The children at Grace Field orphanage are living normal, happy lives. The day comes that Conny is “adopted”. At night, “Mom” takes Conny to the gate where she waits to get “adopted”. Conny has forgotten her “little bunny”. Emma and Norman find it on a table in the dining room. Ray them urges them to take it to her before it is too late. Emma and Norman reach the gate where Conny should be. They look for a place to leave “little bunny” so Conny could find it. There was a truck there at the time. Emma suggested that they should leave it on the back of the truck. Emma then goes to place the bunny in the truck then she sees the unpredictable. Conny was laying there dead. “Mom” and demons return to the gate from a back room. Emma and Norman nearly get caught but they quickly escaped leaving “little bunny”. Mom finds it and she is furious and suspicious. She must find out who was there. This is where Emma and Norman, along with the viewer, learns about the truth of this “orphanage”; This is not an orphanage it is a farm, and the children are just fodder for demons in the outside world. Emma and Norman then decide that they must devise a plan to escape from this farm with everyone.
Emma and Norman try to devise a plan to escape. They then decide that they must get Ray in on this escape. They have convinced Ray to join them, but little did they know that he was a spy that was working for mom. The three started to devise a plan but they wanted to get more children in on their plan to escape. They then decide to get Don and Gilda on their side to by telling them lies. Don and Gilda wanted to find out more, so they explored mom’s room and found out that Ray, Norman, and Emma were lying to them. Don and Gilda then to the three and demanded the truth. When they hear it, they are in disbelief but decide to help. The 5 children, Ray, Emma, Norman, Don, and Gilda, start training the younger ones for the escape.
Mom requests assistance from headquarters to help monitor and discover the children that know the truth. Sister Krone then arrives at the house. When mom tells Sister Krone what was happening, she thought of her own little plan. Sister Krone wanted to capture the children and collect evidence that they were going to escape. She wanted to do this because she thinks doing so will get mom demoted to sister or killed and Krone will get promoted to mom of a farm.
Norman’s shipment date gets set. Is he killed by the demos or is he still alive? There are many conspiracies that lead to him still being alive but there are also some that lead to him being dead. You will learn the truth in season two of the anime.
For two months after Norman was shipped out, Emma and Ray did nothing. They did not train, improve the escape plan, or even talk to each other. They escaped on Ray’s birthday, but how did they do that without communication. Watch the anime to find out!
All of the characters, the children and even the adults, were ominous, sly, and very skilled. All of the children were training and had different skill sets which made escaping slightly easier, but mom was on their tails with a counter at every turn. She even released Sister Krone because she was in her way.
In my personal opinion, I saw no issues with the animation; I thought it was amazing. There were a few low-quality scenes but that is not going to change my opinion on the animation.
The opening “UVERworld by Touch off” was amazing and if you read the English lyrics, you will see how much it fits season one of the anime. The same thing goes for the ending Lamp by Cö shu Nie.
I would like to see more development of the younger children like Anna, Lannion, Thoma, Nat, and Phil.
Overall, I think this is a masterpiece. I would definitely recommend it and I am going to re-watch it and read the manga. The emotions and suspense that I have felt from this anime are like no other. I was on the edge of my seat with every episode, and I was paying full attention because of how ominous and sly the characters are.
I personally enjoyed this anime a lot. It is definitely one of my favorites. I rate on enjoyment, so I rate very highly. My rating for The Promised Neverland is 100/100.
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