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[1000sunnygo]

🦉👒The Influence of One Piece in The Promised Neverland (A very self-indulgent post)

The straw hats worn by the girls in The Promised Neverland ch. 47 color cover were a tribute to One piece's 20th anniversary. It has always been Shirai sensei's favorite tpn illustration ever since.

An entire generation in Japan grew up following One piece. Many of the young readers from late 1900s are now the newgen mangaka currently working in Shonen jump.

Kouhei Horikoshi as a high schooler (15yo) sent a one piece fanart to Oda in 2002. Twelve years later, he starts his own manga, now promoted by One piece author Eiichiro Oda himself.

One piece got Shirai into JUMP manga.

I started reading Jump Magazine for the first time when I was in Junior High. One Piece was the trigger that made me subscribe to it like a machine, and then I thought “other manga are fun too!”, and thus became addicted.

-Kaiu Shirai (2020), The Promised Neverland artbook.

Suguru Sugita, the person Shirai submitted his og manuscript to, was Toriko's editor in charge. The following year (2014), Sugita became One Piece's manga editor (later its media editor in 2017). Sugita retired from One piece altogether in 2019, while working as TPN editor from 2016 to 2020.

The Promised Neverland + former One Piece editor, Suguru Sugita. On the right is a doodle drawn by Eiichiro Oda sensei introducing him.

"O-Sugi. This is the media editor, Sugita. Well natured, romanticist. Throws in random onomatopoeia. So drippy from head to toe that the girls avoid him. Compliments juniors on an annoying level. Has a strange dream -> ("I'll get myself a Kansai-ben speaking gf within this year!") Has lots of friends, but daydreams too much so he might not be able to get hitched soon."

From TPN's pre-serialization stage to its final days, Sugita was closely involved with both One piece and The Promised Neverland. Regardless of the difference in genre, One piece's influence in TPN is evident, many of which were suggested by editor Sugita.

Following are a compilation of details discussed in the The Promised Neverland fanbook where the author-editor duo noted the influence of One Piece in its creation.

🦉 The food, the biology

(The Promised Neverland Search for Minerva + final arc spoilers)

In One Piece, the characters can obtain special powers by eating cursed fruits called Devil Fruits (Luffy's elasticity, for example). This served as a basis for The Promised Neverland's demon biology. During early stages of TPN first arc, there was no specific concept involving demon's diet (thus we hear two demons casually talking about eating cats). Post escape, editor Sugita suggested to add the concept of 'becoming what you eat', stated to be directly inspired by One Piece (fanbook ch. 2). It was decided that the demons in TPN would be heavily dependant on human meat to maintain their sentience.

One piece x Toriko official crossover spread, two manga in JUMP where food meant a lot more than simply filling your stomach.

"Food" both a narrative and thematic tool behind One Piece, so much so that a recently popular theory is that (avoid if you want) the protagonist's secret dream at the end of his journey is to throw a massive party that would connect different races together in a brotherly bond. Each arc ends with a scene of partying and singing, a musician was one of the first crewmate positions Luffy wanted to fill in his ship.

Yugo's refusal to eat and join the table subtly hinted his refusal to partake in such bonding. It's another detail pointed out in the fanbook (ch. 3). The food scenes in One Piece had not only inspired Shirai but also Haikyuu author, Furudate Haruichi (stated in Haikyuu databook).

🦉 Characters as Inspirations

[Romance Dawn + Goldy Pond spoiler] One piece character Helmeppo was the inspiration behind Goldy Pond demon, Luce. Helmeppo was one of the earliest characters introduced in One Piece (ch.3), a weak but spoiled child of a marine officer who'd exploit his father's influence to get about anything. Luce, the youngest hunter in Goldy Pond, was the son of Dozza. Helmeppo was redeemed eventually, unlike Luce.

[Shabondy Archipelago + TPN final arc spoiler] The World Nobles in One Piece are arrogant slave-owners hailed as gods on earth for their ancestry. Lord Pupo's flashy appearance and simple-mindedness were inspired by them.

