the show for these issues to become more clear. There are different faults that can be pointed out in this anime, but what stood out most to me was the blatant incongruity between episodes and how the timeline was incomprehensive. ~~~img(https://i.ibb.co/xsqDCHB/269sgg.jpg)~~~ If I remember correctly, it was announced after the 3rd or 4th episode that the series would deviate from the manga and follow an “anime original” plotline. I have not read the manga myself, but I empathize with those that are manga readers. News like this being brought to light doesn’t automatically mean the show is/was destined for disaster, but it can be a hint toward that direction (e.g. _Tokyo Ghoul_). I didn’t mind it deviating from its source material, honestly. _As long as the story is compelling and keeps going, I’ll keep watching it_. That was my thought process. Through the first few episodes, it became obvious to me that this show was not going to be as compelling as its first season. I had an inkling that it wasn’t going to live up to the bar that S1 set. Despite this being the case, S2 seemed to be off to a good start. The rising action through the progression of the first few episodes had potential. It set the tone for emotionally-captivating moments to unwind later on in the final episodes of the show. I was ready to witness the drastic changes that were about to take place in the lives of the kids. The side characters that were being introduced helped to keep the show interesting as well. Their existence created possibilities for external conflicts and obstacles that the children would need to overcome later in the future. The first half of the season gave me that impression, yet these things did not turn out at all how I thought they would. ~~~img(https://i.ibb.co/kJFzq53/269sgg.jpg)~~~ Everything changed about midway through the series. In my eyes, there was a genuine paradigm shift. I’m avoiding spoilers, so all I will say is that there was a massive jump in the timeline paired with a lack of explanation of the children’s newly acquired knowledge & abilities. The way the later episodes of the show are handled makes everything else seem disingenuous. I didn’t like the feeling that I was supposed to blindly accept _everything_ that happened offscreen while also witnessing all of their problems wither away and vanish with very little resistance from the opposition. When the grim reality of their existence became known in S1 (specifically to Norman, Emma, and Ray), there was a truth that was undeniable to both the characters and the audience: the enemy (i.e. _demons_) that threatened their lives and happiness was inexplicably powerful. The forces that opposed them were tremendous, almost beyond comprehension. This was a sort of truth that was established since the beginning of the story, but this became less and less concrete as the second season progressed. It felt like the story skipped from the 1st act to the 5th act, while pretending that there is nothing to be confused about. It tried to show and tell without even _showing_ or _telling_. It was a really bizarre watching experience, one that left behind a bad aftertaste. #~~~Quality~~~ --- The art isn’t bad, objectively speaking, but it pales in comparison to the first season. I hate to keep comparing everything to S1, but I can hardly help it. S2's animation is pretty sharp, but it is not as vibrant as it once was. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but a certain _je nais se quois_ is missing. I can't recall any _sakuga_ or moments where I was in awe of the animation like I had been with S1. There were also some weird CGI moments (specifically when the kids were being chased by the monster in the forests) that took me out of the story for a second. It wasn't the worst use of CGI, but it definitely wasn't the best. ~~~img(https://i.ibb.co/cXKb6Sh/catshitone.png)~~~ They killed it with the music...again. The OP is solid, and the ED is just as good--if not even better. Have zero complaints about the music and sound design. I can't recall anywhere they might have dropped the ball--in terms of sound. The only thing I could think of would be related to some of the scenes where the VAs had to deliver lines in melodramatic scenes that made very little sense, etc. But again, this was not an issue. Even if it were, it would be more of a writing and pacing issue. Overall, they did a good job with the music and the sound design. #~~~Final Thoughts~~~ --- It’s not necessary to be familiar with the manga to realize that there is something missing with _The Promised Neverland_ Season 2. Although the creators announced that they would be taking the story down a route independent of the source material, the announcement came mid-season. I'm not so sure that this was the best decision. The storyline for S2 was stated as being an "original," but it honestly just feels like they skipped the majority of the _original_ story (i.e. the manga) and slightly altered the ending. I know that the creator(s) must have had their reasons for altering the anime plotline, but I honestly don't understand it. _The Promised Neverland_ had it made, from the way I see it. If they went down the road of adapting the manga fully, it would have proven to be more successful. From what little I understand, this seems to be the desire of most fans of the series as well. As a stand-alone, S2 is not necessarily a bad show. Context matters, as with all things. Setting the negligence of its source material aside, what further makes this anime such a disappointment is its complete disregard for details. S2 really seemed to forget its roots, and left its fans behind without ever elaborating on anything. The only way one can truly understand this sentiment is by watching it for themselves. Not everyone will find this to be a letdown, but a majority of the viewership will. As for me, _The Promised Neverland_ Season 2 was a definite underwhelming mediocre-piece.
~~~Before I say anything, I wanted to say that __I will try to avoid being biased,__ as a manga reader. Please tell me if i did anything wrong, this is my first review. There will also be spoilers, so look out for those. --- TPN season 2, where do I start. TPN started off as an amazing horror story that'll get anyone hooked, even if it had just 12 episodes. something that quickly made it into mainstream, and when the anticipated season 2 was announced, the hype was unreal. Season 2 started off pretty good. Immediately with episode one, the pacing was a little weird, but it wasn't a big deal because they were still staying loyal to the manga. 2 was good, 3 was good, 4 was.. good, and 5 is where everything kind of went... downhill? Pacing was VERY fast, and even an anime-only could notice this. That says a lot. Let's look at the pros and cons. --- # __PROS__ --- # __Animation & Art__ TPN has always had very great art and animation. nothing SUPER special, but it wasn't bad either. animation isn't and hasn't been a big part of tpn, but at least it's good enough to be looked at as a pro, for both season 1 and 2. i'd give it an 8/10. # __Music__ Okay, in my opinion the music is the best part of TPN season 2. OST is great, and adding isabella's lullaby in some parts was just PERFECT. It's only appropriate for a drama/thriller anime to have amazing soundtracks, and tpn really did succeed my expectations for the music. OP and ED are amazing as well. 9.5/10. The dramatic scenes and suspense in some episodes of this season were done very well. I can appreciate that. But, with all the pros that I can think of, let's move on to the cons. --- # __CONS__ --- # __Pacing__ This is an obvious con. Not only did they try to fit in 144 chapters in 11 episodes, the pacing is so incredibly fast it's bad. # __Story__ Ah yes, TPN's story is amazing. It's genius, and just such a good horror. But of course, season 2 didn't even keep one of, if not the best arc of the story. I feel incredibly bad for the anime-onlies because of how confusing the story is now. The last episode didn't even explain what the heck was going on and how they got to the human world. Even as a manga reader, I too was confused at what was going on in the later episodes. --- TPN's first season was done wonderfully, but sadly, the second season just didn't add up or compare to the first's at ALL. It's confusing, Nothing really adds up and it's incredibly hard to understand. Nevertheless, is TPN2 a bad show? Not necessarily. I can see why people could enjoy it, and I can see why people would despise it with everything they are. For me, i'll stay 50/50. --- TL;DR: TPN season 2 keeps the music and animation just amazing as the first season, but just about everything else is either fast, doesn't make sense, or terribly written. Just read the manga. (this was my first review, hope you liked it! :D)~~~
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!! (No manga spoilers, you’re good :D)
Before you read this, I want you to keep in mind that I gave season 1 of The Promised Neverland a 10. Even though it wasn't perfect, it still gave me a very satisfying feeling after finishing it, and made me feel a slur of emotions which only added on to the experience. I don't usually cry while watching anime, but there was something about The Promised Neverland that really drove me to the edge. In turn, I had very high expectations for season 2, and was expecting a somewhat equal experience to season 1. This was far from what I got. Let the slander begin! -The Character Dimension- Season 1 gave us the 3 amazing characters who are of course Emma, Ray, and Norman. Each of them stood out equally because they all had their own strengths (Emma was physically the best, Ray was good at forming strategies, and Norman was very intelligent). In season 2, all of this is thrown out for characters with no real weight or meaning. Granted, for about half of the season the children are out in the wild and just trying to survive which doesn't give them a chance to really shine at a certain characteristic, but they still felt so empty. All of the care that I had for these characters in season 1 was thrown out for bland character building and boring problems. One of the most impactful scenes of S1 was when Emma had to say goodbye to Norman, and S2 doesn't have a scene that comes anywhere NEAR that good. It's a bit hard to put into words, but in summary, the characters felt much more distant, boring, and one dimensional in S2. -The Emotion- As I mentioned in my quick introduction, The Promised Neverland season 1 actually made me cry a bit. It was during the scene where Isabella put her hair down, and wished the children good luck for the future. Prior to this was Isabella's backstory (which was tragic enough) but seeing her children succeed in what she thought was impossible really made me tear up. In season 2 I never got a feeling similar to this. Many of the scenes lacked needed emotion, and just make me think "Ah well that's a shame". It's possible that the first season spoiled me a little bit in the "feels department", but I still think there were many scenes that could've been improved to make them have a bigger impact on the viewer. -Lack of Tension/ Convenience- Tension was a key part of what made TPN S1 so good. The children were in constant fear of getting caught, and the camera angles added so much to this experience. Additionally, things never went the way they were suppposed to in season 1, with some hiccup always occurring along the way. I would like to say that this process of trial and error in S1 was repetitive, but it really didn't feel like it. There was always a light at the end of the tunnel that represented the children's successful escape from the farm. No matter how many problems they faced, you knew that in the end, they would succeed. In S2 all of this gets tossed out of the window, and amounts to what's ultimately bad storytelling. Everything that happens in S2 always goes to plan, which gives the viewer a very boring experience. To make this even worse, a lot of things in the season just conveniently happen, which take away even more impact from the story. -Pacing- [SPOILERS] TPN S2 opens up with a very high paced scene of the children running from something, which is hidden due to the camera angles. After about a minute of this it cuts back to what happened after the kids escaped from the farm. This is when the show really slows down. (Like I briefly mentioned earlier) The next half of the season consists of the kids traveling from place to place trying to survive while also running away from the demons at the farm. Not only is this part slow, but it is also deathly boring. Compared to the supremely suspenseful and on edge episodes that S1 consisted of, this is a total letdown. After many forgettable episodes, we finally find out that the monster that the children were running from in the start was (surprise, surprise) a giant demon. This obviously didn't come as a very big surprise to me, but what really piqued my interest was how the children would eventually escape from the demon. Would they climb trees to hide? Would they find somewhere to hide underground? To my (and many others) distaste, Clover Works pulled the cheapest move of them all, and added a time jump of 7 months. DURING THE RUN SCENE. This chase never gets mentioned again throughout the entire season, and makes the writing feel very sloppy and unfinished. After thinking this was the worst of it, I watched the final episode today, and my oh my did it top this time jump. The final scene consists of Emma telling the little kids that the big girls and boys of the farm are going to stay back in the demon world, and try to restore peace between the humans and the demons. Even though the rest of S2 left a sour taste in my mouth, I was still excited for a season 3 full of adventures with just the main characters. This is when images started playing which entailed all that Emma said she was going to accomplish before joining the other children in the human world. That's right. Clover Works really just turned a possible season 3 into a f****** montage. This really just left me speechless, and cemented how bad this second season was. With nothing left to say, it's time that I conclude this poorly written 2 A.M. review. All in all, TPN S2 is one of the most disappointing things I've watched recently. I genuinely loved S1, and it breaks my heart how poorly done this was. Unfortunately, I think this season has also removed any hope of a season 3. Almost every characteristic that made S1 so good was completely removed in S2, which just left a generic, boring, and bland shell of an anime. I absolutely cannot recommend this show, no matter how much you loved season 1. If you really loved season 1, you should either imagine what happened to the children in your head, or read the manga. I haven't read it, but I heard that the story was infinitely better than Clover Works' portrayal, so it's probably at least worth a read. On a scale of 1-10, this show gets a 4 due to its boring characters, lack of emotion, lack of tension/ convenience, and incoherent pacing.
