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Just like the name of the animation, the whole animation begins in a dream-like happy atmosphere. The protagonists are three eleven-year-old children named Norman, Ray, and Emma. They live in a house with 38 children. In an orphanage-like place called GraceField House, although these children are not related by blood, under the careful care of "Mama" Isabella, they still grow up day by day without food and clothing.
From time to time, children will be taken away from this place, and the "mother" tells them that these children have been adopted by very good people, and since then they will have their own homes, their own parents and mothers. Therefore, the dream of every child is to be selected by the adoptive family as soon as possible and start a new life.
How, does it sound like a script for a "happy life"?
However, their daily life came to an abrupt end one day...
Another baby was adopted, and after she was picked up, Emma and Norman discovered that an important item of hers had been left behind. So under the instigation of Lei, the two decided to secretly send this item over, and in front of the only accessible gate of the orphanage, what they saw was the pale corpse of the child, with only a coquettish flower in the child's place. Will bloom on the corpse...
Since then, all the dark truths have been revealed. The orphanage is a farm, and the children are the food raised by the ghosts. The mother who is kind and caring for them on weekdays is the accomplice of the ghost who monitors the children.
"I don't want my family to die anymore!" Emma and the others, who had such a wish, began to live as usual on the surface, while secretly actively preparing to escape.
Ghosts vs children, the life-threatening prison escape plan begins——
Highlights
◆The genius boy cooperates to counterattack
Emma and Norman must keep their innocent smiles to avoid being discovered when their beloved "mum" turns out to be the enemy who sends their children into the mouth of the "ghost". But it's easier said than done. "Mom" discovered their intention, and quickly invited her helper, Clonie. Facing the pressing step by step of "Mom" and her helper, they not only required the IQ of several protagonists to be online, adapt to the situation, but also In this case, the details of the secret collection of intelligence and the overall plan to escape. The supervisor and the escape party are like playing a game of werewolf kills full of masters, and the bet is their own lives.
A group of children worked together and came up with a way to properly handle the trackers on each child. They found the B06-32 shelter in the clues left by the orphanage books, and also used some daily necessities to make necessary tools for escape. ——Especially when Norman finally locked the "Double Agent" Lei with "Serial Plan", the game of wisdom and strategy made people truly admire, is this an 11-year-old doll?
◆Character with flesh and blood
The exciting part of the story is not only the suspense, but the characters who appear in it are also flesh and blood.
Norman is the smartest among these children, and has made great contributions to everyone's escape. He is the one who should live the most, but in order to help his companions to win time to escape, he volunteered to be "slaughtered" and given to those monsters. At the last moment, he suppressed the pain in his heart and tried to say goodbye to everyone with a smile...
"Mom" Elizabeth, hateful people must have pitiful things. She is an accomplice of the ghost clan and a "bad woman" who makes people hate it, but she is also an ordinary person who only hopes to live. As a former food child, she knew how rare the chance to survive was, so she seized the only chance to survive - to become a "mother", abandoned her conscience and feelings, and betrayed the human race in this world, just for " must live" belief. And after she learned that Lei was actually her own son, I believe the momentary emotion in her eyes was the overflow of her uncontrollable motherhood.
Clooney, who is also a human accomplice of the ghost clan, although he has a perverted and violent personality, he always wants to bring down Elizabeth and replace him. But in the end, before realizing that she was about to be killed, she put an important item - Minerva's pen with information about the "sanctuary" into the drawer of Norman's room. It was her last kindness that became the food. The key to survival after the children escape.
◆When humans are no longer at the top of the food chain
The most shocking aspect of the entire comic is that the rule that we have become accustomed to standing at the top of the food chain has been severely broken. Humans became the meals of other creatures, raised and eaten like livestock. This jaw-dropping world order setting leaves an indelible impression in the minds of the audience, and fully mobilizes the audience's sympathy and attention to the human children in desperate situations.
Personally, I feel that in addition to its impact, this setting can also make the viewer, as a human, have in-depth thinking about the rules of the "food chain", whether the creatures at the top of the food chain must be honorable, and whether the feelings of the creatures at the lower end of the food chain are also worthy of respect. . I still remember that in the barrage of a certain food video, someone was arguing that at least the slaughtered animals should be happy and not tortured, and then there was another barrage saying that they were going to eat it, no matter how much. ...
Maybe after substituting in the perspective of edible children, more humans can empathize with species at the lower end of the food chain. I'm going to eat it, at least be grateful for this life.
There are more interesting plot details, I recommend readers to watch and experience it in person~
"Rotten eggs" setting (personal dislike)
◆The Virgin "Emma"
The orphanage where the story takes place has a total of 38 children, each with a tracker, and many of them are naive babies. It is normal to think that it is only the three smartest 11-year-olds who have to avoid the "mother" successfully. It is very difficult to escape, and our heroine Emma, just because of the innocent idea of "doing not want any family member to die again", actually insisted on saving all the children out, and at first glance, she has never been severely beaten by the society.
◆The sweetness of the love line is too high, and the dog food suddenly bursts into the canopy and chokes the single dog to death
The mother has doubts about the children. It is not known whether there is still a place for human beings outside the orphanage. Ray thinks that Emma's idea is completely unreliable and will only kill everyone, but she is completely unable to convince the stubborn Emma. I had to discuss with the calm and calm Norman. In the face of a rational Ray, Norman only used a simple "Because I like it, so I hope Emma keeps laughing." In response, Ray asked if it didn't matter if he killed Emma because of it? But Norman said, "I won't let her die, so I'll use myself." These words were full of sweetness, possessed by love, and the single dog quickly evacuated from the scene.
