Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Xxzenoloverxx
To describe tpn would be to describe it as a cheese omelette, only that the omelette has since gone cold and you can't heat it up in the microwave or it will explode. What I mean by that is it had so much potential to be sooo good. And then it wasn't. The first season wasn't horrendous and there were moments I enjoyed. Like the first episode and ray almost killing himself but after that, it just fell downhill. Also the manga is way better 4/10 don't recommend, go read the manga instead if u really like it
Now the art was pretty ok,the animation was pretty smooth, atleast the first season.
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If I could describe a fall from grace, it would be Promise Neverland. I remember watching this anime when it first came out and described it as peak after the first couple episodes. It gave us a thrilling, original premise, with some very interesting child characters. I'm a sucker for a bleak world, with minimal margin for success in the stories which this show felt like it was taking to another level. After the first season, I thought there was nowhere to go but up, but after watching season 2, it felt like it completely lost it's way. It honestly felt like there was a completely different writer or they just couldn't make it off the preservation with this world. I really wish this story would've worked, but it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
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It kinda sucks.
I could write a whole essay on why that is the case but I really don't have to. My mom said so.
The 5 star rating is mainly for the visuals, which are high-quality and somewhat unique.
Unfortunately after the very first episode, the show takes a dump dive towards Yakusoku no-thanks Neverland.
Except for the visuals and initial idea, execution is horrendous. Truly everything else this anime has going for it is mediocre. Whoever thought it was a good plan to mix common shounen anime tropes, themes, and clichés with an incredibly dark, serious, and thought-provoking subject was smoking major crack.
Miyazaki was right.
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First, of all, I'm not a guy who dislikes something, just bcs it is popular. I watched this Anime to the end, I think if you want to hate something, you should watch it fully, and then tell your opinion.
I love horror, but TPN was kinda, stupid and boring. And this is my taste, I don't judge you if TPN is your favorite, so don't judge me, bcs I found this boring.
I love mind games, battles of mindes, but, this is unrealistic. You telling me, that these children have this much IQ? They are all genius, more than genius, and I found that, stupid.
Characters look strange, they have big foreheads, their faces look strange. I don't like this style.
But the biggest problem is the main character Emma. I love characters who have bad sides of them, who are sometimes morally questionable. Bcs th…
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God why did I watch all of this shit
Story - 3
Vaguely interesting goes nowhere. Even as it's progressing it's either predictable or just stupid. Falls flat because it's no more complex then kids keep secrets from their guardian and then run away from home. There is no Mystery either, everything that's going on is abundantly clear from episode 2 onward.
Animation - 3
Really bad, looks atrocious with the shape of faces and proportions. Also kind of racist depiction of black people (big red lips is a feature of blackface).
World/Tone - 0
Whoever decided to make the anime opening synth and feature actual children under the age of twelve doing parkour, frontflips and looking "badass", is an idiot who can't understand what this show is supposed to be. Utterly fails at being horror or scar…
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I'll start with the art, which was absolutely dreadful. A complete mess with cheap looking backgrounds and characters, weird designs and overall being generic as fuck when it's not being outright terrible. The colour pallette is horrendous, the characters look weird with their long chins, and the background is bland at best. The expressions the characters make tend to be awful and distracting during the horror scenes and the reveals, with me just outright bursting into laughter at Isabella's face when she hears Ray hum a song back in episode 12. The demons or monsters thingies are nothing new in terms of character designs and come off quite cringe to look at. It's horrific.
The premise? Nothing unique. A bunch of kids attempting to escape a farm lest they be consumed, way far…
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This is a fine anime but had the potential to be one of the best. The story and the characters are very good but the anime was not able to bring out best of them. The biggest disappointment was that the anime started out strong but became pretty dull in the middle of the show, then it reached its climax in the last few episodes but ended a complete disappointment. The anime overall could have become one of the best anime in the world.
When I watched the first few episodes, I was quite excited see what would happen in the end. This anime was truly thrilling in the beginning. I was really looking forward to it but half-way through the anime, the story fell into a rapid downfall. The story materials were getting duller and duller by the minute. When I was at about episode 6, I was utterly dis…
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Yakusoku no Neverland is a great anime. Despite of it's short comings and endless possibilities of being better it's still a great piece of work I say is better than most of its counterparts.
