The Promised Neverland

 

The Promised Neverland'; Everything you need to know

The Promised Neverland is a Japanese manga series written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2016 to June 2020, with the individual chapters collected and published by Shueisha into twenty tankōbon volumes.

Written by Joseph grea 

Though horror has a long history in Japan, with video game phenomenon Resident Evil revolutionizing the survival horror genre and movies like Ringu and the Ju-On series kickstarting a J-horror craze in the late '90s, anime horror has a rather short history, never quite reaching the same level of popularity as battle shonen series like Dragon Ball or My Hero Academia. There are plenty of shows with lots of gore or creepy imagery, but most of them lack the true heart-racing, bone-chilling frights you'd get from movies like The Conjuring or It

The Promised Neverland, which premiered its first season in 2019 and is now available to stream on Netflix, is different. Instead of relying on bloody, gruesome imagery, it hinges on a deeply emotional story, building dread through an atmosphere so creepy that you could be watching a simple conversation and still have shivers sent down your spine. At a time when horror anime was becoming stale, The Promised Neverland's fresh new take on the genre made it an instant hit with viewers. The show will not only terrify you, it will break your heart—and what better way to start the Halloween season than that?

Based on Kaiu Shirai's manga of the same name, The Promised Neverland is about discovering that the world is a far darker place than you ever imagined while growing up, and makes those horrors literal. It follows a group of kids, mainly 11-year-olds Emma, Ray, and Norman, in an orphanage, a pastoral place unlike what we often see in horror movies. It's portrayed as a loving institution, where the children enjoy excellent food, plenty of space, time to have fun, and a loving "mom" in the orphanage's only adult, in charge of everything. Sure, they have some weird IQ test being done for no obvious reason, and the kids that leave never seem to write back, but surely, there's nothing sinister going on here, right? Of course there is! The truth is far darker than you're first led to believe, but that's a twist you really should experience firsthand.



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