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I didn't count this as an L. It's only some Christians who are weird about Jesus (but not weird about the equivalent Joshua), Muslims routinely name their children after religious figures. Muhammad for boys and Aisha for girls are hugely popular. It's also a preexisting human name that the historical person happened to have, not a unique appellation that was adopted as a baby name afterward (Hercule, Salvador). The children are multy-culty, and the demon gave her a name he thought culturally appropriate. Now, how exactly the demon researched the name is an open question. (If it's a demon name, someone should tell Khamenei, this fucking hack of a writer deserves a fat fatwa.)
Borders are bad! But, didn't they build a great wall on the border between worlds, and have Emma pay for it?
I didn't watch it, but I read on the thread it was terrible. I still hoped to like the manga, though. I liked Attack on Titan.
I cut my original 9000-word notes to slightly over 4000:
The Promised Neverland
約束のネバーランド / Yakusoku no Neverland / Yakusoku no Nebārando
is globohomo soy jizz
and I will tell you why
Let the little girls say: “To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.”
-- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1. Why physical tracker? (impossible) Why not magic? Demons exist.
2. Why did Isabella remove the shitty drawing? Try to pretend to be sad.
3. Why not split up and run to the wall? Mom already knows who’s aware. Plot contrivance to justify Norman’s later absence.
4. Emma cutting off her ear won no time at all.
5. Demon books available in library despite heavy censorship.
6. Children never wonder what demons call themselves.
7. No books newer than 2015 - why? Minerva didn’t die until much later. Inconsistent with orphanage apparent tech level, there’s stuff in the books children know to want but don’t have.
(I like to think the reason is this: children’s books went to shit in Current Year, what with drag queens and such; newer (globohomo) books are simply not conducive to producing healthy, intelligent, delicious children, and aren’t imported anymore.)
8. Ray asks for tech, gets “old models” (ipod, PSP) - do Ratri warehouse this for decades? Why are they in working order? He complains photos come out dark without a flash (that he removed), but Polaroid shelf life is 12 months.
9. Demons speak English for children to eavesdrop; they also have demon language.
10. Children find a secret room but never consider where their gourmet food comes from, massive amount of work being done (hidden compound).
11. Too much babysitting for one woman + casual help from 2 girls.
12. Hints in Minerva’s book are appropriately mystical and whimsical and it never happens again.
13. No more unusual flora or fauna is ever introduced, except for throwaway demon animal designs.
14. Pen as holographic computer is stupid. Sequence of words is cumbersome (need to keep the book safe) and insecure (you know one code, you know them all). Sith dagger once again.
15. No tip on killing demons.
16. “Demons shall not hunt humans” is part of the Promise but broken.
17. Sonju and Musica say the children have made an enemy of Demon God - wrong and fake.
18. Emma hits Hugo in the dick because GURL POWER!!1! Fucking dumb.
19. The retard writer kills Hugo and shelves Ray.
20. Children easily handle heavy weapons, know survival, Hugo is wasted as a character.
21. Goldy Pond Resistance members compete against other humans to get eaten last. Brave, also stunning.
22. Writer says original windmill inhabitant is “a coward” because he “didn’t help others” - hiding everyone is impossible, hiding some means dooming others.
23. Resistance members are boring, permanently constipated, useless, waste of conceptual space.
24. and dressed in Current Year made-in-Bangladesh street fashion (who supplies the clothes?).
25. No losses during the fight despite severe wounds, many “very important lessons” about how sacrificing yourself is baaaaaad and you shouldn’t do that.
26. Where did they get medicine? Demons would not provide any, the wounded will soon be caught and eaten.
27. Hugo parkours with severely wounded Emma with demons in hot pursuit, this does not make her wounds worse or anything.
28. The scale of the secret construction is immense and impossible (2 hidden cities, several bunkers in ~7 years). Many gatekeepers work alongside demons, would leak info.
Note: Gilda’s self-destruct button and Emma’s flare earlier are examples of out-of-universe cleverness. Readers, especially magazine readers, can feel proud if they remembered, but it’s no achievement on part of the characters.
29. Timeskip, fake urgency: only Phil knows what’s up, he is not in danger of being shipped soon.
30. Fake urgency 2: Other children are being shipped in the meantime.
31. Fake urgency 3: there was never a precise date (birthdays only matter for 12-year-olds).
32. artistically dumb: narrow limit after a relaxed infodump; better to start mission with time to spare, then run into delays.
33. Research/exploration montage is boring. How do disguises even work? Demons should be on high alert due to Norman’s raids.
34. They don’t speak the demon language.
35. Why do they trust the Demon God? He’s the one the most promising children are sacrificed to. Why do they expect to get a good deal from it?
36. The Demon God’s unspeakable name becomes dumb when Emma says it.
37. The existence of magic evokes no wonder and no introspection.
38. Hugo has soyed up completely and is acting like a gay dad in a CalArts cartoon.
39. Hugo and Lucas die to blow up the bunker with gas when they could’ve used the self-destruct button. High IQ lmao.
40. Hugo goes to paradise and gets 72 virgins. It’s not portrayed as a dying hallucination, there’s no “blam, corpse” final frame like it was with Krone’s death in the escape arc, heaven most definitely exists and all your friends are there waiting for you. Join them.
41. The decision whether to go back for Hugo and Lucas would’ve been more difficult if they weren’t shown dying.
42. The kids aren’t to blame, they only did what Emma always preached.
43. Trying to present a near-dead man with half his head missing as a deadly threat cheapens the recent victory over the five demon lords.