Okay, so this review will have spoilers. You have been warned. Let me go back to Season 1 just for a little. My impression was extremely high due to the amazing music, amazing animation, art style was decent, high tensions all over, emotional appeal to the audience, and even character development in the main cast. In addition, the biggest thing that appealed to me with S1 was the aspect of **survival**. How will the kids get away? What strategies would they use? How many would they take with them? Where would they go? These questions come in mind and are expertly answered through the progression of the plot. Along with how faithful the anime adaptation was in respect to the manga, this led to S1 being one of my favorite anime. Now, Season 2 didn't start off horrible. There are some good points to it as well, like the OP/ED, the trials they underwent to survive the demons that chase them, the search for Minerva's hideout... I could go on. The CGI in the very first episode was rather disappointing, but for the most part it's forgivable. What wasn't forgivable was the insane amount of cuts from the manga. While S1 was a really faithful adaptation, where the few cuts didn't affect the cohesion nor pacing of the story, S2 is an extremely unfaithful adaptation due to the extremely fast pace. The amounts of cuts aren't so bad in the beginning, but upon the 5th episode, I lost all respect for the series. Seriously, this show treated the manga like a fucking flipbook with the pacing and cuts. I realized the pace would render S2 to be a lower score than S1, but I didn't think it would get as bad as it did later in the series. Before I get there though, I have to reiterate my extreme disappointment in the cuts. As I mentioned before, the theme of S1 that appealed to me the most was the **survival** aspect. Now, I have not read the manga, but I have watched a video on the cuts up until halfway into the season. This is the video I refer to: youtube(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWqCls8M8x4) It seems, from what I learned in the video, that the entire survival aspect was cut out. In the first few episodes, the anime cuts all the scenes where the children use their knowledge from the books they've read to survive. This is, to some extent, forgiveable. The worldbuilding is also cut in the anime, which is a rather alarming. Even more alarming are the characters that were entirely cut from the anime, like the guy who was supposed to be waiting for them at the bunker. At this point, the anime starts playing flipbook with the manga, placing scenes from many chapters ahead into the episode. The anime then declines steeply once we get a timeskip, where the arc that is supposedly the "best manga arc" and "the peak of the manga", the Goldy Pond arc, was skipped. Yet, this is the arc with the most action as Emma and Ray learn how to hunt, how to survive, and even grow as a character. After that, we get a series of anime-only scenes, and the anime skips dozens of chapters to rush the discovery of Norman's survival by the 5th episode. I feel, due to the aforementioned sequence of events, that the first 5 episodes alone was enough to throw the beauty of S1 away. All the worldbuilding is gone, the survival aspect is now at its bare minimum, and I truly wish I dropped the series at this point, because it only gets worse from here on out. I will say that the anime did a good job of giving the spotlight to characters other than Emma, because many shonen manga tend to only give the spotlight to the "Big 3" characters, but this just isn't enough to fix what went wrong in the anime. Hell, even the discovery of Norman's survival just felt cheap due to the rushed progression and lack of buildup. Like, seriously, how can I feel anything about Norman when a 6 month timeskip happened at the beginning of the very same episode? There are many posts on what went wrong after this point, so I will be brief on this matter, but I absolutely hated the rushed pacing and cut content towards the end of the anime, as this just led to me believing the mangaka's writing quality went down exponentially. Can you blame me though? By introducing a fuckton of plot convenience, I couldn't help but think this, when in reality, the manga explains it so much better. Not to mention how much the latter half of the show focused on Emma trying to save all the demons... it honestly felt like the show went from a story of survival in a cruel and oppressive world (similar to Attack on Titan) to a disgustingly idealistic shonen story where all that matters is saving the world and making it a better place. I'm sure its done better in the manga, but if that's all this story becomes in the manga, I'll be bound to hate it there, but at least it won't be as bad of an experience as this season. The anime budgeting must have been really fucking cheap, because that is exactly what this anime is: cheap. I will be reading the manga (S1 ends at Chapter 37) after this, but I'll be damned if I watch this butchered series again. I said this in the summary, I've said this in other posts, and I'll fucking say it again: The Promised Neverland Season 2 is a series where The Promises Never Land.
#__My biggest dissapointment of the year__ I had really high expectations for the second season of this series. In fact, thanks to the peired season of the promised neverland, I started reading manga because it got me hooked. However, after reading the manga and watching the second season, I was very disappointed. #Ruined story Let’s start with the plot. Already in the first episodes, the second season of this anime shows us that there is something wrong with it. The complete removal of the Yuugo character and thus the whole goldy pond arc, which in my opinion is one of the best arcs in the whole series. In addition, the anime omits many threads that are really important to the story, so the anime-only watcher doesn’t know what is going on, and can quickly get lost in it all. This storyline was just boring and repetitive. The kids literally do pretty much the same thing in different episodes. Learning to fight, collecting food and so on. These elements took way too long and they could replace them with the actual manga story, but they didn’t. The meeting with Norman after time was shown literally without emotions. Compared to the manga where we have a well-built tension and simply a longer waiting time for a longer amount of plot between these events. In the anime, it looks like that: End of Season One – Norman gone Practically the beginning of the second, a few episodes – boom Norman back Really 0 build up for that important and tearing moment. Peter Ratri had literally the same problem. It wasn’t mysterious, scary at all compared to the manga. He just showed up in one episode and killed himself in another. Character developement? What for? What is this? Better show kids running in the fucking woods for 15 minutes of the episode. The anime ending was so badly done it was downright funny. Virtually completely omitted MAIN THEME OF THIS ENTIRE STORY – the promise. Apart from this main thread of the promise, of course, they also omitted (manga spoiler) ~!Emma’s memory loss!~because, as you know, it is connected. Yes, I don’t think it was the right course of the manga as well, but certainly a better ending like that than the fucking slideshow at the end of the last episode showing ONE PICTURE OF THE PACT, LITERALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT IN THIS ENTINE STORYLINE. #Let’s move on to the animation Apart from the fact that the first season was animated much better, it showed better emotions of the characters, camera frames, etc. The design of the demons themselves compared to the manga is literally like comparing bloody horrors to cartoons for preschoolers. These demons are just not scary. Let’s add the weak CGI to that and voila, we get a lot of shit on the plate. #Music Despite all these drawbacks, I must admit that the series soundtrack is again at a very high level. Yes they used a lot of tracks from season 1, but still it is good. I especially like the ending of the series which just sounds great. #Summary I really don’t know how it’s even possible for anime quality to drop so significantly from season to season. In fact, Cloverworks studio had a huge slip-up, if you can call it that. They had a really huge potential for another great-selling anime season with a brilliant storyline, but for some reason they didn’t take advantage of it. After all, they could easily spread it into 2 seasons or make one season of 24 episodes … Maybe I don’t know something, I don’t understand, but I know one thing, this anime shouldn’t be made like that. I also posted this review as well as many others on my site. You can find the link to it on my profile bio :) (I'm still learing to write reviews go easy on me guys xd)
*English is not my first language* The promised neverland 1st Season was very good, I really liked it when I saw it a few months ago, I would have liked to say the same thing about this 2nd Season but it's not posible. The story starts well the first two episodes felt fresh and very organic, but from there everything goes downhill, from episode 3 or 4 (I don't remember exactly what it was) But all of a sudden it's like it all started to happen too fast, the 1st Season was characterized in my opinion by carrying a slow pace that allowed a very good development of the story, instead here everything happens, and it is that I felt that they were running a race to finish the work as soon as possible, which I do not understand since this work likes and sells quite well both in Japan and outside the country, that is the ideas that arise during the story are not at all bad, the problem is that the development of these has been lousy as it has been done too quickly, The ending partly I liked but... I would have liked to see Emma's adventures with Norman, Ray, etc... More in depth while the rest was in the human world... It wasn't a bad ending, but it felt kind of weird in my opinion. The characters... I felt them somewhat flat, I didn't feel that they will actually evolve during the play, even with Norman and his group, which I really found lousy "evolution" that they had since from one moment to the next they went from hating demons to not wanting to kill them, does this have its justification? Yes, but it's too forced, it would have been nice if it took some time for them to assimilate the decision they've made... Emma and Ray I felt them quite flat I didn't feel like they changed at any time... And Don and Gilda in became in the shadows when they were characters with a lot of potential... Really this is the part that hurts the most since Emma and Gilda liked me a lot and the development they had this season I didn't like anything The soundtrack and animation felt good, the opening seemed to me that it was up to the first season and the soundtrack although it recycles some tracks from the 1st Season I liked quite, as soon as the animation remained at the level of the 1st Season, there is not much more to comment on in these sections The promised neverland 2nd Season I didn't like it, I feel like it's gone too fast just to get to the end of the story which hasn't been so much... The characters felt weird and flat and the music and animation more or less the same as the 1st Season, if it is true that the ideas he has regarding the story are good but are poorly developed... And personally I feel sorry for it since the 1st Season I really liked and the manga which I started recently as well, really this season disappointed me and frustrated me that I didn't reach the level of the 1st Season