[Dressrosa + TPN final arc spoiler] Bartolomeo, an in-series fan of the protagonists, was introduced in One Piece manga at the time of Sugita's debut as One piece editor in 2014 and instantly became popular. In The Promised Neverland, Lambda kids were supposed to obey Norman in a normal manner. But editor Sugita wanted to lighten up the mood and make them goofy fanboys, inspired by Bartolomeo's success.

[Arabasta spoiler] One piece's first major antagonist Crocodile served as a base for TPN characters, mainly antagonists:

When I was drawing dignified characters for TPN, Sugita-san gave me a piece of advice called the "Crocodile Line". Whether or not Crocodile from One Piece would say such a line would determine whether or not the character (I made) was dignified enough. It was a good method. I love Crocodile so there's that too.

-Shirai in The Promised Neverland fanbook (pg. 196)

(continues in reblog 👇)

#one piece #the promised neverland #yakusoku no neverland #eiichiro oda #kaiu shirai #suguru sugita #lmao I can't believe I wrote this #tpn ayshe #donquixote rosinante #posuka demizu #one piece bartolomeo #one piece crocodile #tpn yugo #monkey d. luffy #tpn manga #one piece spoilers #mine

[thathilomgirl]

After more than a year of work on this, @0hana0fubuki0 and I are finally able to present our translation of the Religion chapter featured in the TPN Western Literature Analysis book by Kei Toda!

Disclaimers: 

The translations aren't perfect and the wordings picked might not match the desired nuance of the author, as the main translator is not a native Japanese speaker. If there are things that are unsure by the translator, they will be addressed later at the bottom. 

From what I can remember, this book was published at least a few weeks/months before the Mystic Code fanbook and 3rd light novel got released (and based on Part 3, also possibly finished before the last few chapters of the manga were out), so certain observations written here may or may not have been made obsolete by any new information revealed in these specific sources.

Names and terms used within the series follow the Viz English translation, and mentions of the manga’s timeline are double-referenced with the fanbook. 

The ESV translation is used for the Bible verses mentioned in-text. 

Another thing to note is that Kei Toda is looking through this topic as a Western literature/culture scholar, and not necessarily as a theologian.

#Yakusoku no Neverland #The Promised Neverland #TPN Reference #Religion #Kei Toda #I'm now realizing the showing this off here in public might be the equivalent of a flash bomb given the topic #But my friend and I worked really hard to see and finish this project through to the end SO YOLO I GUESS #I had to do so research to make sure of certain parts of this translation for factual accuracy #This chapter was apparently written in 1st person in Japanese and I'm not even sure if that's the standard for this type of thing #I'm too used to seeing 3rd person but in scientific/health-related articles #Christianity #Judaism #Stonehenge

[goldiipond]

currently thinking about this ray from the fanbook cover. ray tpn blue hair and pronouns

#skye's ramblings #demizu puts really pretty blue/green gradients in the ends of his hair in a lot of her pieces but this is just actually blue hair. ilove him #alsoi really like this cover art in general <3 mystic codebook official translation when please please ineed it like i need air. ithink

[just-like-playing-tag]

Personal highlights from the fourth chapter of the fanbook!!! You can read the entire chapter translation here :)

Thank you so much @/1000sunnygo for the translation!!!!!!

According to Shirai, one of the reasons why Emma needed to be a girl is because of her so called "soft idealism" in not wanting to kill demons, which (somehow????) could come off as "uncool" or "naïve" to readers if coming from a guy (?????????????). However Shirai also says that “he wished Emma's words were acknowledged even if it came from a male protagonist instead of having the stereotypical expectations of what a man should be like”, which is nice in its own way.

The idea of a demon with no face under the mask, which was used both in chapter 103 and later in chapter 155 for Legravalima's transformation, was inspired by an old note Demizu left on a early draft where she commented on how it would be “creepy if a demon is actually faceless if you remove their mask”.

