#promised neverland season 2

[flower-blossoms654]

Each time I think about how they took out the Goldy Pond arc, I get so angry. Cause like not only was it a good ass arc, getting rid of it takes out something integral to the story as a whole, that I just don’t think they realized/cared about:

The validation of Emma’s beliefs.

Emma is established to be this happy-go-lucky character right? And as the children are still in Grace Field, you see that she still keeps this demeanor while juggling the new graveness of the situation she is in. While losing some of her naivety, she still shows herself capable of being someone hopeful for the future who will not let her circumstances get the better of her. The most important part of what makes this WORK for her character (instead of making it annoying and unrealistic) is the fact that she both acknowledged and experiences the tragedy of the world she is trying to be hopeful in. It’s not some little girl being like “I believe everything’s gonna be fine! Sparkles and rainbows!” while being shielded from the darker parts of the world. It’s a little girl who looks in the face of the darkness and that terrible world and is in the MIDST of it. It’s a little girl who found the dead body of her younger sibling and was faced with the reality that her whole life was a lie. It’s a little girl who realized her whole family was going to die and fought to grab onto her hope despite how overwhelmingly bleak their situation was. She knew and yet she didn’t hesitate to believe that they could escape. She knew and still wanted to yell to the world that she was going to save EVERYONE. Seeing someone so unwaveringly hopeful even after being hit with devastating loss and despair is like a beacon for anyone else struggling to keep surviving. Emma is lovable for how she loves—how her hope and determination stands fast in the face of adversity and still goes forward even as more events threaten to shake and bend it.

For whatever reason season 2 was changed the way it was (I’ve heard many things)(if it was because of the guns then WHY pick up the anime in the first place bc you derail EVERYTHING) it could never stand completely without Goldy Pond.

Goldy Pond is in plain terms Emma’s defining arc. It seems to be pushing forward a question whose answer will define the rest of the series.

“Who is Emma?”

Not as she is with her siblings. Not as she is when there is her family there to keep her going. Who is Emma, and how will she grow from here on out?

Goldy Pond is the first time Emma is “alone”. She has none of her siblings around her and she is in an unfamiliar environment, with people she does not know. People by all means unconnected to her when she has a family to get back to and protect.

But Emma doesn’t treat them that way. She cares for each stranger she meets, jeopardizing her safety by using herself as bait—by charging forward into battle to protect them and change the demons’ focus. As the arc progresses and she meshes herself into the other children’s ranks, treating them as family as well, it seems to be clear what the answer is. As she serves as a distraction in this main fight. As she reminds them of details of HOW they can win this fight even when there seems to be no hope left. When she gets empaled and STILL takes a shot to kill Duke Leuvis.

Emma is hopeful and kind and self-sacrificing. She treats strangers as she would treat her family, and cares for all lives the same. She is so overwhelmingly forthright and sincere in her emotions and love, that you can’t help but want to support and follow her. That is who Emma is. She is not naive. She has seen death and battle and bleak circumstances but still rises to the challenge EVERY time — and most importantly this time was the bleakest so far. This time she was “ALONE”.

She has the experience behind her to make her care for all things “valid”. This is not a silly, childish little girl not knowing all the different aspects of her declarations. She says they will survive and you can take her for her word because she knows what it’s like to be near death. But specifically and more crucially for Goldy Pond (and therefore the rest of the series): Emma says that she wants to save demons. And with Goldy Pond, you can take her word for it.

When Norman declares that his way of saving everyone is to have a demon genocide, the most important part of this is that we as the readers support Emma and her viewpoint (that the demons should not be killed.) Her viewpoint is valid in the manga because of what she has gone through. Emma says she wants to save demons and we can take her for her word because she has experience at the hands of some of the worst cruelty from demons possible. She and other children were hunted for sport. She was placed in a mockery of a sanctuary and hunted down for demons entertainment—not for the demon’s hunger or survival but for FUN. And she still turns around and says that she believes there are GOOD demons.

Without this, Emma has nothing in her experience for her to stand toe to toe with Norman’s beliefs. She looks like a naive, silly child trying to justify a foolish dream when she has experienced nothing of the world. It’s practically an insult to Norman and his experiences and it doesn’t give off what it should to the watcher. How are we supposed to believe in Emma (and go against a GENOCIDE) when it seems as if the writers want to paint that the genocide is the reasonable answer (when it fucking ISNT). And this is all because without Goldy Pond, Emma doesn’t have the experience to be meaningfully hopeful. She can’t properly value her positive experience with Mujika because she doesn’t not have a big enough negative experience to weight it against (and gracefield isn’t good enough bc Norman has gone through more than that). For Emma to have weight, she needs to be able to weight the good and the bad and STILL choose good. To still choose to be hopeful and caring.

Getting rid of Goldy Pond got rid of such an important foundation of Emma as a character and I can never forgive them for that.

