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Promised Neverland

Going to do a proper write up for my good friend @Mac_Arrowny

This show... was great. Honestly from the very beginning you can tell there is something special about it. I didn't fall in love with it immediately but it was still very intriguing, enough to get my attention and cause me to read most of the manga before the first few episodes were even all released. I will say that the manga is great but not perfect. That's not really a mark against it, but I just want to give it a fair assessment. I've read a lot of manga and there are better titles out there. It does have some flaws.

Some people complained about certain aspects of the adaptation but for me, this is probably the one series where I feel most strongly that the anime did a really good job of improving on a lot of the flaws that the manga has. Honestly I don't want to spend too much of the write up talking about my comparison between the two when I could just talk about the actual show, but it is still worth discussing.

The music and directing are just... so good. They add so much to everything. And the way events are presented sometimes makes things more immediately clear, and therefore more satisfying, than in the manga. It's the exact opposite from the problem that Attack on Titan has. Attack on Titan it's usually really easy to follow what is happening in the manga. The story is very dense but you can take your time reading the panels and figuring out. The anime every so often (especially a few moments in season 2) has these parts where they use tracking or shots that make an interaction or a scene more awkward, or they cut a small piece of minor dialogue that helped clarify things, and you spend too much time trying to understand the scene to be satisfied by the time you figure it out.

Promised Neverland, the manga has some awkward panels, and it leads to these situations as well. There's just so much shit going on and some of it is like, wait, what. Why are we being told this now. But the way the anime changed those moments, having stuff happening in the present and the past at the same time, made it all feel more cohesive, easier to follow and stay invested it, and ultimately more satisfying. Especially with regards to the final two episodes.

Promised Neverland also has some really lovable characters. I love them all so much. I wouldn't say that the writing is amazing but it's written in a way that makes you feel really good about what happens, and how things happen, and makes you feel very strongly invested in the character -- and it usually rewards you for that investment. The thing is though, it's not just some dumb feel good show. It's a serious show, with a serious plot, but it doesn't do the whole thing where you have to be sad and everything needs to be awful to be serious. It makes the stakes high, it keeps the tone serious, but then it allows you to actually FEEL GOOD about the way things are resolved. That's probably the best thing about it, and what sets it apart from a lot of similar series.

Manga 7 or 8. Anime is an 8 or 9.
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