Chapter 36

Action, Part 5 (⑤) is the thirty-sixth chapter of The Promised Neverland manga. It is adapted into Episode 12 of the anime.

Synopsis
An alarm echoes all throughout the complex. The children find themselves anxiously getting ready to cross the bridge.

Plot
An alarm echoes all throughout the complex. Emma, Ray and the rest of the children as they complete their escape from the Farm. Despite the demons mobilizing, with some truly impressive, hulking, horror-esque designs, everything goes off without a hitch. As it turns out Emma and Norman’s plan was never to use the bridge, where everyone assumed they’d have to escape through, but across the chasm surrounding the complex.

Don throws a couple of ropes with stones at their end around to the opposite shore (beyond the cliff) and they tangle in the trees.

To erase the children's anxieties, Don overcomes the cliff, by sliding down the ropes. The children confirm that he's safe and imitate his brave act using a bottle rocket, one by one.

Ray is speechless. Even this was planned by Norman. One of the children is scared, so Ray carries him and moves to the other side as well. Isabella searches with everything she has, but can't find any of the children. When Mama climbed up the wall, the kids already crossed the cliff.

Emma disappears as the last person into the forest of the outside world waving goodbye to Mama, who can't even see her. These 15 children are now free and the Katana Demons won't even find them.

Research Elements
In this chapter we have the following Research Elements:

Trivia

 * Here, Isabella’s story is revealed. TPN tries to present a multifaceted story so Shirai thought it’s a good time to show that Mom isn’t a completely evil person. However, Shirai was initially conflicted about showing Mom as a good or bad person. Sugita remembers Shirai saying “Let’s spare trying to convince readers that she’s a good person. She’s a bad one after all, and just wants to save herself.” The idea was showing the Grace Field House having an uncomfortable change due to Mom’s suggestion where every child would be brainwashed and religiously believe that, “Being killed and eaten is a thing of happiness.” There is hardly a way to escape in such circumstances, and Emma’s group would be in absolute despair after their return. Throughout TPN, it’s difficult to tell if Mom is a good person or a bad person. Regardless, her past was the same from the start.