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Monday, June 10, 2019

Manga Review: The Promised Neverland, Volume 8, by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu


Rating (Out of 5): ~4
Publisher: Shonen Jump (VIZ Media)
Release Date: February 2019
Volumes: 14+
Spoilers?: No.
Volume: 1. 7. 9.

Goodreads Synopsis:

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it's too late.

Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems...

Review:

It's easy to get pulled into the crazy plot lines and cliffhangers in this series, but then I have to remind myself that they don't usually last very long. This series doesn't drag out anything unnecessarily. It's still intense and dangerous, and bad things could happen, but it doesn't take several volumes for one plot line, which I appreciate.
So Emma, Ray and the man have ventured out to reach the next point. After the man sets them up, he clearly has bad intentions for them. He's not on their side. So it's up to Emma and Ray to prove to him that they're going to succeed at this, that they're not easy to kill. Emma has enough hope that this is going to work out for all of them. It's infectious, and is likely what is keeping them going.
I won't spoil how that goes, but reaching Goldy Pond is a bigger plot twist than I expected. I didn't imagine this, at all, and am wondering what William Minerva has planned for them next. It could be anything, at this point.

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