Episode 17: The Promised Neverland Season 2 Review

The Promised Neverland Season 2 went from the most anticipated sequel in anime to a 5.24 on MyAnimeList in eleven episodes. This week on Anime Cvlt dig into how CloverWorks took a top-100 psychological thriller and produced one of the most infamous adaptation failures in modern anime.

Season 1 adapted the Grace Field escape almost beat for beat and landed at an 8.5+. Season 2 covered the Promised Forest arc, then went anime-original, skipped the fan-favorite Goldy Pond arc entirely (chapters 64 through 95, plus Yuugo and the demon Leuvis with it), cut the King of Paradise arc, rewrote the Imperial Capital arc, burned one of its eleven slots on a recap episode, and closed out the remaining ~140 chapters of Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's manga with a still-image slideshow montage in the finale.