This is my first review on MAL, and I had to do this for a manga I been following since the start of the serialization. I'll keep things really short by only touching the main points of the plot and characters.

Story: 8/10 Characters: 7/10

Yakusoku no Neverland has one of best beginnings I've seen on any manga. The introduction to Grace Field and their inhabitants was handled amazingly setting fast enough the tone of this manga. The mind games with Mom, the wish for searching for the truth and survive this world against all odds made the manga stand out for many readers and leave us with the feeling that this was just the start of an amazing story yet to fully begin.

At end of the first arc, we have a good grasp of how our main characters interact with each other.

Emma the positive girl, who will put all the odds against her if the posibility to save everyone exists. And Ray the realist boy who will keep Emma on the ground, and see the situations as it is, he is the type of character that would never leave anything to chance.

Norman on the other hand, while being very similiar to Ray. He always tried to understand Emma's stand on the situation.

Goldy Pond time!
Our cast finally discover the world outside. We get introduced to the "wild" demons, "intelligent demons" and our demons allies Sonja and Musica WHO don't eat humans, Sonja and Musica will help the children to ensure their escape in the forest and soon they will find their way to Minverva's base. BOOM, new character introduced, they weren't the first children to ever escape, the next location prepared by Minerva is where many children have lost their lives.

This arc amazingly give us a lot of new information to the plot, we get new allies, and how the children learn how to interact with this new world in order to survive. We learn how they can fight back and that demons are not invinsible. And after the amazing hunt that took place at Goldy Pond, they get their next location and new information to work. This is were the Ratri clan gets introduced and we get a Time Skip!

This is were everything goes downhill, after the time skip, Emma and friends have collected most of the information necesary to re-forge the promise. After all this time being searched by the demons, the Ratri clan finds the children base and starts and extermination operation, this forces the plot to enter a soft point of no return. After being so close to re-forge the promise, they lost their home, some allies and Emma becames depressed.

This is it, all of this losses will help develop all of our main cast, they have to face reality. They are against a whole nation of demons, this is not like Goldy Pond.

NOPE, Norman group saves them, we learn how he survived so far, how he has changed and his new goals, we meet his allies and the masteplan to exterminate all the demons.

Emma the only development she has gotten is how she learns that not all demons are bad and wants to save them once she hears there is a possibility.

Ray from being the realist boy, he follows every single Emma stand and ideas. (SIMP).

This is were I knew this manga was going full GOOD ENDING.

Fast Forward, Emma and Ray manage to reforge the promise in the most boring and shenanigans way possible.

HECK, even Don, Gilda and Girl that spoke demon show more development and growth in a few chapters than Emma and Ray.

The capital war was absolutely AMAZING, Norman was a complete CHAD and actually achieves his plan.

This is were the ITS NOT OVER SHENANIGANS START, the manga revives dead characters (that's a no no in my book), the ratri clan who's motivation to keep fighting is questionable but was fine, and of course we had to see Mama Isabelle again.

So where should the unnecesary last battle be? GRACE FIELD!

And you might think, this was actually a cool move since the children know that land extremely well and everyone in the crew will play a good role on the fight (even Phil could have joined the fight).

NOPE, they fight in the most boring location posible at grace field.

Power of love and friendship and the fight is over.

We are ready to go to the human world.

The price to reforge the promise was okay. (Since killing Emma would be stupid at this point).

Also Isabelle death was totally unnecesary at the end.

Enjoyment: 10/10

Overall this manga is really good, I think the good things overlaps the bad things. I will give it a 10/10 just for the first arc.

I respect that the mangaka ended his work when he wanted and didn't unnecesary extended the plot. BUT, it leaves the reader with the feeling of what it could have been.

My favorite panel in this manga is were Mom is looking Emma so close. That is my highlight in the whole series. I expect great things if Kaiu Shirai gets another work serialized.