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Havos447
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
Okay, so I finished reading this manga like 20 mins ago. These may include a few spoilers tho I will try not to put any.

1. The first thing that threw me off was how the story went from a psychological thriller to a typical shonen manga which was all about killing or being killed. Like the way the jailbreak arc caught you by the balls the rest of the story just didn't do. I understand the fact that this was necessary but the removal of thriller just took away my interest.
This also brings me to the point of how the story just fell weak after the jailbreak arc. Like the way it started I expected it to be similar in the way it developed and the way it kept the thrill going.

2.The antagonists. The story didn't have a chill-inducing antagonist except for Isabelle and sister Krone. These two characters carried the entire show on their backs and did an amazing job being who they are. As the story progresses there wasn't a particularly honestly chill-inducing character but there were those monsters who controlled the entire cattle system.

3. I disliked Emma's character as the story progressed. Personally to me she as a character just didn't have any growth. She is that goody two shoe kind of character who is designed to be perfect. By the middle of the manga, she becomes really indecisive and starts making decisions on impulse which she ends her up in situations that are not ideal. Another thing is she starts to empathise with the antagonists and as someone who has been allowed to exist only for the sole reason of being a cattle, I kinda expected her to have some sense of revenge and want to actually destroy their kind which was seen in normal and hence he became the more relatable character out of the trio.

4. The ending of the mang was extremely unsatisfactory and seemed to be there just for the sake of ending the story.

The story as a whole wasn't terrible and there were many things that I liked. One of my favourites being the way politics was portrayed. The demon politics and the way the hierarchy worked in placing control over the lower parts of the demon society was incredible. The way corruption that took place in the demon world due to the Queen's own greed and the Ratri clan was an amazing choice.

Overall my rating would be:
Art: 9/10
Plot: 5/10 (the jailbreak arc was amazing and deserves a 10/10)
Characters: 4/10 (except sister krone and Isabelle they deserve a 10/10)

This is my first review so it isnt as detailed or good but i hope it helps
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Velkan14
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
Have you ever imagined living in a world where another dimension different from our own existed? A world where the monsters you hear from scary stories told as a child and the bogyman hiding in various parts of your room are real?

Have you ever imagined a world where you may never grow up?

If you’re thinking about a certain J.M. Berrie children’s book with pirates, fairies and a boy who flies when looking at the title, you’re far from wrong. This is no fairy tale. The Promised Neverland you are thinking of is far from the truth.

Which is what makes this manga interesting.

Story:

At first glance, the story seems very uplifting and bright. There is laughter, smiles, cheerful children. There are children everywhere which is what makes the reader realize this is not a normal manga.

The story is broken in arcs, which follows three certain characters around. The start of the story has a very original plot to start and really hooks the reader well. The pacing and the excitement are there since we know the genre “mystery and thriller” is part of it all. The reader is at once wondering first chapter what is going to happen. Once it picks up and things start to happen, we are left following a group of children running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

Things really do start heading downhill from there. A familiar trope is used in the plot to some disappointment at which most of the story is now based around. Not only are the characters trying to find this “new world”, but they are also trying to find what happened to their friend, and in the meantime trying to dodge and fight every single demon that attack them.

That’s pretty much it.

The world building is okay. The author did place some good political stands and religious values on what the culture seems to be like in the demon world. There are some good descriptions on what the place looks like and the setting that brings their adventure together.

The pace at first is good but it soon does become a mess. The author puts events in which can reflect the modern world and affect what happens to the characters, and it just becomes…a bit too predictable. I felt, myself, it lost that excitement and thrill it had beginning to mid plot and became a repeating action.
It leaves us wondering if anything would ever change.

Art:

This art style takes a bit getting used to. It’s a bit wild for my taste. The character design has some strange ways to create large heads and hair on the kids. Emma’s hair is just a massive cow lick that just doesn’t want to stay down. Ray’s design looks rather familiar too if you see what I mean. The faces of the characters also seem like someone stepped on their faces and their facial features got all scrunched up. It makes them look kind of funny and too silly to take seriously in some fighting scenes.

