Yakusoku no Neverland 2nd Season

This season had decent development of the themes present in the first. It felt rushed but didn’t leave me disappointed, though I might feel differently if I had read the manga. Despite the changes, the story felt intentional. There might be plot holes, but it’s not hard to fill in the gaps. Many of the negative reviews I read before watching brought up valid issues, but you should draw your own conclusions. I don’t know if the average score here is fair. It’s certainly not great when anime deviate from source material to rush a final season, but to people who are coming in without having read the manga you’ll likely find this worth a watch.

Let me start by saying my opinion is of someone who has only ever seen the anime. I do not enjoy revealing or being subjected to spoilers, so I will try my best to stray from them. Now, with that out of the way, this second season simply...sucked. I loved the first season enough to give it a 10, and it held such a special place in my heart. The construction of the episodes, the tension, the atmosphere—I can keep listing all the positives of the 1st season. It laid the foundation for something that was both promising and quite interesting, especially for a horror fan such as myself. It clicked all the boxes. The 2nd season simply...destroyed all of that. In almost an instant. It was boring and predictable. What started out as good horror was now very close to....well, a fairytale. And, as much as that might have been fine for a different anime, I couldn't accept it for "The Promised Neverland." Not every issue can be resolved with a 5-minute talk; not every person or creature is going to see eye-to-eye with you. Not everyone is as naive and...I wanna say stupid, but Emma fans will probably chastise me for that :D That's how she felt to me, though—just another self-righteous character, and I've grown to hate them since they're like in every second anime. And that does NOT make for an interesting story or character development. Actually, what character development? She didn't develop; she downgraded... Not to mention the terribly rushed ending which honestly made zero sense. I don't know if it was the author; I don't know if it was the studio that created this atrocity. Whoever it was ruined the greatness that "The Promised Neverland" used to be. My reason for giving it a 6? I guess a bit of nostalgia and how sorry I feel for the 1st season.

*No Spoilers* This review is for Season 2 of The Promised Neverland, orYakusoku no Neverland. Season 2 of The Promised Neverland makes significant changes to the source material (manga), though this review is focused solely on the content of the anime and does not include comparisons to the manga. Summary: Season 2 of The Promised Neverland follows Emma after she and the other orphans escape from Grace Field orphanage. Overall, the quality of the story and characters declines significantly from season one. Watching and stopping at the end of season 1 may be a more positive experience than following up with season 2 due to the dip in quality. Story: 3/10 The plot of season 2 completely disregards the flow of season 1; that is, the characters’ intelligence and teamwork is replaced with plot armor, plot convenience, and a complete lack of disregard for a cohesive story. If the characters are under attack, don’t worry, they’ve probably got nuclear warheads in their shirts to defend themselves. Likewise, the story immediately changes from witty characters to physically fit “heroes” that suddenly know how to perform bow and arrow shots like a “360 no-scope.” The arcs jump around and barely transition, often resulting in plot holes and a lack of general unity. By the end, the accountability for the characters is almost nonexistent. Are there dark themes being explored? Sort of. Are they being explored in a meaningful way? Absolutely not. The story seems to focus on melodrama and action with characters’ arcs even starting and finishing in a matter of minutes. By the end, it doesn’t really matter what happens. The characters are unbreakable for no reason. For a show that started up with children literally being raised for slaughter, you’d think the characters would have to face some tragic consequences. Instead, the story completely detracts from the tone of season one and makes a mockery of the themes. Additionally, there are laughable, terribly written scenes with characters laughing about their own starvation and excited about suggested genocide. The story is sporadic and blatantly rushed and condensed. If there were multiple episodes to explore these themes and scenarios, then maybe the show would still have its charm. Instead, it’s just a clump of ideas strewed together with no impact and a variety of plot holes. The biggest issue with this type of story is that it follows the first season which was generally well thought out and meaningful. Art: 5/10 The opening scene of episode one is just a bunch of repeated frames with poor voice-overs. Otherwise, the art is about average. Sound: 5/10 The music is slightly above average, though the voice acting is moderate at best. Portraying children is difficult and even harder when the characters are made to laugh at absurd times (like starvation or genocide). Characters: 2/10 Any good story has good characters. This story does not. Season 2 is so rushed that there are literally character arcs occurring over the course of minutes with bizarre monologues in inconvenient settings. Season 1 had unique and complex characters. Instead, season 2 focuses on plot and strips the characters of intelligence. Their 1-deminesional writing ruins the whole premise of the show. The viewer originally roots for Emma and Ray (no spoilers) because they are smart, driven, courageous, and able to outsmart the oppressive adults and demons. In season 2, nothing matters. They are not challenged morally and do not face repercussions for their actions. Instead, solutions are literally (no specific spoilers) fed to other characters. If a character makes a horrific decision, they face zero consequences. Imagine knowing someone who begins to commit genocide, only to find out that they decided to stop because they heard a person’s name. Now, imagine actually writing this character after re-introducing them as a separate plot twist. The characters are genuinely laughable. Enjoyment: 2/10 Watching this was a waste of time. It completely ruined an initially compelling story. As someone who did read the manga and did not like the source material’s second 2/3 nearly as much as the first 3 arcs (season 1 of the anime), I am genuinely in awe that season 2 is such a mess. Sure, I didn’t like the final 2/3 of the manga, but it was still a reasonably decent work of art. This is a whole new level of disappointment. It’s like preparing for a wedding and paying $50 for a haircut knowing that it may not be the best haircut, but you find out that they actually charge you $500 dollars and shave off the left side of your head, including your ear. Overall: 3.4

