

Jairus Taylor of Anime News Network wrote that the anime adaptation of the The Promised Neverland was a "total disaster". In comparing it to the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime series, which changed from being a faithful adaptation to have an original story that "still captures the intention of the source material in a satisfying way", Motamayor wrote that The Promised Neverland anime was not planning on telling its own story, but rather skipping the chapters of the manga "to be done with the story as soon as humanly possible", still telling enough story that somewhat resembles the manga's plotline, "but taking way whatever made it impactful in the first place", adding that it was similar to the final season of Game of Thrones. Reviewing the series' second season, Rafael Motamayor of Polygon said that while an original story could course-correct issues from the latter half of the original manga's plot, the season, specifically from episode 5 onwards, broke the pacing and tension of its previous episodes. The Second Season of The Promised Neverland received overwhelmingly negative reception for what many felt was a rushed and forced ending. The reason why this is terrible is because there was no proper build up for him still being alive and it feels like he was shoved in early for the sake of him needing to be in plot.

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It doesn't help that CloverWorks were working on 2 other series ( Horimiya and Wonder Egg Priority respectively) when they were working on this. While the animation is not the worst, it's not really that good, especially compared to the manga.For example in episode 4 Isabella was trying to retrieve all of the escaped children, yet in episode 10 with nothing explain she wants to save the children. Some things that happened in the season make no sense.

The ending for the series was literally a PowerPoint which was basically a ton of stuff from the end of the manga that could've easily been a few seasons worth of material.Hell, how they did it makes Tokyo Ghoul:re (Season 2) look good in comparison. Cramming 143 Chapters (and skipping a couple of important arcs in the series) into an 11 episode anime is a bad idea on it's own.They removed one of the most popular arcs in the manga in "Goldy Pond", but not only that but they also removed one of the most popular characters in the manga known as Yugo. Let's get the elephant out of the room first.