I am one of those people who finished 'The Promised Neverland: Season 1' in 2019, with a rare feeling of contentment. In fact, I still consider the first season to be one of the best that 2019 had to offer. Although there were a lot of unknown variables left unearthed, even in the season end, the season 1 plot gave off an odd closure vibe. As if whatever's left unsaid is kept to be filled-in as per the viewer's discretion and imagination. Hence, I was honestly surprised when a sequel was announced; but still felt delighted to have more of that delicacy.... at that time. ------------------- # __Plot__ The anime continues right from where the prequel left off. From there, the plot makes an incomplete attempt to explore the world it built. For a sequel that comes with a rather exploding expansion of the world created thus far, not much concern or time is given to developing that seemingly strong point. Asides from that, the anime deserves praise for stimulating some interesting existential thoughts through the simulation of a fantastical yet sympathisable plot environment. - Is it cruel for a predator to consume another lifeform and thereby deprive the prey of its life's meaning? - Is the sole purpose in life for a prey, to surrender and thereby be a part of the predator? - Is it ethical to terminate one lifeform, if it ensures the survival of another? - Is it ethical to ensure the survival of one lifeform, if it means termination of another? Midway through Season 2, these unresolvable questions were brought upon strongly. On moving forward, the anime tried to resolve this dilemma whose entire beauty lies in its insoluble nature. Even the method devised by the anime, to escape this philosophical paradox, is way too 'mystical' and 'convenient' to be perceived as 'real' or 'natural' in that context. Actually, the entire anime follows a similar pattern; picking an optimistic, too-good-to-be-true storyline by sacrificing realism in plot and characters. ~!First of all, these human children with zero prior experience in an outside 'House' environment, survive for over a year, without any casualties, major injuries or diseases, in a world dominated by beings that feast on them for supper. As if to add upon that, they escape the world through fishy mystical means, with the kind and sincere help of their natural predators, who suddenly found it necessary to help the kids that tried to make them massacre each other in the previous episode.!~ Unrealistically Optimistic, it is. The manga readers had expressed their dissatisfaction over skipped arcs and rushed episodes. Though, even a non-manga reader could tell that the anime went at an extremely fast pace, or to be more accurate, at an accelerated pace. From executing a beautiful first arc over a season-length, to stacking multiple arcs into tiny episodes, to literally allocating single image frames to represent entire scenes (as in the finale episode). As a non-manga reader, It's quite natural to presume whatever was shown during that 'slideshow of images' in the last 4 minutes 13 seconds of episode 11, as an entire story arc (if not more than one). ------------- # __Characters__ There is an evident lack of proper attention given in writing and developing characters; every one of them. Specifically, there's a loss of individuality in characters. The protagonist, Emma's innocent ideals and views are admirable. But here, the voices and opinions of individual characters are lost in the shadow of Emma's standpoint. That might have sounded wrong. It's not that the other characters who have been trying to express their personal opinions got turned down and overshadowed by a tyrant protagonist. More like, the other characters who don't even have a second opinion, got led down 'the path of righteousness' like blind sheep by the protagonist's singular point of view. Hence, the loss of individuality; the loss of identity. Maybe, this was the same in the case of season 1. But in there, the 'blind sheep' were all younger kids (under 12) lacking any kind of comprehension about the cruel world they lived in. And the one major adult character in season 1, was as well written and developed a character as you can get. While in the case of season 2, the scenario is quite different. ~!Here, we are also dealt with adult humans who were tortured and experimented on as guinea pigs; and demons who just witnessed their brethren going berserk, resorting to violent cannibalism because of these very kids.!~ Expecting them to follow Emma's particular ideals without questions, feels like too much wishful thinking to be considered realistic character portrayal. This is rather painful, considering one of my all-time favourite characters came from, ironically the very first season of this anime. Isabella, the one who hides behind a multi-layered mask of self-deception that has become her identity and salvation. Let's just leave it here by saying that Isabella failed to retain in season 2, whatever made her special in season 1. ----------- # __Art__ I am not one to comment much on animation and art style unless of course, it's either too good or too bad. In this case, Cloverworks did an okay job in both fields; going more or less consistent with whatever they did in season 1. Though if I were to rank their winter 2021 works (The Promised Neverland S2, Horimiya, Wonder Egg Priority) based on art, Promised Neverland would come dead last and by a considerable margin (just because the other two were that good). ~!And Cloverworks, you forgot to paint the blade (episode 11).!~ ---------------------------------------
The Promised Neverland Season Two offered a promise of taking us to a new neverland. A world filled with struggle and survival. But watching it, I struggled to find anything interesting. After the masterpiece that was season one, I was looking forward to season two and it was one of the most interesting shows for me winter 2021. I was hoping for something great but was left empty and hollow. __Story:__ Season 1 left us off on a slight cliffhanger of the children leaving the farm and escaping into the wilderness. I was expecting a survival story with the usual mystery of season 1 but I think they forgot to add any mystery. The first episodes were pretty boring as they ran away from demons and were conveniently saved by Sonju and Mujika. Overall the plot was pretty boring as they also reintroduced a character who should have stayed dead. I touch on this again later but basically said character's death took away any motivation for the characters and viewers. Sure, they want to save _all_ of the kids, but they are all side characters and any basis for _why_ they are doing anything is entirely lost. None of the side characters mean anything to the viewer as they did in Season 1. They are just there to "help" sometimes. Another issue I had were the massive time skips. I've seen timeskips like this before in Shinsekai Yori, but that show does them right. This one just kinda leaves you hanging in a bad way and doesn't try to explain why they skipped. Everything felt rushed in only 11 episodes. There was so much they should have covered about the world and the last two episodes were able to one-up Darling in the Franxx in fewer episodes. Final episode spoilers: ~!The final episode even ended with just a slideshow in the same way. But instead of using it to wrap up the universe, it introduced like 7 possible plot points that would have made a very interesting Season 3.!~ After I realized this season might not be that great, I was glad they were setting up an interesting season 3. Instead, they just decided to end the whole thing, leaving me in great emotional pain. __Art:__ Overall the art is very good. It was something I loved about season 1 and it sorta lived up to it in season 2. The main issue I have with it though is their entire elimination of the first-person perspective of season 1. If you noticed, most if not all of the season takes place in first-person. This created a sense of mystery and suspense that was very important for the show. That is entirely gone in season 2 and this is lost. __Sound:__ The sound of the show was fine and wasn't very noticeable in a good or bad way. The intro was mediocre at best and felt too quiet. The outro was good though and I did like it. __Character: __ This is a big aspect of the show and a major part of my rating. All character development was thrown out the window as Clover Works compressed it into 11 episodes. No characters had any development other than one. Emma practically stays the same since the end of season 1. She only wants to save the kids and doesn't stay from this. She kinda changes when ~!Norman comes back and challenges her beliefs. But instead, she decides to change her goal to change the entirety of the demon world. Which, by the way, we never get to see.!~ All the other characters which you know and love from season 1 are still here but serve less to the plot than the plants they eat in the forest. The show was like watching concrete dry as the characters change less than untouched concrete. If any of the side characters were to die, I wouldn't care. I would just watch Emma cry over it for a few seconds and hope for something better. There is no major villain in the series other than just "the demons" and later the upper-class. The actual villain of the show changes every few episodes and we learn that most of the demons are fine. There are really no villains of the show that we can be scared of or care about their actions. ~!Isabella even gets her own time to shine at the end. She was imprisoned for her failures and is given the chance to help the demons get them back. In the end, though, it turns out she was helping them all the time. WOW, it is like she kinda hoped they would escape at the end of season 1. Also, she has the other mothers help her the whole time too? This isn't explained through of course and we are left with nothing yet again. In the end, Peter Ratari is also introduced with a compelling backstory. This doesn't serve any purpose though because he just kills himself right after his "sob" story. I didn't care about his "development" though because he was given less than 15 minutes of screen time. Maybe if he was introduced sooner and as a force that was terrorizing the kids throughout the season.!~ __Enjoyment:__ I can say that I was interested in seeing where the plot was going but was never really interested in what was happening at the time. While there were some action-packed scenes at times, I never felt like it was that interesting. Some aspects were very boring and it created a false sense of suspense. There were also some cool cliffhangers but they never fulfilled what they left off. I enjoyed seeing it fail but hated it after my hopes and dreams were crushed. __Overall:__ The Promised Neverland Season 2 was overall a disappointing sequel to an amazing show. All aspects that we loved from season 1 are now gone and replaced with a void that was only filled with trash and the depressed souls of the viewers looking for something amazing.