Less psychological thriller and more fantasy adventure Needless to say the overall tone is very different from season 1, though that in itself i don't have a problem with There are good story elements in this season, one that was a highlight to me is the question it poses of what makes a demon a demon? But unfortunately the plot was very badly executed, traiding in the exiting adrenaline filled cliffhangers of season 1 for a slow paced walking to places and endless talking reminiscent of an escape room or RPG game There's also a drop in animation quality which does not help the already muddled plot

I don't know why everyone is acting like season 2 exists. It is obviously, a lie that the government made up. There was never a season 2. Promised Neverland season 2 does not exist. Yakusoku no Neverland 2nd Season is a lie. If you are able to open your third eye and truly observe the simulated world around you, you can clearly see that none of this season is real. By anaylizing the pixels in the 2773 frame of episode 3 we can clearly see that the microphotonic light emmiting from the screen is in fact, not there, its actually an illusion thats being projected via the governments secret webcams in your computer. The season NEVER EXISTED. Stop believing the LIES!! Open your mind to the truth. #TheTruthIsOutThere #StayWoke #FightBack #Truth

I did not read the manga, and so I watched the anime with no expectations. Having only what the anime presented to go on, I think it was a good story. The vibe I get from those who read the manga is that there are parts of the story that are missing or changed. From the point of view of someone who doesn't know what is missing or different, I think it was a well told story that had a beginning and an end. I'm glad they didn't leave us hoping for a season 3 that wasn't coming. If you like mysteries and want a break from 'fanservice', I think The Promised Neverland is a good watch, if you come without expectation.

I am writing this review as a viewer of the anime, I have not read the manga. I didn't like it, in fact it was terrible. The story didn't hold together, and the setting was forced. The animation of the demons was like in fan-made animations for fun. At the beginning the characters. Emma is the old Emma, but reckless awful. Her plans were risky and in my opinion would have failed had it not been for a desire to finish the anime well. Norman, with Norman it's a difficult issue because after coming back from Lambda his character has changed. I liked it a lot, but then the creators changed him to the old Norman within ten minutes. Norman changed his character every episode, which I thought was terrible. It was like: I hate demons, and no, I love demons. Ray is Ray, I don't love him but I don't hate him either. Secondly, a story that didn't hold together. Just as the beginning was boring but good, the middle and end were done with huge, pointless gaps. In the 10 episode out of nowhere we were shown an intrusion into the headquarters, we did not really know what it was. Going in there was stupid and unexplained. Then Ratari's suicide. What was that supposed to be? From his story I understood only that he had a brother, and the story was pushed anyway. The ending was awful. We have Emma who wants to save the world in how much? Three kids, a couple of adults and two demons? And the icing on the cake, a freaky powerpoint slideshow. Super kick-ass inserts. Demons, dragons, cities, and then, of course, the successful return home. Totally stupid season. I didn't enjoy it. It was boring and tedious. It took me about a month to finish what I would normally finish in two or one day. I would not recommend it to anyone.

*There will be spoilers* This season was so much of a disappointment for me that I'm writing a review just to express how much I hated it. I'll preface this by saying that I haven't read the manga but, after going through so many other reviews, I have a general idea of what they cut out. I won't go too much into that though because I haven't read it for myself. Story - 2/10 Oh TPN, what have they done to you? The first season did such a good job at building a tense and suspenseful atmosphere. I remember there being times that I genuinely didn't know how the characters were going to get out but I was so intrigued to find out. This season said hold my beer and threw all that out the window to try this "anime original" angle instead. By anime original, that meant cutting out a bunch of time-consuming arcs that covered all the lame stuff, like world-building and character development, to make room for awesome stuff like random new characters with no established motivations and conflicts that make no sense. Seriously though, as an anime-only watcher, the fact that I could tell they were skipping stuff is not a good thing. Everything is so rushed and nothing gets the chance to be fleshed out before they jump to the next conflict. Every conflict is resolved almost immediately with no real effort made from the characters to resolve it. Nothing was developed in terms of the Lambda group, meaning I did not care about any of them in the slightest. Quick note about that whole mess. What even happened to the guys from the Lambda farm? They were tortured and we got a quick still of them looking hurt but that's it. Norman lies and says he was never tortured but then reveals later on that he was and is dying from it but? We never saw that? That whole backstory was shoved into a 10-minute exposition piece and we were expected to take it. Then there was the absolute travesty that was the ending. I don't think I've ever seen an ending done in such a lazy way. The entire finale of the show was just images of a manga arc that look more interesting than the entire season I had just watched. The fact that the first thought in my head when the PowerPoint slideshow started was that it seemed like a major manga arc is not a good thing. I shouldn't be able to tell what is and isn't a manga arc if it's supposed to be anime original! Okay I'm moving on because I could go on forever about how bad the story was. The rest will be shorter, I promise. Art - 6/10 I have no real qualms with the art. Yeah, the CGI monsters looked janky, but they were such a small part of the anime that I didn't really care too much. It wasn't great, but it was certainly better than the story Sound - 8/10 This is the only thing I think this season got right. It was pretty bland to begin with but in the final episodes, we were given reduxes of OSTs from the last season and it genuinely seemed like they were trying for an emotional reaction. If only the story had been better, I might have actually felt some emotion when they played these songs Character - 2/10 I'm skipping the plot armour because I think everyone can acknowledge how stupid it was that no one died or was even hurt. My biggest issue with characters was two things: Emma's optimism and Norman's supposed crazy mission. Emma coming in with the bs wish of saving everyone, both humans and demons, is one of the dumbest things I've ever had to sit through. You guys were literally raised to be meat for these things and you want to go out of your way to try and make peace? I could've understood not wanting to kill anyone, but actively trying to save them and make peace? Absolutely not. No one, no matter how nice they are, would do something that stupid. And Norman, oh my god. I knew from the second they revealed him being alive that they had skipped so much in the manga and I was right. This guy was gone for all of 5 episodes and you want us to believe that he turned into some genocidal maniac bent on eliminating all of demonkind? With the 10-minute exposition where we never even see something that makes him shift to this mindset, it was totally unbelievable and ridiculous. Not to mention that these kids are supposed to be highly intelligent, not god, so how is he coming in here saying he was able to develop a serum that can alter a demon's whole brain? It's so dumb. Enjoyment - 1/10 This was a struggle to get through. The first four episodes had promise, but it went off the deep end. I had to force myself to finish it and that was only because I had already watched more than half of it and there was no point in dropping so far in. Overall - 2/10 This season ruined the show so much that I don't think I would even recommend the first season to friends anymore. Knowing that, if they like the first season, they'll want to continue it to see how the story ends, I couldn't subject them to something like this. If you absolutely want to know how the story goes after season 1, read the manga. Don't suffer through this. It will ruin your whole perception of the series.