44. All 6 dead kids are nameless in the story (they’re only provided names in the supplementary material). Two of Andrew’s faceless subordinates got names before dying.
45. All the dead kids conveniently come from the hunting grounds (not Emma’s original home).
46. Andrew gloats about the kids being too chicken for muh burden of killing, and he’s 100% correct.
47. Hypocritically, the kids shoot Andrew’s arms off, as if abandoning him in the woods to bleed out or get eaten is not a killing.
48. He is immediately eaten by a random wild demon, because the writer has no testicular fortitude (note: the writer is pseudonymous and allegedly male, but it smells like pussy).
49. More whining about Hugo’s death.
50. All the children run off to meet “Minerva”, even though the first location was empty, the second location was a trap, and they have a good reason to suspect Minerva is dead and the caller is an impostor. They don’t camp out in the forest tunnels and send spies/envoys to check the place out.
51. Norman should know: escapes are super rare (probably none between Hugo and the current group), there are no random gangs of escapees in the wild, the promise still persists so no one ever got out. The Minerva name means nothing but a string of broken hopes and possibly a trap, now that the original Minerva is definitely dead and his evil brother Peter (who Norman has personally met) runs the show. Norman should have just used his real name to get recognized by Emma’s allies, if any - among enemies, only Isabella knows it.
52. Norman, Ray and Emma should’ve established passphrases and used them.
53. Pen map squares are bigmclargehuge and the pen is flimsy and not secret anymore, why not use more precise and robust coordinates?
54. Ridiculous “parody” of Naruto (this is “lolololol Naruto is for babbies!!!1!” on behalf of the writer). Bad form. Do not try to one-up other kids’-entertainment while being a kids’ entertainer. Actually, do not try to one-up kids’ entertainment at all. This is only funny to funko pop collectors. Also creepy in that it’s a 2-year-old teen girls can be horny for (same for the other Narutard, and Paperbag Boy, who’s 5).
55. Kid lightly grazed by a (sterile) bullet in the bunker should be stable, kid mangled by Andrew in the woods should’ve got an infection at best; it’s the opposite.
56. It’s a survival fantasy but the wounds may as well be D&D hit points. The story could really use some physical mangling, bleeding, infection, etc.
57. Why does a cattle factory farm have a cure for bullets? The writer should've done some research and named a specific medicine, maybe several, for a real condition.
58. You don’t git gud at doctoring by reading books, you git gud through practice. The bunker kids had no one to practice on.
59. Can’t they rush to the city instead? The kid is young and Not-Naruto is supernaturally fast and can easily carry the small kid.
60. The two Narutards confirm, via internal monologue, that they’re 100% honest and sincere. Why? The story could have used more suspense.
61. Even more adults who are edgy Hot Topic models / Tokyo Ghoul concept art rejects (Tokyo Ghoul is cancer), none of them get plots. At least the Narutard kids are sincere and would fit with the also sincere but rapidly retardifying main cast. Edgy ironic adults are gross.
62. Peter hid Norman at a death camp, had him observe horrific mass murder day in and day out, conducted dangerous experiments on him, gave him a horrible wasting disease, and possibly turned him inedible and mentally ill. Why did Peter fuck with the Demon Queen’s food? Demons are very good at assessing the quality of food. (It’d be much better if Peter rescued Norman to supervise the experiments, assist in the lab, or plan to depose the Demon Queen.)
63. The world has horses. Why are there human horses, why weren't they eaten by wild demons? And cats?
64. Demon biology does not make internal sense. Demons, to not degenerate, need to eat their peers, and they can and will eat up the chain (they’re stronger and tougher). What happens when the peers run out? The demon world should’ve lost most of its animals, except those who’d survived the wild demons’ subsequent degeneration. Sonju has a demon horse - I suppose he feeds it wild horses to preserve its shape? (If he fed it Musica’s magical blood of shape permanence, it’d turn into a prettyboy/girl demon instead.) There were demon birds at the temple - what do they eat? Worms? Then they should’ve turned into worms. Duke Lewis had a pet demon monkey - what did he feed it, normal monkeys? (Normal monkeys exist.)
65. How long do demons live and how often do they die? Duke Lewis is over 700 years old. Why is there a noticeable amount of demon children? Why are there demon children at all, how do they reproduce? If a demon eats a male human and a female human, what sex is it - a tranny? Humans are slow to grow. Demons are apex predators, they should have instituted population control and killed off all wild demons (who are insane compexity sinks and cause more damage to ecosystems than ESG policies).
66. Norman has been attacking orphanages but didn’t start with his own farm, whih he knows best. Why, other than “the writer planned to set the final showdown there”?
67. "I don't want to kill the demons" - told you, Tokyo Ghoul is cancer. (What about the currently wild demons, do they deserve to be humanized? Is there an ethical mandate to uplift demon chickens or Lewis’s pet demon monkey?)
68. "if we had played it safe, we wouldn't have tried to escape". Ultra retarded: even a minuscule chance of success at escaping is better than a
% chance of getting eaten.
69. "no compromise; the second we let Norman get shipped, we failed" - didn't we just celebrate Hugo and Lucas earning 72 virgins per person?
70. What if Musica intentionally set up Emma to foil Norman's plans? They were clever enough to suspect Ray spying for Mom.
71. Norman’s edgy henchmen and -woman have been through Auschwitz-on-fentanyl, why doesn’t Emma sympathize with them?
72. Aishe’s baby-murdering demon father’s killing is a real tragedy tho. Norman is a conspiratorial villain with all the hallmarks of a Very Important Lesson, but Aishe wanting to kill Norman and his team is fine by Don and Gilda.
