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Granted, I am not a huge fan of the original, but it was light-years better than this. 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. And lazy writers don't like doing hard work. They should have explained the motivations behind everyone’s sudden changes in goals and morality, but that’d require hard work. Villains double-cross each other in unison like a hive mind being controlled by an annoyed writer. All of the passion is drained, turning climactic moments into laughably bad dialogue. 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. No matter anything she does, she’ll have either a smile on her face or a slightly concerned expression. 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.
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The entire show rides on how Emma’s feeling today. Then it stitches these barely connected pieces together like a hideous quilt. It uses a bunch of unrelated plot points throughout dozens of chapters. The Promised Neverland 2nd Season does not tell a story, nor does it do much of anything. Unless you consider a PowerPoint presentation to be animation. It’s like karaoke night, but instead of singing, they monotonously read SparkNotes summaries of the manga with no animation whatsoever. 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. 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! 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. Previously a character known as “Ray” challenged Emma’s overly idealistic goals. They have names but don’t worry-you won’t remember them anyway. Instead of getting followed around by a harem, Female Kirito has a bunch of children that go along with anything she says. Armed soldiers can’t kill demons with guns? She’ll kill it with a bow & arrow. Of plot armor to protect her from any danger! Getting chased by a demon? She can outrun it. Rather than using a sword, she has the power Similar to Kirito, Emma is also the most powerful player in the video game. This sequel follows Female Kirito, previously known as “Emma”. Except, at least that blatant marketing scheme had semi-decent audiovisuals. 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.
#THE PROMISED NEVERLAND MANGA READER SERIES#
It is a series that has no reason to exist other than to profit off of unsuspecting fans of the first season. The Promised Neverland 2nd Season is a brilliant achievement of Japanese Television.