The Promised Neverland Season Two offered a promise of taking us to a new neverland. A world filled with struggle and survival. But watching it, I struggled to find anything interesting. After the masterpiece that was season one, I was looking forward to season two and it was one of the most interesting shows for me winter 2021. I was hoping for something great but was left empty and hollow.

Story:
Season 1 left us off on a slight cliffhanger of the children leaving the farm and escaping into the wilderness. I was expecting a survival story with the usual mystery of season 1 but I think they forgot to add any mystery. The first episodes were pretty boring as they ran away from demons and were conveniently saved by Sonju and Mujika. Overall the plot was pretty boring as they also reintroduced a character who should have stayed dead. I touch on this again later but basically said character's death took away any motivation for the characters and viewers. Sure, they want to save all of the kids, but they are all side characters and any basis for why they are doing anything is entirely lost. None of the side characters mean anything to the viewer as they did in Season 1. They are just there to "help" sometimes. Another issue I had were the massive time skips. I've seen timeskips like this before in Shinsekai Yori, but that show does them right. This one just kinda leaves you hanging in a bad way and doesn't try to explain why they skipped. Everything felt rushed in only 11 episodes. There was so much they should have covered about the world and the last two episodes were able to one-up Darling in the Franxx in fewer episodes. Final episode spoilers:

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The final episode even ended with just a slideshow in the same way. But instead of using it to wrap up the universe, it introduced like 7 possible plot points that would have made a very interesting Season 3.

After I realized this season might not be that great, I was glad they were setting up an interesting season 3. Instead, they just decided to end the whole thing, leaving me in great emotional pain.

Art:
Overall the art is very good. It was something I loved about season 1 and it sorta lived up to it in season 2. The main issue I have with it though is their entire elimination of the first-person perspective of season 1. If you noticed, most if not all of the season takes place in first-person. This created a sense of mystery and suspense that was very important for the show. That is entirely gone in season 2 and this is lost.

Sound:
The sound of the show was fine and wasn't very noticeable in a good or bad way. The intro was mediocre at best and felt too quiet. The outro was good though and I did like it.

Character:
This is a big aspect of the show and a major part of my rating. All character development was thrown out the window as Clover Works compressed it into 11 episodes. No characters had any development other than one. Emma practically stays the same since the end of season 1. She only wants to save the kids and doesn't stay from this. She kinda changes when

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Norman comes back and challenges her beliefs. But instead, she decides to change her goal to change the entirety of the demon world. Which, by the way, we never get to see.

All the other characters which you know and love from season 1 are still here but serve less to the plot than the plants they eat in the forest. The show was like watching concrete dry as the characters change less than untouched concrete. If any of the side characters were to die, I wouldn't care. I would just watch Emma cry over it for a few seconds and hope for something better. There is no major villain in the series other than just "the demons" and later the upper-class. The actual villain of the show changes every few episodes and we learn that most of the demons are fine. There are really no villains of the show that we can be scared of or care about their actions.

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Isabella even gets her own time to shine at the end. She was imprisoned for her failures and is given the chance to help the demons get them back. In the end, though, it turns out she was helping them all the time. WOW, it is like she kinda hoped they would escape at the end of season 1. Also, she has the other mothers help her the whole time too? This isn't explained through of course and we are left with nothing yet again. In the end, Peter Ratari is also introduced with a compelling backstory. This doesn't serve any purpose though because he just kills himself right after his "sob" story. I didn't care about his "development" though because he was given less than 15 minutes of screen time. Maybe if he was introduced sooner and as a force that was terrorizing the kids throughout the season.

Enjoyment:
I can say that I was interested in seeing where the plot was going but was never really interested in what was happening at the time. While there were some action-packed scenes at times, I never felt like it was that interesting. Some aspects were very boring and it created a false sense of suspense. There were also some cool cliffhangers but they never fulfilled what they left off. I enjoyed seeing it fail but hated it after my hopes and dreams were crushed.

Overall:
The Promised Neverland Season 2 was overall a disappointing sequel to an amazing show. All aspects that we loved from season 1 are now gone and replaced with a void that was only filled with trash and the depressed souls of the viewers looking for something amazing.