73. Who taught Aishe the human language? Is “Aishe” a human or a demon name in-universe? If human, how did the demon pick it? If demon… ok but not very pc.
74. Norman sends Don and Gilda to “safeguard” (kill) Sonju and Musica, all around the world, within 8 days; doesn’t bother coming up with a justification; they obey, even though they should know he’d suspect them suspecting and is planning something.
75. Emma: "press on, and believe!!!1!" - fucking what, they have this one character who's meant to be a parody of Naruto but their actual protagonists are worse.
76. Julius did nothing wrong and he didn’t betray anyone. His whole army got eaten, he brokered the deal, then other armies got eaten and/or enslaved. Nothing Julius did helped demons or hindered humans in that battle.
77. Why did Julius need the demon king? To take him to the Demon God? Everyone has to solve the final riddle independently. Couldn't he have wished for whatever? (Emma's new Promise leaves demons with no food, and yet the Demon God agrees.)
78. Why does he trust the Demon God to follow through - it’s a DEMON god? (He shouldn’t have, as the Demon God does not force the demons to uphold their part of the current Promise.)
79. Why do the three protagonists look exactly like their designated ancestors from 1000 years ago? Why weren’t the lines crossbred? Also, oh, all three are descendants of 3 of the 5 nobles, how elitist.
80. They're also all children of Mothers (3 out of 5 housekeepers of the original orphanage compound), and the other two Mothers join Isabella's plot against Peter.
81. The Demon God presents the gatekeeping mission as a curse, but the clan evidently enjoys their special mission and grew rich off it.
82. Why does Emma trust the Demon God? She knows it can’t be trusted, as demons neither pay their agreed-upon tithe to God (the best meat, each year - two years ago it should’ve been Norman) nor abstain from hunting humans.
83. Why is it a surprise to the noble demons that they could be eaten and disguised as? I'd imagine demon eating demon is a fact of life, and they'd take precautions.
84. The Queen disintegrates on her own, because she’s designated greedy and evil and must be made an example of.
85. Persuaded by Emma’s pussy power, Norman agrees to save the demon race, no matter how many of his siblings and henchmen he will kill trying - he’ll just try again and again, he says. The henchmen all consent (although the smartest one initially objects).
86. The narrative’s condemnation of Norman also means the Ratri clan cannot be condemned for their unwillingness to find a better way to safeguard Earth.
87. Sonju blames the regent houses for perverting the religion of the human-hunt, even though the Promise was enacted by Demon God and is therefore sacred.
88. Also, the regent houses did in fact secretly “respect the old religion” by hunting humans in the Hunting Grounds.
89. How does Musica knows double core birth stats among royalty? They live for millennia, and Musica is a 700-year-old exile.
90. How does Musica know if Sonju, the Queen, and other royal children have or have not a second core? If core count is something to show off, it should be public knowledge prominently featured in heraldry, celebrations, etc. If it's not, they should not know about the Queen either.
91. Also she’s wrong.
92. Emma: "I'd be fine with Sonju or Musica eating me" - more Tokyo Ghoul cuckening.
93. Sonju plans to reestablish the theocracy to “save the world” and prevent chaos, the demon people people peacefully establish civic order, Sonju is disappointed.
94. Why does everyone know what Sonju and Musica look like? Demons can’t even tell disguised humans apart from demons, and many of them are just as “pretty”.
95. Why were Sonju and Musica running? They could've stayed at the temple with the awakened priest.
96. The hunting grounds escapees are somehow extremely good at killing demons. They shouldn’t really be, they’re normal and not particularly bright humans who are only good at hiding and running away. (Norman’s henchmen and -woman are superhuman and had a lot of practice.)
97. Peter Ratri ends up being a hysterical soycuck betrayed by absolutely everyone, and is talked by Emma into committing sudoku. This is yet another lib-approved skitzo morality “teachable moment”: collective guilt is exorcized by singling out, thoroughly humiliating and killing a designated villain (Andrew, the queen, and Peter here).
Watch the moralfaggotry pileup:
(1) come up with a nightmare scenario
(2) build a contrived world in which the nightmare scenario is objectively good
(3) portray its engineers as monsters on the basis of (1)
(4) resolve the nightmare scenario to properly condemn the villains and portray the solution as monstrous, too
(5) have the virtuous protagonist forgive them on the basis of (2)
(6) kill them anyway to satisfy (3)
To Emma’s credit here, she at least is not hypocritical, tries to save Peter and is genuinely sorry when he dies.
98. Duke Lewis, the most sadistic fuck of all, is alive. What the fuck, they really shat on poor Hugo even after his shameful death. (Duke Lewis is a royal and also has a second core, and he says he didn’t know. Musica was wrong. I already counted this.)
99. Emma: “Just because we’re different, we hate each other, but we don’t have to!” The page shows a BLM protest, civilian housing destroyed by bombing, a covid-related beating (huh?), riot police dispersing a riot, crying women of different ethnicities, sad hobos drinking curbside, schoolchildren laughing at a virgin, and I shit you not twitter threads.
100. Despite the whole "CoExIsT" schtick, the writer has in fact incited IRL religious hatred by implying humanity's gods are just fat demons.
101. The original “William Minerva” defected because he found Julius’s confession, in which Julius regretted turning his fellow warlords over to the demons to be used as breeding stock. “William” considered it good and proper to eat descendants of medieval criminals for all eternity.
