History Manga / ThePromisedNeverland

* WouldHurtAChild: Would hurt, hunt, farm, traumatize, maim, eat, experiment on, imprison, orphan, kill, and/or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers bomb]] a child. Inevitable, considering the story's themes.

* ''The Promised Neverland: Escape the Hunting Grounds'' unnamed game app (2021): A game app for mobile devices.

* ''The Promised Neverland'' unnamed game app (TBA): A game app [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2021/01/09/the-promised-neverland-has-a-game-app-in-the-works has been]] [[https://www.siliconera.com/the-promised-neverland-will-receive-a-game-adaptation/ announced]] for mobile devices.

* ThreeAmigos: Emma, Norman, and Ray. They're all the same age, are best friends, and work very well together. While Norman admits early on he has feelings for Emma, it doesn't interfere with their dynamics or change how highly they regard each other.

** [[spoiler: In the final arc, Peter is trapped without the army of demons the queen lent him due to the bridge at Grace Field getting blown. He demands the eat birds to gain the ability to fly, and the demons respond to him like he's a lunatic.]]

* DramaticIrony: In the first episode, a pretend-angry Emma chases after some kids, and after catching them, jokes that she's going to eat them. In a later episode shots of the kids saying "Thank you for the food!" and eating are juxtaposed with [[spoiler: Krone trying to fight off a demon and being killed.]]

* FascistButInefficient: [[spoiler: The rule by the demon nobility in a nutshell. They refuse to do anything that could loosen their grip on the world and also refuse to part with any of their human meat even when the populace is suffering from a famine. By the series proper, the humans supplied by factory farms is failing to allow the commoners to retain their intelligence. Rather than share their food stocks or the blood they gained that allows demons to retain their intelligence, the nobility had their human allies preform experiments on humans to produce better quality ones, which so far has led to nothing but failures.]]

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: For a Japanese story, all of the in-universe text written by humans is in English, and all of it is perfectly spelled and grammatically constructed.

* OffModel: While it's unclear how much of it was caused by the pandemic or by the radical changes to the story, the animation in the second half of Season 2 is a massive step down from not only Season 1; but to the first half of its corresponding season. With characters becoming massively simplified even in tense moments or close-ups, and scenes with choppy movement or just outright lacking animation entirely.

* AlasPoorVillain:

* SurpriseCreepy: Emma and Norman when they first come across Conny's dead body, followed up by them hiding from some people who converse about eating cats and humans, Emma and Norman taking a glimpse and seeing that these people are ''monsters'', and these monsters placing Conny's corpse in a strange preservation jar so she can be sold off and eaten.

* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler: The world of the demons outside the farms in contrast to being a CrapsaccharineWorld, is this. The areas outside settled areas are plagued by voracious monsters that eat almost anything they see. Settled areas seem nicer to live but the demons need to consume human meat or they will turn into the very feral monsters who live in the wilderness and will eat anything they see, including their own families. And the poor quality human meat that demons' [[AristocratsAreEvil leadership]] controls the supply of is failing to do its job and more demons are becoming feral. There was a way to prevent demons from needing to relying on human meat to stay sentient but the aristocracy hoarded it for themselves to ensure the commoners had to continue to rely on their human meat the supply. The aristocrats don't even need to human meat to stay sentient but they still horde the best quality meat for themselves.]]

* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler: The world of the demons outside the farms in contrast to being a CrapsaccharineWorld, is this. The areas outside settled areas are plagued by voracious monsters that eat almost anything they see. Settled areas seem nicer to live but the demons need to consume human meat or they will turn into the very feral monsters who live in the wilderness and will eat anything they see, including their own families. And the poor quality human meat that demons' [[AristocratsAreEvil leadership]] controls of the supply of is failing to do its job and more demons are becoming feral. There was a way to prevent demons from needing to relying on human meat to stay sentient but the aristocracy hoarded it for themselves to ensure the commoners had to continue to rely on their human meat the supply. The aristocrats don't even need to human meat to stay sentient but they still horde the best quality meat for themselves.]]

** [[spoiler:Norman]] having a HeelRealization about his demon genocide plans when just happens to come across a young demon named Emma.

** Mujika [[spoiler:comes from a group of demons who have a special kind of blood that can permanently turn demons into intelligent humanoids like her and her kind, and thus removes their need to frequently eat humans to maintain this form. As a result, the companies in charge of the human farming industry [[KillEmAll wiped out her people]] as their condition [[CorruptCorporateExecutive threatens their finances]].]]

** He's an AntiVillain, but it still counts. Emma would like to get rid of the farm system while [[spoiler:avoiding any needless casualty among the demons]] by [[spoiler:forging another promise]]. However, it's hard to deny the fact that [[spoiler:Norman's slaughter of the demons' aristocracy]] did Emma as service, given how corrupt most of them were.

* FascistButInefficient: [[spoiler: The rule by the demon nobility in a nutshell. They refuse to do anything that could listen their grip on the world and also refuse to part with any of their human meat even when the populace is suffering from a famine. By the series proper, the humans supplied by factory farms is failing to allow the commoners to retain their intelligence. Rather than share their food stocks or the blood they gained that allows demons to retain their intelligence, the nobility had their human allies preform experiments on humans to produce better quality ones, which so far has led to nothing but failures.]]