I would recommend that you watch the series for yourself and not go by what you have heard. I know that the season has gotten a lot of hate from the readers of the Manga but If you are someone like myself who has only watched the Anime I think you will find this season enjoyable as I did. If there was one flaw in this season for me it was that with the Emma Character they had her be too optimistic at times which isn't a bad thing but could have been dangerous given some of the situations they were in. Overall I gave the season a 9/10 because I really enjoyed it and I understand that it may have skipped some things or even taken some things out but for me that only takes away the enjoyment if you read the manga.

first time i write a review but this was just so atrociously bad i had to do it 3 words: POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ENDING so apparently they thought it was a good idea to make every arc in the manga as a single image in the anime idk what went through their minds but this aint it for everyone reading this donT bother just read the manga because you will feel a wave of terrible dissappointment after watching this, so bad you won't be able to function normally for weeks because it will linger in your mind forever as the worst crime in anime history ✧ pretty art tho ✧ end of review i will continue crying now from the pain this anime caused

Oh The Promised Neverland...Tokyo Ghoul wrote the book on “how to successfully butcher a anime adaption in 12 episodes”, TPN manages to accomplishes the same outcome in record time of 11 episodes!! Apparently the author didn’t like how the manga turned out so they worked with the studio to go a different direction. Whether it’s true or not I have no confirmation but I’m going to analyse the anime and mention parts of differences the anime made, so if you’re playing on reading the manga this is your spoiler warning: The first 2 episodes where the kids left the farm and are trying to survive in this new world was cool, sadly soon after it begins to derail. This is pretty evident with how the kids managed to take down demons so willy nilly without experience and somehow learnt their weakness was the head. It seems a lot of anime watchers weren’t unaware of some plot holes. Like could you answer this: 1. Who was taking care of the shelter before the kids arrival? 2. What was the “HELP!” and the names carved in the room at the shelter? 3. Who was behind the armed soldiers who raided the shelter? Are we going to learn this? NOPE! The anime cut out the content related to those characters whom manga readers learnt about by this point in the story. The plot convenience in how the kids escaped the armed soldiers with their being a secret hatch leading underground and a demon randomly appearing behind them to eat the soldiers was so bad. The events that transpired when the kids reach the Demon City was mostly anime original and from my standpoint it's worse: 10 mins wasted on SOL filler of the kids hunting/gathering food at the base, a contrived chase by dumb and dumber demons (Team Rocket of TPN) and Norman early reveal, which had no emotional weight. Let’s take a minute to talk about Emma: Emma is so annoying. She doesn’t want to kill demons despite demons wanting to kill her and her family and Norman’s plan being the best solution. It doesn’t matter that her whole family happily want to get rid of the demons, Emma doesn’t want to because muh conscience. Why does one person’s feelings dictate the safety of everyone else?! And of course the kids are guilt tripped into going along with her plan. Emma’s a selfish, stubborn and naive little girl who doesn't have a fundamental understanding of how the world works. Her eternal optimism puts Naruto to shame. Let’s address a few episodes now: Episode 7: 90% of what happened in this episode comes from the manga, the differences are: - Norman isn’t a 13 yr old genius. There was a timeskip in the manga and we met him later so the Lamba gang’s perception of him made more sense. - We got the flashbacks that went into detail to what happened to Norman at Lamba and the gang. Telling us rather than showing what they went through makes their rage against demons less justified and I guess Emma more reasonable (?) - The location is different. In the manga we weren’t still at Demon city and Norman didn’t magicially have a potion ready for tommorow to kill the demons. We were at Norman’s hideout with the hundreds of kids Lamba’s group has saved as it was mentioned, but not shown this episode (might appear next episode tho) Episode 8: Rejoice anime watchers, I do not hate this episode! The anime original scenes e.g. the massacre at the demon town was good. When Norman turned and Emma’s perception was child Norman was cool. The soundtracks during the massacre elevated the unsettling feeling of demons overloading & eating each other. The anime made the demons more sympathetic and Norman conflicted with his decision to kill the demons, whereas manga Norman poisoned most of the town no hesitation. Note: Manga Norman is older and he weren’t there when he poisoning the demon town because it was only a was a diversion to his main objective. I