102. “The cattle children are descendants of Julius’s allies! Not of the rogues who opposed peace and wanted to continue the war!” - wrong, Julius's allies were in fact “the rogues who opposed peace"! (To be fair they were still undeserving of getting eaten - the only ones deserving were demon worshipers, but not their children either.) But the soy writer needs “the good guys” to be on the side of “peace” no matter how counterfactually.
103. Duke Lewis orders the arrests of regent houses’ vassals, as well as farm staff. What did they do wrong that the other demons did not? Why are the queen’s troops trustworthy? Is Duke fucking Lewis a reliable source of justice and virtue now?
104. Duke Lewis blames the farms for “distorting the promise” - “we kept eating humans, even though we promised not to hunt them”. That was the actual promise - no more hunting, farms only. The only promisebreakers are the elite hunters, including Lewis himself.
105. “if the farms are allowed to exist, they can be used to control us again” - how?
106. Allegedly, the series was praised by PETA and related loons as effective vegan propaganda, which the writer disclaimed. One difference obvious to a non-lunatic: humans would not eat sapient animals. If chickens developed the ability to speak, I like to think we would not eat the talking chickens, even if we might continue eating their nonsapient factory-farmed siblings. Most of us are very much against farming and eating dogs and cats, because other dogs and cats are our friends. Duke Lewis here is a sadistic murderer and torturer of sapient humans. Pretty monsterboy Sonju is an aspiring hunter of sapient humans. Both here proclaim moral superiority over demon commoners who have only ever seen humans as pre-cut body parts at market stalls.
107. Musica upholds Lewis’s standing purge orders. Why can't these demons pledge to Musica? The reason can’t be “they were directly involved in murdering sapients”, because murdering sapients is holy and virtuous to demons.
108. Vegan Jesus Musica saved a bunch of the demons, but they would rather crown a corrupt sadistic degenerate fuck who’s a holdover from the old regime and who contributed to their own poverty and degeneracy.
109. This marks the end of Norman’s Devolution Poison plot thread. Since Musica had to be enthroned by Duke Lewis, her saving the poisoned demons counted for nothing, and the children’s supposed hyperintelligence had no impact on the plot throughout the whole story.
110. A yet-unarrested demon staffer looms over a crowd of partying living kids, women, and symbolic ghosts of killed-off characters. It lolrandomly attacks Emma, Isabella shields her with her body, gets triple-penetrated and fucking dies.
111. Emma says the children need to leave as soon as possible, because the demons can’t be trusted to not eat humans. "For the demons, eating humans is not a sin or a crime". If fixed-forms can't be expected to even agree to not eat humans in principle (not necessarily to follow through - there will always be criminals, perverts, etc), they aren't good at all and weren't worth saving.
112. The factory farm vegetables couldn’t breathe on their own, and needed breathing apparatuses. How did they survive right after teleportation?
113. They will eventually learn to breathe on their own and walk with supports. Like Norman’s spastic gymbro commandos, they are clearly subhuman, which is objectively true but a creepy, ominous artistic failure.
114. Adult “sisters” and “moms” have chip implants on their hearts that kill them if they take a step outside farm walls- how did they survive? Emma did not bring it up with it when she demanded that the women go to Earth, too.
115. The price Emma paid was laughably predictable. Emma had lied her ass off to the other kids - didn't we establish that running off on one's own and sacrificing oneself was baaaaaaad?
116. Nevar4get it was a lie, she valued demons more and was prepared to get other children killed over this. It is only through plot contrivance that none of her “siblings” died.
117. The human world is now Ursula von der Leyen’s wet dream. “Humanity as a whole needed to be saved” - literal quote. There’s one government, and borders have been eliminated, because borders are baaaaaad. (But wait, aren’t borders good? Didn't they just build a most definite, final, impenetrable wall on the border between worlds, and have Emma pay for it?) Just to drive the point about dehumanization home, the east part of the former United States is now called “Area 01”. I am beginning to understand where the Christians who believe an SSN is the mark of the devil are coming from.
118. The children are immediately met by the Ratri (gatekeeper) clan representative, who also scoop up like a million of vegetables. They are hereafter funded, but also muzzled, by the Ratri, who evidently are rich and powerful to control access to the most interesting, inexplicable, worldwide phenomenon of recent years (I’m not extrapolating, it’s in the book in plain text). These are the people who planned, built, staffed and operated New Auschwitz (planning and construction started under the old “repentant” clan head “William”). Their new world is run by creatures who are explicitly worse than demons.
"The world up to 2015 was so different" - so, right until Current Year. Yeah, I know 2016 is when the comic started. Still funny tho.
119. With all the WEF shit going on, it should be easy to locate Emma, and even easier for her to locate the other kids. But the kids are all supergeniuses, so they lolrandomly travel around the world and never think to put out missing person ads or anything. At least they don’t need visas. (They probably do need covid jabs.)
120. "We'll even overturn destiny" - but that was the price of your return, dumbfucks! If farms were enough to “distort” the original Promise to not hunt, why wouldn't deliberately finding Emma totally fucking break the new one? Emma not seeing her family ever again was the price of not having a fucking demon invasion in 2050!
121. Emma achieved her goal with no child from her farm and no named child on her team having died. But, from Wikipedia, there've been many published side stories about other children who were eventually shipped out and fed to various demons. It's weird and sadistic - why do these exist? Why couldn’t the writer inject a but more honest tragedy into the main story, instead of writing standalone stories with the sole purpose of seeing the protagonist get eaten? Who is the audience for those latter stories?