La prima stagione di The Promised Neverland fu una bomba appena uscita; lo studio CloverWorks aveva riscosso un grande successo grazie alle sue attente scelte di regia, puntando su una narrazione dinamica seppur lenta in modo da enfatizzare ancora di più le personalità e le paure dei piccoli bambini di Grace Field. Mentirei dicendo che la prima stagione non mi sia piaciuta, così come mentirei dicendo che il manga non mi abbia discretamente intrattenuto, e con delle premesse tali verrebbe naturale pensare che anche questa seconda stagione sia stata caratterizzata da una grande cura e intensità narrativa, cosa che, ahimè, è ben lontana dalla verità ~~~img(https://leganerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/the-promised-neverland-season-2-poster-key-visual-1247942-1280x0-1-999x523.jpeg)~~~ Ci tengo ancor prima di iniziare a sottolineare una cosa: il motivo per cui questa seconda stagione fallisce in maniera così plateale non è dovuto alla decisione di cambiare la trama originale del manga. Come ci insegna il primo anime di Fullmetal Alchemist, un buon prodotto può uscire anche senza dover rispettare pedestremente le linee guida dell'opera cartacea. Quello che è assolutamente imperdonabile tuttavia è la coerenza narrativa e registica scelta per questa seconda stagione, oltre che un ritmo che definire elevato sarebbe un eufemismo. In 11 episodi vengono coperti oltre 150 capitoli del manga, e per chi se lo stesse chiedendo sono numeri totalmente fuori da ogni norma, pur considerando i tagli fatti ad interi archi narrativi e i tentativi di semplificare i rimanenti in modo da poterli legare insieme. A causa della quantità elevatissima di elementi da inserire, per tutto il tempo si ha una sensazione di forzatura e i personaggi, che precedentemente sembravano così freschi e vivi, si trasformano in macchiette di loro stessi, senza spesso delle reali motivazioni che giustifichino le loro azioni, quando va bene. Quando va male al contrario si arriva al paradosso: ci sono diverse scene inserite in questo anime presenti anche nel manga, ma che perdono totalmente senso di esistere nel momento in cui gli archi legati ad essi sono stati tagliati. Quale è il senso di averle inserite a questo punto? Se proprio era necessario effettuare dei tagli e il risultato finale non risulta soddisfacente proprio a causa del ritmo troppo intenso, allora la presenza di scene inutili non ha alcuna giustificazione che tenga. Specie se consideriamo l'ultimo episodio in cui ci viene mostrata in una sequenza di meno di un minuto tutti gli avvenimenti postumi al finale che invece erano presenti nel manga, quasi come a dare un contentino ai fan più accaniti; tentativo che, ovviamente, risulta al limite dalla presa in giro. ~~~img(https://static2.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Promised-Neverland-S2E3-help-e1611288156145-1.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=740&h=399) ~~~ Il mondo fuori dall'allevamento inizialmente si rivela diverso da come i bambini lo avevano immaginato: tra animali e piante uscite da libri fantasy e la necessità di liberarsi dei propri inseguitori, Emma e Ray vengono a contatto sempre di più con la società dei demoni, imparando che essi non sono poi così dissimili da loro. La sfida della sopravvivenza e del dover salvare i bambini rimasti indietro entro un certo limite di tempo porteranno all'incontro con Mujika e Sonjuu, due misteriosi demoni, e altre vecchie conoscenze dal passato. A livello contenutistico, descritti in questa maniera, gli avvenimenti potrebbero sembrare ancora più interessanti della prima parte, dove l'attenzione era fissa sulla villa e su Mamma Isabella, ma il comparto registico affossa nuovamente il tutto. Se infatti la trama inizia a districarsi mostrandoci sempre più chiaramente le meccaniche dietro al mondo dei demoni e il rapporto che questi hanno con gli allevamenti e la carne umana, d'altra parte questi momenti sono anche affini a se stessi. Tutti i momenti di crescita personale dei personaggi, i rapporti tra razze e il modo in cui questi vengono risolti risulta spesso abbozzato e manchevole, riuscendo a confondere lo spettatore. Per quanto bello possa essere il world building e per quanto possano essere interessante gli intrighi architettati dai bambini e dai demoni, essi perdono totalmente di mordente nel momento in cui la serie non riesce a dilatarli efficientemente e anzi cerca di forzarli uno dopo l'altro in modo da avere continuamente un fattore di shock che tenga incollati allo schermo. Inutile di dire che ciò non accade. ~~~img(https://i2.wp.com/otakuorbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screenshot-2021-01-27-221905.png?ssl=1) ~~~ Esteticamente si tratta di un'opera senza infamia e senza lode. Non ci sono grandi scivoloni (a meno che non consideriamo i demoni selvatici in una CGI da primi anni 2000), tuttavia la serie non splende neanche particolarmente; in alcuni momenti il numero di frame cala, rendendo il tutto abbastanza legnoso ed innaturale, soprattutto quando non è ben mascherato. Lo stile originale e spaventoso dei demoni lascia spazio ad una rappresentazione più umana e affine a quella dei protagonisti, rendendo di fatto i cattivi della serie abbastanza piatti di punto in bianco. Risulta chiaro che questa scelta di rappresentare i demoni in questa maniera sia dovuta alle decisioni di trama e al messaggio dietro la coesistenza tra le due razze, anche se avrei sicuramente gradito un po' più di attenzione sulla vera natura di predatori di questi, e non un qualche semplice accenno affine a se stesso ogni tanto. I colori sono nitidi e accesi per quasi tutto il tempo, rendendo la fotografia molto piacevole alla vista, anche se smorzata da un comparto sonoro anche qui a volte abbastanza anonimo, se non per delle rivisitazioni della vecchia OST di Isabella. ~~~img(https://i2.wp.com/www.crowsworldofanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The_Promised_Neverland_Season_2_Episode_04_Figure-09.jpg?ssl=1) ~~~ Il prodotto finale risulta dunque manchevole e a tratti anche confuso. Le scelte registiche in primis e un comparto tecnico e sonoro nella media hanno trasformato una disperata lotta per la sopravvivenza dei protagonisti all'interno di un mondo a loro ostile in un viaggio stereotipato e prevedibile, manchevole di patos e privo di tutti quegli elementi che caratterizzavano la prima stagione. Non si tratta comunque di un prodotto così nefasto da meritare una damnatio memoriae, quanto più di un tentativo confuso e pretenzioso di voler mostrare quanto più del materiale originale in meno tempo possibile. Probabilmente con una plausibile terza stagione sarebbe stato molto più fattibile la fuoriuscita di un prodotto quantomeno in linea con la qualità a cui eravamo abituati. Insomma, sarebbe bastato un qualcosina in più per una sufficienza risicata, un sei politico, per un prodotto che fa fatica ad intrattenere nonostante i pesanti difetti
# So, what exactly went wrong? ~~~img(https://i1.wp.com/otakuauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Promised-Neverland-Season-Two-Episode-1-Emma-1024x550.jpg?resize=1024%2C550&ssl=1) ~~~ Season 2 fails in almost every regard as a follow-up to the universally praised first season of The Promised Neverland. Intricate plot threads, character revelations, clever problem-solving and carefully set-up world-building – elements that made Season 1 so exciting – were all absent from Season 2. Gone were the suspense-filled moments that held us at the edge of seats every episode, gone was the clever directing and expressive animation used for setting up the unsettling nature for many scenes, and gone were the mystery, horror and intrigue that made Season 1 live up to its title as a psychological thriller. Instead, what we received was a mishmash of plot holes, plot conveniences and “cheat code-esque” conflict resolution with no stakes and no consequences that amounted to an absolute travesty of a season. The character writing that gave this show life all but disappeared, leaving behind a hollow, cheaply written cast in stark contrast to the characters that we grew to love and appreciate in the first season. Worst of all, these aforementioned things are just a portion of the problems. To actually pinpoint all the problems that plagued Season 2 is no small task considering how EVERYTHING went wrong. Holistically speaking, this season can essentially be condensed into “Any % speedrun: The Anime”. They had all gas, no breaks for eleven episodes straight and at some point, it became quite a spectacle to see each additional episode trying to outdo the combined efforts of its predecessors for said speedrun competition. As such, to say Season 2 was rushed is an understatement. Early on, some viewers had already noted that episodes 1 and 2 had significant pacing issues and this certainly served as a premonition for things to come. Within a few episodes, worry turned into confusion and anger, and very quickly, it became apparent that the developers had no intention of giving us a fleshed-out story adapted from the bountiful source material that is The Promised Neverland manga. Instead, we realised – much to our horror – that they were simply ending the story this very season. ~~~img(https://fr.techtribune.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the-promised-neverland-season-2-anime-1255778-1280x0.jpeg) ~~~ # From this section onwards, there will be SPOILERS for Season 2 of the anime. In Season 1, our main trio alongside our major supporting cast were all shown to be highly intelligent individuals with substantial human agency (with the exception of maybe Sister Krone, who had her odds stacked up so heavily against her that her demise was inevitable). Emma, Norman and Ray pioneered their ingenious escape through their individual contributions with Don and Gilda providing intellectual backup. Isabella proved to be a more than crafty antagonist; a seemingly unstoppable shadow over Grace Field who was thwarting our protagonists at almost every turn. Furthermore, Phil’s character revelation was a very clever element for the Escape Arc’s final act, giving both the characters and the audience a sense of reassurance and hope for the safety of those who remained at Grace Field. Yet, in Season 2 none of these characters had any resemblance of the agency and intelligence they possessed in Season 1. __Emma’s character is a mess this season.__ The only instance in which Emma showed any signs of having problem-solving skills was perhaps when she ventured out into the demon villages with demon disguises. That was it. Any accomplishments she had was thanks to Minerva’s pen or some other form of plot convenience. In fact, Emma’s problematic character writing can be highlighted in a few specific moments: - In episode 2, after learning that she has to hunt and kill other living creatures for her family in the same manner that demons kill humans, she becomes burdened with the responsibility of sacrificing part of her morality and lies to her family when they ask if she’s ok. This is never properly expanded upon in the anime. What was foreshadowing instead becomes a red herring. - In episode 4, after the kids catch some unknown fish to eat, she conducts a lottery to test the food’s safety. This is completely out of character. Emma is uncompromising, especially when it comes to her family’s safety and she would never – under any circumstances – allow a sibling to endanger themselves in such a manner. A more believable Emma would have either risked her own safety by trying the fish first or thought of a smarter plan to avoid getting potentially poisoned. - In episode 5, she momentarily descends into a self-loathing, feeble, weak-minded character questioning her own decisions of having her siblings escape Grace Field. This is a direct contradiction to the unwavering conviction Emma had in Season 1 when it came to protecting her family. Character development? Quite the opposite. This is character regression and an inconsequential scene that adds nothing to the story. - From episode 6 to 11, she commits her greatest crime – “talk no jutsu” – multiple times (with Norman, Isabella, and Peter Ratri) by appealing to her own underdeveloped sense of morality. Her spontaneous decision to suddenly go against Norman’s plan is both equally bizarre and forced as the scene in which she picks up Vylk’s food by endangering her family. We know that Emma’s kind and accommodating. We know that she considers Mujika and Sonju as friends. We can perhaps infer that she opposes conflict vehemently (manga readers know this for a fact because it was properly elaborated upon in Goldy Pond). Instead, the anime completely denied us any robust explanation and build-up to properly justify Emma’s decisions. __Ray:__ Despite being listed as a main character for the season, Ray’s character was largely inconsequential for this story and his motivations behind his actions this season were never properly explained. When Emma opposes Norman’s plan, Ray’s decision to support her is backed by little to no rational weight. Instead, his purpose for that particular arc was to serve as a proxy for the audience to explain how horrendously irrational Emma’s “talk no jutsu” thinking was. Nevertheless, he agrees with her anyways for no other reason than plot convenience for the sake of pitting him and Emma against Norman. The cunning, calculating realist that we knew in Season 1? Gone. Reduced to a simple hype man for Emma. Was there a follow-up for the revelation of him being Isabella’s son in the finale of Season 1? No, it was never addressed again. In the grand scheme of things, Ray could have been removed and not much would have changed. __Norman:__ So, Norman returns halfway through in an anti-climactic fashion. He quickly reunites with his Grace Field family before proceeding into a massive exposition dump about what happened while he was gone. He establishes his plan, introduces his Lambda friends (who served no more purpose than to be hype people parroting Norman’s opinions), attempts to carry out his plan and falls victim to Emma’s “talk no jutsu”. His role in the story? To introduce a conflict and then have it resolved as quickly as it was introduced just so Emma can reunite with Vylk and continue the plot with more contrivances. __Don, Gilda and the rest of the Grace Field escapees were reduced to comic relief and Emma’s cheerleaders.