I was personally a big fan of Promised Neverland Season 1 because of its unique concept and how it played out.
I do not read manga however some of my friends do. And all of the people who do read the manga know this, the anime skipped more than 4 complete arcs including the Goldy Pond Battle Arc which, according to manga readers is the best arc of The Promised Neverland. The hype it had created made me wait desperately for 1 whole year and when I saw that they had skipped the ENTIRE FRICKIN ARC, well, my disappointment and anger cannot be expressed by words. Whoever had the bright idea of making this call...the terms and conditions of Anilist forbid me from expressing my feelings.
Even someone who has not read the manga can tell that they are trying to make it a rush job. There are just so many time jumps and blanks. Worst part is, they are not even trying to improve the story or even make it half decent which makes me as a viewer feel offended. I do not expect a sequel to this seeing how the ratings are going to plummet and honestly, we would prefer if they did not release a season 3 just to crush our hopes again.
Overall, this anime is just leaving manga readers and anime only viewer fans all around the world incredibly disappointed. They are butchering the characters left and right and jumping through time as if we as viewers are brainless zombies that won't be able to realise it.
This is just a speculation but, I believe the reason this is happening is because the manga finished releasing and the reason anime is made is to promote manga sales. As the manga is over, the creators had 2 choices - either abruptly end the anime and not make a season 2 or skip through the entire story as soon as possible with as less investment as possible. The result, hundreds and thousands of angry fans and critics. Well done!
I am done with this anime now, seeing as how much of the anime story they have skipped, there is no hope left for this anime. I would suggest dropping the anime and reading the manga instead. I sincerely pray that some studio picks this project up and makes a remake that is not completely money minded. That said, I have no expectations from the current studio of doing a worth it remake. I wasted 180 minutes of my life watching 9 episodes of this anime. That is all
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