History YMMV / ThePromisedNeverland

** Season 2, Episode 8 has a moment with Norman about to kill a little demon girl when suddenly her grandfather appears calling her name "Emma", causing him to hesitate. The whole thing reminded people of ''Martha'' scene from ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.

** Season 2 ''completely skips'' over the well-beloved Goldy Pond arc and doesn't introduce [[EnsembleDarkHorse Yuugo]], and seems to be heading in a different direction than the manga did. Supposedly, this is because the author wanted the anime to have a different ending after the mixed reception to the manga's conclusion, though taking out what the fanbase widely considers the best parts of the story in the process has made his decisions rather questionable. Worsened with the season being the ''final'' season, ending where the manga did but without the buildup.

** Fans are practically drinking buddies with Manga/TokyoGhoul fans due to how their respective series' second seasons botched adapting the original manga.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The second season of the anime is particularly guilty of this, as the writers had to come up with ways for the plot to move forward despite entire arcs of the manga being cut out of the story. Some of the most egregious moments being:
** [[spoiler:Norman]] having a HeelRealization about his demon genocide plans when just happens to come across a young demon named Emma.
** The children coming across a dropped data storage device that was discovered 15 years ago that just so happens to contain [[spoiler:the cure for the Lambda children's degenerative conditions and a detailed map of Grace Field and its defenses.]] And then, at the moment they discover this information, [[spoiler:Peter Ratri and Isabella make the public announcement that they are preparing to ship the children Emma left behind, provoking her into raiding Grace Field to save them.]]
** Minerva's pen just happening to be [[spoiler:the key that opens the Gate leading to the human world.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Norman is alive and being kept in another farm]]. This could be an excellent opportunity to do a similar arc to the escape arc, only in reverse - last time, the kids were on the inside and knew the layout of the place but not what to do once they were out; it could be interesting to see the characters having to discover what information they could about the new location and to have to work out how to break in [[spoiler: to free Norman]] and then to have to get out afterwards. Instead of anything like that, [[spoiler: there's a timeskip and Norman escapes offscreen]].

** Season 2, Episode 8 has a moment with Norman about to kill a little demon girl when suddenly her grandfather appears calling her name "Emma", causing him to hesitate. The whole thing reminded people of ''that'' scene from ''Batman v Superman''.

* TheyChangedItSoItSucks: Season 2 ''completely skips'' over the well-beloved Goldy Pond arc and doesn't introduce [[EnsembleDarkHorse Yuugo]], and seems to be heading in a different direction than the manga did. Supposedly, this is because the author wanted the anime to have a different ending after the mixed reception to the manga's conclusion, though taking out what the fanbase widely considers the best parts of the story in the process has made his decisions rather questionable. Worsened with the season being the ''final'' season, ending where the manga did but without the buildup.

** The second season. ''Everything'' after the Grace Field arc is skipped or rushed, with what should have been the next arc, Goldy Pond, being omitted entirely, and the season ending where the manga did.

* JumpingTheShark: Despite the first season being well-received, the second season takes a nosedive in writing quality by omitting and shortening many aspects from the manga. The removal of the highly anticipated Goldy Pond arc was the first red flag, and after that comes the [[spoiler:sudden return of Norman]] as well as an extremely rushed series finale adapting the final arc.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: A common criticism of the final chapters is their fast pacing.

* TheyChangedItSoItSucks: Season 2 ''completely skips'' over the well-beloved Goldy Pond arc and doesn't introduce [[EnsembleDarkHorse Yuugo]], and seems to be heading in a different direction than the manga did. Supposedly, this is because the author wanted the anime to have a different ending after the mixed reception to the manga's conclusion, though taking out what the fanbase widely considers the best parts of the story in the process has made his decisions rather questionable.

** Bayon was believed to have crossed the MoralEventHorizon with his hunts of humans. [[spoiler: Long after he's dead, it turns out that he in crossed the line 700 years in the past when and the rest of the nobility turned on Geelen and murdered those Mujika helped.]]

** [[spoiler: [[SociopathicSoldier Andrew]] survived Yuugo's TakingYouWithMe and continued to pursue the kids for no appearant reason other than spite while bellitting them as livestock. He takes bullet through the arms before [[JustDeserts getting eaten by a demon himself.]]]]