Sugita comments that Shirai often used to say "I wanna draw another jailbreak!", like dude same 😔😔

Shirai says that the escape from the bunker felt close enough to a new jailbreak, but the sadness of knowing that Yuugo and Lucas would have had to die “overshadowed the joy of being able to draw an escape again.” (╥﹏╥)

Sugita thinks that since most of the adults of the story are selfish and filled with hatred, it was nice having Yuugo and Lucas as adults who were loving and caring towards the kids. I never thought about it that way, but it's actually a very sweet fact. Yuugo, Lucas and grandpa Alex for the best adults awards!!!

Shirai speds time complimenting Sandy's good heart and ability with the younger kids which has me (◍•ᴗ•◍)

Shirai actually addresses the matter of Lucas not having recognized that Minerva's voice in chapter 110 was too young to belong to an adult: he says that there was too much noise for Lucas to suspect the difference.

While Sugita had repeatedly asked Shirai and Demizu to make the series darker, he jokingly says that Andrew's face was overdoing it- Shirai remembers Sugita saying “It's too scary! The children will cry!” pffttttt

Sugita actually had Andrew's face at the end of chapter 110 censored because the original illustration was too gorish (the mangled half of Andrew's face was blurred)

Andrew survived the explosion by doing the opposite of what Yugo and Lucas did: using his subordinates as a shield.

This is such a cool fact yet I feel like I didn't want to know ಥ_ಥ

The initial plan was to have one of the children shoot (and supposedly kill?) Andrew, but “it was more satisfying to let him be eaten after he called the children "food" ”; I actually really like this detail. Shirai also says that thanks to the stray demon, Ray didn't have to become a murderer. Thank goodness! For once Shirai chose the non-traumatic way for Ray XD

The wild demon saying “uh” after eating Andrew is indicative of it gaining human intelligence. Said demon was supposed to reappear in his human form, but that plotline was ~once again~ discarded.

Shirai regrets not having named Andrew Bernard or Bell had him been female, both references to Tinkerbell. I love this!! Wish you had thought about it sooner @Shirai ahah

Vincent calling Norman "James" instead of "boss" in chapter 112 was him just being playful

Hayato "looks as a protagonist", since his design was taken from a resistance leader from a discarded plotline. Shirai's initial intention was to make him cool and serious, but Sugita suggested to make him kind of a fanboy of Emma's group to reflect how amazing they had become.

Sugita (jokingly) says he “used his absolute authority as the editor to make Anna and Ray interact”, since he likes them as a couple

During the serialization, Shirai used to calculate the timing of information release of both the SJ serialization and volume release so that magazine and volume readers could enjoy similar revelation simultaneously. Following that logic, he synchronized Norman's riapparence in the manga and the volume 12 “merry Christmas Vincent” to happen around the same time, which was also when anime season 1 started airing.

THIS Q&A:

Q: Why do Peter’s men wear sunglasses?

A: Because Peter-sama is too dazzling.

Shirai says the symbol on the back of Norman's Minerva cape is the crest of the demons who lived at the hideout. Though I'm not completely sure it was intentional, the choice of having Norman wear the robes of a demon while planning the eradication of demons is... Peculiar, and also kinda ironic.

Peter and Andrew are related!! Andrew too was born from a branch of the Ratri family.

Okay this matter is tricky, but I think it was actually explained how there's demons like Musica and Sonju's horse and the demon pigeons that won't eat human meat. Apparently as of this panel of chapter 103 (which is also one of the few things included in the anime, ahah)-

There's five different species of demons, one of which - fourth column - may have gone extinct. Out of these five species, only one includes humanoid demons, who thus are the only ones who need to eat humans in order to maintain their form.

Also the Demizu note at the end of the chapter is such an highlight:

How he [Shirai] never gives up. Till the last minutes, he keeps adding corrections. I really admire his belief, “I'll surely bring a better result than the last time”. This “I'll bring something better than last time” mentality is a huge thing. Usually, when I make corrections, I feel like maybe it was better the last time. So I always used to think it's best not to mess with my arts too much. But I changed my mind after seeing Shirai sensei. There were times I'd be surprised to receive a text message at 4 am (laughs) It made me worry if he was resting properly.

