History YMMV / ThePromisedNeverland

* SeasonalRot: Season 2 was perhaps the most notorious anime example in 2021, being an extremely CompressedAdaptation that adapted the remaining 144 chapters into 11 episodes (by contrast, Season 1 adapted 37 chapters into 12 episodes). Multiple story arcs were skipped entirely and the remaining plots were heavily trucated, infamously in the ending where they're confined to a slideshow flashback. FanonDiscontinuity isn't enough to describe how people were disappointed with Season 2.

* 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 (supposedly) killed shows his hat and a bloodstain where his corpse should have been.]]

** A frequent criticism is that only a few characters outside of the main trio receive any spotlight. The Goldy Pond kids are generally considered the worst offenders, considering they've gone through even more than the Grace Field kids, have no in-universe reason to be [[SatelliteCharacter Satellite Characters]] to Emma and co., and yet rarely get to contribute anything meaningful after their debut arc.

* UglyCute: "Demon" children are surprisingly cute.

* VindicatedByHistory: The manga's ending was initially poorly received due to coming off as rushed and Anti-Climactic. However, after the infamous second season of the anime, fans have developed a newfound appreciation for it since it at least had a more coherent story.

* CrossTheLineTwice: Emma suggesting that they [[spoiler:delay Ray's shipping]] by breaking Ray's leg? Not really funny. Emma suggesting it with a big grin on her face? Kind of funny. ''Ray'' loving the plan and excitedly hashing out the details with Emma? Hilarious.

* TheyChangedItSoItSucks:

** After appeared to be a step ahead of the kids at every turn, [[spoiler: and Norman was appearantly shipped out]] Emma managed to completely fool her into thinking she had given up while planning an escape plan under her nose. By the time Isabella realized the plan, it was too late to stop it.
** [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Bayon and the other evil aristocrats]] gleefully murder children in their hunts (Bayon reveals he had done so for '''centuries'''). So it's '''very''' satsifying to see the children they had been hunting fight back. This finally sees the kids kill the demons who had been oppressing them after previously only surving by running.

* UnfortunateImplications: While Sister Krone is a popular character with a complex backstory, [[https://www.jacksonpbrown.com/anime-and-manga/2018/8/2/thoughts-on-the-promised-neverland-and-black-women-in-manga some readers]] were made uncomfortable of her less-than-flattering depiction as a black woman, with her cartoonishly grotesque features, expressions and somewhat animalistic demeanor in some scenes that are seen as reminiscent of old racist caricatures.

** [=ETR3M8=] is a flat-out {{Jerkass}} in his debut who's trying to get the kids killed for selfish reasons, but as Emma notes, he's essentially suffered everything they did but UpToEleven, having dealt with a pleasant combination of being the SoleSurvivor turned TheAloner with a side of SurvivorGuilt.

* UncannyValley: Legravalima starts off as the most human looking of the demons. [[spoiler: Her ClippedWingAngel retains most of her appearance, but her head is devoid of any features like a plastic mannequin. It gets even worse when she starts to grow [[TooManMouths mouths on her head]].]]

* NeverLiveItDown: The way fans talk about it, you'd be forgiven for thinking Ray [[was a fire-obsessed arsonist whose first instinct to every problem is to set something or someone on fire. Never mind that Emma was actually the one who set fire to Gracefield House.]]

* ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler:Isabella is [[RedemptionEqualsDeath suddenly killed]] during the denouement after the kids reunite with the Grace Field orphans, a couple of chapters before the end, more or less to [[ShootTheShaggyDog deny her a happy ending]].]]

** Gillian, [[MauveShirt one of the children of Goldy Pond]], became very popular because of her adorable design and perky personality... and because of the scene during which she gives [[HateSink Luce]] his well-deserved KarmicDeath after [[BadassAdorable at one point dual-wielding submachine guns]]. On the second popularity poll, she was ranked 9th. By comparison, on the same poll, Gilda and Don (part of the ThreePlusTwo main cast) are 14th and 19th, and the only other children of Goldy Po

** "Scribbles" has become the dedicated name for the demon god whose name is unpronounceable and unwritable.nd in the Top 20 (Oliver and Violet, who both have more importance in the story) are respectively 18th and 20th.