doubt the anime will mention [spoiler] the demon royal family [/spoiler] since there’s only three episodes left. What I didn’t like: Norman and gang’s time at Lamba was rushed Emma’s magical fast travel to stop Norman. The group was days away and you expect me to believe Emma and Co. saw what was happening and got their in a few hours? (being generous) Wow. Norman changes his mind rather quickly. He convinces his followers to do the same and they quickly accept despite all the shit they’ve went through made them hate demons. I don’t like how Emma magically undos all the character development Norman went through. What's the point of Norman going through all of that trauma and his personality changing as a result, if it's all going to be written out like it was nothing? The old demon who prayed in the temple that the kids were hiding drank the cursed blood 700 years ago, found a human (most likely Minerva) 15 years ago that gave him crucial information about the blueprint of Grace Field House- which he conveniently was carrying as it’s conveniently the only gate to the human world and a cure for a disease that most likely would not have even existed back then, and the pièce de résistance: the little demon girl’s name is Emma.... Plot convenience on steroids in the anime. I understand what the writers was going for withe demon girl Emma but it’s too on the nose like Martha scene in BvS. Episode 11: The last episode was so incredibly rushed the animators gave up and decide to give us a powerpoint montage. Here’s a few explanations & differences to clear things up: 
- Ratri was butchered. He does a lot more in the manga, but he hardly did anything as a villain in the anime until he slit his throat. 
 - In the manga, Mama dies trying to protect Emma from a demon who survived. 
- The man who welcomed the kids to the human world was a member of the Ratri clan 
 - Demon royals have like a arc about them. The big war involving the Queen and 5 noble houses was skipped. Emma and co. magically defeating them and saving the demon kingdom in the anime was ridiculous.
 - Sonju is reveal to be the youngest Demon prince and the old demon was the High Priest who he looked up to.
 - Musica does become Queen, no her and Emma aren’t a couple. 
 - The promise was a BIG plot point throughout the story. The floating demon and dragon were in a different dimension and it was the ‘first demon’. Emma had to make a deal in order for everyone to go the human world; in the manga Emma sacrificed her memories of her family. 
 - In the manga they already rescued the kids from the other farms and everyone went to the human world together except the mamas who stayed behind to protect them against demons. When Emma transported she was sent to a different country and since she lost her memories she lived there. The Gracefield gang spent two years looking for her until they met up again, Emma still didn’t know who they were but had a feeling she knew them and they hugged- THE END. Conclusion: There was 80+ chapters the anime cut: - A lot of fan favourite characters e.g. Yuugo who you’ve probably seen be mentioned was removed. It’s disappointing because he was a important character as he was the first man the kids ever met. His character development and the effects the kids have on him was amazing and it’s gone. - Goldy Pond which was the 2nd best arc. The anime has cut more content from the manga to skip to the last arc, while making some changes- the drastic change being the direction with Mama. However, none of them has improved the story. The anime is directionless. The world building compared to the manga is severely missing and the pacing is too rushed. I had low expectations but by the end of it TPN staff managed to exceed my disappointment so well done! The only hope now is if we get a TPN Brotherhood one day. Until then, if you like The Promised Neverland and want to get in the manga I recommend reading from chapter 34 (better yet the beginning since s1 still skipped content and important dialogue).

Season two isn't a perfect adaptation. The pacing was quite rushed, there wasn't as much action or drama than I thought for a story like this, and I think the show could've taken advantage of the "original anime" angle a little bit more. That being said, it's still an enjoyable season. The characters were still likeable, the story beats more or less made sense. There were original moments that weren't in the manga that were fun and exciting. I loved how the show was able to give a sense of atmosphere and was still somehow entertaining despite not having much action. I admit that I was a little underwhelmed with the ending since it brought up a very compelling concept, but with what it is it's still pretty nice especially with how it integrated Isabella's lullaby. It's great production-wise, with some minor errors. The OST was great and the art was beautiful to look at. Season two isn't a perfect adaptation, but it's nonetheless an enjoyable one. If you wanted to read all the arcs and lore, I suggest you read the manga but the anime is definitely a decent watch and shouldn't be missed. I think that at the end of the day it ended in a positive note.