You have my heart Demizu-san 🥺🥺🥺

#tpn #the promised neverland #I swear one day I'm rereading the whole fanbook and noting down everytime Shirai says something in the lines of #“I had already in mind a way to develop this but I discarded it not to make the story too complicated” because he says it all. the. time. #tpn emma #tpn legravalima #tpn yuugo #tpn lucas #tpn andrew #tpn sandy #tpn vincent #tpn peter ratri #tpn manga spoilers #tpn fanbook #Thank you again Sunny for your job 🥺🥺🥺 #mine #Do you think... The Andrew-demon would maintain their hatred for the kids? It's something interesting to think about 🤔 #Edit: Wait more notes: I've been wanting to continue doing these fanbook sums for a long time- #but unfortunately couldn't work on them until recently ಥ_ಥ #I'm already halfway through correcting rereading the following chapter post so please look forward to it if you'd like to! #If everything goes smoothly I plan to post the remaining two chapters on the next Sundays #And Sunny if you're reading this: I'm too shy for directly tagging you ahah #But thank you for your hard work I hope you enjoy reading this and I wish you have a wonderful day / night!!!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧

[the-silliest-idiot]

Happy new year! (in advance)

It’s not new year’s yet but here is a nice stupid drawing showing you how to not watch fireworks. At least they are all wearing eye protection.

#lewis and parvus got that #goldy pond trauma #dude was killed by bright light #he can be averse to light #i rushed this drawing #just look at the not pretty fireworks #i'm not drawing people's heights consistent ever #especially not for quick things #i have a height chart for demons #and the fanbook references #but i don't use them #the promised neverland #tpn #tpn spoilers #tpn demons #tpn lewis #tpn parvus #tpn sonju #tpn musica #tpn awla #tpn mawla #which is which anyway #my art

[notelectrictigerart]

Ray smiling (+ bonus Alicia)

#the promised neverland #tpn #tpn manga spoilers #tpn ray #no double post today (sunday actually - because this is being queued lol) hopefully next post has two sketches #based on info from the fanbook and other bits - alicia is kinda sporty #so maybe ray is just chilling watching a game with her and the fam

[yuugos-tea-cup]

✨ Yûgo's profile: ✨

|| ETR3M8: Yuugo || Date of birth: 2017/ 12/24  Age (2046): 28yo Blood type: A Origin: GB (Glory Bell) Height: 182 cm Favorite food: Corn soup

|| Source: TPN twitter from the TPN fan book

#yuugo #tpn yuugo #yûgo #yugo #the promised neverland #the promised neverland fanbook #the promised neverland manga spoilers #tpn manga spoilers #tpn spoilers #manga #bunker dad #my favorite raccoon man #Source: TPN twitter #OP

[megame88]

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[officersnickers]

okay i'm forgetful apparently can you explain your post about Demizu revealing Ray's real birthday? i don't remember anything about a fake birthday for him woops

Okay, that's gonna be a rabbit hole and I warn you before hand, I'm not in possession of all informations regarding this discussion, so if anyone can explain this even better, feel free to do so!

One major plot point from the start was Ray's birthday - January 15th, the day he tried to commit suicide and the escape took place.

The more informations were released about the series, we also learned Ray's "real" birthday isn't apparently January 15th! In the fanbook that was released last year, Shirai made a timeline with this annotation: 2034/ January 15th (Sunday) Ray’s birth (exact birthday is only known to Isabella and numerous farm staffs), indicating Ray wasn't born on one of the most famous TPN days. Of course the fandom demanded to know Ray's real birthday, but to this day, we’re in the dark. Some tried to calculate the date with his Identification Number in relation to Norman and Emma's number, but since the birthdays of the other characters were released, this appeared to be fruitless.

Since we all love and cherish Ray (we do, no discussions!) we really want to know his real birthday, and after Demizu started making birthday art for each character, I joked we maybeee could get two birthday pictures for Ray this year. I don't think this will happen, but I thought it would be funny 😅

Hope this helped a bit!