◆An incredible reunion
In the end, what surprised me was that Emma's Virgin's wish came true. In the entire orphanage, except for the children under the age of 3 who were temporarily left (because they were still far away from the slaughter), and Norman was released in advance, all the other members had IQ online. , Mobility is on the table, psychological quality is excellent, and he successfully escaped collectively on a dark and windy night for a month. The whole escape plot can be said to be smooth enough to make people feel a little in a dream, although a little happy, but the reason of the brain has been telling myself, don't be stupid, this is forcing a happy reunion.
Independent world related settings
The following are some extended introductions found by the author for readers who are interested in watching the original film or the original comics. Some readers who do not understand the details after reading can also use it for reference:
◆Basic world order
There were ghosts and people in the original world. Ghosts feed on humans, and humans in turn hunt ghosts. The two races are at war all year round. Until a thousand years ago, the ancestor of the Latori family, Julius Latori, could not bear the endless struggle, and he made a "promise" with the gods of ghosts on the "Seven Walls", not to hunt each other again, and to put human beings with the gods. The two worlds of ghosts are separated. For this, the Latori family paid the price of being gatekeepers for generations.
The ghost side in the ghost world follows the agreement not to hunt humans anymore, and uses the humans abandoned in the ghost world (teammates betrayed by Julius) as seeds to open farms to manage and breed "edible children". Food.
◆Advanced Farm
High-end farms are oriented toward high-quality humans that are delicately cultivated for the consumption of noble ghosts, with very few yields. There are four senior farms, namely Grace Farm GF (Grace Field), Majestic Valley GV (Grand Valley), Glory Bell GB (Glory Bell), and Goodwill Ridge GR (Goodwill Ridge). In the first season, the "orphanage" where Emma and others grew up was GF's "third farm", and only GF's children were implanted with transmitters.
Edible children are "slaughtered" when they reach a certain age. The maximum age for each farm to ship is different. In the first season, the GF where the story takes place is 12 years old, but it is ranked according to the score. Only children who are excellent enough can get the honor of being released at the age of 12. Others who are not excellent are often He was slaughtered between the ages of 6 and 11.
◆Eat for children
A herdsman for the food of ghosts. The most delicious part is the brain, and IQ can determine the quality of food and the level of deliciousness. The vast majority of edible children live and slaughter like livestock throughout their lives, and only a very small number of female edible children can be recommended as farm managers by the "mothers" who originally managed the farms. Most food children on such farms don't know the truth about the world until the day they ship.
◆ Breeders
Adult women who are responsible for nurturing edible children on high-end farms are called differently according to the "setting" of the farm. For example, GF's name is "mother". A breeding farm is equipped with a breeding supervisor, and the breeding supervisor may apply for a breeding supervisor assistant (commonly known as a "nun") to assist in management as needed.
The breeder used to be the edible child of the senior farm to which he belongs. After meeting certain grades and the breeder's recommendation, he or she can choose to receive the breeder's training on the day of slaughtering. The criteria for selection of breeding supervisors are good enough, including intelligence, physical strength and fertility. He stands out in the fierce competition of housekeeping skills and gymnastics training, and after artificial insemination gives birth to a child, he can become a breeding supervisor. Chips will be implanted in the body, and they will not be able to leave the farm for life.
◆B06-32 Shelter
In the pen left behind by William Minerva (the descendant of Julius Latoli, the Promised One, a thousand years ago), the place where the foodie escaped was indicated. Its surface is a desert that wild ghosts are very repulsive to approach. But underground, it is a shelter for food children to live. There are food, power generation, groundwater collection, farming, medicine and other facilities inside. As long as resources are saved, the edible children can live for a while.
◆The origin of ghost cannibalism
Ghosts are man-eating alien monsters. Such creatures do not have a fixed form, their bodies acquire the traits of the creatures they feed on and change accordingly. In the process of repeating amazing evolution, it has acquired human intelligence after preying on humans. The better the ghost eats, the fewer eyes, and the higher the intelligence. However, once the cannibalism is stopped, the human mind and form cannot be maintained. If you don't eat human beings for at least half a year, you will become an irrational wild ghost.
The royal family and the five royal families have ingested "evil blood", and even if they don't eat people, they can maintain humanoid intelligence. He manages and operates all the farms, and controls the commoner ghosts by manipulating the supply of human flesh (of mass-produced farms).
◆The method of "ghost" cannibalism
The animation shows that when the children of the orphanage are "slaughtered", they use a flower to suck their blood, and the person dies like this, and a bright flower blooms on the corpse.
In the comics, the meaning of the existence of flowers is "offering food to the gods, and the gods receive it, and the flowers will bloom", so that the meat can be eaten, which is a kind of meat slaughtering method of ghosts, which also has the function of bloodletting. Meat can be stored for a long time.
It is worth mentioning that the ghost who told this passage in the comic finally explained that when he used the flower to suck blood, the living body had lost consciousness and had no pain at all. Think about the fact that even when ghosts slaughter, they insist on "painless slaughter", and then think about human beings. There are those who abuse animals. For the sake of beef, they sell a few more money to pour water into the live cows, and there are those who make the cows want to live. This is "The devil is in the world".
"The Promised Neverland" is the debut work serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" in collaboration with Shirai Kai and Izumi. Once the work was launched, it immediately detonated the market popularity. In May 2018, the news of animation was announced on the 26th issue of "Weekly Shonen Jump". The film is produced by CloverWorks. The first season will be broadcast from January 10, 2019 to March 28, with a total of 12 episodes; the second season will be broadcast from January 7, 2021, with a total of 11 episodes.
This article only explains the content of the first season. I don’t want to write about the second season, because I feel that all the highlights have been used up in the first season. The surprises of the second season should not be better than the first season. situation.
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