Yakusoku no Neverland

[Wandering Soul]

Originally Posted by bastek66

It's ending next week. Thankfully.

Thank goodness. I was honestly worried it was going to drag on even longer.

[Kanon]

In the end, I'd say the manga was great until the escape, good until the end of Goldy Pond, and mostly bad afterward.

[bastek66]

Korean scans are out

Spoiler for Penultimate chapter:

Apparently the price Emma had to pay was her family - she lost all her memories about them and landed on North pole like place where Santa Claus looking guy found her and adopted her. Year passed. On the last page she is at the market where Ray, Phil and Gilda are too

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by bastek66

Korean scans are out

Spoiler for Penultimate chapter:

Apparently the price Emma had to pay was her family - she lost all her memories about them and landed on North pole like place where Santa Claus looking guy found her and adopted her. Year passed. On the last page she is at the market where Ray, Phil and Gilda are too

Spoiler for spoiler:

Looks like we'll be getting a happy ending. I'd like a bittersweet one where she never reunites with her family better though. Let there be lasting consequences for making a promise.

[Wandering Soul]

Originally Posted by Kanon

Spoiler for spoiler:

Looks like we'll be getting a happy ending. I'd like a bittersweet one where she never reunites with her family better though. Let there be lasting consequences for making a promise.

I would too, but it's very unlikely we're getting that

[Random14]

Yeah, I would have preferred an obvious bittersweet ending (like Emma sacrificing her life or even staying behind in the other world) rather than teasing Emma getting her memories back now. As if things weren't sappy enough already.

Oh well, its almost over. At least the earlier arcs were better (and will probably be animated someday).

[~Yami~]

I have mixed feelings over this

Since there is no more chance for bittersweet ending or plot twist, I'll just hope this series will over fast and I could pretend that this manga already finished after Goldy Pond Arc

[Kanon]

It's finally over. Rather shitty ending, but I expected no less.

Still ended up rating the series 7/10 because of how amazing the first arc was. The series had such promise, back then.

[~Yami~]

Spoiler for last chapter:

at least, Emma still in her amnesia, so the promise still stand
It is just her family tried really hard to look for her again

It feels little bit weird that Ray is the one that found her, while Norman is the one that convinced her
Some extra chapter might be nice but I don't really hope to see this series again

maaann Gracefield and Goldy Pond arc are so godly.. why are we arriving to this point...

[Random14]

Well, at least they didn't go for miraculous memory recovery while they were at it but otherwise just a generic happy ending (too happy actually for the series).

Kind of nice choice for the ghosts as this story started with Connie's death (way back with Ray's plan). I'm not going to miss this series, it was long past its prime, but I'll fondly remember the earlier arcs as quite good.

[Wandering Soul]

Pretty underwhelming ending, but that is sort of to be expected. I'll give them points for not going with Emma recovering her memories due to her emotions.

Overall I agree with Kanon's statement that the manga was great during the escape, good at Goldy Pond, then downhill from there. I won't miss it, but it was a good ride at first.

[OH&S]

I'll echo everyone's sentiments that things went downhill after the Goldy Pond arc. But its not necessarily as simple as that.

I believe that in general, series have a tendency to go on what I'd like to call "autopilot" if the mangaka isn't careful. Its hard to define from a reader's POV but roughly speaking: things are happening in the manga but everything loses impact for some reason or it all feels inconsequential; there's just this disconnect stopping the reader from enjoying what's happening.

Long running manga (I mean the really long ones) fall into this trap from time to time but in general manage to take back control. e.g One Piece post-timeskip has had long stretches where the series was in autopilot (hello Dressrosa) but Oda almost always recovers.

Many recent series which were really popular have fallen into this trap:

• Tokyo Ghoul RE's final stretch.
• Nanatsu no Taizai's final battle and epilogue
• Kimetsu no Yaiba's final battle.

IMO, The Promised Neverland went into autopilot shortly after the reunion with Norman and never recovered. That's 6-7 volumes of autopilot (about a third of the series). That's really bad; even worse that it ended the series while in autopilot mode.

Will still remember this series for the first two arcs which were a 10/10 and a 8.5/10. The final third however was 6.5/10.

Overall, 7.5/10. (Ironically the same as Kimetsu no Yaiba but this series was a 9/10 before it went into autopilot).

[Kanon]

A one shot by the duo was released on mangaplus today. It was alright, worth the few minutes it took me to read it.