#this gives me so much brain damage #please I need to know his other birthday too #to celebrate Ray twice a year #reminds me when I had a chinese girl in my kindergarten group #when I was still a child! #and she told me she had two star signs (the normal one and the chinese one) and I thought she had two birthdays #I was so sad because I wanted to have another birthday too :( #lil Snickers was a bit stupid I guess #four year olds huh? #anyway Ray my beloved ~ <3 #can't get enough of him #the promised neverland #tpn #ynn #yakusoku no neverland #Snickers babbles #tpn ray #ynn ray #yakusoku no neverland ray #the promised neverland ray

[temporoom]

Yo so I watched TPN S2 EP4.

To summarize real quick : I am hyped.

Listen, I wasn’t worried too much about Bunker Dad’s absence, just surprised. And now that it’s clear we are going on something new, Cloverworks has all my attention. It’s a great way to keep the story trending and keep people hype in my opinion, so I won’t judge that choice. And for now, the new premise they are going with got me ON EDGE. 

Basically, with how this is going, and with informations from the fanbook, I guess they are going for the prototype of the after escape plan, where the children joins a group of rebel before meeting Norman. WITH BONUS BADASS ISABELLA WOOHOO. I have been fantasizing badass military Isabella since the lambda arc and I assure you they got me when they implied it in the anime.

The episode was fun and good overall, though I feel like since they spent less time in the bunker, the assault felt less impactful than in the manga. But we got to see Ray firing arrows like a badass so I’ll accept it. The part with the children testing food was hilarious, and the fact we see more of the kids makes me happy to a no-ending point.

But here lies my first problem, and I expected it since EP1 because of the merch and stuff : the ambiant sexism. 

One of the amazing thing with TPN is that we can’t feel any sexism anywhere. Like... You could change the gender of any character and it wouldn’t change anything in the main plot, seriously, nothing at all, that’s how good it is. I don’t often talk about it, but Emma is a very feminist protagonist, and written almost like one, though I feel like it’s more accidental than anything which is even better. But the anime... *sigh*

The first part was pretty discreet since they adapted from the manga but...

First Ray standing before Emma, then only the boys going out to hunt while the girls took care of plants, the fact they kept their old uniforms, Don’s “you’re a boy so don’t cry”, Ray being the one to fire arrows...

It’s subtle, but because there’s none of that in the manga, it stands out even more. And I didn’t think it would bug me as much as it does, but here it is. Honestly the potential new plot has me hyped, but THIS, THIS is really going to determine what happens during the rest of the anime. And I swear I will throw hands if it changes Emma and Norman’s relationship because of that because I’m already tired of the sexism in this fandom so if they add it in the anime... Who knows what will happen. 

I’ll look forward to what they do with what they came up with, but I just hope this won’t affect the plot.

#the promised neverland #tpn #ynn #yakusoku no neverland #tpn spoilers #ynn spoilers #I talked about it somewhere on my other social medias but Emma reminds me of my non-binary mother so you bet it bugs me

[cirkkaa]

I'm going to ramble a about something that bothers me a bit about rayemma so if you're not in for me being overly invested in fictional characters, this is your cue to not read this lol. Also I might sound like I'm taking it too seriously, but it's just me talking out loud, dw. I'm drinking coffee as I write :)

This contains manga spoilers!

I've already vented a little on twitter but now that days passed and I could notice other things, I want to talk about it here bc I think is calmer and I feel a little self conscious bringing ship related matters there. ( also I would've making a long ass thread no one wants to see lmao)

Let's state something first: I love Ray. He's my favorite tpn character, and I'm multishipper. Either if I'm being biased or not, I love rayemma, and I also love noremma and other ships. But RE has a soft spot for me for obvious reasons. And I'm not only talking only about romance here, tho of course I can't take it out of the frame bc, well is just another layer of their relationship. But my primary concern has to do with the interaction between both as it is.

Now, you may know about Shirai's and Sugita's commentary on the forest arc RE, if you don't it's here. Let's go to what is my perception.

Ray and Emma shared an unique bond like no other, would they have spent all those arcs on building their relationship from a very unstable/chaotic one to one which showcased a level of trust so deep that they were able to enter another realm and defy time and space......... that Ray out of all people was the one who felt her presence, was literally GUIDED to find her in a context in which realistically they might as well never ever see each other again to show us.. A sibling relationship? COMRADES? I felt like a bucket of ice was thrown at me. 