Story: 10/10
From start to finish the story has been continuous and straightforward. The story was slightly complex and simplistic at the same time. I found it to be fine, as the story blends well with the characters and the setting. I found the focus of the plot to be quite interesting, unique, and well built. I found it as well hard to predict as it is surrounded with a lot of questions and mystery. The individual elements of the story is done very well , I found it to be better watched in one sitting as it is an anime that connects continuously episode by episode. The ending of the anime I argu…
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Overview:
"Don't get on that ship! To Serve Man...IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!"
Promised Neverland is basically this season's Made in Abyss and it is HYPED. Do I think it's currently a tad overrated? Absolutely. However, I stopped giving knee-jerk bad scores to decent series just because they're currently rated too high. The rating will naturally balance out and if not, I kind of stopped taking MAL's ratings seriously a while ago. Promised Neverland is a mixed bag, but I honestly had a lot of fun with this one.
Background: (Spoilers)
1,000 years ago, demons and humans fought for control of an alternate Earth. The 2 sides came to a stand still and the humans sued for peace. The humans got half the planet, but the demons got to keep all the humans living in demon territory and raise them as food.…
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What an incredible show. The final 3-4 episodes are just brilliant.
It's a prison break story with kids. And to my surprise it worked freaking great. Maybe it's because all the prisoners in the story are likeable? Usually in stories like this there's an unlikable character or two that I hope dies, but I was rooting for everyone here to survive! Anyway, don't expect much in terms of action for most of the season. It's really slow going as they spend the entire season planning and preparing for their escape. Despite that, it worked because of the suspense of their plan being foiled every episode and because they're not really prisoners but livestock, so there's urgency for them to escape.
Visuals are pretty great. Initially I hated their faces. They're too cutesy or derpy, but the art even…
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[Spoilers : Minimum]
This story is about some kids living in an orphanage and their caretaker "Mama aka Isabella" looks after them. Nothing too GREAT about this story right? .The first 15 minutes of the first episodes are what you would expect from this kind of synopsis but what comes after that is the TWIST and this anime loves giving its viewers TWISTS!. After the first episodes the show might go downhill , the eps are not BAD but the BAR that the first episode set was HIGH , the kids solve their problems quickly and they get their fair share of character development. The anime starts gaining momentum at the latter episodes and keeps getting better , some might hesitate completing the anime coz some episodes get a little bit boring ,but The Promised Neverland Will not disappoint(if you'…
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*No Spoiler Concise Review*
TL;DR: If Chicken Run the movie ever became animated and instead of chickens you have humans and instead of farmers you have demons then this would be the ultimate anime adaptation your sadist soul had been looking for all this time.
[Story: 8/10 , Characters: 7/10, Art: 8/10, Sound: 8/10, Enjoyment: 9/10]
What is Yakusoku no Neverland you may ask? Why it's merely a slice of life about cutesy looking orphan kids... but it's actually a literal slice of life anime. Confused? Shook? Mate, you ain't even feeling woke yet. Going into this anime completely blind of the plot really sets you up for a fun series filled with endless cliff-hangers & heart attacks. If you look at the cover art, it's literally kids being served on a fine dining plate with posh cutleries. I…
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Horror is a genre that I rarely see effectively executed in anime. In fact, the genre itself seems to be pretty scarce in the anime medium. The first episode of The Promised Neverland perfectly encapsulates how to properly utilize horror. The atmosphere is great. We’re presented with a seemingly happy orphanage life being lived out by the characters, all children, and their “mama.” Yet as the viewer, it becomes apparent that everything's not quite what it seems, and there’s just this sort of unnerving tension in the air. The presentation is also top notch. Visuals and music are handled expertly and are very complementary to the buildup and eventual revelation of the truth behind the Grace Field House, the farm that the characters live on. Yet despite the technical brilliance of the first e…
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So what's it about?
What you always want to know when watching a show. To make a long story short: it's about a prison break. Ok, that was a boring answer. Well, obviously there's more to it or it wouldn't be rated this high, would it?