The demon designs are spectacular and what makes this story really eye popping. They’re so original! It seems like they used more inspiration from children’s picture books about monsters and original design then the demons/youkai you’d find in Japanese folklore.

The background art too is very detailed and shows how much the author has placed in the world building. Honestly, they put more effort into the background than the actual characters in my opinion.

Characters:

Children! Children everywhere!

The main characters are children. So if you’re thinking “well, they’re going to grow up maybe?” Well, no. And that’s where that “Neverland” and the Berrie inspiration of never-growing-up comes from. But however much you may think, “oh man, were going to suffer the immature acts of children this entire 181 chapters, then?” well, perhaps not. These kids aren’t too bad as characters at the start. They all do seem determined children! They have their own personality (although seem familiar in ways), but there are some things…

Yeah, there wasn’t a lot of growth in the characters. They do grow – but…how can I say…they just stay the same it seems. There just wasn’t any change from when the first major event happens to the last. Emma still has that determined (and annoying) personality to keep everyone safe no matter what, Ray is still the same “emo-ish” main character who slowly moves into the background, and Norm…well, I think he’s the only one who has a bit of character development I think.

There are also the monsters but they just do what they’re supposed to: eat and kill without care. The same with the adults, but there is one who does a switch near the end thankfully. Yay, character development and things happening!
But I do have to point out there are a lot of characters. And I mean a lot of character you will forget and then they’ll come back after a few dozen chapters for readers to be like “who are you?” and they’ll start doing something important. I had a few of those moments.

Enjoyment:

At first, I really enjoyed going through the chapters and seeing all this mystery and suspense. I kept turning to pages and realizing that I had more questions I wanted answered. Plus, considering I was going through a phase where I was reading every single horror like manga out there, this one really fit my mood. But over time as I finally caught up around chapter 110, I felt like my excitement levels just went down. Maybe it’s because I was waiting for the next chapter weekly that I didn’t get the thrill rush I usually got or maybe it was because, for me, the manga just went down hill after the first few arcs, but reading through the last few dozen chapters weren’t enough to satisfy my horror hunger.

Overall:

It wasn’t too bad overall. It has its ups and down of course. There were times where I was like “OMG WHHHHAAAAAAT!” and other times I was like “Hmmm…okaaayyy? But why?”. I know my decision to read the manga before watching the anime was more due to the fact I wanted to know what was happening as it happened than watch the anime and wait almost a year to know. Therefore, if you really want to know what is happening, I do recommend reading this now, as it has ended, then from waiting for each chapter to be released weekly or waiting for the anime to continue. Then you can go at your own pace than the pace the manga is set at.

I give this manga a 47.5% on the children's scale.
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Angra-Mainyu14
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
If you are going into the manga thinking that the well thought out and brilliantly executed game of chess from the first arc is going to carry over throughout the series, you’ll be disappointed. After the first arc, there is a change of focus, from an engaging game of cat and mouse to an apocalyptic survival horror story. After all, the circumstances have changed. The children no longer have a cozy shelter and need to learn to fight for themselves.

As the story progresses, the explanation of the monsters that govern this world does not get too complicated, which is where other mangas go wrong. It’s plausible and easy to understand. The art is fantastic, the action is engaging and the plot remains clear an easy to follow, but it doesn’t shy away from killing or severely injuring any of the characters, so don’t get too attached. ;)

There is one more thing I have to add, but keep in mind that this is my personal opinion, yours may vary. The many fight scenes are extremely long, spamming chapters, desperately trying to keep you engaged. They’re promising a false sense of security, only to take it back in minutes. This, to me, feels like too much. I would have enjoyed the manga, perhaps, a little more if it didn’t spend so much time on this rollercoaster of emotions.