** Andrew initially comes off as an AntiVillain enforcing the Promise, albeit a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted one]]. [[spoiler: When he beats some of the children to death [[UngratefulBastard after they showed him mercy]] he makes it clear he's not even out to protect the Promise, he just wants to kill the children out of spite for the injuries he took.]]

* SeasonalRot: The series had decent sales for most of its run, but opinion started to fall off once the story gets to the point where [[spoiler:Emma exclaims she doesn't want to eradicate the demons.]]

* WinBackTheCrowd: For the fans who missed the mind games aspect of the first arc and didn't quite care for the mild GenreShift, the final arc's similar feel to the Grace Field arc, what with [[spoiler:Norman's return]], as well as the moral dilemma it presents, has been well-received.

* HarsherInHindsight: TheReveal that [[spoiler: demons need to consume human meat to stay sentient]] puts a number of already horrifying scenes in an even worse light.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dub-only example: This isn't the first time Creator/LauraStahl has played a young, CrazyPrepared preteen boy who contemplated killing a parental figure to save his allies. Ray and [[{{Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable}} Hayato Kawajiri]] would probably have a lot to talk about.

** Not counting the FirstEpisodeTwist revealing the existence of the demons and Grace Field being a farm where children are raised to be eaten by them, it can be hard to discuss the events of the second arc onwards without spoiling the big reveal that
[[spoiler:Norman has not been killed]].
** Many fans can often talk about.[[spoiler:Isabella being Ray's mom]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Legravalima and the Five Regent Families are revealed to have crossed it 700 years in the past when the factory farms weren't supplying enough food to sustain the populace. When Geelen suggested using their own stocks of human meat and tried to investigate Mujika as a solution, he was stripped of his status and left degenerate into a animal along his entire clan. Everyone Mujika was hunted down was killed and eaten to ensure the nobility didn't need human meat to retain their sentience, but they still insisted on keeping their stock of human meat to themselves.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Bayon]] is an upper-class demon and manager of the Grand Valley plantation. Missing the thrill of hunting humans, Bayon used his connections to have children smuggled out of their plantations and delivered to be slaughtered and [[ToServeMan eaten]] by him. When discovered by Peter Ratri, Bayon and Ratri secretly establish Goldy Pond, an illegal hunting ground initially intended to provide as shelter for escapees. Throughout the years, Bayon had countless children taken out of their plantations and forced to fend for their lives against Bayon and several other upper-class demons participating in the hunt every two to three days. When Lucas's escape group comes across Goldy Pond, Bayon has the entire group slaughtered with only Lucas and one other escapee surviving. When Bayon finds out that Emma, a premium grade human, is in Goldy Pond, he breaks his own rules and starts a hunt ahead of schedule. Bayon is shown to have no compassion towards his fellow demons, congratulating Gillian and Nigel when he finds out that they killed Luce. He then wounds Gillian and tortures her in an attempt to get Nigel to reveal where Lucas is. When Bayon is about to be killed, he feels nothing but excitement over the bloodshed and [[TakingYouWithMe attempts to kill Lucas before dying]]. [[spoiler: Even after he's dead it's revealed that he and the rest of the nobility turned on Geelen when he wanted to end the famine plaguing the commoners, killed and devoured those saved by Mujika so they wouldn't need to rely on human meat to stay sentient, but he still horded his stock of high quality meat to himself even though it took him years before he could ever enjoy it.]] A demon in every sense of the word, Bayon is testament to the evil of the Five Regent Families.

* ItWasHisSled: Not counting the FirstEpisodeTwist revealing the existence of the demons and Grace Field being a farm where children are raised to be eaten by them, it can be hard to discuss the events of the second arc onwards without spoiling the big reveal that [[spoiler:Norman has not been killed]].