After binging season one, I was really excited for season two. I had seen people complaining about it's poor quality online, but I just assumed that it was manga readers being salty about it not staying completely with the original source material. Now I know that they had very good reason for being mad. The storyline is utterly pathetic. Manga aside, it just doesn't make sense. Random things happen without much explanation and things that are supposed to be important are rushed for the sake of finishing the rest of the story in eleven episodes. Characters are introduced at odd times and the theme of the story changes every episode. Though all of the episodes are pointless, the last is by far the worst. The manga already has a rushed and illogical ending, but everything that is bad about it is even more horrible in the anime. In the final ten minutes of the episode, the characters make a major decision that should have resulted in a third season. Of course, their entire journey, one that would have supplied a lot of character development and world building, is summed up in a montage of photos of things that happen during their trip. The most important events in the montage also don't make much sense for viewers who haven't read the manga (a majority of the people who decided to continue watching this season), so there is a desperate need for some explanation, but one is never given. Then, after all of the time they spent doing important things that we only got to see snapshots of, the characters somehow get together in the end and absolutely everything is okay for them. They don't even seem to be emotionally scarred by what they went through. They can just go to school and be normal children after years of running from monsters and essentially overthrowing their government. The characters are extremely inconsistent and depressing in this season. Ray, one of the most complex and interesting characters of the show, becomes a completely passive idiot who ends up being a mediator between Emma and another character. The only personality trait that he shares with his season one counterpart is close-minded narcissism. He really fades away and is honestly the Tenten of this story. I have nothing against Tenten, but just like her, he has a lot of potential and is regarded as someone with great talents and skill but doesn't actually do anything noteworthy at all. Emma, the protagonist, has an extremely inconsistent character. She used to be a loving, selfless girl who would die to keep her family safe. Now, she allows seven-year-olds to eat possibly poisonous fish just because they want to. Her only consistency is her idealistic nature and inability to see that some people can't be saved just because you give them a five minute speech about friendship and offer them your hand. I guess that the latter isn't really her being naive, though, because that method works on at least five people throughout the story, no matter how traumatic their lives and seemingly justified their motivations were. Another character, whose name I will not say for the sake of keeping spoilers to a minimum, had great potential in possibly being an antagonist or a character who made Emma doubt her ways of thinking and become stronger because of it. This is all thrown away, however, when Emma tells him that he is going down the wrong path and that he can still do what's right, even though he's already done a lot of destruction. Though I agree with parts of Emma's standpoint, the way that he just decides that he will come to her side is very rushed and completely kills his character. It also puts aside the fact that he is traumatized and just wants to keep the people he loves from undergoing the same torture that he went through. The side characters are so irrelevant that I wouldn't have cared if all of them had died. Even Phil, one of the most loved characters in the show, is completely useless. He does absolutely nothing of any weight and has no character development whatsoever. There are other characters, such as Don and Gilda, whose character development was completely thrown under the bus. They had no reason for being in the show other than taking care of the children while Emma and Ray did things that had no influence on the storyline at all. Nat and Anna, some fan favorites, had no development either. Though the manga did not give them much character development in the first place, any scene that gave them some relevance was removed, so they're just insignificant characters who could have been interesting, but are there solely for the sake of plot convenience. The new characters in the story are poorly written and make no sense either. All of them have a lot of trauma and hatred for the demons because of it, which is completely understandable. Of course, Emma somehow still can't comprehend how trauma works, and tries to convince them that they need to have her exact way of thinking and that everything will work out if they simply put all of their trust in the random children whom they just met. This somehow succeeds, even though one of the characters has basically gone insane in her hatred and would have killed the entire demon race by herself if she could have. Surprisingly, she's not even the most reluctant to agree with Emma. There's another character who's only personality trait is his loyalty to a certain character, but he's somehow the one who doesn't want to change the plan, even though that other character has already agreed to it. Soon after their escape from Grace Field, the main characters befriend two demons. They're both kind to them, but as the children leave them, you learn that one of them was only helping them because he wanted to eat humans in the future. He ends up completely disregarding this as he supports their effort to escape the demon world and take all of humanity with them. He never complains or tries to sabotage them in any way at all, he just goes with it even though the food source that he wanted so badly was in the palm of his hand and slowly slipping from his grasp. One thing that I can say for every single character in this show is that they're all strangely forgiving of people who haven't earned their forgiveness. Forgiveness is obviously not a bad things thing for a show to endorse, but the way that this anime goes about it is extremely unrealistic. Like I've said before, every character has gone through many traumatic moments in his life. The fact that all of them overlook these things and forgive the people who had every intention of allowing them to die for their own personal gain is just absurd. Though this happened in the manga as well, there was at least one character (yes, I know that that's still pathetic character writing) who opposed doing this. Whoever wrote this part of the story has no idea how basic human psychology works and that not every human being is as forgiving as Naruto. The music and voice acting was fine, but it's not going to get any awards either. The opener and closer for season one are significantly better than the ones in season two, in both sound and visuals. The first theme had a lot of foreshadowing and made the show look like an actual thriller, while the second tries to make the anime seem a lot more desperate but also hopeful, something that is difficult to actually deliver in a show. The voice acting was pretty bland, honestly. The characters who were supposed to be super emotional didn't actually have that much emotion in their voices. Though that sounds really bad, it didn't really bother me that much; it's at least better than the depressing voices in the dub. (I don't hate dubs, this one just isn't good) The art wasn't astounding or appalling, it was just average. There were many re-used scenes though, and that's pretty boring to watch. The animation is lazy, and that can be credited to the overworking of Japanese animators. This show was probably on a low budget and this season was so rushed b…