122. Shirai Kaiu (the writer) is a pseudonym. Fuck, I can't know to avoid that piece of shit. Even though it’s referred to as a male, I bet my rear ovary (yes I have a rear ovary, always a surprise for the ultrasound technicians) it’s a wamen. Apparently Emma is credited as the *~*~first ever~*~* female protagonist in a Shonen Jump story (the claim might be factually false, but this is the marketing); most likely the staff didn’t want a female protagonist, artist AND writer.
But more than wamenhood, this shitshow settles it: a comic book “writer” can’t be trusted. Either lern2draw and draw your story or gtfo.
-- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1. Why physical tracker? (impossible) Why not magic? Demons exist.
2. Why did Isabella remove the shitty drawing? Try to pretend to be sad.
3. Why not split up and run to the wall? Mom already knows who’s aware. Plot contrivance to justify Norman’s later absence.
4. Emma cutting off her ear won no time at all.
5. Demon books available in library despite heavy censorship.
6. Children never wonder what demons call themselves.
7. No books newer than 2015 - why? Minerva didn’t die until much later. Inconsistent with orphanage apparent tech level, there’s stuff in the books children know to want but don’t have.
(I like to think the reason is this: children’s books went to shit in Current Year, what with drag queens and such; newer (globohomo) books are simply not conducive to producing healthy, intelligent, delicious children, and aren’t imported anymore.)
8. Ray asks for tech, gets “old models” (ipod, PSP) - do Ratri warehouse this for decades? Why are they in working order? He complains photos come out dark without a flash (that he removed), but Polaroid shelf life is 12 months.
9. Demons speak English for children to eavesdrop; they also have demon language.
10. Children find a secret room but never consider where their gourmet food comes from, massive amount of work being done (hidden compound).
11. Too much babysitting for one woman + casual help from 2 girls.
12. Hints in Minerva’s book are appropriately mystical and whimsical and it never happens again.
13. No more unusual flora or fauna is ever introduced, except for throwaway demon animal designs.
14. Pen as holographic computer is stupid. Sequence of words is cumbersome (need to keep the book safe) and insecure (you know one code, you know them all). Sith dagger once again.
15. No tip on killing demons.
16. “Demons shall not hunt humans” is part of the Promise but broken.
17. Sonju and Musica say the children have made an enemy of Demon God - wrong and fake.
18. Emma hits Hugo in the dick because GURL POWER!!1! Fucking dumb.
19. The retard writer kills Hugo and shelves Ray.
20. Children easily handle heavy weapons, know survival, Hugo is wasted as a character.
21. Goldy Pond Resistance members compete against other humans to get eaten last. Brave, also stunning.
22. Writer says original windmill inhabitant is “a coward” because he “didn’t help others” - hiding everyone is impossible, hiding some means dooming others.
23. Resistance members are boring, permanently constipated, useless, waste of conceptual space.
24. and dressed in Current Year made-in-Bangladesh street fashion (who supplies the clothes?).
25. No losses during the fight despite severe wounds, many “very important lessons” about how sacrificing yourself is baaaaaad and you shouldn’t do that.
26. Where did they get medicine? Demons would not provide any, the wounded will soon be caught and eaten.
27. Hugo parkours with severely wounded Emma with demons in hot pursuit, this does not make her wounds worse or anything.
28. The scale of the secret construction is immense and impossible (2 hidden cities, several bunkers in ~7 years). Many gatekeepers work alongside demons, would leak info.
Note: Gilda’s self-destruct button and Emma’s flare earlier are examples of out-of-universe cleverness. Readers, especially magazine readers, can feel proud if they remembered, but it’s no achievement on part of the characters.
29. Timeskip, fake urgency: only Phil knows what’s up, he is not in danger of being shipped soon.
30. Fake urgency 2: Other children are being shipped in the meantime.
31. Fake urgency 3: there was never a precise date (birthdays only matter for 12-year-olds).
32. artistically dumb: narrow limit after a relaxed infodump; better to start mission with time to spare, then run into delays.
33. Research/exploration montage is boring. How do disguises even work? Demons should be on high alert due to Norman’s raids.
34. They don’t speak the demon language.
35. Why do they trust the Demon God? He’s the one the most promising children are sacrificed to. Why do they expect to get a good deal from it?
36. The Demon God’s unspeakable name becomes dumb when Emma says it.
37. The existence of magic evokes no wonder and no introspection.
38. Hugo has soyed up completely and is acting like a gay dad in a CalArts cartoon.
39. Hugo and Lucas die to blow up the bunker with gas when they could’ve used the self-destruct button. High IQ lmao.
40. Hugo goes to paradise and gets 72 virgins. It’s not portrayed as a dying hallucination, there’s no “blam, corpse” final frame like it was with Krone’s death in the escape arc, heaven most definitely exists and all your friends are there waiting for you. Join them.
41. The decision whether to go back for Hugo and Lucas would’ve been more difficult if they weren’t shown dying.
42. The kids aren’t to blame, they only did what Emma always preached.
43. Trying to present a near-dead man with half his head missing as a deadly threat cheapens the recent victory over the five demon lords.
44. All 6 dead kids are nameless in the story (they’re only provided names in the supplementary material). Two of Andrew’s faceless subordinates got names before dying.
45. All the dead kids conveniently come from the hunting grounds (not Emma’s original home).
46. Andrew gloats about the kids being too chicken for muh burden of killing, and he’s 100% correct.
47. Hypocritically, the kids shoot Andrew’s arms off, as if abandoning him in the woods to bleed out or get eaten is not a killing.