Overall, the manga is fantastic. Despite, its flaws, it takes you on this thrilling world changing adventure. It is a story about friendship, about determination and logic and implies that sometimes, the most certain path is not the best one. You have to trust yourself and just take a leap of faith. And it also makes you think of the way we consume meat and other animal products these days and just how inhumane it is.
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ponytaorponyboy13
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
Ah, The Promised Neverland, the manga that got WAY to much, be it undeserved, hate! Lets see why i think this is:

-SPOILERS (duh)-

1) The story:
I admit, after the grace field arc, the story doesn't get much better. It starts off with the children running away from the demons, and while doing so, finding other demons names Mujika and Sonju, that have gone past the need to eat humans, and so they help the children. We don't get a full explanation on how and why yet, that comes later on. After they meet, the demons help the kids escape the forest and towards William Minerva's Hideout.

After they escape the forest, they manage to find the hideout, and when they go inside, they find FOOD, WATER, GUNS, BEDS!! and a crazed lunatic with a gun, referred to as ''geezer''. They make a deal, if the loon helps them find William, they will leave the hideout forever, to which he ''agrees'' on. They make a plan to head to goldy pond, a place where the old geezer says William Minerva is . They start making there way to the pond only to have Emma get kidnapped by the demons at goldy pond,A hunting ground- free for all between the humans and demons. Emma gets split from geezer and ray and has to fend for herself, along with the other kids, and Adam, who are stuck in the grounds. In doing so, they need to defeat the demons of the grounds, Bayon, Nous, Nouma, Luce and Leuvis. Suprise Suprise, they manage to defeat 'all' of the demons on the farm, along with the geezer and rays help, who manage to find them. While at the farm, they discovers the secrets of who Minerva is, and that hes been dead for years....yeah.

So once they all return to the base and Emma nearly dies of blood loss, oh, i forgot to mention that, They set out for a journey to find the demon god to make a new promise, as they find out that the demon world and human world has been split, and the humans made a deal with the demons to let them eat the humans on the farms....Confusing much? Anyways, after like, 2 years, they find and infiltrate it,and find out that to make the deal, they need to find the dragons mouth or some shit like that, sorry i forgot. Oh Normans alive by the way, anyways. They find the demonfdksfb and enter it, and it tells them where to ACTUALLY do the ritual. so they go.

The story gets confusing from there, all i can remember is them getting stuck ina forest and being found by some goons, who take them to William Norman Minerva, And they bring all the kids to meet him. They are all shocked at seeing Norman alive, but when he explains his plan emma tells him to fuck himself and she makes a new plan. So she and ray go out and do the ritual at the gates of Gate and emma turns into a baby. And then ray dies of old age, but doesn't. Then they manage to enter the place where the promise is made, except ray because he's not the main character. So emma makes a promise that the humans should be able to go to the human world and to let humans in the farms go. The demon says yes, in exchange for IWHWD BCERGUJ. We dont find out until later. So, they make the promise and head to the human world and THERE ALL FREE- no,

They have to stop norman, but in doing so, they fight the queen of the demons. Oh also the portal to the living world is at grace field, dont know if you knew that, Eh, who cares. Anyway after a fight with the queen and Krone cameo we head to grace field, where they need to go to the human world. After they succesfully infiltrate, the final boss appears. Mother Isabella. :000 . Anyways Grandma (not mother) Isabella betrays the big boss man and kills him and frees all the kids and live happ- no she dies. But the kids all make it to the hu- No emma dies. oh geezers dead by the way. Yeah. So is one of the kids. Anyways the others make it to the human world and- oh emmas alive. But she can't remember anything. so they find her and live together. yeah.

--Story 7/10, average--

Characters?

I enjoyed them really, Emma is fun so is Ray and so is Norman and the other kids are- barely memerable. 8/10

Art? Funky cute but creepy style. 8/10

Enjoyment? HELL YEAH. 9/10

Overall 8/10, not an amazing story but a hella good manga. Anyways, go buy it and i'm going to sleep. God dam reviews take too long, you won't see this anyway
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fabishi8
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
I recently came across this brilliant manga, and I'm sure that this manga has potential to be one of the greats. I only wish that when they make an anime adaptation they make it good so that it also gets a wider audience. For this manga deserves the recognition. This is my first review. I could let it be without writing a review. It is THAT good.

