Emma, Ray, and the rest of the older children have escaped the confines of the Grace Field House. However, with relentless demons set on capturing them, their arduous battle for freedom has only just begun.
Despite venturing into the treacherous wilderness, the children remain optimistic due to their possession of books written by William Minerva. Coded within his books are messages detailing the world outside the farm—information that can help them survive with the limited resources they have. But when their pursuers draw near, the children soon encounter their most dreadful situation yet.
In Yakusoku no Neverland 2nd Season, the children struggle to survive in the strange ruthless world, striving to find a sanctuary they can truly call home.
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HellLyter
A butchered adaptation, neglecting to include fan favorite characters from the manga and removing entire arcs, complete and utter disregard of the great tone and atmosphere that was so carefully crafted in the first season, and rushing a once engaging story to high hell to make it a sloppy mess. This is horror. This is The Promised Neverland Season Two. And it's frickin brilliant. Now you may be sitting in your comfy chair, mouth agape in shock, and asking yourself "Is this guy quite possibly insane?" Probably. But I also had a revelation to something that you don't know...yet. But that's ok. I'm here to enlightenyou dear reader. I came to realize that this season's apparent monumental failure was in fact done on PURPOSE. Yeah, I know it sounds unbelievable, but let me lift the veil from your eyes so you too can begin to appreciate this anime's efforts.
Let me ask you something. What is the primary genre of Promised Neverland? The one that enticed viewers to watch and kept them craving more? The one that propelled this series to the height of popularity? It's horror. THAT is the driving appeal of this series. The first season did an excellent job with this. I'm sure you don't need me to reiterate the solid pacing, timing, character growth, conflict, and more. But most importantly, it was a faithful adaptation to the source material.
Now imaging destroying all of that.
The once well defined and centralized plot has become convoluted, characters have become one dimensional, and the solid build up has just completely evaporated among other things. But also...taking an anime original approach!? Gasp! Now this is what I call true horror!
There's only so far you can go when trying to instill fear into viewers through animation. Studio Cloverworks clearly knew that they had to take things to the next level, so instead of providing some exterior unnerving content like they did with the first season, they strike directly at the heart of fans by making them feel the utter despair of watching something they love turn into...this. Wow. Totally soul crushing. And absolutely genius!
And that's why this season is clearly a subversive masterpiece. Shows of this genre aim to break the viewer through deep and dark content. Yet Cloverworks found a way to effectively do this through an entirely different approach, and it clearly shows. Seriously, the overwhelming animosity towards this season by fans is almost as scary as this show's complete and utter implosion. I applaud them for their enlightened and forward thinking methods! But here's a warning. This only applies if you read and were a fan of the manga. Otherwise, it's just a incredibly lackluster sequel to a really good first season. Through watching, fans get to experience the purest, most rage inducing kind of horror there is.
The horror of a butchered adaptation.
Marinate1016
I debated whether it was even worth writing a review for the sham that is Yakuneba season 2 for about an hour or so before deciding that after all the time, energy and think pieces I’ve given this series, I should write one. Let me be clear, season 2 of Yakuneba, or TPN, whatever you prefer, is the biggest disappointment I’ve ever seen in all my years of watching anime. Those familiar with the manga will know that the content after season 2 has an astronomical drop in quality, but season 2’s material was the best in the series. Yet, for some unknown reason, Cloverworksand the author decided to rewrite the story and condense the entire second half of the manga into 11 episodes and remove one of the best characters in the series. Why? There’s been rumours that the author didn’t like the pacing of Goldy Pond(the arc that should have been adapted this season) and decided to rework things. Out of all the things that went wrong in the second half of the manga, Goldy Pond was not one of them.
Now that I’ve got my manga reader tirade out of the way, I’ll explain just how atrocious this season was. “Well, I didn’t read the manga, so I might like it still, right?” No. Even if you were fortunate enough to not read the final half of Yakuneba’s manga, you will still find plenty of faults with this season. For one, the pacing is comically bad. Conflicts are set up and resolved in the span of a few minutes, often with huge leaps in logic. For two, the kids are often put into situations for which they have no training or previous experience and yet able to magically work their way out of with no casualties or so much as a scratch. For three, none of the mystery and tension that the first season or first half of the manga had are present. There’s never a need to fear for anything because you know Emma will talk no jutsu her way out of things.
This season is just bad, not just because it butchered a fan favourite arc or cut out a fan favourite character and moments. It’s bad because it’s poorly written, poorly directed and a shadow of the former glory of TPN. Honestly, I thought it would be hard to get worse than the manga, but Cloverworks succeeded here on that front. If you want a somewhat mediocre conclusion to the story, check that out, but even then don’t expect much. Yakuneba S2 gets 2 dumpster fires out of 10.