** In Japan, a meme surfaced in 2017 that briefly crossed this series over with ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba''. [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/1bd4c4f9e050beba63b905553a368b48/tumblr_pk8atrZajj1vv0rdg_400.jpg An edited image]] of Zenitsu being scared witless of Sister Krone made its rounds on Japanese imageboards, to the point where Sister Krone was somehow voted the 59th most popular character in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'' for its first official poll, while Zenitsu was voted the 29th most popular character. Going even further, the meme was [[MemeAcknowledgment recognized by Shueisha itself]] in 2019, as they made a gigantic mural with hundreds of ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' characters being all over a school building. [[https://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/mm-15.png?w=640&h=480 Zenitsu and Sister Krone were paired together alone]], creating the same effect of him being scared of her as she looms behind him.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Bayon]] is an upper-class demon and manager of the Grand Valley plantation. Missing the thrill of hunting humans, Bayon used his connections to have children smuggled out of their plantations and delivered to be slaughtered and [[ToServeMan eaten]] by him. When discovered by Peter Ratri, Bayon and Ratri secretly establish Goldy Pond, an illegal hunting ground initially intended to provide as shelter for escapees. Throughout the years, Bayon had countless children taken out of their plantations and forced to fend for their lives against Bayon and several other upper-class demons participating in the hunt every two to three days. When Lucas's escape group comes across Goldy Pond, Bayon has the entire group slaughtered with only Lucas and one other escapee surviving. When Bayon finds out that Emma, a premium grade human, is in Goldy Pond, he breaks his own rules and starts a hunt ahead of schedule. Bayon is shown to have no compassion towards his fellow demons, congratulating Gillian and Nigel when he finds out that they killed Luce. He then wounds Gillian and tortures her in an attempt to get Nigel to reveal where Lucas is. When Bayon is about to be killed, he feels nothing but excitement over the bloodshed and [[TakingYouWithMe attempts to kill Lucas before dying]].

* HarsherInHindsight: TheReveal that [[spoiler: demons need to consume human meat to stay sentient]] puts a number of already horrifying scenes in an ever worse light.

** The more animalistic demons become far more horrifying with the reveal that [[spoiler: [[WasOnceAMan they were once ordinary people]], denied the human meat they needed to stay sentient, causing them to degenerate into mindless beasts.]]
%% Having a hard time understanding what this example is saying because of grammar issues ** Bayon's hunts are horrifying enough when we first see them, but we later learn that [[spoiler:demons need to consume human flesh to stay sentient, meaning he was that much of gourmet he would sooner indulge in making sure his food to his liking than actually do something to help the common people.]]

** Grace Field only proposed food for the top of demon society and it's defended like a high security prison. [[spoiler: We later see a factory farm and its security is nowhere nearly as tight. The demon aristocracy put invested far more into the security for their own food than they did for commoners, which gave the implication that they didn't care about them. We find later that in fact the highest ranking demons '''don't''' care about the commoners and their solution to famine caused by lack of human meat was to let it dwindle the numbers of the populace.]]
** Scene with the more animal like demons become far more horrifying with the reveal that [[spoiler: they were civilians denies the human meat they needed to stay sentient and degenerated into animals.]]
** Bayon's hunts are horrifying enough when we first see them [[spoiler: but we later learn that demons need to consume human flesh to stay sentient meaning he was that much of gourmet he would sooner indulge in making sure his food to his liking than actually do something to help the common people.]]

* AssPull: Leuvis [[spoiler:turns out to have had a ''second'' core, which is why he suddenly appears in the climax alive and well to [[DeusExMachina save Mujika and Sonju]] and reveal the conspiracy to the demon public. There was ''some'' foreshadowing of this in the form of NeverFoundTheBody; a shot near the end of the arc where he was killed shows his hat and a bloodstain where his corpse should have been.]]

* AssPull: Leuvis [[spoiler:turns out to have had a ''second'' core, which is why he suddenly appears in the climax alive and well to [[DeusExMachina save Mujika and Sonju]] and reveal the conspiracy to the demon public.]]

* WTHCastingAgency: The upcoming live-action movie has Emma, Ray, and Norman's actors being played by teenagers, with Emma's actress being 19. Ray's actor, on the other hand, is 13 and closer to Ray's age in the manga. The film is going to justify this by raising the age deadline for the orphans getting harvested to 16, but giving the characters an AgeLift takes away a lot of the horror the kids go through. Not to mention it would make the scenes where they play tag look very {{Narm}}-y.