__ Gilda lectured Emma on being reckless, Don smashed a chair on top of a SWAT solider, Nat played piano. Anna? She spoke. Thoma and Lannion? The “lulw duo” … I guess that was it. Now granted, despite all the complaints about the kids doing nothing and fooling around in episode 4, there is merit in showing us how the kids carried out their everyday lives in what was established as their new home. Yet none of this really mattered. We could have gotten a stronger showing of familial bonding between everyone but all of these moments were quickly forgotten beyond episode 4 since the story never had any intention of expanding upon that at all. ~~~ img(https://static3.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Promised-Neverland-S2E10-featured.png?q=50&fit=crop&w=960&h=500&dpr=1.5) ~~~ # Contrivances and Horrendous Conflict Resolution The aforementioned conflict resolution via Emma’s appeal to morality is perhaps the most glaring symptom of problematic character and plot writing this season. When Norman announces his annihilation plan to his Grace Field siblings in episode 6, the kids are ecstatic and fully in support of him. One episode later, Emma states that she’s stopping the annihilation and all the kids immediately agree with her with no opposition – except for Gilda who takes a grand total of a minute trying to convince Emma to do otherwise before changing her mind as well. The same thing happens with Norman. He seemingly demonstrates his conviction to his plan when he has his mountaintop monologue in episode 8, saying “I’m not wavering… I will gladly become a god or a devil, Emma.” Fast forward to next episode, Emma delivers a few lines of dialogue and he gives up with no resistance. His Lambda buddies? Same fate. Heel-faced turns with a few words despite telling us how badly they wanted to see them dead in an earlier episode. Isabella also suffers from her own rushed heel-faced turn but this is of her own volition. With no prior build-up, this poorly done “twist” comes out of left field for anime-only watchers. Then, she is quickly forgiven by Emma and her “talk no jutsu” partner-in-crime Ray despite everything they went through in Season 1. Peter Ratri is the only character immune to Emma’s words but he quickly offs himself before the audience could spare an extra thought for an underdeveloped excuse for an antagonist. We went from having a great antagonist in Season 1 to Peter Ratri. Good riddance. Granted, Emma’s words are not the only form of ridiculous plot device in the show. We have another culprit who is equally as guilty: that damn pen. Initially, the pen was presented as a fun element to the story – a seemingly neat little puzzle for our protagonists before it descended into our greatest cheat code for the season by conveniently delivering the characters to their final destination. The comical nature of “Pen Ex Machina” is further strengthened by Vylk opening up a whole can of contrivances after he hands Emma the missing cap of the pen that was conveniently given to him by some unknown stranger in a quick flashback. Now, armed with the combined power of both “Pen Ex Machina” and “Cap Ex Machina”, Emma is immediately given the blueprints for the entire layout of Grace Field down to the placement of the guards, wiring, circuitry of the building, and the gate that connects to the human world. They also somehow have access to hot airs balloons that conveniently show up out of nowhere in episode 10. At its core, all semblance of smarts, wits, and clever problem-solving that defined the show in Season 1 disappeared; substituted by contrivances. Finally, at the show’s conclusion, the kids depart of the human world and all of a sudden, Emma declares that she’s staying behind to make a promise that we never hear about for the rest of finale. We then see the entire story get resolved in a slideshow of thirty-two slides. This part is self-explanatory. There is no need to further elaborate on what happened as this would just be beating a dead horse. The internet has done its job. Though, I will say that these problems were not the fault of the episode writers or any of the staff who had no real control over the creative process. Please do not direct any hate towards them. They were simply doing their jobs and it was very unfortunate they were dealt terrible cards to begin with. In fact, at least one of the writers understood the source material very well considering they worked on three manga one-shots expanding upon the original story. The production committee should bear full responsibility for everything that happened. # Visual Quality and Music For most of the season, the art and animation were satisfactory. CGI demons did prove to be an eyesore when they appeared but their appearances were far and few between in this season. Throughout the season, there were a number of shots that should have been filled with activity but were instead replaced by static characters simply standing around. There was also a very noticeable drop in visual quality in the final two episodes and characters were standing so still that they effectively became background wallpaper. In the end, the animators over at CloverWorks certainly did have their hands full with Horimiya and Wonder Egg Priority (which had its own share of production issues) and by the end of the season, TPN was most certainly just a job that the animators had to finish begrudgingly because they too knew that this mess was no longer worth their effort. Although, I will say that some of the artwork presented in the final slideshow was very nice. Music wise, the score for the entire season did a fairly commendable job at trying to convey tone for their respectable scenes. There was perhaps an overuse of Isabella’s lullaby and The Promised Neverland main theme but for the most part, this was just a minor gripe. Both OP and ED songs were great too – it is just such a shame that these talented artists now have their work attached to this season. ~~~img(https://mangathrill.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/trrraarr.jpg) ~~~ # How did we end up here? Terrible production decisions amidst speculation and confusion… In December 2020, [an unofficial Shounen Jump news source](https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1342776526199259136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1342776526199259136%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fkkgvy9%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse) reported that the anime was “going original” with TPN mangaka Kaiu Shirai overseeing “original scenarios”. With this information, some manga fans were led to believe that perhaps the anime would amend the original story by fleshing out issues with characters and certain plot points that plagued the later arcs of the TPN manga. At the time, there was undoubtedly some degree of optimism surrounding this news. Fast forward to now, we can see that we received quite the opposite. In late January (between the airing of episodes 3 and 4 when the anime began to deviate heavily from the manga), the community received news from multiple official sources confirming that the anime was indeed intending do its own story. However, by this point the damage had been done and fans reacted with anger. Season 2 is by no means a proper manga adaptation, but to say that it was an anime original isn’t quite true either. To put things into perspective, the anime completely skips through 4 out of the 11 arcs (Season 1 covered arcs 1 and 2) and loosely adapts vague plot points from the remaining arcs by drastically watering down the plot and characters. All of this is done in 11 episodes. The reality was, we were deceived. Perhaps it is safe to assume that Kaiu Shirai never had any substantial input for Season 2 beyond suggesting a few ideas and having them vaguely adapted into the anime. [For episodes 10 and 11, his name (alongside the episode script writers) was removed from the credits](https://www.cbr.com/promised-neverland-season-2-episode-10-no-writing-credit/). I think it is ludicrous for anyone to suggest that Shirai himself was genuinely supporting the developers to sabotage his own story. So please, do not direct any hate towards Shirai because he was just a victim of a terrible production committee (in fact, if you do wish to support him in any way, please read the manga that he poured his love and passion into). If anything, the only reasonable conclusion we can make is that the production committee simply used his name under the pretense of creating this dumpster fire. Considering how the original release date of the anime (was intended to be in October 2020 before Covid-19 delays) was meant to coincide with the release of the manga’s final volume (also in October 2020), perhaps we can assume that the developers simply wanted to make a quick buck amidst all the hype. It is no secret that from a business standpoint, anime is created to boost manga sales (and merch). We’ve seen in recent times how an insanely popular series such as Demon Slayer resulted in incredible success for manga sales. Likewise, The Promised Neverland was no stranger to success. After its successful anime release, manga sales reached an all time high in 2019, making it the 3rd bestselling entry in Shounen Jump just behind fellow juggernauts One Piece and Demon Slayer. Why the production committee chose to give up on this series is beyond our understanding. Maybe it was the lukewarm reception for the manga’s ending and final arcs. Maybe TPN was just never as popular as we believed (this seems to be an opinion shared by a vocal minority – not by me). Maybe it was just a pure sense of apathy from the higher-ups in charge of this production who just wanted to “get this series over and done with” so they could move on. In the end, all we can say is that someone in charge didn’t care about Season 2, and eventually, we stopped caring too. If you’ve reached this point, I sincerely thank you for stick with me through my very long review. As both a TPN manga fan and a fan of the anime who followed this season’s weekly episode releases, these last few weeks were certainly trying times. For anime-only’s who are interested in reading a far better continuation of the story in the manga, I strongly encourage you to do so. The story continues after Season 1 in chapter 37 volume 5. If you are a manga reader and would like to see my thoughts from the perspective of a manga reader, then I have a compilation of ramblings with manga spoilers in the section below. Otherwise, I bid you farewell until next time. Here’s a happy Emma to send you off: ~~~img300(https://media1.tenor.com/images/16fb6c8ed510f76af57c9877bb4722e7/tenor.gif?itemid=17775955) ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MANGA SPOILERS BELOW MANGA SPOILERS BELOW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Compilation of random thoughts: ~~~img300(https://64.media.tumblr.com/2db002dc65231c6b668449de51dcabb5/tumblr_pmi3id3zD81vsxr02_1280.jpg) ~~~ - A moment of silence for: Yuugo, Lucas, Oliver, Gillian, Sonya, Zack, Nigel, Violet, Pepe, Paula, Sandy, Adam, Leuvis, the other Goldy Pond antagonists, Ayshe, Hayato and everyone else who never made it on screen. You guys were awesome. - It’s a shame we’ll never get to see an animated version of Yuugo and Lucas fend off Andrew’s team at the shelter. That was one hell of a scene. - A lot of issues in the latter half of the manga could have amended if the first part of the Cuvitidala Arc was more fleshed out. Same goes for the Seven Walls Arc and the latter half of the Imperial Battle Arc. To see these both of these arcs get reduced to single still frames in the ending slide show certainly brought forth a lot of pained laughter for many. - Talk no jutsu is bad – but at least when it appeared during the King of Paradise Arc it did actually accomplish something worthwhile. In the manga, Emma comes from a position of strength and her words are meant to reinforce her unwavering conviction to oppose conflict that was first established in Goldy Pond. In the anime, despite repeating the same words, she actually comes from a position of weakness because her point of view is there for plot