The Promised Neverland (season 2)

The second season of The Promised Neverland is a 2021 Japanese anime television series adapted from the manga series of the same name written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu. On March 29, 2019, a second season was officially announced to be in production.[1] The second season was originally set for an October 2020 release,[2] but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed to January 8, 2021 on Fuji TV's Noitamina.[3][4] The opening theme song is "Identity" (アイデンティティ, "Aidentiti") performed by Kiiro Akiyama (秋山黄色, Akiyama Kiiro), and the ending theme song is "Magic" (魔法, "Mahō") performed by Myuk.[5]

The Promised Neverland
Season 2
Key visual
Country of originJapan
No. of episodes5
Release
Original networkFuji TV
Original releaseJanuary 8, 2021 (2021-01-08) –
present
Season chronology

Episode list
No.
overall		No. in
season		Title [6][7]Directed by [6]Written by [6]Original air date [8]
131"Episode 1"Takahiro HaradaToshiya OnoJanuary 8, 2021 (2021-01-08)[lower-alpha 1]
Emma, Ray, and the escaped children of Grace Field House continue their journey on foot through a dark forest. They discover that a pen given to them by Norman belonged to William Minerva and contains a holographic map with coded messages referring to text in the House textbooks. Using the map, Ray determines Minerva's location and the children use information in their textbooks to help them survive. They are found and pursued by a giant demonic beast, and are forced to split up with Emma leading the children towards Minerva’s location while Ray distracts the monster. Three demons kill the monster, but they continue to chase Ray after he states that he is the highest-scoring child of the House and the only survivor. He is saved when a hooded figure on horseback rescues him. Meanwhile, Emma and the children encounter a hooded woman who takes them to her sanctuary. Ray and Emma reunite when they awake in a cavern, but Ray soon realizes that the woman and man who saved them are both demons.
142"Episode 2"Ayako KurataToshiya OnoJanuary 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Emma and Ray are reunited with the other children, and the female demon, Mujika, and the male demon, Sonju, reassure them that they are not like regular demons. They explain that for religious reasons, they do not eat humans in order to survive and that they are freelancers unassociated with the Houses. Sonju tells Emma about the history of their world. Thousands of years ago, humans and demons fought an long war which eventually ended with the humans and demons making peace and agreeing to live in their own separate "worlds"; the demon world, with several Houses breeding human offerings to appease the demons and a separate human world. However, Sonju warns them that as escapees, the children will not be welcome in the human world. As the children prepare to leave, they are trained by Sonju and Mujika in the skills needed to survive the wilderness. Gilda and Don confront Emma and Ray about their tendency to hide their problems and persuade them be more open with the other children. Emma goes hunting with Sonju and he teaches her to kill living animals and then preserve them by using a vampiric plant called Vida which drains blood, as part of a ritual called Gupna. Emma is distressed by the process, but hides her emotions when returns to the caves with food for the children.
153"Episode 3"Yayoi TakanoToshiya OnoJanuary 22, 2021 (2021-01-22)
At the edge of the forest, the children part ways with Sonju and Mujika who gives Emma an amulet to remember them by. The children then head into a wasteland towards William Minerva's coordinates. Later, Sonju reveals to Mujika that he plans to eat the progeny of the children in the future if they breed and multiply. He then returns to the forest and kills the demons which had pursued the children, obliterating evidence of their passage. The children arrive at the coordinates, but see nothing. Ray uses Minerva's pen to locate an underground complex equipped with food, accommodation, and running water. The base has everything they need, including external surveillance cameras and the children realize that they could stay indefinitely. They also find a radio which they can use to monitor transmissions from the Houses. The children discover several secret passageways in the building, one behind a piano leading to a storage complex and one where the word "HELP" is scrawled across the walls. In one room they find a telephone, and when it rings, Emma answers the call and hears Minerva at the other end of the line.
164"Episode 4"Kakushi IfukuToshiya OnoJanuary 29, 2021 (2021-01-29)
When Emma answers the telephone in the underground complex, she hears a recording left by William Minerva saying his real name is James Ratri and that he was associated with the farms. However, he objected to the system, so he created the underground refuge and left clues to its location in the Farms for any children who managed to escape. The recording provides clues to the locations of human society, but the children decide to rescue the children still on Farms first. The children settle into life in the shelter, growing, gathering and hunting food. One night, the complex is attacked by a troop of armed humans who have been sent by the demons to recover the children. They manage to escape through an undocumented exit, but as they approach the forest they are captured by waiting troops. Suddenly a monster demon attacks the armed humans, giving the children an opportunity to escape, but not before Ray wounds it by shooting an arrow into one of its eyes. Meanwhile back at the demon headquarters, Isabella is in prison for allowing the children to escape. A demon offers her freedom and more if she enables them to retrieve all of the escaped children, and she agrees.
175"Episode 5"Takahiro HaradaSeiko Takagi, NanaoFebruary 5, 2021 (2021-02-05)
The hunt for the escaped children continues while rumors spread among the demons that the Farms are being attacked. The fifteen young escapees make their home in an abandoned temple and monitor the reports from the Farms on a stolen radio set. They barely survive by hunting and obtaining supplies from a local demon towns while disguised as demon children. While preparing for another expedition they encounter an old blind demon who visits the temple and Emma helps him, even though he detects that they are human which causes her to soften her attitude towards demons. On their next visit to the demon town, they are discovered by a pair of demons, but are saved by the appearance of Norman and other older humans, also disguised as demons.

International broadcast

The series is available with multilingual subtitles on iQIYI in South East Asia, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Notes
  1. Episode 1 was released on January 7, 2021 at 12:00 a.m. JST on streaming platforms and aired on January 8, 2021 at 2:10 a.m. JST, 45 minutes after the original air time on Fuji TV.

References
  1. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 28, 2019). "The Promised Neverland Anime Gets 2nd Season in 2020". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  2. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (December 20, 2019). "The Promised Neverland Anime's 2nd Season Premieres in October 2020". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  3. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (April 23, 2020). "The Promised Neverland Anime's 2nd Season Delayed to January 2021 Due to COVID-19 - News". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  4. Frye, Patrick (November 5, 2020). "The Promised Neverland Season 2 release date: Yakusoku no Neverland Season 2 delayed to 2021 by coronavirus". Monsters and Critics. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  5. "Myūjikku｜Terebi Anime "Yakusoku no Nebārando" Shīzun Tsū" MUSIC｜TVアニメ「約束のネバーランド」Season 2 [Music｜TV Anime "The Promised Neverland" Season 2]. neverland-anime.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December 10, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  6. "Sutōrī | Terebi Anime "Yakusoku no Nebārando" Shīzun Tsū" STORY | TVアニメ「約束のネバーランド」Season2 [Story | TV Anime "The Promised Neverland" Season 2]. neverland-anime.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 9, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  7. "STORY｜The Promised Neverland Season 2 Official USA Website". neverland-animeusa.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  8. "On'ea｜Terebi Anime "Yakusoku no Nebārando" Shīzun Tsū" ONAIR｜TVアニメ「約束のネバーランド」Season 2 [On Air｜TV Anime "The Promised Neverland" Season 2]. neverland-anime.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 7, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019.


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