Unlike Horimiya, which worked alright without those chapters, Promised Neverland doesn’t work without 50% – at minimum – of what they removed. We’ve had incomplete adaptations of manga epics in the past or ones that created a new ending to finish what they had available, yes, though I can’t recall any finished adaptations with such massive holes. I’m not certain (and I don’t have time to do the research right now), but this may just be the worst case of cut content in anime history. I don’t know why studio CloverWorks thought that Promised Neverland – this anime, of all anime – would work with such truncation. And Horimiya fans reckoned they had it bad. That’s right, 144 chapters in 11 episodes. Season one adapts 37 chapters of the 181 total. Little did I realise that this adapted all remaining chapters. This review was to come out weeks ago, but less than halfway through the season, I could already feel something missing, so I turned to the manga, you know, to read the 30-50 chapters that went into this season. I did not realise just how bad it was until I read the manga. I had heard rumblings that viewers were discontent with the cutting of material.
What the hell happened here? I watched the first season of The Promised Neverland a year ago, which I quite liked, and now I come back to this…this… What do you even call this? Did an intern carrying the script trip over and have most of the pages fall into a shredder, collect what was left, rewrite the page numbers at the bottom, and then hand it to the animation department? Most egregious truncation of the source material in anime history?Ĭontains spoilers for season one – unavoidable.Length: 11 episodes (season 2), 181 chapters (manga) The Promised Neverland manga (partially included in this review) Japanese Title: Yakusoku no Neverland 2nd Season
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