EpicyAD
Hear me out❤️,I don't care what anyone thinks about this season but I enjoyed it and in fact I thought it was amazing, most people who were mad are the ones who read the manga, as a person who didn't, I can say that I absolutely enjoyed every episode of this season. Animation 9/10 Music 10/10 Story 9/10 Voice acting 10/10 Pacing 7/10 Say whatever you want but this season was goated and a great continuation to the story.Yes, the pacing was fast and even tho I didn't read the manga I felt things were rushed abit but I still understood the story.
The only thing that I will complain about is that they could have made a third season but iam satisfied with this season overall.
akib10
The Promised Neverland was one of the best anime of 2019. In 2021 the highly anticipated second season was finally released, but it was a big disappointment for me. So where did it go wrong? Was it because they choose to not follow the source material? Was it because they rushed the whole story in 11 episodes? Probably both of them were the reason. I didn't read the manga, so I don't actually know if the manga is better or not. If felt like they wrote the key points of the story couldn't connect them. Conflicts are set up and resolved in the span of afew minutes, often with huge leaps in logic. For two, the kids are often put into situations for which they have no knowledge or experience and yet magically work their way out without a scratch. They threw away the character traits and relied on plot armor to make up for their bad writing. They never tried to give a logical explanation behind the events that take place. It felt things are just happening for the sake of plot progression.
The animation and sound were pretty decent. The story concept was good, but they couldn't express it properly.
Michael-Maradei
In all honesty, I can not understand why people will hurt such a great anime on purpose. I think that some things could have been better, but it doesn't mean it deserved at 5 mark. Please guys, minimum a seven. Art and sound are good. Animation also on point. The new characters add depth to the story. I believe that we two or 3 more episodes the story could have been showed better. The story was great. I enjoyed the show and the outrigger song is so good.In all honesty, I can not understand why people will hurt such a great anime on purpose.
I think that some things could have been better, but it doesn't mean it deserved at 5 mark. Please guys, minimum a seven.
Art and sound are good. Animation also on point.
The new characters add depth to the story. I believe that we two or 3 more episodes the story could have been showed better.
The story was great. I enjoyed the show and the outrigger song is so good.
bulkyhog
Overall: 1/10 Holy shit this turned out to be a big ass fucking rant/essay, so I apologise for anyone who tries reading this whole thing. Before I start this review of TPNL the anime, I just wanna say the manga nosedived beyond belief after the first arc, “Escape from Grace Field”. If we rated that arc at a 9 or 10, the next major arc, “Goldy Pond”, would probably come in at a 6 or 7. Everything after that? 2 or 1. No debate. These are literal facts: if you thought that straight up adapting the manga, panel for panel, into a S2 and beyond was agood idea, you are gravely mistaken and likely VERY stupid, or delusionally obsessed with how good the first arc was in TPNL and riding that arc wayyyyy too hard.
TLDR for non-manga readers. TPNL went from a series about carefully considered mind games, great characters with distinct personalities, goals, and agency on the story, and moral complexity/ambiguity to a series of deus ex machinas consequence and unearned kindness and forgiveness, all of which felt entirely unearned. Above all else, Emma became a literal GOD who would never, and I mean NEVER, face any consequences from her actions or be challenged on her beliefs.
In essence, pursuing an anime-original route was the right call. If anybody disagrees with this GENERAL notion, I really can’t say anything at this point aside from stop reading this review.
Now, did they execute this good, well-intended idea properly? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Everything that made the manga horrible after the first arc has literally just reappeared in the anime, only reskinned.
CloverWorks: Hey man, we were hoping to do an anime original route since so many people hated the latter half of the manga you wrote, you know?
Kaiu Shirai: Yea sure thing, I’m down with that.
CloverWorks: Great, what do you think we should include?
Kaiu Shirai: Remember those coincidences and deus ex machinas that ruined the manga?
CloverWorks: Uhhhhh yea?
Kaiu Shirai: We’ll just reskin them and remove the few good things we had going for us too. That’ll work perfectly!
We shouldn’t be blaming CloverWorks, but the man who set our expectations so high only to rip out the ladder from underneath our feet: Kaiu Shirai, who also happened to be “helping guide the direction” of the anime. The pacing was rushed beyond belief and we missed out on a lot of important development (both plot and character) and details in worldbuilding, making it IMPOSSIBLE to get invested in the story, characters, or action. Pathetic.
Story: 1/10
Honestly, I don’t even know what the story is about anymore. Sure, Emma wants to go back and save the kids. That’s been the premise from the start. But any points of interest such as the mind games, the challenges to overcome, the UBER VAST multitude of themes that were brought up, such as ends justifying the means, kill or be killed, vegetarianism/religion, euthanasia, etc. were all DROPPED and never seen again after the first arc: this shit went out to get some milk and never came back.
First off, pacing. If you think this pacing is good, get your eyes and ears checked. As a byproduct of this rushed pacing, we lose any semblance of character/plot development, WORLDBUILDING (which is sooooo important considering how we’ve expanded the world/setting), and story progression. The ripple effects are bigger than I can put into words. Just think about how Norman was introduced: we had a random timeskip that omitted a bunch of possibilities for character development and worldbuilding, and then lo and behold Norman is alive with no buildup. What an awful joke.