contrivance and backs up nothing. In fact, episode 5 did make an attempt to give more credence to Emma’s words in episode 6 but it just does not work because they forcibly tried to establish Emma’s moral position in one episode just to set up the next one. I sympathise with the writers for being screwed over. - I think everyone can agree that Norman’s reunion was a very heartfelt sequence of events in the manga. The tone was established perfectly and Emma’s interior monologue did add a great deal of emotional weight to that scene. For those who forgot, we also did have the main trio spend a night together falling asleep while leaning on each other (pictured above) – very wholesome. There was also a great sense of pride to see Norman with so many accomplishments after a long time. The King of Paradise Arc was far from perfect but the reunion was genuinely a very well-done sequence. On the other hand, to see such a great moment get reduced to a cheap scene in the anime heartbreaking to say the least. - I’m sure everyone thought that the queen and the nobles would be completely removed from the anime. It did come as a surprise to see them get comically shoehorned in the finale. - So, the ending of the anime was really just one big plot hole. In order for the plot to make sense, the promise needed to be made before the humans crossed over because that way, the two worlds would permanently be separated. Having Emma send everyone off and then making the promise just means that the demons can literally cross over in the meantime… They tried to change the ending but it just resulted in one big laughable plot hole. For anime-only’s, Emma does mention making a promise in passing, but it’s reduced to a single frame with no context. There’s also no cost, because we clearly see her keep her memories at the end… Ahh whatever, it’s a waste of time thinking about this. Nothing made sense anyways. It does hurt me a little though, to see anime Emma get a happy ending – in great contrast to manga Emma’s sacrifice – even though anime Emma made 0 onscreen accomplishments to deserve that. - I will take this opportunity to remind everyone that the special epilogue chapter Yakusoku no Neverland: Bangai-hen – Dreams Come True (this chapter takes place after the manga ending) is now fully translated in English and is available online. Enjoy! ~~~img300(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/60/61/816061a752f2765c13973864359fc17d.jpg) ~~~
Fair warning: there are spoilers in here relating to both seasons of _The Promised Neverland_, but I believe those that are here have already completed the series and would like to hear the opinions of others in the community that already watched. Let's begin: As someone that didn’t read the manga yet thoroughly enjoyed season one of _The Promised Neverland_, it’s safe to say that I was quite ecstatic to see what was coming next. The first season ended on such a high note after the main clique had escaped from Grace Field House, leaving behind a life of tragedy and endless lies. It was very well animated, very tense, and had all the makings to become an excellent anime series. The main cast was very well developed, each character having a decent amount of time to grow and progress. Every character included within the main cast had diverse traits and personalities making the character development incredibly interesting to follow. Emma, Ray, and Norman were an excellent trio, and figuring out more about this twisted demon-society that they were brought into was always a joy. It was a slow recovery of information that flowed well for the series. Piece by piece we were able to understand more about this world and what truly was happening here very early on. Bottom line: this wasn’t an ordinary orphanage. The peel-back of information was exceedingly satisfying and tense, with each episode raising the stakes and adding further anxiety which crafted the path for their eventual escape. There were some hiccups here and there, but overall the pacing was extremely well rounded and made for quite the strong showing for a new series. It kept viewers wanting to see more and opened up the slate for something really special. Fast forward just 2 years later, and the series is completely finished. That should be an immediate red flag for anyone unaware, but diving into this season I had expected there to be at least another additional season (or maybe even two) before this story wrapped up. Brilliance takes time. Work, whether well done or poorly crafted, also takes time. Rather than CloverWorks capitalizing on the potential of this series, they botched it in every possible way from start to finish. Not just with the animation which is noticeably a vast downgrade from the first season, but everything from the actual characters to the storyline itself was flattened and overly streamlined. The previously mentioned trio? Ruined within the span of these past 11 episodes. Everything they learned, uncovered, valued, appreciated, and understood were all swept under the rug and instead, the characters became as flat and 2D as possibly imaginable. Each episode revealed enough content to fill several episodes which blows my mind as the pacing of the first season nearly perfected the transition from manga to anime. Instead of becoming an enjoyable adaptation week after week, it was one that I dreaded and only continued just to see how much worse it would become. Ray, my favorite character from the first season, was stuck doing absolutely nothing besides following Emma and mimicking her every move. It was as if the motives he developed during season one vanished after the escape from Grace Field House. It was unbelievably disappointing seeing him transition from a witty and unique character to one that ended up having less importance than the slimy air-breathing Goowee. I still cannot fathom how the series transitioned from something incredible to something completely and utterly disappointing after one season. The introduction of Mujika and Sonju as friendly-demons opened up many possibilities that could have been deeply explored and yet after the first two episodes, the main cast went their separate ways deeming their initial meeting basically meaningless. There was so much mystery behind them and yet they were quickly thrown in and out of the action fairly quickly. It became abundantly clear after this encounter that the entirety of the season would follow this speed of revealing information in a snap. Why completely change the formula and rush through the whole manga when the previous season was fine? Throughout all of the series so far the characters have been guided by this mysterious figure known as “William Minerva”, aka James Ratri, and his whole presence dissolved so quickly into this second season. The delivery of backstories and the fact that major arcs were missing didn’t help their case either. The approach here was just sonic-speed all the way through with no turning back. Here’s a brand new character but they won’t mainstay their welcome and will be irrelevant after five minutes. Pointless. Norman is back...yay? The series failed to even give us time to breathe and comprehend where he might’ve gone before bringing him back into the spotlight. Rather than genuinely showcasing the entirety of the Lambda storyline and develop these brand new characters that were interjected into the storyline, their whole presence was summarized in a short flashback that didn’t even take up 1 full episode. Norman himself grew to become somewhat of an antagonist in the eyes of the main cast and yet his mind was able to change almost instantly after his return. Bringing him back into the fold this way was different than what I expected, but this plan crumbled through his own movements after just 1 episode again. Unlike the Norman first introduced, this version was tested on and was able to create a formula capable of wiping out the majority of demons living in this world. This was something unique and yet it was still botched. Instead of fleshing out these newly introduced Lambda characters and allowing us to understand their perspective, the anime team decided to INSTANTLY humanize the demons which led to the downfall of the entire demon-genocide plan. At this point in this awful second season, this failed to surprise me. The events happening in front of my very eyes made no sense. It’s honestly quite embarrassing seeing how flawed, rushed, and nearly unwatchable this series became after beginning this season. Manga-fans were hoping for this season to reevaluate the poor ending and the writing team decided to flip the switch and give longtime fans the complete opposite. I can’t even explain how many years passed during this season because the unloading of information and dismissal of key events did so much more harm than good. If the main purpose of this horrible season was to get viewers to instead buy the manga in hopes of reading a storyline that actually made sense, well this plan definitely worked alright. Rarely will I have such a strong disconnect with a series, but _The Promised Neverland_ S2 takes the cake for being the most disappointing season possibly of all time. For those that are looking for a better series to dive into, please watch basically anything else. Do not waste your time here unless you plan on watching season one and reading the rest, but apparently, there isn’t too much more to enjoy on that front. Deservingly, this season is getting a whopping __1/10__ from me.
~~~__Promised Neverland Season 2... Where do I start?__~~~ Well first off let me start by saying that this anime skipped a bunch of scenes from the manga, which really ended up ruining most of the amazing potential this anime had, but for the sake of the review, I will ignore the manga (Which was amazing), and judge this as an anime only product. With this in mind, I still consider this season to be pretty mediocre, if not a bit bad as a whole. Anyhow, this review will be entirely spoiler free, so let's begin. # ~~~Story: 5/10~~~ This story continues just where season 1 left off, but for some unknown reason they decided that the best course of action was to use a bunch of time skips, I will pretend that I don't know what has occurred in the manga, and with that in mind, due to a lot of arcs being skipped, some stuff in this anime make no sense what so ever, and you are frequently left thinking: "Why did this happen?" and "This makes no sense!" Some other things outright contradict that which was shown in season 1, and we have no explanation on why these things occurred. Overall, a lot of scenes feel too rushed. #~~~Art: 3/10~~~ Okay so, with this category I will be considering art to mean both "Aesthetics" (How the show looks) as well as "Animation", since that for me also effects the art of the anime. So in regards to Aesthetics, a good number of scenes look visually appealing, so I have no complaints in that regard. However, there were no eye-dropping scenes, or moments where I felt like I wanted to paused the episode and just admire the artstyle. On the other hand, a few scenes were made pretty badly in the show, where you only see the characters with a pitch black background. Now in regards to animation... This might sound weird, but this season is barely animated... What I mean by this is that most scenes have characters just standing still, with only their mouth being animated when they talk. Furthermore, the camera angle frequently shifts away from the person talking, so most of the time all you see is a still image. There is also a couple of moments where we hear a sound effect or noise, and then the camera shows the effects of those noises, but doesn't actually show an animated character creating those noises. #~~~Sound: 4/10~~~ There wasn't a single soundtrack that caught my attention, and with that in mind, I really can't give sound a score that's higher than 5. #~~~Character: 5/10~~~ We still have the same characters that we loves from season 1, together with a couple of new characters. The main issue is that a good number of characters became way less interesting, and many of them don't feel like the same characters from back in season 1. Ray in particular for some reason rarely uses his brain this season, and just seems to do what everyone else is doing. While the rest of the children are completely emotionless, and just have the exact same emotion that Emma has, and do what she tells them to do. Emma is pretty much the same Emma we know and love, but for some unknown reason they made her a bit dumber than in season 1, and for some reason she believes that "Love and Friendship" is the solution to absolutely everything... #~~~Enjoyment: 4/10~~~ My Enjoyment might be lower than most others because I read the manga, so having an anime that skipped so much might have made me feel frustrated and bored watching this, but for the sake of considering how you anime-onlys feel, I will increase the score from 3 to 4. Overall, there is a lot of repetition in dialogue, and with the characters acting blander than usual, mediocre music and poor animation, the scenes in this anime often bore me. #~~~Overall: 4/10~~~ TL:DR: The anime had a lot of potential but decided to skip a lot of things, and rush other things, most scenes feel poorly made and uninteresting.