Don't waste your time watching this garbage. It's a hack job of a manga that took a nosedive in storytelling quality after the events covered in the first season. For reference here's my breakdown of the manga's quality throughout its serialization: Ch 1-37 - Excellent. The material covered in season 1. Ch 38-112 - Solid. Still maintains some mystery & tension. Ch 100 is one of the best chapters in the entire series. Ch 113-181 - Absolute garbage. As a reader, I was slightly excited about the prospect of the story being salvaged after learning that the manga's writer was going to be involved in creating new anime-only content for the show. The manga's final arcs and ending were unpopular. They fucking sucked. I deluded myself into thinking that the manga creator's involvement would right the ship and thus undo the unpopular nonsense that appeared the manga, while ultimately creating a new and better storyline and conclusion. I figured that the studio would somehow adapt the best parts of 38-112 and then tease a new anime only climax (and obviously conclusion) for a third and final season. They didn't do that. Instead they covered chapters 38-52 somewhat decently, then cut straight to chapter 112, and then adapted chunks of the worst parts of 113-181. What they ultimately created was an abomination of a story that was already trash to begin with... Idiotic storytelling without any of the qualities that made the first season successful. At no point during this season did I ever feel tension similar to what I felt in the previous season... Hell, I'd go as far as to say I didn't feel any tension. Back then the demons were built up as a grave threat to the children's survival. Here they're depicted as impotent goofballs. The children can just bonk them on the head to knock them out. It's ridiculous. The story elements of world building and mystery get tossed aside in favor of dropping information rapidly because of the studio's pacing decision. Someone actually thought covering 140+ chapters in 11 episodes would work. And this pacing fuck up ultimately also produces a story that lacks emotional impact. I never felt anything that came remotely close to Norman's exit from the show or the prison break scene in season 1. The new anime-only scenes are just dull and inconsequential bad comedy scenes of the kids being silly with one another. Despite the show overall being awful, there are few redeeming qualities. First off, the ending is kind of an improvement over the manga... Unfortunately, the pacing undoes the positives of this change. Secondly, the animation is good for the most part. There are many nice looking scenes scattered throughout the season, however animation quality drops off in the final four to three episodes. The only rough visual stuff in the the earlier part of the season are the godawful looking CGI wild demons. The OP & ED visuals (and their respective songs) are also great. Anyway, avoid watching this and avoid reading the manga. Just pretend the series ended immediately after the escape. It's for the best.

Essentially, the point of this anime is to generate more revenue from sales of the original source material. Sometimes what studios do is that they create a really good first season to an anime that they know will be popular because of initial manga sales. As a result, more people become more invested in the story. But the problem is, making an anime just costs too much so they will intentionally make the second season so bad knowing that people will watch it anyways because of the first season’s success. This causes people to get really angry and to desire a reasonable conclusion to the story that they became so heavily invested in, so what do they do? They buy the manga. Now, the industry gets money from not only the anime, but also the manga. Art direction is horrendous (especially the character design in the second half), animation direction was ok at first but the dude just gives up in the latter half. General direction is non-existent, which is a real shame because I thought the first season’s direction was extremely well-done. All in all, everything is poorly done. Also the plot moves so fast, the number of abandoned plotlines is the same as GOT S8. Only reason I’m giving this a 2 is because I have seen much worse. Regardless, my disappointment is immeasurable and my season would have been ruined if it weren't for AOT and ReZero carrying the sequel scene. The End.

I wish that there was a score option between 3/10 and 2/10, because that is firmly where this anime belongs. I watched this anime weekly and I always write some comments after each episode detailing my thoughts. They make for good reference points when I write my reviews and rate the anime, but I noticed an interesting trend with my comments for this anime. Over the course of this season of The Promised Neverland, I go through all 5 stages of the grief cycle. So in sticking to that theme, I will review this anime by going through these 5 stages of grief (by the way this will include spoilers, but you can keep reading because I wouldn’t recommend watching it anyways): 1. Denial The season starts out on a promising note (no pun intended). The kids are on the run from wild giant demons and demon pursuers from the farms. They are in unfamiliar territory and things are not looking good for them. But, they are saved by two demons that begin to explain the history between the demons and the humans. Unlike many other bad anime, it does not start off bad. The art and animation look good. The music is similar to the first season, which is still good. Plus there is a lot of mystery in the world and in the motivations of the demons that saved the children. The kids are able to reach the safe house that Wiliam Minerva told them about using the survival skills the demons taught them and things don’t seem to be as safe as it seems. This could go in a good direction. 2. Anger How are these kids able to take down trained soldiers that stormed their safe house? How is Ray an expert with the bow and arrow that he can shoot a giant demon in the eye while in the air whereas trained soldiers with guns couldn’t? Why did we get a 6 month time skip after the kids lost their safe house instead of seeing how they survived in a demon world with nothing to guide them? Most importantly, HOW THE HELL IS NORMAN ALIVE!? Wasn’t the whole reason Isabella couldn’t do anything to them because the top children where invaluable commodities to be eaten? 3: Bargaining Ok, maybe the time skip was just so we could get to the good part of the story. Isabella is still alive and she was given permission by the demons to hunt down the escaped children. That should be crazy given how smart she is and how well she knows the children. Also, there has to be a good reason why Norman is still alive and why he has so many strong people with him. He also seems like he is a little sinister now, I wonder if he will end up being an antagonist that Emma and Ray will have to stop. Ray hasn’t done anything yet this season so that would probably be his chance to shine. Maybe the manga readers are overreacting about how bad this season is. 4. Depression Nevermind, it’s trash. They are just rushing through to finish this series in 11 episodes. The reason Norman is alive still makes no sense. There is no reason that they would send one of the best children they have ever seen to a place to get experimented on withother children. Norman proceeded to destroy the facility without anyone knowing, create a drug that makes demons kill each other, and found a way to mass produce it because... they don’t even try to explain it. It doesn’t even matter. Ray has still done nothing aside from follow what Emma wants. Norman starts his plan of using the drugs on the demons but Emma convinces him and his comrades that have sworn vengence on the demons for experimenting on them not to do it. All of the children at the farm are being gathered at headquarters for “reasons”. The children receive a pen giving them a complete layout of headquarters for “reasons”. Isabella is promoted to Grandma after doing literally nothing to help catch the escaped children. The children easily overtake the headquarters with no casualties. None of this really matters the creators of this season clearly did not care about this series. 5. Acceptance Even though this season was bad and the creators did not care about making a good story at all, I am glad I got to experience it with my fellow anime watchers. It is not the worst anime I have seen because it still sounds good and looks good when they actually animate the fights instead of using still frames. At least I was a part of anime history by experiencing a disgraceful sequel to one of the most well-received anime in the past few years. It is a 3/10, but don’t be shocked if it becomes a 2/10 sometime in the near future