48. He is immediately eaten by a random wild demon, because the writer has no testicular fortitude (note: the writer is pseudonymous and allegedly male, but it smells like pussy).
49. More whining about Hugo’s death.
50. All the children run off to meet “Minerva”, even though the first location was empty, the second location was a trap, and they have a good reason to suspect Minerva is dead and the caller is an impostor. They don’t camp out in the forest tunnels and send spies/envoys to check the place out.
51. Norman should know: escapes are super rare (probably none between Hugo and the current group), there are no random gangs of escapees in the wild, the promise still persists so no one ever got out. The Minerva name means nothing but a string of broken hopes and possibly a trap, now that the original Minerva is definitely dead and his evil brother Peter (who Norman has personally met) runs the show. Norman should have just used his real name to get recognized by Emma’s allies, if any - among enemies, only Isabella knows it.
52. Norman, Ray and Emma should’ve established passphrases and used them.
53. Pen map squares are bigmclargehuge and the pen is flimsy and not secret anymore, why not use more precise and robust coordinates?
54. Ridiculous “parody” of Naruto (this is “lolololol Naruto is for babbies!!!1!” on behalf of the writer). Bad form. Do not try to one-up other kids’-entertainment while being a kids’ entertainer. Actually, do not try to one-up kids’ entertainment at all. This is only funny to funko pop collectors. Also creepy in that it’s a 2-year-old teen girls can be horny for (same for the other Narutard, and Paperbag Boy, who’s 5).
55. Kid lightly grazed by a (sterile) bullet in the bunker should be stable, kid mangled by Andrew in the woods should’ve got an infection at best; it’s the opposite.
56. It’s a survival fantasy but the wounds may as well be D&D hit points. The story could really use some physical mangling, bleeding, infection, etc.
57. Why does a cattle factory farm have a cure for bullets? The writer should've done some research and named a specific medicine, maybe several, for a real condition.
58. You don’t git gud at doctoring by reading books, you git gud through practice. The bunker kids had no one to practice on.
59. Can’t they rush to the city instead? The kid is young and Not-Naruto is supernaturally fast and can easily carry the small kid.
60. The two Narutards confirm, via internal monologue, that they’re 100% honest and sincere. Why? The story could have used more suspense.
61. Even more adults who are edgy Hot Topic models / Tokyo Ghoul concept art rejects (Tokyo Ghoul is cancer), none of them get plots. At least the Narutard kids are sincere and would fit with the also sincere but rapidly retardifying main cast. Edgy ironic adults are gross.
62. Peter hid Norman at a death camp, had him observe horrific mass murder day in and day out, conducted dangerous experiments on him, gave him a horrible wasting disease, and possibly turned him inedible and mentally ill. Why did Peter fuck with the Demon Queen’s food? Demons are very good at assessing the quality of food. (It’d be much better if Peter rescued Norman to supervise the experiments, assist in the lab, or plan to depose the Demon Queen.)
63. The world has horses. Why are there human horses, why weren't they eaten by wild demons? And cats?
64. Demon biology does not make internal sense. Demons, to not degenerate, need to eat their peers, and they can and will eat up the chain (they’re stronger and tougher). What happens when the peers run out? The demon world should’ve lost most of its animals, except those who’d survived the wild demons’ subsequent degeneration. Sonju has a demon horse - I suppose he feeds it wild horses to preserve its shape? (If he fed it Musica’s magical blood of shape permanence, it’d turn into a prettyboy/girl demon instead.) There were demon birds at the temple - what do they eat? Worms? Then they should’ve turned into worms. Duke Lewis had a pet demon monkey - what did he feed it, normal monkeys? (Normal monkeys exist.)
65. How long do demons live and how often do they die? Duke Lewis is over 700 years old. Why is there a noticeable amount of demon children? Why are there demon children at all, how do they reproduce? If a demon eats a male human and a female human, what sex is it - a tranny? Humans are slow to grow. Demons are apex predators, they should have instituted population control and killed off all wild demons (who are insane compexity sinks and cause more damage to ecosystems than ESG policies).
66. Norman has been attacking orphanages but didn’t start with his own farm, whih he knows best. Why, other than “the writer planned to set the final showdown there”?
67. "I don't want to kill the demons" - told you, Tokyo Ghoul is cancer. (What about the currently wild demons, do they deserve to be humanized? Is there an ethical mandate to uplift demon chickens or Lewis’s pet demon monkey?)
68. "if we had played it safe, we wouldn't have tried to escape". Ultra retarded: even a minuscule chance of success at escaping is better than a
% chance of getting eaten.69. "no compromise; the second we let Norman get shipped, we failed" - didn't we just celebrate Hugo and Lucas earning 72 virgins per person?
70. What if Musica intentionally set up Emma to foil Norman's plans? They were clever enough to suspect Ray spying for Mom.
71. Norman’s edgy henchmen and -woman have been through Auschwitz-on-fentanyl, why doesn’t Emma sympathize with them?
72. Aishe’s baby-murdering demon father’s killing is a real tragedy tho. Norman is a conspiratorial villain with all the hallmarks of a Very Important Lesson, but Aishe wanting to kill Norman and his team is fine by Don and Gilda.
73. Who taught Aishe the human language? Is “Aishe” a human or a demon name in-universe? If human, how did the demon pick it? If demon… ok but not very pc.
74. Norman sends Don and Gilda to “safeguard” (kill) Sonju and Musica, all around the world, within 8 days; doesn’t bother coming up with a justification; they obey, even though they should know he’d suspect them suspecting and is planning something.