__PROPER MENTALITY__ __The Promised Neverland Season 2__ was the hyped series of the season it aired in for one and only one reason: The colors were bit pretty. CloverWorks was flexing in every episode and the result was a beautiful piece of work that envelops a mediocre, underwhelming and get worse shonen except __Horimiya__ and __The Promised Neverland Season 1__. If you see anything other than cool animation, you won’t find something out of the ordinary. Sure, it may feel fresh because the main character will next __Made in Abyss__, __Attack on Titan__, __Jujutsu Kaisen__, __Horimiya__, __Black Clover__ (Notice: It's very bad and annoying premise, but at the end it will turn to good/great anime series) and __Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba__ clone that constantly yells and wants to be the best in the world at something. __TPN__ anime is originally my favorite anime from __Season 1__ both of great and amazing episodes until to __Season 2__ first 3 episodes I respect into overall 23 episodes anime series since __TPN1__ is amazingly done with a rare plot and storyline that makes you want more. As a result, __Season 1__ is become my favorite anime of the year 2019 with alongside __Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba__ and __Kaguya-Sama: Love is War Season 1__. If I read __TPN manga__, I think this manga will be good and interesting, so then when season two released I was obviously exited to see this amazing/masterpiece made into an anime, oh boy were my dreams crushed. But the second season? Sadly, there are lot of people try to complaint anime filler since it was trying to remove some favorite manga story moments of pointless filler (Season 2 just remove 50 chapters with fans favorite arc are 'Goldy Pond' and are quickly jump to decent, mediocre or boring/bit disgrace arc), rushed story and it's going downhill, water down with __My Hero Academia Season 4__ and __Tokyo Ghoul__ both seasons (except __Season 1__ is amazing season anime)... It's one of the most overhyped and the worst anime of the year 2021. I think it should get 24 episodes instead pointless 11 episodes. Go to read __TPN__ manga, please! This is refer share another person YouTube Video : youtube(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kXtZsLg404&t=317s) Synopsis: The Season 2 is follows Female version Kamado Tanjirou from __Demon Slayer__, previously known as “Emma”. Similar to Tanjiro but even worse, Emma is also powerful, kind and brave in the modern Japan Taisho Area history war. Using a sword, she has the power of plot armor to protect her from any danger! Getting chased by a demon? She can outrun it. Armed soldiers can’t kill demons with sword? She’ll kill it with a bow & arrow when she protect her's own Male version Nezuko Kamado. Instead of getting followed around by a harem, Female Tanjiro has a bunch of children that go along with anything she says. They have names but don’t worry—you won’t remember them anyway. Previously a character known as “Ray” challenged Emma’s overly idealistic goals. This season he has been renamed to “Dries van Ray/Draie” because has lost attractive, without improve on the plot and allows Emma to do anything—no matter how stupid she acts. A long-lost friend (who has disappearing less than 6 episodes) returns, but he’s actually a bitter Bad Guy now! Shocking! But how the fucking is he get worse? He explains everything to us because we are unable to pointless comprehending storytelling—we should be jerk and pathetic! __SCRIPT__ What Story?!/10 What the hell did I just watch this anime story plot? Don't waste of time to watched this anime story plot with boring and suck. Ok, __The Promised Neverland Season 2__’s plot follows some of the typical horror, demons and war fantasy animes in which many of random kills demons person has implemented only it fails on MANY fronts and makes even the typical cliches, seem both disingenuous, blatant and desperate in it's cliches which fails continuously. Everything from the dense main heroine and this one Emma almost freaking surpasses Nezuko Kamado from __Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba__ in her denseness, Norman the main male protagonist and looks the kind and cute but still graceful and strong wife of the anime feels more like a lovely of Tanjiro Kamado from __Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba__. Norman's being a extremely childrens idols (who idolize Emma's selfless and innocent personality) despite Norman's physical fitness weaker than Ray and Emma but still makes good srategy to make up for its shortcomings, thus just hard working, wait who being good wife and we have Norman. Sadly that Norman will become demon members on this season which change the plot and ruined his story programmes. Norman is also shows up after being gone by a scary and evil eyes, that was become villians on some episode and than has change his mind. That is horrible and get worse story pacing. Ray is calm and intelligent but he also care Norman and Emma since he not give up his motivation. We also have the typical horror, demons and war fantasy elements or just one not good development enough but it also great premised as well because can see the premise suddenly quick jumped in sometimes, but it still amazing and surprised unlikely such as __Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest__ anime adaptation and __My Sister, My Writer__ more damm. We also see other important storyline, Emma, Ray, and the rest of the older children have escaped the confines of the Grace Field House. However, with relentless demons set on capturing them, their arduous battle for freedom has only just begun. They decided to search outside place—dark forest, discover that a pen given to them by Norman belonged to William Minerva and contains a holographic map with coded messages referring to text in the House textbooks into the first 3 episodes but Emma also lets other childs eat potentially poisonous fish, in the other she’ll happily help a demon with its groceries despite knowing they like to eat children for supper… or Emma is forced other child saved demons including brainwash Norman by Ratri Peter??? But of course in the end, Emma looks forgot Norman and Ray gave him promised who blame himself (unsurprisingly) or ignore that what is moral and philosophical debate into __Season 2__. Emma trying to talk what Patri should or not doing things but Patri also used gun suicide and killed himself. Unfortunately, it would becomes horribly boring and the main idea gets worse quite soon as the series is more about shallow fantasy and pointless violence, rather than the moral and philosophical debate of the original (or I can't say original and should called manga). In the basic plausibility, mostly mentioned had pointless, uninspired and uninteresting. Although the premise is great and amazing, but I found that the anime could easily be summed up in only focus good 3 episodes and much sloppy after the middle story with a poorly-written story. Where to start with this kinda awful second season! It suddenly to change the plot of a good and interesting manga since it skipped over 100+ chapters into 11 episodes with some great manga arc and remove some great characters including Yuugo and other important characters damm! The Goldy Pond arc played a huge role in the manga, not to mention all the characters that were left out due to it. The reunion of Emma and Norman was rushed, resulting in a less emotional scene. For example in episode 4 Isabella was trying to retrieve all of the escaped children, yet in episode 10 with nothing explain she wants to save the children. Or the 6th episode is nothing more than a recap episode that wasted time and is pointless since the season just started air and the audience doesn't really need a recap. I don't want to talk about too much non-sense other episodes story. It's completely awful and pointless complexity which is so lazy and poorly story written. Worst of all, they changed the ending to a sloppy happy ending instead of the bittersweet emotional one we were given at the end of the manga (manga ending is very embarrassing and get boring), and what was with that cheap excuse of an ending really, a damn collage?! TPN2 the last episode is one of the worst ending since it has used The PowerPoint Presentation slideshow the last 2 minutes 40 seconds looks cringe, silly and make me revolting, that I'm now depressed into __The Promised Neverland Season 2__ anime adaptation 11 episodes. I get tired for __TPNL2 anime__... __PRODUCTION VALUES__ __The Promised Neverland Season 2__'s biggest and major reasoning why __TPN2__ even got any press while it was being released in from 8th January 2021 to 26th March 2021 TV anime adaptation wasn't too much horribly boring modern style but still mediocre in had in 11 episodes. __The Promised Neverland Season 2__ animation studio is Cloverworks series from 2021 which put same studio that did every episodes of __Horimiya__, __TPN season 1__, __Wonder Egg Priority__ and __Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai__, so how you would expect them to help what key visually and whatnot, well they tried and even with another animation studio, the quality wasn't too much dumpster fire and horribly boring in sometimes even to the point but the quality is looks dropped ball and become get worse in this season. The general artwork does look, the most part, is okayish and does bit give off the feeling of horror and dark fantasy style. It’s just simple with poor but still looks scary of demons enough, it purpose of find different escape things and at least amazing fantasy. The character figures look interesting and unique but it look wasted, forgettable and awkward in sometimes. The animation is most ugly since demon CGI looks really choppy, ugly and dropped ball, best explained like some scenes of __Arifureta Season 1__ and when they use CGI for some of the monsters scenes which makes pretty unwatchable. Don't forget that the last episode is used the PowerPoint presentation animation which is not good to used modern world building elements, especially compared to the manga. It doesn't help that CloverWorks were working on 2 other series (__Horimiya__ and __Wonder Egg Priority__ respectively) when they were working on this. Complete to the opposite that, __Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War Season 1__ episode 3 Ending choose Chika Chika dance song (or I say Chikatto Chika Chika♡/チカっとチカ千花っ♡) is used 3D animation scenes and played well a huge role into 12 episodes which get excellent and more unique than __TPN2__ anime disgrace CGI. The fantasy elements of the series are look more visual interesting rather than as an incompetent attempt at world building. However, the action and horror scenes are boring most of the time. Nothing could consider all war and kill demons to look around. As a result, the animation looks good and smooth but it's not good and more amateur level than Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan. The voice acting and music themes looks interesting and unique and its bit annoying but nothing horrible and disgusting at least. It’s serviceable. __CHARACTERS__ Oh boy, if I checked that the characters are getting hated and worse on this season, I think it's suddenly that these characters development just disappear. Kaiu Shirai should become a considering magician who become from hero to zero mangaka and make it things disappear: character development, plot points, fine details, and his fan base. Moslty characters are both of horribly boring, uninteresting and really retards expect Ray, Phil, Mujika and anime removed some good/great characters as Yuugo since it skipped over 100+ chapters into 11 episodes with some great manga arc and remove some great characters including Yuugo and other important characters damm! If you think are good in the __Season 1__ just follow what Emma says everyone should try to used different strategy how other child escaped from Grace Field House, why Emma is suddenly be ruined by change of story plot on __Season 2__? Since Emma never considered different things including challenged on everything, faces any consequences or other needs decision things. Norman is killing all of demons, other all of kids are almostly board with it or followed Emma prevent this bad things with Ray. I think Emma will the biggest questionable morality behind this decision on the __season 2__. Emma is talk everyone to