-->'''Demon:''' What I want in exchange... [[spoiler:is [[CruelTwistEnding your family]]. Your family is most important, so I want your family]]. [[Catch22Dilemma But there's one problem]]. [[spoiler:The promise is that ''all'' of your family will go to the human world, [[SubvertedTrope so I can't have your family]]]]. So what shall we do? ...It's fine. This time for you, [[spoiler:I don't need anything in exchange. For the last 1,000 years, you've had everything taken from you, so those 1,000 years are the price. You have entertained me in various ways, though, so that's enough.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Demon:''' What I want in exchange... is your family. Your family is most important, so I want your family. [...] I can't kill you or your family, and I don't intend to. Don't worry, all of the children can live and go to the human world... but you'll say goodbye to your family.]]\\

* WhamShot: Chapter 118. Emma finally comes face to face with William Minerva... [[spoiler:and he's the spitting image of ''[[FakingTheDead Norman]]'']].

* NotSoDifferent: Ratri points out that, although humans don't typically ''eat'' other humans like demons do, every other monstrosity the cattle children have encountered in the demon world has its reflection in the human world, and that the paradise they're fighting to reach isn't what they'll find.

* RealityEnsues: When the entire group is forced to travel again, Emma and Don struggle to find enough food to feed them all... at which point the younger kids do so with minimal effort. After all, while Emma and co. spent the past year and a half busy with plot-important tasks, the other kids honed their general life skills such as, again, feeding the entire group.
** [[spoiler:After the farms are abolished not everyone is willing to obey as seen when a demon tries to devour Emma and everyone else at Grace Field. This quickly gets him arrest however.]]
** As it turns out the demons are not AlwaysChaoticEvil. There are demons who are capable of good, just as there are [[HumansAreBastards humans who are capable of evil]].
** The kids are far more numerous than Andrew's commando team sent to kill them, but as Emma notes, they are still at a disadvantage since most of the kids don't know how to fight and the commandos are wearing body armor.
** [[spoiler: Andrew survives the gas explosion Yugo set off to kill him and continues his pursuit of the kids. When a few see him and how badly injured he is, they don't shoot him they had the chance because he was a human suffering like them. Andrew reminds that human or not he's still their enemy and more importantly, that a human can be as bad as a demon.]]
** [[spoiler: Even though he's only going after children, Andrew is still beaten. He was an adult with experience as a commando but there was still only one of him and after he made a point of showing he wasn't to be shown mercy, the kids don't make that mistake again and shoot him through the arms the first chance they get.]]
** [[spoiler: In a flashback to Geelen being framed its explained that the demons' farms can't meet the demands of the population because without humans killing demons the populace has gotten more numerous.]]
** [[spoiler: In the final arc, Peter is trapped without the army of demons the queen lent him due to the bridge at Grace Field getting blown. He demands the eat birds to gain the ability to fly, and the demons respond to him like he's a lunatic.]]
** The first time the kids have guns and are faced with demons, they struggle to pull the trigger. Beyond the fact that they are just children, people with no combat training often have difficulty pulling the trigger on a live target.
** [[spoiler: Norman in the anime attempts to start of plan of genocide against the demons on a small town. He very quickly shows that even though he contemplated the horror of what he was planning that it did not prepare him for the act. In his escape from Lambda he had only been killing demons who experimented on him on the other humans. In the town he was killing innocent people who had done nothing to him, including children, and found he didn't have the stomach to kill any of them himself.]]

* SurpriseCreepy: Emma and Norman when they first come across Conny's dead body, followed up by them hiding from some people who converse about eating cats and humans, Emma and Norman taking a glimpse and seeing that these people are ''monsters'', and these monsters placing Conny's corpse in a strange preservation jar so she can be sold off and eaten.

It should be noted that the series was born in a particular context within the Jump magazine, after several long-running big-hitters ended in rapid succession (''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}'', ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', and even the king of long-runners ''Manga/KochiKame''). Among the many new series that were launched in the hope of bringing new blood, ''Neverland'' was one of the few that came out on top, and has been rapidly gaining success ever since. The manga received an anime adaptation by Studio Cloverworks in the Winter 2019 season; the English dub began airing April 13, 2019 at Creator/AdultSwim's Creator/{{Toonami}} block. The second season was slated to come in October 2020, but due to ''UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic'', it got delayed to January 7th, 2021. Unlike Season 1, it significantly diverges from the source material.

* AdaptationDecay: The second season of the anime is particularly guilty of this, as literally every major story arc after Grace Field was either edited, shortened, or cut out completely in order to fit within 11 episodes.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In the third chapter, Norman explains that the reason children get shipped at age twelve is that this is the point when the brain is fully-developed. In reality, this is not true, as different parts of the brain, like the frontal lobe, continue to develop in your 20s. This could be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by intentional misinformation being spread.

** [[spoiler: Second, she does it to Ray, even saying "I don't need you anymore" before locking him in a room.]]