You could say it's about family... well they're orphans, but we all know that doesn't really matter in the real world. If you live together with someone for the most of your life, it doesn't matter whether you hate them or love them. Everyone has those people who you've been with for so long, that they're more than just friends to you, they're a piece of you, and you know that if they were in trouble, you'd do anything to help them. That sounded wholehearted didn't it? Well this ain't that kind of show sorry to disappoint, so what kind of show is it?
It's…
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(Spoiler warning of episode 1)
Thriller, horror, psychological and mystery. These 4 along with some genres I guess makes excellent shows not only in the anime industry but also in other platforms. This is because of there uniqueness. There outtake of the story is unique with uncommon sceneries, settings, characters, plot and conflict. This Winter 2019 anime season, we were introduced into the world of "The Promised Neverland". A world where if you are a healthy young blood, you will never like this world. You will never hope that you will be a main character of some parallel world or something. With kids being the main characters of the story, you thought this will be your typical "slice of life" drama or comedy things that you enjoy. But it turns out, not every show that have little child…
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The answer to this question is totally in the eye of the beholder, but in your eyes, what would you say makes a good concept? While some prefer thematic depth, others emotional poignancy, and others sheer creativity, I am of the belief a concept can only be proportionally valuable to its execution. An ingenious conceit can bog itself down an infinite number of ways in scripting, just as a stock setup can write its way to a masterpiece. The Promised Neverland is a show which constantly toes the line between squandering and strengthening its unique and exciting concept which, in the right hands, could’ve easily been one of the strongest, smartest, and most thrilling anime narratives of all time. So, naturally, in order to properly review this show, I will have to spoil the ending to episode…
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Let’s think for a minute on how fragile human lives is. We can die by so many different ways that it’s frightening to think about. Immortality is a far cry from a reality. In a desolate world where kids realize that their entire lives has been prepared for death, it feels like a living in a nightmare. To live in fear is also frightening to think about. Don’t believe me? Just ask Emma, Ray, and Norman.
Welcome to The Promised Neverland (Yakusoku no Neverland), a series that managed to make a new breed of itself among the popular Jump manga family. Consisting of 12 episodes, it’s a show that blends elements of survival, science fiction, mystery, horror, and suspense. It’s a thriller that manages to capture the essence of life at its innocence while masking the façade of horror. The first ep…
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I will admit that I'm generally not a very big fan of shounens, but Yakusoku no Neverland is in my opinion without a doubt the best thing to have ever spawned from Weekly Shounen Jump. Then again it needs to be said that it is not very similar to most other things from the same magazine.
It's been literally years since I felt the need to give out any 10s to an anime TV-series, but in the case of Neverland I knew from the start that as long as they don't mess it up, it would be worthy of it for sure. The first arc of the manga was simply brilliant after all, and the anime which covers it is not too different.
Horror is a genre which generally does not work very well in anime for the simple reason that it's very difficult to make cartoons straight-up scary. However, they can still be creep…
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Yakusoku no Neverland is the biggest disappointment of the year so far. Not so much because it was so exceptionally bad, but because it had potential to be outstandingly great. What looked like a prime example of well-build thriller and highly atmospheric mystery end up being just a bunch of empty promises. Perhaps the English title, 'Promised Neverland' is actually a self-parody since following the series was an experience far from magical. At least one thing the series foreshows, I guess.
The first 4 episodes are all passable, of highly respectable quality to be exact. I was impressed by how it managed to gasp my attention with audiovisual story-telling and directing that was nothing less than immersive. Originally, I wrote a preliminary review with an 8/10 rating just to show how much…
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*SPOILER WARNING. I WILL BE SPOILING THE FIRST EPISODE OF THIS SHOW. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU GO IN BLIND TO GET THE FULL EFFECT OF THIS SHOW IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED IT ALREADY*
Well this was unexpected. A horror anime getting a lot of attention and praise by viewing public? This is truly a rare sight indeed. But seriously, the hype for this series before airing and its first couple of episodes was reaching really high levels and talked about a lot by the anime community. But the question is, how does this anime hold up with the horror greats of anime, can it stand in the upper echelon of horror anime like Monster, Parasyte and Higurashi? Or is this series a victim of its own hype?
Well I'm about to tell you. Sit back, relax and...hold on. Wait, what's going on outside. Oh god. OH GO…
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