Most importantly, the major problem was the prevalence of “coincidences” that are never explained or justified. In the first season, everything happens for a reason. We were either explained the situation beforehand, so we could understand all the possible risks arising from the escape plan and the actions Isabella would take to shut it down, OR, we were left with enough clues to foresee a “twist” happening, such as Sister Krone being hired to help out.
We don’t get this at all in S2. Instead, we just get plot conveniences one after another.
How do the bad humans find the shelter? We don’t know. Why did the giant demon attack only these evil humans and not the kids standing in front of them? Plot armor? HOW DO THESE KIDS RUN AWAY FROM A GIANT DEMON? Beats me. How do Isabella and the others know shelters even existed, or that they have radios in them? And even if they did know, why the fuck didn’t they trap or destroy all the shelthers? We also don’t know! It’s just a mashup of plot armor and convenience, one after the other, to force the story along. I was watching episode 9, and enjoyed how they portrayed Norman and his followers as having some trace sympathy for demons: their siding with Emma was handled slightly better than the manga, albeit rushed and underdeveloped. But here I was thinking deus ex machinas were gone, when LO AND BEHOLD. Old Man Demon brings out a pen piece, he just HAPPENED to be keeping on him, which also just HAPPENS to contain the entire map of Grace Field, WHICH ALSO HAPPENS TO CONTAIN THE CURE TO LAMBDA SEIZURES. Why the fuck, did a cure for Lambda exist 15 years ago, if Lambda wasn’t even completed then? How can you cure an incomplete/unknown ailment. And even then, why/how did it end up at Grace Field instead of staying at the Lambda facility? What? If this isn’t the biggest ass pull I’ve seen in the history of anime, I don’t know what the fuck is. I could go on and on, but I don’t want to make this braindead keyboard review longer than it already is.
It’s impossible to get invested in a story, regardless how bad it is, when there are no stakes whatsoever. Not once have I ever watched this season and thought something bad would happen, or that Emma would finally grow up and face some consequences because everytime something bad could possibly go wrong, it doesn’t because the story squirms around like a snake to find an escape route. Disgusting writing and Kaiu Shirai should be absolutely disappointed in himself, especially after writing the Escape From Grace Field Arc.
Art: 6/10
Art is alright. Everything is fine, but my biggest concern was with the demons not looking scary enough, compared to the first season: Sonju could’ve looked wayyyyy more menacing and “demonic” when salivating over the thought of eating humans. I’ve seen kids get whipped into a frenzy over pizza rolls, cmon.
Sound: 6/10
Nothing standout, but nothing horrible either. It’s serviceable, and the voice acting is pretty good at least.
Character: 1/10
Oh boy, if there’s something I hated about TPNL, it’s how character development just disappeared. Kaiu Shirai should become a magician considering how good he is at making things disappear: character development, plot points, fine details, and his fan base.
First off, I hate Emma as a character. Not because of her values: I can understand having those idealistic views. Instead, I hate her because she is never challenged on anything and NEVER faces any consequences or difficult decisions. When Norman announced he wanted to kill all the demons, almost ALL the other kids were fully on board with it. Emma is the only one who sees the questionable morality behind this decision. She decides she doesn’t want to kill the demons, because there are good ones like Sonju and Mujika. Do the other kids stop and think about her point? Do they argue that Sonju and Mujika might only be a small minority? Do they bring up how them and others have been mistreated by almost every other demon? NOPE! They just all agree with Emma and side with her instantly, no hesitation or questions asked. What?
Any semblance of intelligence and thinking has disappeared from the main cast. Nobody even tries executing the same amount of planning and rational thinking we saw in the first season. Everyone just does stupid things and gets away with it thanks to plot armor. Peter Ratri who has been running these farms for ages, and even figured out where these kids were hiding, randomly believes one of them would sell the rest out and doesn’t have a contingency? Nice!
Also, can we talk about how one-dimensional the kids are? Most of the kids exist to just cry and whine when things go bad, which is basically all the “consequences” Emma has to deal with. Also, you expect me to believe these kids, fucking KIDS, can outrun demons, including a giant wild one? Bullshit. Better yet, you expect me to believe these kids won’t show ANY signs of PTSD, anxiety, or mental breakdowns following escaping from humans with guns AND giant monsters? Even more bullshit. Within the premise of the first arc, it was understandable that traits and responses like this wouldn’t have to be considered. And don’t even get me started on Norman’s 4 followers. These people literally have no character. Literally. They exist solely to be the ones who get their hands dirty and kill demons because god forbid our innocent children do that, let alone the fact they aren’t even physically strong enough to: Zazie, Cislo, Barbara and Vincent are literal plot devices, not even characters. But we playing with the big kids now: this ain’t no pre-school playground. And in that aspect, 70-80% of the kids in Emma’s “current family” and the 4 aforementioned plot devices are just random background characters to me: I honestly couldn’t care less if they died and that is NOT how TPNL should be making me feel.