[lottsaegg]

Im never disappointed anymore because I was there when season 2 of The Promised Neverland was released

[norman-ratri-truther]

nothing annoys me more than the take i see floating around in the anime community that "tpn season 2 was only bad because the source material it was adapting is also bad"

like yeah at the end of the day I can't get that mad, "good" is subjective and im sure there must be a lot of people being hyperbolic too so i can't take it all at face value, but just i gen can't wrap my head around how people watch the anime, then read the WHOLE manga and actually believe that the anime had nothing to work with. i saw someone say the manga was only a little bit better and like...... what

you can dislike the manga, but season 2 Changed it *so* much it's barely even the same story?? like it is not the source material that is responsible it is the unnecessary cutting of 100+ chapters and dozens of characters and storylines, this removal of half the story that also in turns destroys any weight that any of the plot twists, social commentary, mysteries etc had on the story, it is the addition of various plot points that ultimately went nowhere, making the story even muddier than they already did for literally no reason, it is arguably the mistakes of the art direction going back all the way to season 1, it is the terrible budget cuts and likely awful work conditions for the people made to work on it, it is many many things and it absolutely had the chance to be good!!

looking at the anime and saying "it just shortened things" (a take i usually see in tandem with the aformentioned) feels like a very unfair portrayal of the manga, like of course you can dislike it and that is simply a opinion i strongly disagree with but objectively the anime did a lot to change the story rather than just shorten it.

[nerdysleepybunny]

This TPN joke is pretty overused but I saw the “Ray’s birthday was pretty lit” joke and choked on my fucking water. 😭 It’s so wrong but so funny. 💀💀💀

[juxl25]

The only good thing about The Promised Neverland season 2 was the opening.

Identity was a banger

[sillyghostnerd]

what if i loved you so much it broke your religious facade?

emma undoomed norman from the narrative while jayce doomed himself along with viktor, either way they stay together no matter what (PEOPLE BE MAKING SHIPS LIKE THIS AND THEN THEY DONT EVEN KISS WHAT)

[mintypsii]

cw// the promised neverland season 2

sorry for the jumpscare felt a little silly

[officersnickers]

(please reblog and state in the tags which adaptation you did choose and why! need a few good laughs ngl)

[piknim]

Laios is so weird i love him

[matt0044]

K, so... Season 2 bad. Full stop. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Buuuuuut…

Why exactly?

The way I see it 11 episodes would've been well spent on Mujika and Sonju in the first half and Yugo in the second. End on a cliffhanger with Emma finding herself in Goldy Pond and one of the Aristocrats getting to eager in targeting the fresh new game.

Bing. Bang. Boom. If it got canceled after that, too bad but at least it would've been a coherent narrative.

Like, there's a story here. Something worth its own book. Season 2 seemed to have its own agenda with its changes, one that might've been an intriguing set up. But it's clear that their Scott Pilgrim Takes Off devolved into a modicumly more enjoyable Dragon Ball Evolution.

[nevermoredragon-main]

Isabella is so pretty y'all please look at her. 😭

Anyone ever just watch tpn season 1 after season 2 and get really mad or upset? My true Roman Empire for real.

[ralibo14]

Fine Arcane season 2! You gonna brake my heart? Twice? Fine! But the pain only inspire me to grab a pencil and draw.

Old idea I have been sitting on since Arcane season 1. TPNxARCANE crossover! You know me. It was just the question of time until I do something like this 😁. (Not LoL lore expert... gathered info from the series)

I will find a connection to The Promised Neverland. I tried to make the style a little more 'Arcanic', but not sure if it worked.

[humblefryingpan]

(The promised neverland spoilers)

"when I grow up I want to be just like mom!"

"you sure do love mom, don't you Conny?"

Wow what a sweet kid. Hope nothing happens lol. Hope she has a great childhood. Hope no one kills her or anything haha

[rainbowwwanon]

Opinions on anime?

Hm. It's... Alright I suppose? I don't watch it frequently but I've seen a few.

[imaginajess07]

The Promised Neverland playlist?

decided to make a playlist for The Promised Neverland

[ghostiedreamsz]

Conversation between me and my brother

Context: we’re casually making jokes about the Charlie/Verbalase incident because our collective humor is that of a 12 year old

Me: So what do you think you would spend 50K on

Bro: idk

Me: there’s no character you’d spend 50K to make an animatic of?

Bro: No?? Oh wait- I’d buy Mappa Studio and give their animators a raise

Me: ok, first of all, real as fuck-

Bro: what about you?

Me: well now mine is gonna sound stupid- oH MY GOD HOLD ON- I COULD COMMISSION THE PROMISED NEVERLAND SEASON 2

Bro: no

Me: MAKE THEM REDO IT

Bro: please stop

Me: GOLDY POND ARC