What makes this manga so great ? (This is my opinion)

Apart from the easily recognizable , brilliant world building, art and characters. What makes The Promised Neverland a potential classic of all time is the philosophy behind it and the moral questions it makes us think over.

We have seen countless shonen manga making the villans stay in the grey by giving them a background story and justifying their actions. To me this is the first manga which has antagonists who are not bad even without any backstory or reasoning to their actions. They managed to stay grey just by staying true to who they are.

The overarching question to humanity about Are we any different ? resonates in every single chaper. This presents the moral dilema of ruling over an intelligent species. Farms, Hunting grounds are not something different to humans. We had them, we still have them, We will have them. and the story progression also explores the different aspects of hunting in a beautiful way to ask these questions more.

This presents us with a situation of how, nature and morality would be different if we were not the only intelligent species on this planet.

Every chapter leaves you with a thought !

Every chapter leaves you with a question !

Not just about the story of the manga but about ourselves.

I know this is early, but i hope they don't try to unnecessarily escalate the story like many shonen classics did and forget it's root. I really hope it stays true to it's original philosophy till the end.

I hope my rant made you wanna pick this manga up.
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MasakiHana9
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
Before I get started, I haven't done many reviews. As much as I could talk about the stuff I watch/read, it's hard to keep things condensed without going on a rant, so I'll try to keep it brief, and I really don't have too many thoughts on YnN. I prefer watching anime as I feel more engaged, but if the ongoing story manages to hook me, I jump straight into the manga to know how it continues.

And such was the case with YnN. I finished reading it last night and I'm not even mad, I'm just... disappointed. Am I getting out of touch for expecting a more mature story or themes from a manga that started as a battle of wits, or is it the shounen who are wrong?

The warning signs were all over the place after the end of the first arc, but I held on, expecting this morbid story of human cattle in a world of demons to actually be dramatic. The background of the world that awaited outside Grace Field was so grim that I expected Emma to be broken by the world. But she achieved one success after anothe, and the more the story progressed, the less she and her comrades lost along the way and the less invested in the story I was.

The only thing I could say is that the first two arcs are good. They are tense, there are stakes and there are consequences. Goldy Pond was where everything went downhill for me, although what followed after that arc picked up a bit of steam, and then started losing it.

I don't really know what else to say. Did I expect too much from it, or is the story just not that good?
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thisguy20114
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
While it's true that this is my first review I've written in my entire life, I decide it is time that that should change, and what better way than to write my first one about this fairly new series : Yakusoku no Neverland or the Promised Neverland.

Yakusoku no Neverland (YnN for short) is a shonen manga published in the famous magazine Weekly Shonen Jump, it has so far 38 chapters. The manga had a rough start but begin to gain more fame as the story progressed, and for good reasons: This manga in unlike anything I've ever read before, and believe me, I've read a lot of mangas in my life, let me tell you why.

Story: 10/10
The premise in itself is not unique, a group of orphans from 1 to 13 years old lives in a house, happily with their "Mama", who takes care of them, love them as much as she could and also makes them take intelligence tests. They discover, after, the dark secret of the Orphanage, which sets the story in motion. What this manga does so well is taking this concept into a whole new level, by making the story follow a logical, fast paced succession of events, intelligent dialogue, and most of all, the tension that builds up in every chapter, making it hard to imagine a way for the MCs to "win" in the end. It then that this dystopian story distinguish itself from the realm of dystopian stories which grew a lot this years.

Art : 8/10
The art isn't anything special at all, but what I found very well expressed was the tension and the dynamics of character, I can understand why some people may dislike the art, but nonetheless, it does the job for this manga.

Character : 9/10
Characters can be a tricky thing to write for any story writer, making the story progress while maintaining a good character development is quit hard, and it's even harder when the story is this fast paced. YnN did that quite well in the last 38 chapters, it's a feat most mangas can't accomplish with much chapters. The key word to describe every character in YnN would be "Smart",and that is what sets this manga apart from the rest. The 3 MCs are very different from each other, their solutions to the problems are very different and very unique, and there what I'll call : "The logical will of fire", which I'll let you the joy of discovering it. a part from the main heros, the other characters we have a villain cast that is also very well written.

