The Promised Neverland - Season 2

Heute habe ich endlich die letzte Folge zu Ende geschaut und mit dem Finale hat man das ganze echt totgeschlagen! Mir schwirrt im Kopf nur ein Gedanke - Why would you do that? Ich habe sogar gehört, dass bei den letzten Folgen keiner der Drehbuchautoren seinen Wilhelm daruntersetzen wollte, was ich durchaus verstehen kann. Zum zweiten Mal in dieser Staffel bin ich furchtbar enttäuscht von Yakusoku no Neverland, und zum zweiten Mal muss ich einen Stern von meinem Eindruck abziehen. Mehr schreiben will ich nicht, weil nach einer herben Enttäuschung kommt meist Wut und auf eine längere Rezension im Stil von "How dare you ?!?" habe ich an einem Sonntag nach dem Mittagessen so gar kein bock… 3,5/10 (28.03.2021)

I'm crying inside. After the first season, my feelings about The Promised Neverland were in 7th heaven and I was eager to stretch them out for at least another 11 episodes. I trusted few anime so deeply (I even bought the manga for my girlfriend, who liked reading it), so the overwhelming out of the blue and growing frustration with dismay after the 4th episode was akin to the proverbial daggers in the back, stealing one's first born, and other similarly equivalent betrayals (even Saruman would feel childish). Not only the creators, but with them the characters began to trade sanity for madness, tearing out pages of the source material by the dozens and trying to tyrannically cram a disproportionate amount of substance into the few remaining episodes with a requisite dose of profanity and pointless manipulation. The tension, the intelligence, the atmosphere – everything boasted by the first season vanished into thin air faster than a bitcoin offered for a few crowns. The hitherto believable developments took an undignified twist and turn for the main characters, the rival world dissolved with the ease and speed of a snap of a finger, and instead of imaginatively rising from their seats at the end to collective deafening applause, you absorb the incomprehensible final minutes of a deadly unmoving Power Point presentation, realizing with each passing second that even your deeply loathed mother-in-law is actually much nicer than this ordeal. Any even slightly passionate fan must have asked themselves at least 10 times the fundamental question "Why and at what cost?" this tragic act took place. But do we want to know? Personally, for peace of mind and sleep, probably not. This anime was indeed just promised; it would have been preferable if this Neverland from Season 2 had never existed. Objectively a nostalgic 2 stars; subjectively I would rate it even more uncompromisingly. (29.03.2021)