Enjoyment: 1/10
Every week, I would look forward to all the anime I’m watching this season. All except one: TPNL. I must admit, the first 3-4 episodes were watchable, considering my preliminary review scored the season an overall 5. But the warning signs became reality as the episode count went on, and my hope for a good, anime-original adaptation diminished greatly. After Norman just randomly appeared out of nowhere, with no buildup whatsoever, I lost all hope in this series. But with only 3 episodes of this dumpster fire left, I said “Fuck it, let’s see how badly it can blow up in the final episodes.”
If you enjoyed this season, you gotta be a masochist or something. Watching what was a great series get slaughtered like this shouldn’t be enjoyable for anyone. I’m genuinely surprised the average MAL score isn’t <5; I guess that just goes to show how worthless the scoring system is lol. So if you’re an anime only viewer, where do you go from now? Do you read the manga because it’s good according to manga readers? Nope, because that shit is hot trash and just as bad, if not WORSE than this season. Like I said, the only arc potentially worth reading is Goldy Pond, but even then you aren’t left with a conclusive ending, so you’d just be subjecting yourself to more bullshit torture by completing the entire manga. Pick your poison I guess.
I can tell you one thing for sure though, if I could travel back in time to the start of the winter season, I sure as hell wouldn’t tune in for this shit and waste 30 minutes of my time every week on literal hot fucking garbage.
Leleouch_Zero
I don't usually write reviews,this is my first one. I had to write this review after seeing so much hate. This season isn't bad, manga readers are just sad that it deviates from manga,but if you are not interested in its manga and are only watching the anime it isn't so bad. It picks up right where the s1 ended,it has good pacing,good story,good ending,good animation and overall it is very enjoyable. My only suggestion is that if you are interested in its manga then don't watch s2 and just go read the manga but if you are an anime only then you should definitely give this atry.
RebelPanda
The Promised Neverland 2nd Season is a brilliant achievement of Japanese Television. It is a series that has no reason to exist other than to profit off of unsuspecting fans of the first season. This is the spiritual successor to Tokyo Ghoul: Root A—another anime original sequel that attempted to inflict as much severe pain and suffering on the manga fans as possible. Except, at least that blatant marketing scheme had semi-decent audiovisuals. This sequel follows Female Kirito, previously known as “Emma”. Similar to Kirito, Emma is also the most powerful player in the video game. Rather than using a sword, she has the power ofplot armor to protect her from any danger! Getting chased by a demon? She can outrun it. Armed soldiers can’t kill demons with guns? She’ll kill it with a bow & arrow. Instead of getting followed around by a harem, Female Kirito has a bunch of children that go along with anything she says. They have names but don’t worry—you won’t remember them anyway. Previously a character known as “Ray” challenged Emma’s overly idealistic goals. This season he has been renamed to “Hay” because has no weight on the plot and allows Emma to do anything—no matter how stupid she acts. A long-lost friend (who was lost for less than 6 episodes) returns, but he’s actually a bitter Bad Guy now! Shocking! But why is he bad? He explains everything to us because we are incapable of comprehending storytelling—we must be fucking idiots!
Just sit back and get spoonfed by one of Season Two’s many iconic exposition scenes: Emma and her harem gather in a non-descript room, and one character stands-up and summarizes 100 chapters of the manga in a five to ten-minute long speech. It’s like karaoke night, but instead of singing, they monotonously read SparkNotes summaries of the manga with no animation whatsoever. Unless you consider a PowerPoint presentation to be animation. The Promised Neverland 2nd Season does not tell a story, nor does it do much of anything. It uses a bunch of unrelated plot points throughout dozens of chapters. Years of time skips pass by in minutes. Then it stitches these barely connected pieces together like a hideous quilt.
The entire show rides on how Emma’s feeling today. In one episode she’ll let the kids eat potentially poisonous fish, in the other she’ll happily help a demon with its groceries despite knowing they like to eat children for supper. No matter anything she does, she’ll have either a smile on her face or a slightly concerned expression. I don’t like comparing the adaptation to the manga, but in this case, it is impossible to not notice the differences in art detail and writing quality. All of the passion is drained, turning climactic moments into laughably bad dialogue. Villains double-cross each other in unison like a hive mind being controlled by an annoyed writer.
They should have explained the motivations behind everyone’s sudden changes in goals and morality, but that’d require hard work. And lazy writers don't like doing hard work. Why bother adapting three beloved story arcs from the manga—full of battles that would be VERY expensive to animate—when you can just summarize them with a PowerPoint presentation? That's easy money! Strip away the psychological horror, intelligence, atmosphere, and logic that made the original anime so special, and what do you have left? This piece of inane shit. Granted, I am not a huge fan of the original, but it was light-years better than this. The show is dependent upon the demon creature effects but, even in 2D, they are below average at best. It’s remarkable, really. CloverWorks has mastered the art of being lazy, and they should be applauded for that.
