Manga/ The Promised Neverland

Has there been any announcement from Jump on when this will end?

Well I can see one downside. They are a bunch of penniless orphans in New York.

did NY look kinda in ruins to anyone else?

Insert Covid-19 joke here.

The kids are infected with Demon World Virus, and everyone in the human world who meets them could wind up dead in two weeks.

Maybe he means it, and he's just going to watch and laugh while Emma fails to start an advocacy group for the mass-produced, while slowly eating the last of his Isabella ravioli.

Oh yeah, they never experienced the concept of money, haven't they? I'm sure they understand it from books, but still.

More importantly, child labor laws preclude them from working any normal job. If they arrived in wilderness, they'd be better off since they know how to live off the land, but they're in trouble in a large city. No jobs they can work, no valuables to sell, no knowledge of the terrain; the only thing they have going for them is being on the coast, so they can fish.

The way the manga has been going I'd actually say there's only a slightly greater chance that this isn't exactly what we've been told.

What does that mean?

That it's pretty likely this is as good as it sounds, because the author has been resolving things to be very easy and kind for them.

A bit of Real Life Writes the Plot in the latest chapter.

Certainly a grim prediction for the coming decade...though sadly perhaps not an entirely unreasonable one.

It'd be darkly hilarious if Scribbles technically kept his promise but sent Emma to Siberia so that she'd freeze to death on arrival.

New chapter is out.

https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1006999

Edited by sgamer82 on Jun 7th 2020 at 1:05:18 PM

Huh, I had not considered this possibility. Now I’m curious just how things are going to end for her.

Aww, now that's bittersweet. So "Emma" did die, huh… maybe her pendent connects her to her old memories because Scribbles has them now…

I could see Emma never actually getting her memories back, but she and everyone else being content to form new ones together with their better lives.

That would be nice. A bit sad, but nice.

Interesting Scribbles didn’t apparently take all of it, she still has faint remindatures.

That's my guess, yeah. Scribbles' deal says her bonds are gone forever, but Ain't No Rule says she can't forge new ones with the same people.

Honestly this is actually a really good payoff for the mystery. It both hits hard and is completely obvious in hindsight. Since Emma's biggest motivation is her love for her family, but her wish was for all the children including her and her family to be safe in the human world, the only way that Space Wizard could take what's most important from her while still fulfilling her wish would be to remove her connection to her family.

...but Scribbles said she'd never see them again.

Then maybe he should have taken their memories of Emma, too, but since he didn't, nothing prevents them from looking for her.

Sure, but that's in a context where "I'll take your family from your world" equates to "you will forget about your family but, like, they're still gonna exist on Earth and shit."

Though double-checking, he did mention taking future connections along with past memories. Hm. That might be an issue. I'm not sure how he would go about enforcing that, though.

For sure. I'd been wondering how they were going to thread that needle and the reveal did not disappoint.

Edited by rikalous on Jun 7th 2020 at 4:00:18 AM

Anterograde amnesia could accomplish that. Still, her subconscious remains aware of what's missing. 50 First Dates with Norman?

Edited by mythbuster on Jun 7th 2020 at 4:10:50 AM