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The Promised Neverland · Season 2 · Crunchyroll

The Promised Neverland Season 2

The Promised Neverland Season 2 is a SKIP, BollyMeter 3.5/10. 11 episodes on Crunchyroll from 8 January 2021.

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BollyMeter3.5/1036% on Rotten Tomatoes; audience reviews describe it as one of anime's most notorious adaptation failures. The season skipped entire manga arcs including the Goldy Pond arc, rushed over 140 chapters in 11 episodes, dropped 70% of established characters, and delivered an incoherent ending - a comprehensive creative collapse from a season-1 baseline of 100%.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 2 aired January-March 2021 and is widely regarded as one of anime's most catastrophic second seasons. CloverWorks chose to skip the entire Goldy Pond arc - a fan-favourite manga section - and compressed the remaining 140 chapters into 11 episodes. Multiple reviewers noted that 70 percent of the established character roster disappeared without explanation, that world-building and scene-setting were discarded wholesale, and that the final episode consisted largely of a clip show. The Rotten Tomatoes score dropped from 100 percent in Season 1 to 36 percent in Season 2. The consensus across CBR, Screen Rant, and dedicated anime coverage was that the season represented a fundamental failure of adaptation judgement. Watch Season 1 as a self-contained work; Season 2 is not recommended.

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36%critics positive8.1/10IMDb audience
  • The complete degradation of writing quality hurts not only because of the solid first season but also because of the other elements involved.
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Season Over Season

A catastrophic drop from the perfect Season 1: skipped arcs, gutted cast, incoherent pacing, and a 100-to-36-percent Rotten Tomatoes collapse.