I was the first in my friend group to pick up The Promised Neverland‘s manga. It was late 2017 when I saw an ad for the first volume of The Promised Neverland and decided to start reading and to be honest, it was amazing.
Then, at my behest, all my friends started reading it one after the other until the anime adaptation was announced. Needless to say, I felt absolutely vindicated. I had made a judgment call on a manga, and the world was now taking notice. The anime was produced by an offshoot of A-1 Pictures, CloverWorks, and while this wasn’t their first rodeo, it was one of the first shows I’d seen from the studio.
It was OK. As a whole, the adaptation was serviceable enough for a second season to be greenlit, which led to my friends and I discussing where in the man