My instinct is to blame the writers at Cloverworks, but it’s clear from disappearing names in the credits that they did not want to be associated with this colossal dumpster fire. According to interviews, the mangaka co-wrote the anime original story, but that has never stopped a film from being bad. George Lucas co-wrote The Rise of the Skywalker, and George R.R. Martin worked on the clusterfuck that was Game of Thrones S8. Just like those adaptations, The Promised Neverland will go down as one of the greatest declines in writing quality in all of anime history. The last time I saw an anime crash and burn so hard in the final act was Darling in the FranXX.
That’s all there is to The Promised Neverland 2nd season. Finishing as quickly as possible to cash a paycheck. Every aspect of it is rushed: The stiff voice performances, the recycled soundtrack is poorly mixed. They reuse the same facial expressions, character animations, background art, and CGI monsters. Even to the untrained eye, it will be obvious the production has cut corners in literally every aspect. If you don’t care about quality and want your intelligence to be insulted, watch this remarkable landmark in anime history. Come along, join these personified potatoes on a journey to rebel against Weekly Shounen Jump by becoming the most profitable adaptation while putting in the least amount of talent & budget possible. A journey which they have failed, apparently, according to the abysmal sales.
Yumerlol
(TL;DR at bottom, most of this review will be comparing season 1 and season 2 of TPN. Before I start, I don’t know what happened in the manga, so I won’t be comparing the manga and anime and how they would differ.) “Reality is often disappointing” is a phrase that I would use to describe The Promised Neverland’s second season. Winter 2021 received many subsequent sequels to popular, well-known animes. Most of the sequels, in my opinion, lived up to its prequel. This isn’t the case for The Promised Neverland. Where do I even start? There are many, noticeable problems in (S2), but first, I want toaddress (S1) comparatively to (S2). (S1) had so many outstanding factors going for it. Despite being part of the shonen category, it had many boastful features that distinguished itself to stand out. Great characters that kept the story rolling, a good story setting (but had much more to be explained and explored, which this season tries to do), anything sound-related fits the tone of what a scene is trying to portray, and CloverWorks never disappointed once to highlight how much of a perfect fit of a studio it was for this work. (S1) delivered a suspenseful thriller with mystery, horror, and psychological elements. What (S2) aims to do is to create something of this nature, but it didn’t even reach the bare minimum. All the special elements of what (S1) gave is gone. Everything. There is no profound feeling when watching (S2). Watching this series fall to this caliber made me feel miserable because like I wrote, there are many features that distinguish itself from other shonens.
Characters: 3/10
Emma, in this season, pissed me off. Everyone did. All the characters turn into bland characters that have the most cliché ideals and motives. They don’t surprise me anymore with their clever tactics. They become unrealistic with ideas, and everything works out their way. They are faced with very few difficulties and little hardships - it very much feels that way to me. Very different from (S1). Ray and Norman become Emma’s sidekicks, and they don’t even have their own character to them. Their performance in (S1) is a different story, but in (S2) it felt like a drag to watch the kids explore the world outside of Grace Field House. Many missed opportunities and took the lazy route with all the characters.
Story: 3/10
While (S2) follows the story after (S1), the story following (S1) became unknown to everyone on what was prone to happen since it was an anime-original. But to summarize what happened, the story picks up on the kids’ escape, and they find out their lives may be even more at risk than it was, living in their farms. The kids face troubles, hardships, and some of their relationships with characters feel conflicted, blah blah so on, so forth. I’m not going to go deep in details since this is a spoiler-free review. Everything that happens is forced. It’s so boring. All the points in the story that seem crucial and vital are rushed and are missed opportunities to further expand upon. At the end of each episode, the story tries to leave off a cliffhanger with the most generic ideas, and following the start of the next episode, the idea is immediately tossed away for the characters’ own benefits. For example, the end of episode nine and the start of episode ten is so forced. Most of the episodes are poorly developed and written, especially episode ten. Sure, in the earlier episodes, it was alright and somewhat enjoyable, but following that, I couldn’t even keep up with what was happening. A million unanswered questions and plot holes are also very apparent. There was even a time-skip that I was unaware of... bottom line, (S2)’s story is pretty baddd...
Art: 6/10
Is it just me or do the kids look a little different? Emma’s face looks different from (S1) - not enjoyable but bearable. It could be a new art style or whatever, but it definitely is comparatively worse than (S1). Either way CloverWorks worked on multiple shows this season, so props to them. I’ve noticed some reviews say the camera angles were inconsistent, but it’s not like (S2) gave me any feeling remote to mystery or suspense - just dissatisfaction.
Sound: 6/10
The OP and ED are really nice to listen to, and I would go out of my way to listen to them, but unlike (S1)’s OP and ED, I feel like they don’t contribute to the show in any way. There were no moments in the story either that needed heavy, dramatic music like (S1) did, but I guess (S2) in the sound department is ok.
