Emma, Norman, Ray, and many other "siblings" live at an isolated orphanage cut off from the outside world. They live a charmed life surrounded by friends and watched over by Mama, their caretaker, until they leave the house for a foster family by the age of twelve.
This review will be spoiler free, aside from revealing the overall tone of the show. The Promised Neverland is a compelling thriller that utilizes sound and animation to form an effective tone. In particular it’s use of sound effects and music serve to build tension and create emotion.
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As much as the children love her, she is not their mother. Although they live together, they are not related either. Grace Field House is where children without parents are taken in. An irreplaceable home for the 38 children that all live happily every day, even if they were strangers at first.
Having an older, more jaded survivor of the farms reluctantly joining ranks with the kids made for great drama in the manga, but by the end of Episode 4, the kids have already left the shelter with no sign of Mister hiding around anywhere.
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Continuing onward from there, the manga ran for one-hundred and eighty-one chapters before reaching its conclusion.
In the anime, Isabella ends up reaching the kids just as Emma leaves, unable to stop them. In the manga, she never reaches the kids, for they are already gone.
5 ANIME: GETS TO THE MEAT OF THE STORY. The anime ends up condensing the first 37 chapters of the manga into twelve episodes, which means its pacing has to be a bit faster in order to fit the story into that episode count. Thankfully, none of the big plot points in the manga's story were left out.
In a way, this helped the adaptation. The anime was able to get to the meat of the story a lot faster than the manga, which allowed it to be something of a rollercoaster ride of shock, fear, and eventual triumph. In the end, the anime made the most out of the amount of time it had to tell this story without losing anything.
There are also subtle details within the art throughout the pages and even the manga covers that work to foreshadow events that would unfold throughout the story. Even small elements like the character's facial expressions say a lot without directly verbalizing anything.
Shonen Jump is not known for horror/thriller manga, which might be partly why The Promised Neverland was such an unexpected hit. The series stars a group of young kids living in an orphanage under the watchful eye of their caretaker, only to one day discover the horrible truth behind it all. The orphanage is merely a farm to feed demons, and ...