(On that day, Bamboo Rat finally recalled the fear once dominated by them)
If the bamboo rats conspired to escape the control of the Huanong Brothers, and killed the humans who used the bamboo rats, a film would be made based on this background, it would be "The Promised Neverland".
As a very evil manga, it has been serialized on "jump" for more than two years. The manga won the first place in "This manga is amazing!" in 2018 for men and the sixth place in "Manga Awards" in 2017 , 11th in 2018, and 2nd in 2017 in the "Next Comic Awards", known as Taizhu Island.
The news of animation has also been released for a long time. It is the overlord of the new show in January 2019. It can be said to be a highly anticipated work.
The background of the story is set in 2045, and the title of the animation is the time. The first episode of the animation, 121045, refers to October 12, 2015, which can also be confirmed by the calendar that appears in the animation.
At an orphanage called Grace Field (GF House/Grace House), there are 38 children and a mother who takes care of them, the oldest being 11-year-old Emma, Norman and Ray.
On October 12, 2045, 6-year-old Coney was adopted. Emma and Norman went down to the gate at Ray's reminder to give Coney the rabbit puppet she had fallen, only to find that Coney had been killed by another creature. , I learned that the orphanage is only a farm for raising edible children, and the beloved mother is also a breeder of edible children.
Then it was the same way as the American drama "Prison Break". The mother knew that, due to her own interests, she could not expose Emma and Norman to ship in advance, and she wiped her own spy inside the child.
Emma and Norman have to make an escape plan while keeping their mother in check, and train everyone in hide-and-seek.
The story centers on Emma, Norman, and Lei. At the same time, there is no reliable information in the early stage, and all rely on the IQ reasoning of the three to complete the information acquisition. For the secrets of the orphanage, the information outside the orphanage starts from scratch.
Therefore, in the advancement of the entire plot, the early wits are undoubtedly very brilliant, with grass snakes and gray lines, full of reversals.
The entire orphanage is surrounded by high walls, and behind the high walls is a cliff. In addition to the GF house, there are 3 high-level farms
——GV Majestic Valley, GB Bell of Glory, GR Goodwill Ridge.
In addition to high-end farms, there are also mass production farms like bamboo rats.
Creatures that eat humans are called ghosts,
Only high-class ghosts are eligible to enjoy the edible children of GF House, and the evaluation of children's physical fitness and intelligence is used to classify food grades, and ghosts prefer smart brains, so the higher the test score, the longer they live. Can wait until 12 years old to ship.
The reason why the 6-year-old Kony will be shipped in advance is also hinted in the first chapter.
Edible children with poor grades are classified as inferior without the need to mature to 12 years of age.
And it will be Ray's 12th birthday soon. Before that, how to lead all the children to escape from the farm successfully, how to escape under the surveillance of their mother and the defense of ghosts, are both urgent and very difficult tasks.
Now that half of the first season of the animation has been broadcast, the end of the first season should be able to tell the story of the farm. Compared with the original comics, some of the cuts and optimizations of the animation also have their own merits.
In the foreshadowing of Lei's identity in the first few words, the animation is a bit deliberate, and for the depiction of some scenes, the creation of a terrifying atmosphere is also unmatched by the comics.
For example, the night orphanage from the first perspective,
In the sixth episode, the scene of Kronie opening the door:
It has the feeling of a horror game, and it is rarely seen in animation.
Compared with the setting of the wisdom giant memory inheritance of "Attack on Titan", the information reasoning of "Neverland" is more difficult and dangerous. Everything is unknown and difficult.
For weekly comics like "jump", suspense is set at the end of each episode, and the quality of the overall plot is maintained. The original script of "Neverland" is solid enough to see.
The following contains spoilers! ! !