I've always loved that they didn't emphasize the sibling part of tpn when it came to the trio bc in no way it feels sibling-like. I always considered them as best friends, the kind that life puts in your way and you can feel it's different from any other bond you may have. And besides, story-wise, it makes sense since ehem NE exists, so that would be a weird concept to praise while putting characters on a shippy moment. Now, I think it's only fair for all 3 to be considered under the same context. But looks like NE gets a free pass, RE doesn't, and NR is close to nonexistent so we'll never know.

RE bonding was one of the best ones I've ever seen and probably my favorite, I have no words to describe how much I loved Shirai for taking this path with them. But this commentary?? Honestly, wouldn't you feel at least a little salty if this happened to a couple that means a lot to you? imagining that exactly this description was used to describe NE. Sounds incredibly ridiculous and just nonsensical doesn't it? Like hell, it can be anything but not this.

"Hey but NE is sorta canon and RE never existed" Well that doesn't mean that they aren't friends FIRST and foremost, which is the kind of relationship they showed ALL the time throughout the story. Not of siblings, not of comrades. Of course Emma referred to all GF as her family, but that I remember, she never considered Norman or Ray as her brothers, explicitly.

So in short, I felt sad and in disbelief. Nothing to do about it, it's done.

“But he said it´s okay to interpret it the way you want” Yes, which is very nice of him. But after reading that, I felt so drained and confused that romance in RE at this point sounded like a joke, when their friendship is pretty much.. Just there.

On a more selfish note, RE doesn't get half the credit it deserves. Their friendship goes under the rug most of the time, and considering canon events and how Ray fell on the sides, and now this commentary over a relationship in which in  2 arcs it might as well have been a central point, being diminished with this.. Just what even??

Not that I have power over someone else likings or interpretations, but man I wish they could appreciate them more.. I also would love to see Shirai taking his time to describe their relationship not focusing on the " there's definetly not romance here if that's what you want to know"I feel like there is much more to it that just the explanation he and Sugita gave, but that's just me being hopeful.

I think this is the only thing I highly disagree on with canon facts so far. Not that it matters what random fan on tumblr says, but yeah

A side note: this commentary was part of the fanbook, which is not translated officially and the parts that are, were made by fans. So maybe there is more info about them, for which I will say take my input with a grain of salt. Also, I'm not hating in any tpn ship or Shirai or Sugita. This is just a way for me to express my feelings over my disagreement with their answers. Do not take this as me about to break into Shirai´s house trying to validate a ship, or forcing ppl to ship them. I'm just voicing my thoughts and maybe regretting making this post later on 🤠

I do believe in the potential of all kind of fictional relationships, so I don't think siblings or comrades are in any way less important than lovers, for instance. However in my reflection, if you read the manga, you will know how not fitting those term are for RE. At least, in my opinion, they aren´t.

Thank you for reading, have a nice day.

#Not wanting to mention it but to all of that add the fact that even rayanna was sneaked in even though it was not canon #So err what happened to curate every interaction? #Hello? #Anyway I avoided addressing ships as much as I could bc this ain't about it #But since I need to make comparisons to get my point I thought it was necessary #I still love Shirai and Sugita but this one is a hard pill to swallow #Personal #The promised neverland #yakusoku no neverland #Ray #Emma #Rayemma #Tpn #Manga #Anime #レイエマ

[1000sunnygo]

Is there a reason why TPN is set in the future? And in particular in 2045?

Why is it set in future?

I think the main reason was to mislead the readers (the setting seems to be Victorian England but it's actually future) + Shirai decided that European aesthetic suits the story but he wanted to avoid a specific time in history.

Fanbook + LeFigaro interview (2019)

2045 simply because the storyboard was written in 2013-2014, and "45" feels like "close to present but in future" from 34 (aka it's pretty random pff)

The editor, as usual, adds a little more to their conversation. Here's direct translation from fanbook pg. 14 (bottom paragraphs) :

Shirai (author) : (..) The year 2045 was chosen because I drew the series manuscript in 2013-2014, and something closest to it but in future would be 2045, isn't it? I think that's the reason.

