It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 10 years since The Promised Neverland manga debuted.
As part of its 10 year anniversary celebrations, Shueisha’s Jump Press livestream announced that the manga will release a new one-shot chapter this summer. The Promised Neverland will also be adapted into a stage musical that will premiere this winter in Tokyo, a full-color digital version of the manga, a pop-up store in May and June, and an online lottery event.
A preview of the one-shot can be seen below, but all other details such as the synopsis is still under lock-and-key:
The Promised Neverland, written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu, launched in Weekly Shonen Jump on August 1, 2016 and ran until June 15, 2020, its chapters collected in twenty tankobon volumes. The manga has garnered positive reviews for the storytelling, worldbuilding, and characters. The Promised Neverland has won several awards including the Grand Prize at the “Les Mordus du Manga” Awards, the Grand Prize at the Sense of Gender Awards, Best Shonen Manga at the Mangawa Awards, and was nominated thrice for the Cultural Prize at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Price.
Set in the now-not-so-distant future in 2045, an orphanage called Grace Field House houses 38 orphans who are as happy as can be–they have food, warm beds, games, and a loving caretaker who they all call “Mom.” The story follows Emma and her two best friends Norman and Ray who discover that this orphanage acts as a cage to raise the orphans as meat for demons. Those who have excelled at the exams are seen as the highest quality meat. The three along with the rest of the orphans hatch a plan to escape from Grace Field House before another one of them is taken.
The manga inspired an anime adaptation that scored praise for the first season but was slammed for the animation quality and deviation from the manga for the second season adaptation.
The manga is available to read on Viz Media. Viz has not announced if the one-shot will be available in English.
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