Enjoyment: 5/10
Did I look forward to watching the new episode every week? For the first half, yes. The next half, not so much. All the characters are butchered, the story feels generic, the sound is a downgrade, the art is the same, no emotional feeling swelled up within me for the majority of this season, which contributes to my enjoyment of (S2) being less than average.
Overall: 4/10
The Promised Neverland (S2) filled me with false hope and dissatisfaction. I was promised a great series that I could look forward to. For the sake of this review, I watched all the episodes. There are redeemable parts in (S2), which is why I gave it a 4. Putting my opinion out there, but to say that (S2) was a complete atrocity is an overstatement. It does not live up to (S1) in any form, but (S2) is really, really just a poor version of what it could have been. Most parts of it are just mediocre. It’s a shame too since (S1) was one of the first animes that I would consider a near masterpiece as a shonen series.
TL;DR: The Promised Neverland is the disappointment of Winter 2021 as a sequel to an anime. Its inability to compare itself to its prequel is what makes it fall short.
andiabrudan
This sequel fully deserves the rating it has. I'm sure, by now, all that had to be said has already been said in the numerous negative reviews. But I'll add to the pile anyway. The second season has a massive tone-shift from the first. It is a completely different genre and doesn't hold up to even 1% of the first season. It is as if an isekai writer — and not even a good one at that — has picked up the series and was tasked with ending it. Well, he ended it alright. Ran it straight into the ground. The events of the second series pick up exactlywhere the first one left off. And we're immediately shoved into this new magical world full of wonders and dangers... that do not resemble the fauna and flora of the farm in the slightest. It's as if our children lived in Sandy Cheeks's underwater habitat and suddenly, when they go past the wall, they're in Bikini Bottom. I don't think I have to elaborate why that is just bad writing.
But all that is fine. You changed the setting, you changed the dynamic, you changed the goals. That is all peachy.
Where is stops being peachy is around the halfway mark. I don't want to give any spoilers, but if you thought things were bad until here, they suddenly plummet.
Massive character assassinations, all for the sake of progressing the plot. A stupid plot to begin with. And, of course, a very anime-ish Heel-Face Turn because god forbid our protagonists stand for what they believed in 5 minutes ago.
Now if you thought episodes 7 or 8 were a plummet, from here it's like a piece of shit detaching from a falcon doing a skydive at 200km/h.
Massive plot holes and very, extremely, unequivocally poor — both in taste and execution — plot twists that frankly serve no purpose and are set up and revealed in like a span of 5 minutes.
Heck, one of them is set up at the end of an episode and immediately revealed at the beginning of the very next, right after the intro. In fact, had they waited with the plot twist like 5 minutes, they might have had some suspense there for a second, but the action scene that follows lands flat on its face because of this.
And to top it all off, we don't even get an impactful ending to the story. The best analogy I have for that ending is: you're falling to your death; the end is in sight; you can taste it! The sweet release of death after an arduous journey. But just before you hit the ground, you actually fall on a whoopee cushion (like a small one, not big enough to save your life) that makes a fart sound and literally ruins even your death.
I cannot comprehend how we can go from a season 1 that, I would argue, rivals the writing levels of Death Note (both in tension and intensity) to a season 2 that is a subpar isekai.
My advice: consider the ending of season 1 as all there is. The kids escaped and they lived happily ever after. The end.
You can come up with head cannon that is better than this.
yeastyok
the promised neverland season 1 had GREAT pacing it felt slow and stuttery and tense which fit the series super well. It adapted chapter 1 to chapter 37 in 12 episodes. giving the anime time to pace itself giving it about 3 chapters of the manga per episode. and since each episode was 22 minutes thats around 264 minutes overall meaning 4 and a half hours of watchtime. meanwhile season 2 adapated the next 144 to get to the end. meaning thats 13 chapters per 1 episode. thats the amount of content of over 4 episodes (a quater of the first season) to just 1episode. overall coming out to 242 minutes of watchtime overall. which meant it skipped ALOT of important and most importantly good arcs especially goldy pond.
the music and atmosphere and stuff like that may have been good but rushing an anime to the end just because is horrible practice.
the story may have still been good with all that stuff cut out, but thats just a byproduct of how they chopped up peak meaning they still had peak. i assure ALL anime only watchers that it would have been even better if they had been as faithful as they had with the first season.
it would have been MUCH better if they just slowed it down getting all the content in even if never renewed it for a third season.
LURMERFUR
The Promised Neverland season 2, it was indeed awesome. The story answered all the questions I had when I started watching season 1. The characters all developed into what were expected of them. Side stories and supporting characters did their job splendidly. However, in this review, I'd like to talk about the short comings of Promised Neverland 2nd Season, and what could have been done better. First we look at how the story was delivered. Frankly, everything was fine, but it was given to us too quickly. I wish there were more episodes to further emphasize what the story would progress to. I wanted the specifics.The ending was basically summarized into a few minutes, and usually I would love that, if the series was taking too long with it's fillers, but I feel a few minutes of summary could have at least taken up space with two or three episodes. Even if those episodes were just mainly narrated by the main character.