What a disappointment to one of the most anticipated anime of this season. Hello, this is my first Anime review ever and today, I will review The Promised Neverland S2, one of the most underwhelming sequels in anime. When this season was announced, I had high hopes that this will be a great season and it will beautifully succeed the great first season of the series. After Covid-19 came, this season was delayed to 2021, and finally, the time came for its airing. Then, my hopes were collapsed and utterly destroyed in the middle. When it was finally over, I was left in such a disappointment, being one of the worst seasons I have watched in anime ever. I was so disappointed that I decided to write a full review on it. I know there are a lot of people who enjoyed more or less this season even if it was really criticized from fans. I will try to respect all of you and to be honest and argumentative in order to explain why this season was such a disaster for me. Hope that you will understand and enjoy it. Story: 2/10 Let’s start with the story, the main reason why I did not like this show. First of all, the story in the first season was really good to be honest. There was a lot of action, mind games, horror, mystery, psychological and thriller elements. All of them worked well so it was able to establish a great and an interesting start to the series. Then, in this season, in the first 2-3 episodes, the story continued to follow what the first season established while introducing and developing some new elements, which it was quite nice and interesting as usual. However, later in those episodes, the story started to be a bit different compared to the manga’s storyline. Changes include some removed speeches and scenes, including the disappearance of a certain character who was supposed to be important in the later parts of the story. I started to question myself if the story was properly following the manga or if they tried to make some changes to improve the anime storyline. Then in episode 4, it turned out the be the worst case I would have expected, a different and an extremely condensed route compared to the manga plot line. Starting from this episode, the story advanced at full speed, skipping some of the best arcs in the entire series, including Goldy Pond Battle Arc and Seven Walls Arc, and then it became a complete mess. It was even worse than Tokyo Ghoul Root A in my opinion. The quality of these episodes were awfully paced compared to the previous 15 episodes of the series. It was so fast that I could not have understand everything and most of the things were not at all explained properly. Every episode had this problem since even through most of them was following the original manga plot line with some major changes. While the first season adapted about 37 chapters of content from 4 manga volumes, this season ended up concluding the story, so about approximately 145 chapters from 16 volumes, with more than 80 chapters of content completely skipped. This is truly terrible. Other than the pacing, the writing was also changed a bit from the manga and in general, the writing was significantly worse and inconsistent compared to it with tons of never-explained plot points, useless and cringe moments, plot-holes, plot armor, plot conveniences and random events that came out totally from nowhere. Sometimes whole important sequences were not shown even if it was important in order to understand what is going on. Some plot-points were added and they were forgotten immediately after that for no reason, too. It was even worse as much as I progressed in this show, being a complete train wreck up until the end. To summarize: + Nice first episodes following up the 1st season - After that, Pacing is abysmal, extremely fast most of the time and all over the place - Sometimes it is just like the manga but more than 10x faster - Lot of great arcs, moments and characters completely skipped or skimmed - Terrible writing quality overall, one of the worst I have seen in anime - Pacing and writing were even worse as the show progressed Characters: 2/10 Now with the characters, another big reason why I did not like this show. I will explain this section without too much details to some specific characters, because this review is spoiler-free. Season 1 has a nice cast, especially the main trio, Emma, Ray and Norman. They were great characters, full of potential, intellectual with different personalities, motivating me to watch and enjoy the full first season. However, as the story became bad, characters became bad too. Emma remained completely one-dimensional, without any development or investment. She was acting constantly like that, just to progress the story. Her decisions were really predictable and too simple, often mindless, resulting her personality literally destroyed during this season. Same things apply for Ray. Except for the first episodes, I don’t remember a single scene where Ray used his intellectual abilities to progress the story and give some great entertainment to the viewers. Plus, he acted exactly like Emma most of the time, without any problem or contradictions or whatsoever. As for the other characters, very few were expanded to them due to the poor pacing. Mainly, the kids were handled this time like a single group, without any moments or uniqueness to them. They were more like plot devices than being themselves. There was even some of the worst cases I have seen to some important characters later in the show but I won’t talk about those cases due to the spoilers. To summarize: + Great characters design and basic settings (That’s expected, lol) - Some characters got their personalities destroyed and became useless - Many acted as a full group and not like individual ones - Very few characters got their moments - Plot devices everywhere - Motivations or characters’ events are not properly explained or expanded Art: 6/10 So the visuals were okay, a bit like the first season. It was not messed up so much and nice as usual. However, there was not enough animated moments compared to the s1 and lot of the horror aspects in the art were missing compared to the previous season or the manga, which is a real shame. Especially during the last episodes, it was obvious that the studio cut the corners for the sake of their budget. Not as problematic as the story or characters, but could have definitely been better in my opinion. Sound: 7/10 For the audio, it was good. There was some new pieces added during some scenes and the opening, ending were both good personally. However, the season 1 did it better to be honest, in every aspect. Enjoyment: 2/10 Mostly, I enjoyed this show primarily because how much it was bad and not for great reasons. I was laughing and disappointed by how bad the plot and the characters were, even through it was not supposed to be funny at all in the story. The enjoyment during the first episodes were good as usual, however everything collapsed after it. Most of the time, I seriously did not enjoyed the quality of the show and I don’t remember any impactful or memorable moment that was handled out acceptably. During the middle, there was a lot of pointless, skipped events explanations without any form of visual, which I found it really boring to be honest. The story was especially predictable due to the writing and pacing so I did not have any interest of what is going to happen next. Also, I would not consider this season as a Psychological/Mystery/Thriller like the first season. It was more like a cheap Sci-Fi/Action/Shonen season so it failed to deliver similar themes and entertainment. To summarize: + Enjoyment is subjective at least - Lot of pointless, unmotivated and boring speeches and unrelated moments - Not interesting, more like a chore to watch when compared to s1 - Unexpected comedy (Not for good reasons) - Things pass too quickly so it is hard to watch Overall: 2/10 Well, so even with the manga events and…

