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EP. REVIEW: The Promised Neverland Season 2

Many thanks to HAL14 and MasterGhost, this season's writing makes perfect sense now. Some were wondering if the writer for S1 and S2 were different and it seemed that way to me too. I didn't want to assume as I could think of a way that S1 was developed over a long time with much thought and S2 could have been done by the same author but as a rush project which didn't get the requisite time to carefully develop the story, flesh out the concepts and "sand off the rough edges" to get a good final product.

OK, so... the manga is entirely different from the anime, then? I haven't seen any of either yet, but I have been interested. That being said, this.... I dunno, would the manga be a safe and even good alternative?

-Props to the impermeable coating of that knife. It sliced right through a throat and landed perfectly clean on the floor!

Animeking1108 wrote:

Remember a few weeks ago when an editorial was posted (animenewsnetwork.com/this-week-in-anime/2021-02-02/.169071) about how we should give this new season a chance and threw shade at the people who would clamor for a Neverland Brotherhood? I bet they feel pretty silly now.[/url]

As someone a bit put off by that article at the time, and was admittedly a little bit irked by how dismissive it felt to people who disagreed, I don't think it's entirely fair to point and laugh now. When they were writing it I doubt they could have predicted the anime would end up like this - the comments were made on the belief they were getting a good anime original story. I assume they were just sticking up for what they like from adaptations and expressing their excitement towards the potential of that being catered to, even if it did come across a bit in bad faith towards people who didn't have the same taste.

To be honest though... when an anime adaptation gets an "original story" these days it just translates to cramming an excessive number of manga chapters into 12 episodes, sanding down parts that don't fit, and then adding the "original" stuff onto that mess i.e. 5 minutes of exposition used to hand-wave episodes worth of content away. Rather than taking memorable moments and themes from the source material and trying to make an original story that accentuates them, such as one could argue FMA:03 did, they often rush through everything, undermining tension and pacing in an effort to adapt as much of the source material as humanly possible, highlighting the flaws in the manga instead.

And the next gross inconsistency is... Mujika and Sonju. When they first parted ways, the series went out of its way to write a scene that shows that Mujika didn't really care that much about the kids (or the world) and that what Sonju actually wanted was to hunt humans. But here we are at the finale and both of them are part of the party of a fantasy adventure series abridged into a quick montage (hey, needed time for that Ratri backstory) that seeks to change the world order by waging wars, meeting the Forgers of the Old Covenant and overthrowing the government, with the ultimate objective of emptying the world of humans (you know, those things Sonju wanted to hunt)

I'm sure this won't surprise you but all this is massively expanded upon in the manga to the point where most of the final arc is about fleshing out these two.

I can't think of a more trite ending, maybe S3 (if that happens) will fill in details but not betting on it. The most savage betrayal of a story in anime history (?).

-But didn't William Minerva die in a forest?