Sugita (editor) : "2045 problem" was often discussed back then, and we decided 2045 because the year of the Singularity (technological singularity) sounded cool, if I remember right. The story is a bit in the future, so we made it a sci-fi kind of time period.

2045年問題, aka 2045 problem

Editor Sugita had always been enthusiastic about the bits of scifi elements, comparing 7 walls setting to a Sci-fi movies [x] . Whenever there's any science related background or explanation in the story or in interviews, it's most likely his addition.

Legit this is what fanbook reading felt like

#thanks for the ask! #was a good opportunity to dig the ol interviews again #there's always more to learn huh #the promised neverland #kaiu shirai #suguru sugita #asks

[thathilomgirl]

Okay, the Isabella chapter gave me more questions about Grace Field:

- whether Krone had already had her child upon coming to House 3, and if that child was present in the house if she did

- whether the Moms and Sisters are supposed to bear more than 1 child within the system

#Yakusoku no Neverland #The Promised Neverland #Isabella #Krone #TPN Spoilers #I asked Shirai for the fanbook Q&A whether it was a Mom requirement or a Sister requirement to bear a child #He didn't answer it there but this chapter did #The last question is because a possible case can be made Sienna as the bio mom of Emma and/or Carol

[vobomon]

Okay so if you haven’t heard the news, the TPN fanbook [as generously translated by @1000sunnygo] has confirmed that Adam and Norman can’t be twins because as they were never intended on “sharing the same genes.” 

Which utterly and absolutely debunks my theory.

But that leads back to my confusion of... “why would they keep Adam’s birthday a secret” then? It makes no sense and only furthers the confusion. 

Of course, me and some friends have been trying to figure out an unofficial date for Adam’s birthday so we can still celebrate it this year.

@maldito-arbol theorized that Adam would be a Gemini while @officersnickers​ theorized that Adam would have a “double date” similar to other Lambda kids...

With this information, it can be concluded that the best date for Adam’s unofficial birthday would be June 6th or 6/6. 

Let me know what you think about making this Adam’s unofficial birthday.

#the promised neverland #yakusoku no neverland #tpn spoilers #tpn adam #tpn

[just-like-playing-tag]

Personal highlights from the third chapter of the fanbook!!! You can read the entire chapter translation here :)

While executing GP, Shirai didn't realize how cool he was making Emma; he says that only after reading those chapters he realized how cool Emma had turned out to be :')

When Shirai can't come up with names for new characters, he goes through the credits of his DVDs. Jake and Monica are respectively after Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan.

Jake and Monica's deaths somehow parallel Conny's, being used to give a feeling of urgent danger

Demizu was asked to take Food Wars as reference for demons' meat in chapter 68

Shirai says that if Norman had been in GP, Lewis would never be bored 👀

The GP kids designs were set very quickly, and Gillian and Paula's designs took inspo from Barbara and Ayshe's early drafts. Honestly, I think it's incredible they turned out so good even with a short notice!!

The human world can be reached going up with GP's elevator, or going down with GF's staircase. GP's elevator takes to a forest in Australia. It's such a cool fact, I'm so sad we never saw the children actually cross those passages!!!

Shirai confirmed that James and Peter Ratri were named after James Hook and Peter Pan. I find it so interesting that from the Peter Pan tale, Shirai reversed the hero / villain roles!! The name “Ratri” on the other hand is taken from the night goddess of Indian mythology, and can be associated with “guardians”.

The comouflage of each farm is different!! Grace Field is "a happy orphanage playing family inside the House", Glory Bell is "like a town", Grand Valley and Goodwell Ridge are "school-like facilities". The caretakers names change accordingly.

Grace Field is the smallest farm that specializes in the development of brains. Glory Bell focuses on physical development along with the brain. Grand Valley and Goodwell Ridge have average quality brain and meat. I think we can say that the farm's meat quality order is similar to this: GF > GB > GV = GR

Max. shipping ages for the farms we know of are: GF = 12; GB = 15; GV = 17

Only Grace Field children have a transmitter. The children from Goldy Pond and Grand Valley didn't need to disable anything to escape.

