The Promised Neverland

Synopsis

If you cause another commotion, I'll kill you.

The Grace Field House has been home to many kids over its long years service. A safe haven for children who were unlucky enough to not have parents or family. This orphanage became there home. Rasing them to be the best they can be and preparing them for the world. But who in the world are they preparing them for?

As Emma, Ray and Norman find out the dark truth to the orphanage they are thrown into a world of deception, mystery and betrayal. With everything on the line the children battle everything they have known and discover what it means to be human, in world ran by monsters.

Summary

CloverWorks (A-1 Pictures rebrand of Kōenji Studio) has come out swinging with having 3 hit animes since its founding in Oct 2018 (Darling in the Franxx, Fairy Tail and now The Promised Neverland). And scored another home run with this beautiful masterpiece. Its very rare for an anime to get such hype without some major plot holes or discrepancies within in continuity, however the neverland delivers on all these fronts.

Without giving to much away Kaiu Shirai has created a elaborate yet satisfying dark world which is bursting with great characters, chilling atmosphere and plot twist that leave you feeling hollow and satisfied at the same time. What is remarkable about the show is the perspective in which information is delivered to the audience. Following a group of kids ranging from 3 to 12 year olds delivers a sense of childlike innocence to the dark twisted world. This in itself creates at atmosphere quite new to the anime world.

This combined with the outstanding soundtrack and accomping openings of Uverworld (used in OP's for Blue Exorcist and My Hero Acadamia) and you have a masterpiece in the works. The pacing of the show could annoy a few however this centres around building the tension to the epic season finale which sets the show up to so much possibilities and after conferring with our manga readers (no spoilers), this is the set to up multiple 'brilliant' storylines and action sequences.

Conclusion

We at Phoenix Soul try to take every anime with a pinch a salt. Anime hype trains can lead to vast levels of disappointment. This will become more apparent as the anime industry grows internationally with other cultures playing influence to settings and tropes within our shows. Sometimes this works like we saw with Vinland Saga, which stays relatively truthful to the culture surrounding medieval nordic civilization. However The Promised Neverland creates its on culture with its superb characters and premise. Unfortunately there is not much more that can be said without risking possible spoilers however, if there is ever a show to trust our recommendation on it would this.

The Promised Neverland being a early contender to the 2019 anime year smashes all contenders and take the top spot with ourselves on our 'Anime of the Year'!