Enjoyment : 10/10
YnN is a very unique read, you find yourself in the shoes of the MCs whenever they encounter problems, you can relate yourself to any of them. It's a wonderful experience.

Overall : 10/10
YnN is the new best manga of this generation, comparable to the genius of Death Note
I recommend to anyone who hasn't read

I hope my review will intrigue you enough to go read the manga.
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randomperson13
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
The Promised Neverland - 1st Arc Review
Chapters 1 - 37

The first chapter of The Promised Neverland is one of my favourite opening chapters of any manga, it's so intriguing and fascinating and scary, it really has anything you could ever want. So I insist that you at least read that chapter before reading this review because I'm going to spoil the twist and the end of the chapter which is much much better if you see it for yourself.

Anyway, this is a really unique manga considering it's in Shonen Jump, it's not a battle manga at all, more psychological thriller, where a group of kids living in an orphanage find out they are actually living on a farm, to be fed to these strong monsters. The premise is really strong and thought provoking, of course the commentary on farming as a whole is interesting (maybe would be an interesting double feature with Silver Spoon) and really visceral, you can really feel the odds are stacked against Emma, Norman and Rey, our main characters.

It's also one that illicits a lot of sympathy from every character, even Mama (the lady who runs the orphanage) and Sister Krone (her assistant) feel very real. Despite Demizu's real eye for terrifying drawings of these characters, Shirai makes it very clear that these people are just part of the system, they are just making the most of the horrible circumstances they are in.

Chapter to chapter this is such an enjoyable read, it's vert well paced, with the build up of tension over multiple chapters becoming almost unbearable at points, and the twists are frequently jaw dropping and practically force you to read another couple of chapters before going to bed.

The tightness of this opening arc, just being about Emma, Norman and Rey wanting to get out of the home is a real benefit, there aren't too many options and they are always one step away from danger. It brings out a lot of moral dilemmas to deal with and really brings out a lot from these characters.

In conclusion I think this is a fantastic arc and a really exciting new manga, there are some fears that opening up the story, as this next arc implicitly has to do, could remove some of the razor sharpness of this arc but for now this is something really great.
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porchpuppy11
Mar 27, 2021
Yakusoku no Neverland review
When I discovered The Promised Neverland for the first time I was not too interested in this title because I found it too cute and childish it was not my style, but after a few months of my discovery I still changed opinion and I started reading this manga, I first read the first chapter of volume 1 and ... It was incredible! ! Since that day The Promised Neverland has become my favorite manga of all time, after reading it I knew it was a masterpiece and that I was wrong to underestimate this work, And now the words are not enough to express my love for The Promised Neverland.

The universe:

The universe of the manga is just beautiful and incredible, it is also a little creepy and weird, because there are a lot of details which are very interesting and very important for the history of the manga and the construction of the scenario.

The scenario :

The script for The Promised Neverland is really very well thought out and organized, I have rarely seen a script as well written and developed, in each end of chapter we leave you on an end or a cliffhanger which will push you to read more history, because the construction of the arcs and the maturity of the events is truly incredible.

Art and drawings:

The art used by Mrs. Posuka Demizu the designer of the manga is not only beautiful and magnificent but it is also very dark and scary, because her drawing style is very original which gives a magnificent result on the quality and the details of the 'artwork.

Characters :

The characters in The Promised Neverland are really very special, I really like them. They are cute, adorable and childish but do not underestimate them because they are very clever, their intelligence and maturity always surprises me because despite their young age they always try to learn more and to always be up to par.

Conclusion:

The Promised Neverland is really a masterpiece in my eyes, because the passion I have for this work goes beyond all limits, it is among the few manga that gave me joy and goosebumps, short The Promised Neverland is the best manga I have read in my life.
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Yakusoku no Neverland
Yakusoku no Neverland
Autor Demizu, Posuka
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