Second we look at the genre of the anime. Sci-fi, Mystery, and psychological thriller. Surely these were all present, but were all lacking in certain ways.
The sci-fi part of the series was indeed lacking when most of the contents were not specified. Although I do not consider myself to be an expert, but as an amateur, I see that more of this genre had the opportunity to elaborate itself.
The mystery part, which was perfectly portrayed in season 1, was demystified in this season, and sadly, I don't see myself wanting to know what happens next, mainly because I know what happens, but I want to see it lay out in front of me. I want it all... lol
The psychological and thriller part of the anime, I can't say much on the lacking part for these genres, because I found myself biting on the tips of my nails hoping no one dies. So it worked for me, I guess. However, the delivery of these genres could not fully reach the extent of its potential, due to the graphics/art of the anime. I gave the art an 7 because I am not as captivated as I once was, but perhaps it is because i watched it in 720p, we may never know.
Overall, I liked it, but it couldve been better.
DesiSkorm
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 horrorfan 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.
islacate
My rating is solely for the ending theme. The entire show was trash besides. Mujika, she carried it the entire way. At a more in-depth look, it's been a while since I've watched the show and I definitely don't plan on rewatching. I loved s1 but s2 just completely destroyed everything. Mujika carried the entire season The ending theme carried the entire season The show is where it all went down hill, it's as if they out no effort into it at all. They definitely didn't stay loyal to the manga and that just made it even worse Overall for the show 1/10 For theending 10/10
giftina
Ok so hear me out, I read the manga right after S1 aired so my hopes were over the roof and when this season came out my hopes were shattered. However, if you perhaps haven't read the manga then you will not be disappointed. The animation is good, the visuals are stunning and the quality is pretty amazing too. It's just that in the manga, it's 10x better. This season omitted A LOT of characters and a few amazing and thrilling arcs. The fights and suspense in the anime could not compare to the thrill I felt when reading the manga. I feel like they could have made theplot follow the manga a lot more. If not exactly the same then atleast keep the fan favourite arc(s) and characters.
Overall, I'll give this review a mixed feeling because even though I was heavily disappointed with the adaptation, one could still enjoy watching it if you ignore a few stuff.
coolconnor995
Watch the first season, then jump over to the manga. Season 1 ends at about chapter 37. Why swap to manga? Because Season 2 attempts to shove the entire rest of the series into 11 episodes. Arcs are cut, butchered, and the ending is turned into a slide show with NO context as to what is being shown. I hadn't read the manga yet, so I had no idea what to expect. I was still heavily disappointed, and was even more disappointed when I figured out how much was cut and changed. If you're a manga reader, stay FAR away from this season, it will infuriate you.
daaphish
*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 inquality.
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
chaerrybee
NO SPOILERS I'll keep it simple: if you watched and really liked the first season, you will most likely find this very enjoyable and certainly at least worth watching. There were definitely things that were sped forward a bit, sure, and there can always be improvements - but it was nice to watch and brought a meaningful conclusion to the story of the Grace Field House kids. However: if you read the manga, this will probably do nothing but frustrate you. I can't say I know much about the manga, but I know enough to guess that it won't be worth watching the second season if youhave.
I liked it, I can understand why others didn't. I understand the annoyance when comparing it to the source, but considering it as a stand alone piece, the story felt right. It's very difficult to get pacing in such a show right, and while it isn't perfect, to anyone who's just watching the anime, it isn't anything extremely bothersome.
At the end of the day, whether you approve of the pacing, the storytelling or otherwise - this is a second season worth watching. If you don't end up liking the direction they went in, that's okay and I can completely see why. I liked it, and I would recommend it to at least try.
Drakestalker
Much like the 2nd season of One Punch Man, it is a disappointing sequel to a much greater prequel. The eye-catching saturation of the colors is lost. The palette becomes flat and unremarkable. The animation, as well, seems to no longer make use of the blend of 3DCG that made the original so outstanding. However, the unfortunate greatest sin of season 2 is that it completely dispenses with the horror element. Neverland's S2 becomes a generic action-adventure show. This is in effect due to the fact that S2 takes creative liberty with the direction of the story and deviates from the manga. Allow me, once again to quoteKenta Suzuki, one of the show's producers from the Sakura-con interview I mentioned in my piece about the first season:
"The first season of the anime was pretty much the same as the first part of the manga. When we created that anime, we didn't deviate from the manga very much. But in the second season, I think we're going to have more flexibility in how we portray the continuation of the manga story. [...] [T]here are viewers who have read the manga first and are now watching the anime. We would like to create an anime that is interesting because of its differences and its different approaches from the original manga."
The more experienced and cynical viewers saw straight through the paper-thin bullshit rhetoric about creating an experience that is "interesting because of its differences". To the savvier of us, it sounded eerily like the "diversity is our strength" slogan. The thought in everyone's minds? They are gonna fuck it up, aren't they? Yes. Yes, they did. The sequel stands at only 11 episodes short for whatever incomprehensible reason, but we'll circle back to that later, and represents nothing but sheer disappointment by comparison.