Grand Valley can't afford to spend a lot of money per product like Grace Field, so they close the sky to prevent escape or theft and made an artificial sky like a big dome.

Peter offered Bayon to use GP as hunting ground “also to dispose of the escaped children” which makes me think... Apparently in other farms is pretty common to have children escape lmao. (Unless they're only taking about Yuugo's group escapees)

Compared to Grace Field, the children from Grand Valley and Glory Bell have more opportunities to come in contact with electronic devices. Nigel was familiar with machines since his times in Grand Valley.

Demons' optical nerve is particularly weak; masks' function is not only to prevent it from being hit, but also to shield it from direct light.

Shirai said he doesn't want to impose the author's ideals onto the readers, but he drew TPN with the thought that he didn't want a war

In Goldy Pond, Shirai prioritized developing demons over humans

Shirai said that “analyzing the demons as living things and not as monsters created a chance to win [against Lewis]” which is honestly very deep and interesting

Shirai's draft of the chapter 96 spread 😭😭😭

All the injured GP kids beds have children's drawings on the wall behind them I'm 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I can't believe I never noticed this!!!!!

(The Paula portrait 🥺🥺🥺 )

Shirai thinks the reason why TPN's children are all kind and friendly is that Posuka draws them, and Sugita said that the children drawn by Posuka have nothing evil in them. I'm (╥﹏╥)

“Ugo” was a candidate for Yugo's name: Shirai had a concept where Yugo noticed a book with his name (Ugo's Adventures) which eventually triggered their escape. This is such a cool idea, I'm actually sorry it didn't go like this?

Another candidate for Yuugo's name was George - like the director - suggested by Sugita because Yuugo's friends with Lucas. However, Shirai insisted it would have been rude to George Lucas, so they ultimately went for Yuugo (imagine having not one but 2 TPN characters named after you... Had I been in George Lucas' place, I'd be honored)

Yuugo is repeatedly refered as tsundere which is honestly hilarious

The release of every cattle child in the demon world was unplanned, but came as a natural consequence of Emma's character development

Shirai said that Emma is “easy to be misunderstood”. Couldn't agree with you more king.

It's not common to eat a loved one's brain when they die; Nous eating Nouma was an exception.

The cause of Yuugo's gray hair is canonly the stress (lol)

All the new info about the windmill boy!!!!!!!!!:

He was a coward, and that's why he was cautious. He found the underground pit while searching for a place to hide. He didn’t want to take the risk of being found by demons. So he couldn’t let anyone know of this place and piled up his guilt and pain. He found Lucas injured and on brink of death. Normally he wouldn’t do anything, but feeling guilty about everyone who he'd abandoned so far, he wanted to help. Yugo and Lucas were the heroes and hopes for the hunting ground children at that time. So, the kid knew Lucas. He wanted to heal Lucas for an opportunity of rebellion. Although he died of illness, to Lucas, the boy was one of his dear friends.

Violet was the one who brought in Adam to Oliver and others: that's because, besides from his incredible strength, she “instinctively felt that he was a good guy” :')

Fanbook chapter 1 highlights

#tpn #the promised neverland #tpn manga spoilers #tpn emma #tpn bunkerman #tpn gp gang #tpn fanbook #mine #They didn't say it explicitly but at this point I'm kinda convinced that the reason why Ray isn't part of Emma's flashbacks in chapter 93- #is just that they forgot about him. #Like Shirai said that Ray Mujika or Leuvis didn't appear in Emma’s subconscious because #“at that moment Emma’s desired future and the biggest consciousness in Emma’s mind at that time was to create a world where ‘GF Family’- #and ‘cattle children’ could live” bro does Ray look like a fish to you

[the-silliest-idiot]

TPN Lambda kids height chart

New characters in the anime means new characters in my height chart.

Height chart with other season two characters

Information taken from the TPN fanbook

#okay zazie is baby #but next to sonju he actually looks baby too #and norman thinks he's gonna kill sonju #and musica? #good luck with that norman #you're gonna need it #the promised neverland #tpn #tpn vincent #tpn zazie #tpn cislo #tpn barbara #my edit