According to the updated content of chapter 123 of the comic, the background of the story is roughly as follows:
Ghosts are special creatures with different forms. In the comics, the terms "gene mutation" and "horizontal transmission of genetic genes" are used to explain the evolution of ghosts, which means that ghosts evolve through feeding. To put it simply, if a ghost eats any creature, it will acquire the genetic genes of the creature, so that the body shape and the brain will be affected by the ingested creature, but the side effect of cannibalism is that if they do not keep eating humans, there is no way Maintain the shape and civilization of today.
The world was originally composed of humans and ghosts who hunted humans. The endless war between humans and ghosts made the world a chaos, and humans killed far more ghosts than ghosts ate humans.
A thousand years ago, the Latoli family of humans came up with an agreement - humans can't hunt ghosts, ghosts can't hunt humans, ghosts and humans divide the world into two parts to live.
And the Latoli family has served as the mediator between the two worlds for generations, inheriting the agreement from a thousand years ago, and has always sacrificed edible children to maintain the agreement.
The 35th-generation head of the Ratley family, James Rattley, is under the pseudonym William in the sway of his position and conscience. Minerva, using the owl as a sign to surreptitiously convey information to the farm's edible children, and to set up shelters and other facilities outside the farm to help the edible children escape.
Probably in May 2031 or earlier, James Ratori was reported by the left and right, and now his younger brother, Peter Ratori, succeeded him as the 36th generation leader until 2045, when the comics began. year.
To maintain the suspenseful atmosphere in the early stage of the comics, there must be the hot-blooded mode of jump juvenile manga. The rush of work in "Neverland" in the later stage caused an obvious phenomenon of water leakage, and after the end of the early stage of the story, the story fell into the mode like "The Walking Dead". on the predicament. The plot after the farm chapter is also similar to "The Walking Dead". It becomes a cycle of finding shelters - gathering intelligence - eliminating ghosts - finding new shelters, and the shelters are getting bigger and bigger and more luxurious. It is destined , the enemy is getting stronger and stronger, the weapons are getting more and more complete, and it is also synchronized, and finally the heroine with more and more lofty ideals. And after the author's long-term serialization in the later period, he fell into the common problem of character choice. In a life-and-death battle comic, faced with an excessively powerful enemy-ghost, except for the role of the dragon, the author no longer gave anyone a lunch box, which made the original The brutal tone slowly fades away from the dark quality that was praised at the beginning of the work, and becomes very jumpy, which is especially evident in the chapter of the GP Golden Pool.
In the early stage, Emma was lively and lovely, kind, loving, brave and decisive. It was a very bold idea to adopt a heroine in the young manga, and it was very easy to overturn the balance between kindness and the Virgin. The farm chapters, forest chapters, and even the golden pool chapters have downplayed Emma's image of the Virgin, and it is understandable to highlight the pure heart in a society where humans are raised, but after the story of the golden pool is over, the latest chapter 123 , Emma joined a bigger paradise and after listening to the plan to eliminate all ghosts, she had the idea of saving all the edible children and the ghosts.
And Lei, who was unwilling to take away even the children who grew up with him on the farm (in fact, he had to sacrifice himself), even supported Emma's idea with a strange reason.
With the increase of blood and battle, the decryption and reasoning parts have to give way. It may also be that the pressure of serialization makes the follow-up work rushed. After the announcement of entering the final chapter, the foreshadowing of the first few words has not even been explained. In the progress from the farm to the forest, to the refuge, and even the confrontation with the world, there is a tendency for the pattern to gradually become smaller.
The sudden announcement of entering the final chapter also confirms that the successor of "Neverland" is weak, so it is impossible to break through the level of 200 chapters, and the suspicion of unfinished ending is greater than its original ambition.
These all go against the excellent quality of this comic at the beginning, it is dark and gloomy, meticulous and serious and brain-burning, but there are other ways out for the comic - seven walls, and the ending of the final chapter depends on how the author comes back.
But as a dystopian work of wit and curiosity, even if it has shortcomings, it is still an excellent high-quality work in the current surge of dramas, at least the first season that is currently being updated - the farm escape, it is indeed Fully recommended!
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