To put it quite plainly, the story of season 2 is a rushed mess. Beloved characters and important events from the manga are at worst, cut altogether, barely mentioned in passing, or at best, turned into caricatures of their true selves. While the major story beats are all technically the same, given that the manner in which events unfold is drastically different and that the characters involved are an order of magnitude less fleshed out, the emotional depth and weight behind them is all but gone.
Perhaps most tragically, second only to the forfeiture of the horror element, the character development dies decisively. The entire cast devolves into one-dimensional husks of their former selves. Our protagonist, Kirito, previously known as Emma, solves all of her problems through the power of plot armor. Things happen simply by virtue of the fact that she wants them to happen. Ray, the genius edgelord from the first season, that I identified with the most intensely, is now relegated to being a closer-to-earth token trope.
As if to add insult to injury, Emma starts to espouse a nauseatingly self-destructive system of ethics from the half-way point of the season on. It becomes so overbearing that it colors the entire final act, including the lead-up to it. Then again, this seems to be the only system of ethics that we, as a species, have somehow collectively agreed is appropriate to teach children. In all fairness to CloverWorks, I think it's an artifact of the manga, not their own original invention. I must confess myself ignorant of whether or not that's the case, though.
In extremis, you may have imagined how unfathomably dangerous and mysterious life outside the Farm must be and how the kids would get along once they lose adult supervision and are faced with scarcity of resources. Those of us who may have even contemplated some type of Lord of the Flies twist, especially given that Don's character would have been the perfect facilitator, were utterly disappointed by what we actually got. The bulk of the story is a mundane forest survival slog in the same vein as Made in Abyss where, just like in Made in Abyss, nothing happens for the majority of the time. Also, the breath of the supporting cast, all of the character writing and build-up they got, it all rots away and evaporates, and all that's left is a circle jerk of Yes Men who seem to have no other character trait than trusting orange Kirito.
Now, all of that being said, and it has already been said many times by others before me, I wish to extend the sequel an olive branch and maybe earn it some redemption. An excess of 95% of anime don't have an ending. Studios release one season and, because they overload themselves with an unreasonable amount of work and shows, unless what they've released performs above an unreasonably high standard, they will never make a sequel. As such, the medium is full of evermore unfinished series that act as nothing more than advertisement for the source material.
As far as Neverland S2 is concerned, again, it follows all the main story beats of the source material. Yes, it changes a bunch of stuff, yes, it loses a lot of the emotional weight and meaning, yes, the characters become sad caricatures of what they once were, but, and hear me out here, you still get to see how the story plays out! You get closure! And that's worth something.
Yes, Neverland S2 is a disappointing sequel, but it does in fact offer closure, and if every studio that was unwilling to properly adapt the rest of the story of every show they've released, at least gave the fans a synopsis-style sequel, which is, let's be honest, what the Neverland sequel is, I would be the happiest man on Earth. I would give part of my soul to make that happen.
Let me be very clear, the sequel is not bad. It's just disappointing. The first season was a tough act to follow. As such, anything short of spectacular was going to feel sub par, and it did, but it is by no means bad. I can understand the impulse to say that one prefers no ending to an offensively bad one, but this is not that. I'm not a manga guy. I'm even less of a light novel guy. I'm not going to read them. I refuse to. I would personally much prefer a decent synopsis-style animated sequel of respectable production value to no ending at all and never getting closure.
Having said, after Berserk and One Piece, the Neverland manga is the 3rd one ever that I felt compelled to read. I just might. I can't help how curious I am to see how the proper story played out. Luckily for me, the manga is no longer ongoing, so I can binge the whole thing.
The final thought I want to discuss in regards to this sequel is the 11 episode length. I did say I want decent animated sequels of respectable production value, didn't I? Well, this would have been that had it not been for the last 2 minutes of episode 11. The last episode ends on a 2 minute long slideshow that covers several story arcs from the manga and features characters and places that are completely alien to viewers unfamiliar with the manga. I’m not kidding about this or exaggerating in any way. You will see images of important characters and pivotal moments from the manga with 0 context. You will literally have no idea what you’re looking at. Pathetic doesn't even begin to cover it. Why they decided to limit themselves to 11, that I'm sure I don't know. Maybe it was the poor reception that caused them to decide to cut it short. Whatever the case, I don't really care. Again, even a surface-level synopsis-style fleshing out of those characters, places, and concepts would have been sufficient, and a 12th episode would have achieved just that. Alas, a witless slideshow is just unacceptable.
In conclusion, if you're not the manga-reading type, then I would suggest you do watch this sequel, just so you get closure. If, however, you are indeed willing to read the manga, I suggest you do that instead. Either way, I would caution you to weigh this decision carefully, for this might color your memories of the first season in a way you might not want. Otherwise, if closure is not all that important to you, I would actually suggest outright skipping this and keeping the memory of the original pristine.
