What makes this worse is that overcoming the mysteries the plot throws at the main characters doesn't even involve any inspiring solutions that the viewer could have worked out themselves, it just involves an endless number of backstabbers, backstabber-backstabbers, backstabber-backstabber-backstabbers, and so on.
This to-and-froing between a group of ridiculously intelligent people at times reminded me a bit of Death Note, except at least in Death Note (1) the plot was generally interesting and (2) the main characters were somewhat believable. The latter point is absolutely not the case in Yakusoku no Neverland because everybody involved is under the age of 11. This is taken to the extreme by one of the characters who [SPOILERS], at the tender age of 4, has no problems comprehending that his entire life is a lie, that he has been betrayed by his mother, and without a second thought agrees to commit himself and the other young children to extreme danger to give the older children a chance at survival. And even that is topped when it is revealed that one of the protagonists has such an extraordinary memory that he even remembers being in his mother's womb. The biggest joke is that this doesn't even serve any particularly important role in the plot, it's just a lazy, deus-ex-machina explanation for this character knowing more than he should do.
Yakusoku no Neverland isn't a bad anime, but it isn't good either. There are some nice characters, some good cinematography, and good audiovisuals. It's just a shame that it's let down by lazy, unbelievable story-writing.