75. Emma: "press on, and believe!!!1!" - fucking what, they have this one character who's meant to be a parody of Naruto but their actual protagonists are worse.
76. Julius did nothing wrong and he didn’t betray anyone. His whole army got eaten, he brokered the deal, then other armies got eaten and/or enslaved. Nothing Julius did helped demons or hindered humans in that battle.
77. Why did Julius need the demon king? To take him to the Demon God? Everyone has to solve the final riddle independently. Couldn't he have wished for whatever? (Emma's new Promise leaves demons with no food, and yet the Demon God agrees.)
78. Why does he trust the Demon God to follow through - it’s a DEMON god? (He shouldn’t have, as the Demon God does not force the demons to uphold their part of the current Promise.)
79. Why do the three protagonists look exactly like their designated ancestors from 1000 years ago? Why weren’t the lines crossbred? Also, oh, all three are descendants of 3 of the 5 nobles, how elitist.
80. They're also all children of Mothers (3 out of 5 housekeepers of the original orphanage compound), and the other two Mothers join Isabella's plot against Peter.
81. The Demon God presents the gatekeeping mission as a curse, but the clan evidently enjoys their special mission and grew rich off it.
82. Why does Emma trust the Demon God? She knows it can’t be trusted, as demons neither pay their agreed-upon tithe to God (the best meat, each year - two years ago it should’ve been Norman) nor abstain from hunting humans.
83. Why is it a surprise to the noble demons that they could be eaten and disguised as? I'd imagine demon eating demon is a fact of life, and they'd take precautions.
84. The Queen disintegrates on her own, because she’s designated greedy and evil and must be made an example of.
85. Persuaded by Emma’s pussy power, Norman agrees to save the demon race, no matter how many of his siblings and henchmen he will kill trying - he’ll just try again and again, he says. The henchmen all consent (although the smartest one initially objects).
86. The narrative’s condemnation of Norman also means the Ratri clan cannot be condemned for their unwillingness to find a better way to safeguard Earth.
87. Sonju blames the regent houses for perverting the religion of the human-hunt, even though the Promise was enacted by Demon God and is therefore sacred.
88. Also, the regent houses did in fact secretly “respect the old religion” by hunting humans in the Hunting Grounds.
89. How does Musica knows double core birth stats among royalty? They live for millennia, and Musica is a 700-year-old exile.
90. How does Musica know if Sonju, the Queen, and other royal children have or have not a second core? If core count is something to show off, it should be public knowledge prominently featured in heraldry, celebrations, etc. If it's not, they should not know about the Queen either.
91. Also she’s wrong.
92. Emma: "I'd be fine with Sonju or Musica eating me" - more Tokyo Ghoul cuckening.
93. Sonju plans to reestablish the theocracy to “save the world” and prevent chaos, the demon people people peacefully establish civic order, Sonju is disappointed.
94. Why does everyone know what Sonju and Musica look like? Demons can’t even tell disguised humans apart from demons, and many of them are just as “pretty”.
95. Why were Sonju and Musica running? They could've stayed at the temple with the awakened priest.
96. The hunting grounds escapees are somehow extremely good at killing demons. They shouldn’t really be, they’re normal and not particularly bright humans who are only good at hiding and running away. (Norman’s henchmen and -woman are superhuman and had a lot of practice.)
97. Peter Ratri ends up being a hysterical soycuck betrayed by absolutely everyone, and is talked by Emma into committing sudoku. This is yet another lib-approved skitzo morality “teachable moment”: collective guilt is exorcized by singling out, thoroughly humiliating and killing a designated villain (Andrew, the queen, and Peter here).
Watch the moralfaggotry pileup:
(1) come up with a nightmare scenario
(2) build a contrived world in which the nightmare scenario is objectively good
(3) portray its engineers as monsters on the basis of (1)
(4) resolve the nightmare scenario to properly condemn the villains and portray the solution as monstrous, too
(5) have the virtuous protagonist forgive them on the basis of (2)
(6) kill them anyway to satisfy (3)
To Emma’s credit here, she at least is not hypocritical, tries to save Peter and is genuinely sorry when he dies.
98. Duke Lewis, the most sadistic fuck of all, is alive. What the fuck, they really shat on poor Hugo even after his shameful death. (Duke Lewis is a royal and also has a second core, and he says he didn’t know. Musica was wrong. I already counted this.)
99. Emma: “Just because we’re different, we hate each other, but we don’t have to!” The page shows a BLM protest, civilian housing destroyed by bombing, a covid-related beating (huh?), riot police dispersing a riot, crying women of different ethnicities, sad hobos drinking curbside, schoolchildren laughing at a virgin, and I shit you not twitter threads.
100. Despite the whole "CoExIsT" schtick, the writer has in fact incited IRL religious hatred by implying humanity's gods are just fat demons.
101. The original “William Minerva” defected because he found Julius’s confession, in which Julius regretted turning his fellow warlords over to the demons to be used as breeding stock. “William” considered it good and proper to eat descendants of medieval criminals for all eternity.
102. “The cattle children are descendants of Julius’s allies! Not of the rogues who opposed peace and wanted to continue the war!” - wrong, Julius's allies were in fact “the rogues who opposed peace"! (To be fair they were still undeserving of getting eaten - the only ones deserving were demon worshipers, but not their children either.) But the soy writer needs “the good guys” to be on the side of “peace” no matter how counterfactually.
103. Duke Lewis orders the arrests of regent houses’ vassals, as well as farm staff. What did they do wrong that the other demons did not? Why are the queen’s troops trustworthy? Is Duke fucking Lewis a reliable source of justice and virtue now?
