Ugh, what's there to say. This is such a great concept but it's ruined by absolutely garbage animations and terrible glacial pacing. I had to speed up the show to 1.25x speed to keep myself from outright quitting it. The writing is pretty bad for the most part too but I can completely forgive it if the concept is enticing or the animations are great, sadly it's only the concept itself which keeps me interested.
Luckily it's only the first season which is so atrociously bad, luckily it improves somewhat in every single aspect with the start of season two.
I wouldn't really recommend watching this show
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Jan 20, 2022
Yakusoku no Neverland
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The writing in the first arc is by far the best and then it takes an immediate nosedive after that, ironically it's also the arc with the most rushed and inconsistent art.
Characters barely grow or change over the course of the entire story and when certain characters die they gloss over it almost immediately. Themes, ideas and concepts aren't explored to their potential, they are forgotten about or prematurely dropped. After the first arc the pacing is all over the place. The story felt rushed and it seemed like the creators didn't have a set plan for the whole story, its universe or its characters. The ... |