** Gillian, [[MauveShirt one of the children of Goldy Pond]], became very popular because of her adorable design and perky personality... and because of the scene during which she gives [[HateSink Luce]] his well-deserved KarmicDeath after [[BadassAdorable at one point dual-wielding submachine guns]]. On the second popularity poll, she was ranked 9th. By comparison, on the same poll, Gilda and Don (part of the ThreePlusTwo main cast) are 14th and 19th, and the only other children of Goldy Pond in the Top 20 (Oliver and Violet, who both have more importance in the story) are respectively 18th and 20th.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Fans of ''The Promised Neverland'' loathe the second season of the anime to the point of pretending it doesn't exist. This is because it is a VERY CompressedAdaptation, trying to adapt all of the nearly 150 remaining chapters in 11 episodes and skipping over some of the best story arcs in the process. Consensus is that if you don't feel like reading the manga, you should pretend that Season 1 is the entire show (as it does end at a good stopping point).

%%* FanonDiscontinuity: "There is no Second Season of ''Promised Neverland''." (ZCE. Please add more details)

* FanonDiscontinuity: "There is no Second Season of ''Promised Neverland''."

** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Legravalima]] is the leader of all of the other [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrats]] and the ruler of the demon world. [[spoiler:Legravalima's desire to fill her own hunger (for both power ''and'' humans) led her to [[SelfMadeOrphan murder her own father]] in order to usurp his authority, feeling it was only natural for her to reign supreme over the demons. Eventually, after she and the rest of the royal family began to keep all of the high quality meat to themselves, many citizens of the demon world began to devolve back into monsters due to the low quality of the meat they were receiving. When one of the heads Five Regent Families, Geelan, sought to use Mujika's blood in order to help stop the demons from devolving, Legravalima [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished banished him and his family into the wilderness to devolve and die.]] Afterwards she had most of Mujika's clan slaughtered so that she could use the farms to control the demons, not caring about the well-being of her own people even in the slightest. She also took some of the blood herself so that she and the royal family would never devolve. So while most demons eating humans was a necessity, to her it was purely a luxury. After her first core is destroyed by Norman, she regenerates and tries to eat the Grace Field kids, only for her new body to COMBUST [[KarmicDeath from the sheer amount of people shes's eaten]].]]

* 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: [[SociopathicSoldier Andrew]] survived Yuugo's TakingYouWithMe and continued to pursue the kids for no apparent reason other than spite while belittling them as livestock. He takes a bullet through the arms before [[JustDeserts getting eaten by a demon himself.]]]]
** [[spoiler: [[TheCaligula Legravalima]] and the Five Regent Families were revealed to have been ensuring demons would need to rely on eating humans to stay sapient while hording the best meat for themselves. Fittingly, Legravalima gets the single worst death in the series with body literally melting down.]]

* 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.

* WoobieSpecies: [[spoiler: The demons, sans their leadership. They are inflicting terrible fates upon the humans they raise for food but they need to eat humans or they will degenerate into animals. What is worse that Mujika appeared with a cure for a way to ensure they no longer needed to eat human meat and in response the royal family and Five Regent Families had all those she helped hunted and killed before eating their meat so they wouldn't have to stay sapient from feeding on humans. All while letting the demon populace suffer from a famine and keeping their superior quality meat stocks to themselves despite not even needing it to stay sapient. As the series progresses, the demons prove that they are [[NotSoDifferent just as capable of good or evil as humans]] but sadly they are suffering under the reign of leaders who don't care about them.]]

** [[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 sapience, but they still insisted on keeping their stock of human meat to themselves.]]

* {{Applicability}}: Many readers of the manga series and viewers of its anime adaptation have interpreted whether this is a Marxist commentary on [[CapitalismIsBad abuses under capitalism]] or a vegan allegory of meat industry.

** Many fans can often talk about [[spoiler:Isabella being Ray's mom]]

** [[spoiler: [[TheCaligula Legravalima]] and the Five Regent Families were revealed to have been ensuring demons would need to rely on eating humans to stay sentient while hording the best meat for themselves. Fittingly, Legravalima gets the single worst death in the series with body literally melting down.]]

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

** The more animistic 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.]]

** [[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.]]

* WoobieSpecies: [[spoiler: The demons, sans their leadership. They are inflicting terrible fates upon the humans they raise for food but they need to eat humans or they will degenerate into animals. What is worse that Mujika appeared with a cure for a way to ensure they no longer needed to eat human meat and in response the royal family and Five Regent Families had all those she helped hunted and killed before eating their meat so they wouldn't have to stay sentient from feeding on humans. All while letting the demon populace suffer from a famine and keeping their superior quality meat stocks to themselves despite not even needing it to stay sentient. As the series progresses, the demons prove that they are [[NotSoDifferent just as capable of good or evil as humans]] but sadly they are suffering under the reign of leaders who don't care about them.]]