My phone pings and I open it blushing and smiling like an idiot in love, my sweet friend looks at me and asks with a teasing smile, "is it your crush?" I laugh like the maniac who's wasting their life away as I am and look at the email with the ao3 eniemes to lovers fanfiction update and sigh like a young maiden in love and nod my head, "yup"
My bi ass seeing Mark Ruffalo defending homophobic Cripsy Rat after being my advocating hero for 2 years now:
OMG YES PLEASE MY WARDEN DISAPPEARENCE WAS BAGGING ME FOR YEARS
THIS IS A WARDEN ARMOR, RIGHT??
RIGHT???
Ha! I can finally say that I was right! THEY WERE SPEEDRUNNING FOR NORMAN. Am I happy about it? Of course not! But let’s start from the beginning.
Basically, this episode was the last turning point - they could either go for something amazing or fall into 6/10 at most. I don’t think you will be surprised how it went, in my opinion.
- So, we didn’t have major timeskip in the last episode, but in this one… oh, boy! Remember how I was hoping that they would show us how they survive after losing everything? How we might get new stuff? Well, I was wrong. But that’s not the for thing. We were lied about getting anime original. What we are indeed getting is “The Promised Neverland: The Abridged Series”. They are getting scenes that will go manga readers go “Ah, I remember! It was an amazing moment”, but all we are getting is an image without context and emotional bearing.
- Farm have been attacked - cool, but do you remember that anime onlies don’t know about mass produced farms? Because that’s an important detail. Well, at least that told me that Norman is indeed alive.
- The scene between Emma and Ray would be sweet… if it had any meaning. We didn’t seem them grow as friends. We didn’t see them travelling and fighting in Goldy Pond. We didn’t see them gain more respect for each other. So why should I feel anything about it? Look at the picture below. It’s still, it has no colours, you don’t hear anything, and yet it tells you a lot about their wonderful relationship. Anime failed miserably here
- You know what people who are running away do? Light up buildings that haven’t been used for ages because, yeah, nobody will catch them, right?
- And that just make me ask: where is Isabella? Why they gave her that amazing scene in the last episode if it doesn’t seem like she became a major threat. They have been on the go for almost a year, for heavens’ sake!
- Again, the scene with the old demon would be amazing if we got more from Emma in this season. All we got is: she is kind for everybody. THAT”S WHY GOLDY POND IS IMPORTANT! Because she needs to come out of her comfort zone! Because she realizes that sometimes kindness isn’t enough. That’s why her later acts of selflessness are so impactful - because despite everything she is stil herself.
- x2 Again, the scene with demons trying to save their siblings would be amazing if it was done better. Don’t expect the viewers to become invested because you show them suffering children. That’s not enough. That’s why worldbuilding is so important. To be clear, manga also wasn’t perfect in that sense. BUT! I think that attack on the capitol, killing of those who drunk cursed blood and Ayshe backstory are well written and make it all better. I’m just greedy and want more.
- Remember how this anime actually had good chase scenes? I’m waiting more Ray is Sasuke memes because it looked Naruto parody, not gonna lie.
- And now for the big one. Remember how in the manga you suddenly find out that William Minerwa is actually alive and is planning to destroy the farms? Children are taken to a secret hideout that became home to many cattle children. Emma decides to meet the big boss herself and then
Easily one of the best wholesome moments in the manga. But it keeps going!
So! Surely anime will give us something similar amazing, right? Right? Or, you know, you can just turn Norman into Robin Hood and make him take off his mask in the middle of a town filled with demons. But that would be silly because he is the smartest child from Grace Field, right? RIGHT?
Guys, I tried to stay optimistic, I really did… but this episode broke me on so many levels. It’s not just that they are changing things up. It’s that they take things away and don’t offer anything in return.
Anyway, I won’t drop this series because I appreciate interacting with this lovely community. I think that TPN fandom is really amazing and I adore talking to all of you. Fortunately, we still have manga, fanarts and fanfictions! On the topic of that, since I’m about to graduate, I will soon come back to my own post-canon fanfic. I honestly can’t wait because I didn’t have time to write anything in months.
So, in conclusion, TPN deserves more than that. It’s not a perfect manga, but that doesn’t stop me from loving it. And as for the anime… if season 1 is Empire Strikes Back, season 2 is Rise of the Skywalker
screenshots i took of jinnie 💗😂🐻💞💝✨😂💘💕
you made my dawn : seventeen
what so he looks like this and we’re supposed to just deal with it ??????
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stay ❤️ home
also the last episode was so great and thoughtfully made? great pace, pleasant camera work and interesting interactions between team members? i was stunned by it.
i especially liked the plot line with may and elena. two amazing women solving psychological problem with sparring? give me more things like this
and coulson? our dad sure starting to feel some depressed feelings and it would be interesting to see how creators will go with this.
preview for the next episode is really promising. can’t wait