History Manga / ThePromisedNeverland

** PlayedStraight with Krone and Isabella's scheming. Krone announces her plans to her doll (anime) or through her narration (manga), detailing what she will do to defeat Isabella to get ahead. Isabella plays her cards close to her chest and doesn't tell the audience what she's up to. It's unsuprising that Isabella outmaneuvers her with ease.

* FedToTheBeast: The true purpose of the orphanage is to raise humans to feed to cannibalistic Demons.

** Chapter 37 is an extended one for [[spoiler:Isabella: for all her ruthlessness, it is revealed that she had a similarly awful past, lost the one boy she loved to the 'farm' system, tried to escape and found that there was only one way she could get out of being eaten, and when she realized Ray was her biological son, devoted herself to surviving while trying to protect Ray. At the end, she realizes she's been defeated and resolves to care for the youngest children while awaiting punishment from her superiors, wishing Emma the best. Eventually, she dies near the story's end protecting the kids from a demon, realizing that she [[BecomingTheMask really did love them.]]]].

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: According to the authors, they gave [[spoiler:Sister Krone]] African features (something that's quite rare in manga, where AmbiguouslyBrown is more common) to make her look more distinct, and the only way they found to keep her plot-relevant [[spoiler:was to have her die after leaving hints to help the protagonists.]] Though Demizu Posuka wishes they could find a way to bring her back somehow.

Started in August 2016, ''The Promised Neverland''/''Yakusoku no Neverland'' (約束のネバーランド) is a Magazine/ShonenJump series written by Shirai Kaiu and drawn by Demizu Posuka, mixing an OntologicalMystery with an intellectual battle and a tinge of horror. The battles do get more physical in later parts, but without letting go of the strategic aspects.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Against all odds, the kids and moms get to go home to the human world. However, said world has been ravaged by war and natural disaster, Isabella died to make sure they would all live, and Emma paid the price of the new promise with [[WistfulAmnesia the memories of her family]] and being forcefully separated from them. Thankfully, they find her and she gets to start over with them again.]]

** Chapter 37 is an extended one for [[spoiler:Isabella: for all her ruthlessness, it is revealed that she had a similarly awful past, lost the one boy she loved to the 'farm' system, tried to escape and found that there was only one way she could get out of being eaten, and when she realized Ray was her biological son, devoted herself to surviving while trying to protect Ray. At the end, she realizes she's been defeated and resolves to care for the youngest children while awaiting punishment from her superiors, wishing Emma the best.]].

A [[LiveActionAdaptation live action film adaption]] has been announced for release in Winter 2020.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The true nature of the orphanage as a farm ToServeMan is revealed in the very first chapter when Emma and Norman come across the corpse of Connie.

** [[spoiler:After the farms are abolished not everyone is willing to obey as seen when a demon attacks tries to devour and everyone else at Grace Field]].

** 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]] didn't do Emma as service, given how corrupt most of them were.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: To help the children bring about a future where humans run free out of the farm system, [[spoiler:Sonju]] fights off the farm pursuers, killing them all with ease. It is his hope that by buying them more time they can win and finally allow him to hunt and eat natural-born humans again.

* PaperThinDiguise: [[spoiler:After his defeat at Goldy Pond,]] Leuvis goes into self-imposed exile at a remote village. In order to keep a low profile, he disguises himself... as himself, but without his hat.

* 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.

* DarkestHour: Chapter 30-31 is the point where nothing looks good for the protagonists. [[spoiler:Krone has been offed, they learned that the orphanage is surrounded by a huge ravine, Norman is gone, Ray has given up, Emma has a broken leg and Isabella only gives her a choice between becoming the next Mom or being "shipped out". The only glimmer of hope seems to be the mysterious pen that Krone has left them.]]