her side and she decides she doesn’t want to kill the demons, because there are good ones like Sonju and Mujika. Emma forced other child saved demons including brainwash Norman by Ratri Peter who makes her decision worse and worrying things. Too selfish and annoying! Emma is really Mary Sue on __Season 2__! Norman is just stupid and retard compared to __Season 1__ so much! Only Ray, Phil and Mujika are both of decent and more favorite characters for most to the point they got their own side story on __Season 2__ I've seen. Mostly semblance of intelligence and thinking is the biggest downfall and more cringe from main cast. This is just stupid and embarrassed things! The most disgrace villain (Peter Ratri) is a cool-looking but arrogant and retards adult who has been running these farms for ages, and even figured out where these kids were hiding, randomly believes one of them would sell the rest out and doesn’t have a contingency? Just too much annoying brainwash and disgusting things! It's just horrible and disgrace. Almostly characters are just horrible and disgrace on __Season 2__. __LEGACY__ How the fuck I give value and enjoyment of the __TPN2__ anime that make no sense? It was inferior of the manga, fake emotional, dumpster fire, annoying and stupid are the only words for it. Don't waste your time with this shit. Overall, The Promised Neverland Season 2 is one of the worst anime sequel and quickly jump to lower score rating than __Tokyo Ghoul Root A__ and __Sword Art Online II__ since __TPN2__ is getting hate by users and give it mostly negative and unfavorable anime reviews more than __Sword Art Online both season__ anime and __Black Clover (TV)__ anime into 170 episodes. As a result, __TPN2__ is completely failure and disgrace anime adaptation while MyAnimeList only give it 5.70 out of 10 scores possible, while on Amazon Prime it got 1.9 out of 5 total. Bilibili website is only give it 2.7 out of 10 scores total and other websites are also possible give it lower score ratings. I give __TPN2__ only 2 or 3 out of 10 scores rating and awful anime lol... What a shame and embarrassed for __TPN2__ anime adaptation! __The Promised Neverland Season 2__ is really horrible and rushed anime adaptation as __Arifureta Season 1__, __Kenja no Mago__, __Once Upon a Time__ and __Tokyo Ghoul Root A__. Please watched __Jujutsu Kaisen (TV)__, __Attack on Titan__, __Haikyuu!!__, __Fruit Basket (2019-2021 version)__ and __Kaguya-Sama: Love is War__ instead of this trashy and disgrace! Please also watch TPN Season 1 and read the manga! __SUGGESTION LIST__ This series is equality as pathetic as: __Once Upon a Time__. Travel with new worldbuilding are never get boring and disgrace. If you want to find about other TPNL2 information, please check on the other webside: https://terribletvshows.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Promised_Neverland_(Season_2) And now for some excused scorings. __ART SECTION: 4/10__ __General Artwork 1/2__ (generic) __Character Figures 1/2__ (generic) __Backgrounds 1/2__ (so-so) __Animation 0/2__ (ugly) __Visual Effects 1/2__ (cool hornor and fantasy but bit waste and weak) __SOUND SECTION: 6/10__ __Voice Acting 2/3__ (amazing but also bit embarassing characters voice) __Music Themes 2/4__ (decent music themes, good OST) __Sound Effects 2/3__ (decent) __STORY SECTION: 2/10__ __Premise 2/2__ (interesting) __Pacing 0/2__ (awful) __Complexity 0/2__ (simplistic) __Plausibility 0/2__ (none) __Conclusion 0/2__ (doesn’t exist) __CHARACTER SECTION: 0/10__ __Presence 0/2__ (stupid or dull) __Personality 0/2__ (annoying and out of characters) __Backdrop 0/2__ (none) __Development 0/2__ (close to zero) __Catharsis 0/2__ (messy especially that Emma and Norman is fucking annoying and awful on this season) __VALUE SECTION: 0/10__ __Historical Value 0/3__ (forgettable) __Rewatchability 0/3__ (nothing worth to rewatch) __Memorability 0/4__ (just another generic horror and thriler) __ENJOYMENT SECTION: 0/10__ __Art 0/1__ (look good, but drop quality) __Sound 0/2__ (terrible) __Story 0/3__ (absent) __Characters 0/4__ (too annoying expect Ray, Phil, Mujika and anime removed some good/great characters as Yuugo) __VERDICT: 2/10__ ~~~img220(https://media.comicbook.com/2021/03/the-promised-neverland-season-2-anime-ending-1262386.jpeg?auto=webp&width=1200&height=628&crop=1200:628,smart)~~~ ~~~(Photo: Aniplex)~~~
# ~~~__I just finished The Promised Neverland season 2 and here are my thoughts__.~~~ _I went into this season with fairly low expectations because everyone says that this season of TPN is terrible. and after watching it I can say that it's the most mediocre show I have ever watched. I do not like that they strayed away from the manga. It just feels that this season was super rushed, there are some questions unanswered, and sometimes the animation doesn't look as good as it should. I do feel that the people that say this season is terrible are overexaggerating the heck out of it but I can understand. it is such a step down from the first season. they throw strategies out of the window and just rely on plot convenience. when there is a problem that they are facing, it just gets solved in the same episode. for one example, norman was gonna die because they performed too many experiments on him but 5 minutes later they find a cure for his disease. it just feels like they don't understand tension at all. and it's a real shame because it could've been better than the first season. the pacing is extremely fast. another thing I found annoying about this season is whenever a side character has an objection to Emma's plan, Emma says one line and suddenly everyone's on her side. I don't like how the kids are about to die multiple times but someone just at the right time comes to save them like Sonju and mujika and later on norman and his squad in fact let's talk about the new norman in this season. wow, they just ruined my boy norman like that. how did he suddenly turn evil and started a genocide then 5 minutes later realized that what he is doing is wrong. I don't like the new characters at all, like barbara, for example, she is angry, furious, she can kill anything, but 5 minutes later she sees a kid saying " pls don't kill me'' then she becomes good and decides not to kill. the bald-headed guy who I didn't like in the first place, gets even more annoying when they make us think that he is turning on the group and betraying them, use it as a plot twist, and at the end of an episode to get us to watch next episode and then the first 5 minutes of the next episode it's revealed that he was never the bad guy. like why did u use it as a plot twist to get us to watch the next episode if you're just gonna reveal that it's not true. the plot twist that Isabelle is with the kids is the most stupid thing I have seen in my life, they make us think that she is turning evil right until the end but without any foreshadowing, she just is with the kids now. they just throw strategies out of the freaking window. what happened to sonju now wanting to eat humans, they just ignored that. whenever it is convenient, they just throw previously built development out of the window and twist the person into an entirely new character. Emma got so damn annoying at some points. like they're demons, why do you sympathize with them. the whole reason why the demons were scary in the first place was that we really knew nothing about them, that's what made season 1 so spooky. but the demons are front and center in the second season and it just pisses me off that they made the demons such a vital role. them going to rescue the kids was the most rushed thing I have ever seen in my life, it's just like they ended the season near the episode 9 mark but had to reach till episode 11 so they just added that to the mix. and how did that weird Minerva's brother become the main villain for a second, you just introduced him 2 episodes ago and now he's the main antagonist and we are supposed to be sad when he killed himself? I could go on for days about my problems with it but now I have to talk about some good things about season 2. I actually liked the ending, not a lot of people liked it but I enjoyed it. I thought the first episode with the chase scene was pretty scary. Episodes 8 and 10 are actually really good episodes with 10 being my favorite of season 2. this review is long enough already so I have to stop now._ # __TLDR__ _I was just disappointed with this. it's not as bad as people say it is but it's nowhere near season one. it relies highly on plot convenience and not on strategies. norman and emmas characters were severely worsened. the animation is good but poor at times like the CGI big demons look soo bad. I want to read the manga now cause people are saying it's so much better than this. so I will probably do that. sorry if the review is not as good quality as it usually is, I just had to get this out there as quickly as possible._
"The Promised Neverland Staffel 2" oder wie ich es auch gerne nenne "Abschaum der Menschheit". Diese "Adaption" ist das widerwertigste, schlimmste und gehirnzellzerstörenste Stück Scheiße. Wer den Manga gelesen hat weiß genau wovon ich hier rede. Bevor ich mit der richtigen "Review" anfange will ich jeden warnen der es in betracht zieht, die zweite Staffel dieser Serie zu gucken. Also: Tu`s nicht du wirst dich dafür auf ewig hassen und du wirst es bereuen weil du dir deine Augen auslöffeln wollen wirst. ~~~ img220(https://i.gifer.com/origin/76/76388ec0721058c21fb03d6e833ff2ca.gif)~~~ Kommen wir zunächst zum Positiven... es gibt einen Anime-Only Opa irgendwo mitten in der hirnverschmolzenen Schimpansenscheiße den man irgendwie als "Okay" bezeichnen KÖNNTE. Das wars. Jetzt kommt nur noch Abfall. Die ersten 2-3 Folgen dieser Staffel halten sich noch einigermaßen an die wunderschöne Manga Vorlage. Danach hat sich die Direktion dazu entschieden Hundescheiße zu fressen und sich danach mit ihrer eigen Kotze einzumassieren (satiere haha spaß bitte nicht bannen). Ich als TPN-Manga-Enthusiast war SCHOCKIERT als ich sah, dass die Entscheidung gefallen ist, den besten Char der kompletten Serie zu entfernen. Ich spreche hierbei von Yuugo. Jetzt denken sich manche wahrscheinlich "was redet dieser Hurensohn, es gibt kein Yuugo in der Staffel?". UND GENAU DA LIEGT DAS PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UND DAS WARS NOCH NICHT!!! Nicht nur wird Yuugo ausgelassen, nein, alle folgenden Arc werden entweder geskippt oder so stark komprimiert dass selbst ein Fötus es verstehen würde. Naja, moment, alles was nach der ersten Staffel kommt MACHT JA NICHTMAL SINN. Es ist wirklich ein Alptraum. Es kommen kaum bis keine Charaktere vor oder sie werden so stark versimpliziert das sie die Charakter Tiefe von nem Stück Brot haben (Oder sogar noch weniger). Auch die im Manga super cool aussehende "Gang" von Norman sieht in dieser Alternativen Timeline aus wie Cosplayer die ihre Klamotten aus verbrannten Sperrmüll haben. Hier einmal Vergleichsbilder: ~~~img220(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPbfx7nXEAcMR8Z.jpg:large)~~~ Seht ihr was ich meine? Diese Umsetzung sollte in Deutschland verboten sein da sie praktisch gegen das GRUNDGESETZ verstößt. Ich zitiere: Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland Art 1 (1) Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt. (2) Das Deutsche Volk bekennt sich darum zu unverletzlichen und unveräußerlichen Menschenrechten als Grundlage jeder menschlichen Gemeinschaft, des Friedens und der Gerechtigkeit in der Welt. (3) Die nachfolgenden Grundrechte binden Gesetzgebung, vollziehende Gewalt und Rechtsprechung als unmittelbar geltendes Recht. Bei dieser Umsetzung wurde nicht nur die Würde verletzt sondern jeglicher Respekt gegenüber dem Mangaka und jedem Fan dieser Serie. Was die Sache noch schlimmer macht, das Studio hatte die Frechheit und hat die ausgelassenen Arcs am Ende der Serie als eine gottverdammte, zerfickte Diashow in 15 Sec eingeblendet. In diesem Moment wusste ich was das bedeutet, mein herz ist in gentasuende Splitter zerfetzt. Ich habe mich in meine Decke eingerollt und geweint. Tage. Wochen. Monate. Jahre. Es gibt soviel mehr was ich noch ansprechen könnte aber diese Scheiße ist mir nicht noch mehr meiner Zeit wert. Ich hoffe jeder der diese zweite Staffel auch nur irgendwie unterstützt, bekommt einen dicken Schmatzer zum Geburtstag (zufrienden Mods?) Danke fürs Lesen und ich hoffe ich habe einiger verlorene Seelen davor abgehalten diese Schande zu erblicken.