104. Duke Lewis blames the farms for “distorting the promise” - “we kept eating humans, even though we promised not to hunt them”. That was the actual promise - no more hunting, farms only. The only promisebreakers are the elite hunters, including Lewis himself.
105. “if the farms are allowed to exist, they can be used to control us again” - how?
106. Allegedly, the series was praised by PETA and related loons as effective vegan propaganda, which the writer disclaimed. One difference obvious to a non-lunatic: humans would not eat sapient animals. If chickens developed the ability to speak, I like to think we would not eat the talking chickens, even if we might continue eating their nonsapient factory-farmed siblings. Most of us are very much against farming and eating dogs and cats, because other dogs and cats are our friends. Duke Lewis here is a sadistic murderer and torturer of sapient humans. Pretty monsterboy Sonju is an aspiring hunter of sapient humans. Both here proclaim moral superiority over demon commoners who have only ever seen humans as pre-cut body parts at market stalls.
107. Musica upholds Lewis’s standing purge orders. Why can't these demons pledge to Musica? The reason can’t be “they were directly involved in murdering sapients”, because murdering sapients is holy and virtuous to demons.
108. Vegan Jesus Musica saved a bunch of the demons, but they would rather crown a corrupt sadistic degenerate fuck who’s a holdover from the old regime and who contributed to their own poverty and degeneracy.
109. This marks the end of Norman’s Devolution Poison plot thread. Since Musica had to be enthroned by Duke Lewis, her saving the poisoned demons counted for nothing, and the children’s supposed hyperintelligence had no impact on the plot throughout the whole story.
110. A yet-unarrested demon staffer looms over a crowd of partying living kids, women, and symbolic ghosts of killed-off characters. It lolrandomly attacks Emma, Isabella shields her with her body, gets triple-penetrated and fucking dies.
111. Emma says the children need to leave as soon as possible, because the demons can’t be trusted to not eat humans. "For the demons, eating humans is not a sin or a crime". If fixed-forms can't be expected to even agree to not eat humans in principle (not necessarily to follow through - there will always be criminals, perverts, etc), they aren't good at all and weren't worth saving.
112. The factory farm vegetables couldn’t breathe on their own, and needed breathing apparatuses. How did they survive right after teleportation?
113. They will eventually learn to breathe on their own and walk with supports. Like Norman’s spastic gymbro commandos, they are clearly subhuman, which is objectively true but a creepy, ominous artistic failure.
114. Adult “sisters” and “moms” have chip implants on their hearts that kill them if they take a step outside farm walls- how did they survive? Emma did not bring it up with it when she demanded that the women go to Earth, too.
115. The price Emma paid was laughably predictable. Emma had lied her ass off to the other kids - didn't we establish that running off on one's own and sacrificing oneself was baaaaaaad?
116. Nevar4get it was a lie, she valued demons more and was prepared to get other children killed over this. It is only through plot contrivance that none of her “siblings” died.
117. The human world is now Ursula von der Leyen’s wet dream. “Humanity as a whole needed to be saved” - literal quote. There’s one government, and borders have been eliminated, because borders are baaaaaad. (But wait, aren’t borders good? Didn't they just build a most definite, final, impenetrable wall on the border between worlds, and have Emma pay for it?) Just to drive the point about dehumanization home, the east part of the former United States is now called “Area 01”. I am beginning to understand where the Christians who believe an SSN is the mark of the devil are coming from.
118. The children are immediately met by the Ratri (gatekeeper) clan representative, who also scoop up like a million of vegetables. They are hereafter funded, but also muzzled, by the Ratri, who evidently are rich and powerful to control access to the most interesting, inexplicable, worldwide phenomenon of recent years (I’m not extrapolating, it’s in the book in plain text). These are the people who planned, built, staffed and operated New Auschwitz (planning and construction started under the old “repentant” clan head “William”). Their new world is run by creatures who are explicitly worse than demons.
"The world up to 2015 was so different" - so, right until Current Year. Yeah, I know 2016 is when the comic started. Still funny tho.
119. With all the WEF shit going on, it should be easy to locate Emma, and even easier for her to locate the other kids. But the kids are all supergeniuses, so they lolrandomly travel around the world and never think to put out missing person ads or anything. At least they don’t need visas. (They probably do need covid jabs.)
120. "We'll even overturn destiny" - but that was the price of your return, dumbfucks! If farms were enough to “distort” the original Promise to not hunt, why wouldn't deliberately finding Emma totally fucking break the new one? Emma not seeing her family ever again was the price of not having a fucking demon invasion in 2050!
121. Emma achieved her goal with no child from her farm and no named child on her team having died. But, from Wikipedia, there've been many published side stories about other children who were eventually shipped out and fed to various demons. It's weird and sadistic - why do these exist? Why couldn’t the writer inject a but more honest tragedy into the main story, instead of writing standalone stories with the sole purpose of seeing the protagonist get eaten? Who is the audience for those latter stories?
122. Shirai Kaiu (the writer) is a pseudonym. Fuck, I can't know to avoid that piece of shit. Even though it’s referred to as a male, I bet my rear ovary (yes I have a rear ovary, always a surprise for the ultrasound technicians) it’s a wamen. Apparently Emma is credited as the *~*~first ever~*~* female protagonist in a Shonen Jump story (the claim might be factually false, but this is the marketing); most likely the staff didn’t want a female protagonist, artist AND writer.
But more than wamenhood, this shitshow settles it: a comic book “writer” can’t be trusted. Either lern2draw and draw your story or gtfo.
