It seemed like Ratri was about to set up a puppet goverment on the demon's side, and he seems rather well off, with the ability to connect to the human world and get insane mercenaries like what's-his-name. Patents over demon technology like men in black?
The Promised Neverland
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The Ratri's essentially saved all of mankind, or at least put an end to the war between humans and demons, going so far as to separate their worlds and prevent the rest of humanity from ever having to worry about demons again. All it cost was a group of humans to be given to the demons to be used as cattle. This, in turn, led to children who were born for the sole purpose of feeding demons in a world with no hope of freedom or survival from being eaten.
The Ratri's have always protected their end of the bargain by helping maintain the order because if the cattle weren't around to eat then the demons would look to humanity again as a source of food.
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"IT" put the original Ratri as the middleman of the farms project probably as karmic retribution. He sold the resistance of his easy way out of the conflict. He had no noble motives.
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The Ratri clan as a whole might be doing their best to keep humanity safe, but Petey has obviously let power go to his head.
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Yeah, I was never defending him, he's just an ass that was raised to believe he needed to fill this important role of all powerful leader and human envoy to the demons. He can't live without that sort of power and he had finally ascended to even greater power only to have it ripped from him in an instant. Like Emma was explaining, all these other people were killing and serving their roles in order to survive, but I feel like his position wasn't really that necessary other than to make sure the demons didn't screw up their cattle production and run it into the ground.
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No chapter this week, next chapter on 10th may
Our Lord and Savior Phil is here.
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All hail the Queen.
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https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1006647
! Well, that was kind of unnecessary. I wanted her at least to have some serious talk with Ray and maybe Emma too, before she is written of permanently.
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! Well, there was always a chance she'd die. But I admit, I got a little choked up.
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Great chapter if I ignore how rushed that felt
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Coronavirus messed TPN's mother day dedicated chapter.
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! Such disapointing promise, at the very least make it so Emma at least had a reason to keep the promise hidden, like "I want a human to suffer for 1000 years" and then /&·%$ revealing that oh yeah, we already had a ton of time for that. It would at least give a reason to keep it secret, instead of the non-reveal of now. Because I was thinking that moving Ratri's stupid suicide after Emma revealed that she already paid the promise and Mujica already had become the queen, making Ratri's moves pointless would put him in a mindstate where he would talk instead of kill.
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https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1006658
That was too easy. Something's gonna come up.
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This series just saddens me now.
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! In the next chapter they get put in cages due to Trump's anti-immigration policy.
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I can only imagine that all that foreshadowing about facing problems and the human world not being so nice to them can't be unrelated to the fact that they appeared in the US.
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As a migrant, I find it patronizing and hypocrite that a japanese person is going to take that route.
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Maybe, just maybe, nothing symbolizes a new start like the Statue of Liberty and next chapter we’ll find out this nightmare is just over?
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I dunno man:
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damn man you really made a monkey out of me
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Yeah, I have to say it. If that was really it… This will be one of the most disappointing finales I've ever read. My enjoyment of this series has been slowly declining since their first escape from Grace Field. First very slowly. The underground shelter was still pretty cool and Goly Pond's battle against the demons was also enjoyable. Then it started to decline a bit more. And the final "war" against the demon's government and the Ratri was just meh to me. But if we've really been waiting to hear about the new promise for all this time and it can be summed up as "Nothing" ... I will be quite sad.
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You knew it wasn't going to be THAT easy, but still the human world seems kinda . . . anti-climactic?
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Well, everything 2015 onward seems to align with reality…So where are the human farms in our world?
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Praise the lord there was an actual price to pay. Kind of? Let's see what actually happened to Emma though. How many chapters do you guys think are left? 10? 20?
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The old fashion way of counting says: either one chapter or one chapter and one volume. My bet is on the second option, unless everything new Ratri just said is a lie, or false enough, in order to start another arc.
Maybe Emma is the only one in the "real" world, and this unified earth who managed to become one nation, but still keept feeding children to demons is an illusion built by ·$%·"$ in order to test the rest of the kids.
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Last chapter next Sunday
The series really got worse and worse after they left the farm, maybe with a few better streaks in-between
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It ends next week. Better do a proper read of the series, I read like the first 20 chapters and than just followed up to know how things progressed with out paying much attention to them.
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Sweet salvation release us
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https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1006999
! What a cheap bargain.
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Okay, I actually liked this last twist. It was a bittersweet way to conclude the previous struggles and the Promise. Taking from Emma all she valued the most. It really cleared a bit of my disappointment with the last few chapters. It is still a series that went from amazing to alright, but I think it avoided an ending that tarnished it. Let's see next week.
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Wait I got a red star? How's this work? :blink:
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Okay, I actually liked this last twist. It was a bittersweet way to conclude the previous struggles and the Promise. Taking from Emma all she valued the most. It really cleared a bit of my disappointment with the last few chapters. It is still a series that went from amazing to alright, but I think it avoided an ending that tarnished it. Let's see next week.
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Wait I got a red star? How's this work? :blink:
This twist felt kinda lame to me. But eh. I didn't think this would be able to get back to the awesomeness the beginning had.
Also congrats on your star!
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Thanks, it does help to remind me of how fast the time passes and how long I've been on the forum, despite not commenting that much.