I only watched both seasons of the anime so I am not aware of the plot in the manga, but Season 2 feels significantly different from Season 1. In Season 1, the three main protagonists drafted a plan to help most of the children escaped from the farm, and executed it successfully with their intelligence. I really enjoyed how they fight against all odds with their intelligence to accomplish their goal. In Season 2, there are no longer smart plans or strategies, it just happened that every single pieces of the puzzle just magically fall in the correct location for anything to work. The motivation for some characters is not explained well at best, or is just questionable, which kinds of ruins the experience for me. I think it is still a satisfactory end to the story outlined in Season 1, but do not expect the same level of quality as Season 1.

Yakusoku no Neverland 2nd Season The first season of this anime, left me stunned. It was a near flawless prologue with a very interesting "cliff hanger" word literally, they crossed the cliff on a ... Hanger. Anyway, the second season came out and I also heard about all the "hate" that this season was supposedly a disaster. I was counting on possibly some points being changed from the manga or even skipped. But I didn't feel that all the hate was justified. Whereas the first season of the anime, covered about chapters 1-40, the second season covered the remaining 140 chapters on only 11 episodes. Of course, a lot was skipped, by a lot I mean 70% of all characters didn't exist in the anime, most of the backgrounds were skipped, the setup was skipped, the scene order was swapped and to make matters worse, X amount of new (non manga) scenes were inserted into the anime to create... even more chaos. If only 1 or 2 arcs had been skipped, I would have understood the whole thing somehow, not every arc in the manga was impressive. And even if they would have changed some more scenes, I would still turn a blind eye. But this has been a pure rape of my eyes, from episode 3 on. Episodes 1-3 have still been relatively okay. But 4-11 was pure torture, which I wouldn't even wish on my enemies. Absolutely nothing about it was good in any way, and the rushed pacing was atrocious. [Story 3] The concept was interesting, at least the backstory and world building (which you mostly only come to understand in the manga). In the anime, however, you at least learned the background in episode 2 and everything from then on was, a "special" representation of things?... [Character 3] The characters were already relatively mediocre in the first season and were only celebrated by their abnormal intellect. However, they possessed satisfyingly normal personalities. It was also the case here in the beginning. Unfortunately, you couldn't follow practically anything else, given how quickly the scene changes followed. The situations just flew by, making no character really seem relevant in any way and... Norman? His reveal in the city probably cost me several brain cells, what was that about? Why couldn't they at least use the manga version here, as that would have made much more sense. [Music 6] The osts were average and used far too infrequently, with relatively questionable timing. The outro is average However, the intro is visually as well as musically very intriguing. So intriguing, in fact, that it's better than the entire 11 episodes combined. [Conclusion] I really didn't expect such a result. I really thought people were exaggerating about this season. "It can't be that bad" I thought to myself. But no, my delusion was shattered very quickly and I was taught otherwise. This is probably "the worst anime adaptation" I've seen so far and I'm not sure it can ever be topped. The only reason it still gets one more Point, is thanks to the first 3 Episodes. [Enjoyment 1]

The Promised Neverland follow in Tokyo Ghoul's footsteps. This season honestly feels like a cash-grab. All those reviews that give this anime more than a 3 are delusional. This season is completely rushed. It went from children trying to survive in the wilderness to a revolution within two episodes. The Promised Neverland 2nd Season is an attempt to milk the fanbase for profit. The decision to cut all of the best parts of the manga was a boneheaded. Ignoring that fact is the glaring truth that the show is just bad. There's no stakes because of the plot armor, all the characters seem to fall in line with Emma's plan, the art makes a lot of the "cool" scenes fall flat, and much more. The first season of the Promised Neverland was something truly special, a new-age show that had a brand new plot and lovable characters that seemed to prey for the writers, as the first episode had a death. Unfortunately, the second season just can't hold a candle to the manga or the first season, as it struggles to build off the lighting caught in the bottle by the previous season and manga chapters.