* FlashForward: In Chapter 134, [[spoiler:shows a distance future where an elder Ray has been trapped in the Demon Boss' world for years and Emma presumbly killed or disappeared by an unknown cause from the Demon Boss. Worse of all, Ray can't remember his own name since he been trapped for so long trying to find a way out. However, it turns out he had only been separated from Emma for a few minutes, and him imagining the worst-case scenario caused the Demon Boss's realm to screw with his memory and physical age. Emma re-appears and explains they can control their ages by mentally visualizing time changing.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Chapter 32 ends with Ray burning himself alive, both to help Emma and his siblings escape and to rob Isabella and the demons of their prized livestock. It's then thankfully subverted. Emma stopped him in time.]] [[spoiler:Tragically played straight in the latest chapter, however, with Yuugo and Lucas sacrifice themselves via explosion to take down Andrew. This is made even worse when we find out Andrew has somehow survived the explosion, nullifying their sacrifice.]]

* NoBloodTies: None of the kids know anything about their birth families.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The anime eliminates all narration and inner monologues, occasionally integrating some of it in the spoken dialogue. As a result, the show has a faster pace but focuses more on visual, auditive and emotional tension, and slightly less on the intellectual and psychological aspects of the conflict. Also, instead of inventing a pronounceable name for [[TheUnpronounceable the Demons' supreme god]], the anime only refers to it as "that Person" to preserve its aura of mystery. The English dub refers to him as "the One"
* PragmaticVillainy: The demons overseeing the farms perform the Gupna ritual in honor of God, not because they particarly care about respecting their food or God, but that the Vida plant is the most efficient means of preserving their meat. The fact that it is also a painless death is likewise unimportant in their use of it.

* ToServeMan: The orphanage is literally a farm where tasty humans are raised to be eaten. The main question raised by this is "why would the demons give education to their cattle?" The answer: because the more they know, the tastier their brains are.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: None of the three protagonists behave like they are 12 (except maybe Emma sometimes), but Ray is especially bad. Knowing that they're all cattle on their way to the slaughterhouse since day one did little to make him enjoy his childhood. He appears very cold and cynical as a result. That being said, all the kids have been forced to go through intense education regimens to produce intelligent (if not outright genius) children [[spoiler:with more appetizing brains]], this is somewhat justified by the setting.
** This is actually commented upon by [=ETR3M8=], who notes and is somewhat unsettled that the kids preparedness and willingness to gamble with their lives without hesitation in order to survive is more advanced than his own when he was their age. Goldy Pond residents repeatedly see how good all the Grace Field kids are at memorization and are creeped out.

** Chapter 171 [[spoiler: Duke Leuvis saves Sonju and Mujika from execution then uses Mujika's blood to liberate all demons present from needing to consume human flesh. He subsequently becomes the leader of all demons by virtue of being the Queen Legravalima's younger brother.]]

SpinOff LightNovels include ''The Promised Neverland: A Letter from Norman''/''Yakusoku no Neverland: Norman kara no Tegami'' (約束のネバーランド～ノーマンからの手紙～ that was released on June 3, 2018 and ''The Promised Neverland: Moms' Song of Remembrance''/''Yakusoku no Neverland: Mama-tachi no Tsuisōkyoku'' (約束のネバーランド～ママたちの追想曲～) that was released on January 4, 2019.

Started in August 2016, ''Yakusoku no Neverland'' (''The Promised Neverland'') is a Magazine/ShonenJump series written by Shirai Kaiu and drawn by Demizu Posuka, mixing an OntologicalMystery with an intellectual battle and a tinge of horror. The battles do get more physical in later parts, but without letting go of the strategic aspects.

** Every kid in the orphanage may also count, considering how they solve numerous test questions everyday that are quite advanced for their age. It makes sense that they'd be smart kids, since more younger and more intelligent humans are more valuable merchandise, and Grace Field is supposed to be very high-end.

** Every kid in the orphanage may also count, considering how they solve numerous test questions everyday that are quite advanced for their age. [[spoiler:It turns out they are specially bred for intelligence, as that makes them more valuable merchandise.]]