I liked the twist, but I agree that it was never going to make up for how the quality of the series dropped over time. It felt to me like every passing arc my interest for Neverland decreased bit by bit. From the absolute 10/10 that was the Grace Field escape, to the adventure that was discovering life outside the orphanage, in the wild. With the wild demons, Sonju, Mujika, etc. Then finding the shelter Mr. Minerva left behind only for it to be inhabited by a hostile human. Then slowly gaining Yuugo's sympathy and trust and going to the next stop, Goldy Pond. By that point, it was already starting to lose some quality, but it was still pretty great. Then Goldy Pond was a nice action arc, really different from what came previously. Although it lacked in terms of story, it was fun to follow to see how they could outsmart the monster that was Leuvis. But ever since Norman returned as this "lord and savior" who wanted to push for a revolution and overthrow the demon queen and bla bla bla, I just couldn't care about what was happening anymore. It felt way too alien, the characters were distant and their characterization was lackluster. The sense of urgency in stopping the slaugther of the demons just never resonated with me. And a lot of the big twists along the way felt like they were too conveniently or easily solved. Maybe there was a bit of rushing to the end at this last arc, I dunno. I still liked the series overall, but it could have been better considering the potential it started with.
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Like Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon Slayer for some reason, they rushed to the end. The Grace Field escape is of course the best story arc with how they had to plan and outwit Isabella. That was possible because even if she was super smart and competent, she was still human. Making the demons superhuman pushed the series towards becoming more action oriented. They pretty much pigeonholed themselves into a direction they did not feel as comfortable in and then they just rushed it.
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Agreed on the twist not really making things better, but at least the ending probably won't suck now. I still can't believe the arc came out with a 10/10 arc, those were the days…
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You knew Chibi-Demon God wasn't going to let Emma go without SOME sort of price. But hey, she's got a fuzzy new grandpa now.
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Wasn't there an interview where the authors stated that the originally planned story was just the escape, and the editors suggested leaving the door open for future arcs if the series was succesful enough (which it was)? With that in mind, I can't hold it against them since we got the full original arc and the rest can be considered as bonus material (and a lot of it was good, even if not as good as the beginning).
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Like Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon Slayer for some reason, they rushed to the end. The Grace Field escape is of course the best story arc with how they had to plan and outwit Isabella. That was possible because even if she was super smart and competent, she was still human. Making the demons superhuman pushed the series towards becoming more action oriented. They pretty much pigeonholed themselves into a direction they did not feel as comfortable in and then they just rushed it.
The author of Kimetsu had a family emergency and needed to deal with that, so she rushed the ending.
Yeah that's true about the demons being a tad too overpowered for the kids. I think after the adults died I got a bit more bored with the series. And Norman's return felt weird to me. At least his appearance. I'm not sure why that was a necessary change.
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The thing with Croc-sensei is a rumor, there no evidence that she really had a family emergence. In both cases the manga followed their paths to pre-established conclusion: kill Muzan in one and escape for the human world in another; there's no more to tell so way prolong it.
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The thing with Croc-sensei is a rumor, there no evidence that she really had a family emergence. In both cases the manga followed their paths to pre-established conclusion: kill Muzan in one and escape for the human world in another; there's no more to tell so way prolong it.
There were many ways to develop the story without dragging it out. Like when the kids infiltrated a demon village and lived among them for months. It could have given some interesting insight in the way of life of the common folk instead of the nobles. A lot of characters were also introduced when Norman came back into the picture with his own faction and they were pretty forgettable. Rey also became a background character after a while.
Basically they did not let the story breathe and that is disappointing.
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The author of Kimetsu had a family emergency and needed to deal with that, so she rushed the ending.
Oh, why couldn't they just give her an extended break.
I mean if Togashi can publish 12 chapters in one year and then take another 3 year break, then I think one of the rising stars should have been given the same courtesy.
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There were many ways to develop the story without dragging it out. Like when the kids infiltrated a demon village and lived among them for months. It could have given some interesting insight in the way of life of the common folk instead of the nobles. A lot of characters were also introduced when Norman came back into the picture with his own faction and they were pretty forgettable. Rey also became a background character after a while.
Basically they did not let the story breathe and that is disappointing.
This is exactly what I meant by rushing to the end. Not allowing the story to breathe. It didn't need to drag endlessly. But it could have used more development. Especially the demon village infiltration. It was a major disappointment for me. It could have been used as a bridge for us to care about the demons (besides Sonju and Mujika but they lived by themselves in the wild). To get to know from the inside how their society worked, to start seeing them as "people" too. With specific needs and who deserve to live a good life just like the human kids. But alas, we got what we got. And by the time the war against the demons began, we didn't even know what their city looked like, and it was much harder to get on Emma's side on the matter.
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Agreed things feeling rushed. The Phil back at the farm chapters when nowhere. That really annoyed me. I just feel there's more to this world and other characters that we've missed.
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It could have been worse he could have taken…
HER MARRIAGE!!!!
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I was just thinking about this right now but something that is disappointing is how Sonju just turned into a good guy with no character. He had this nice introduction about how he was this morally grey demon with his own agenda helping the kids so that he would get to eat human flesh once again. Sad that they never went beyond that after such a promising start and they simply had no idea what to do with him.
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What's the majority consensus on TPN?
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It peaked in the first arc but was solid until the end of the Goldy Pond and Yuugo storyline. It slowly went downhill from there.
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This ending was really boring. I felt nothing.
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It peaked in the first arc but was solid until the end of the Goldy Pond and Yuugo storyline.
I mostly agree with this, it faced a wall of how to portray a bunch of sheltered orphan kids toppling the demon kingdom without having to age them to adulthood, and sadly it couldn't climb over it.
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This ending was really boring. I felt nothing.
Good way to sum it up. Very predictable. Could've landed better if almost everything before it was executed better, but sadly it wasn't.