Anime and Manga Differences

This page documents the major differences in The Promised Neverland’s story arcs and characters between its original manga and anime adaptation.

Episode 1 and Chapter 1

 * The manga is more comical and comedic as compared to the anime, which is more serious and down-to-earth. Such examples are the goofy and over the top expressions showcased by the manga characters, which is toned down to look more realistic in the anime.
 * The flashback scene of young Emma, Norman, and Ray standing at the gate of the wall was shown at the start of the episode. In the manga, it was shown in the middle of chapter 1.
 * A short fence that stood a small distance away from the large wall of Grace Field is never shown or mentioned in the manga.
 * An additional scene of Emma, Norman, Ray, Don, Gilda, Conny and Phil interacting next to the short fence was added.
 * There are more interactions between Don and Conny in this episode as compared to chapter 1 of the manga. Though the two did interact more in the extra pages of a few of the manga volumes.
 * The scene with Norman lock-picking in chapter 1 was not shown in this episode. It was, however, shown in episode 2 instead.
 * The setting where Norman was comforting a traumatized Emma after discovering Conny's corpse is different in the anime. In the manga, Norman consoled Emma when they were in the field outside the house. In the anime, the setting was changed to the bedrooms inside the house, where Norman consoled Emma next to a bed.
 * Additional dialogue between Norman and Emma in this scene was added. Such was the part where Emma talked about a game of tag.

Introduction Arc

 * The anime adds a short fence before the wall surrounding Grace Field.
 * In the manga, Norman consoles a distraught Emma outside of Grace Field house, while in the anime he does so in a bedroom. Additional dialogue is also added to this scene.

Jailbreak Arc

 * Several scenes are added where Krone talks to her ragged doll.
 * In the anime, Isabella finds Emma just as she's about to zip-line across the cliff, while in the manga everyone escapes before Isabella's arrival.
 * In the manga, Isabella appears to be happy while pregnant with Ray, while in the anime she's vaguely depressed.

Promised Forest Arc

 * The Adventures of Ugo book are unmentioned in the anime.
 * The Seven Walls and Factory Farms are unmentioned in the anime, as opposed to the manga.

Search For Minerva Arc

 * In the anime, the word 'Help' is written on a wall in Shelter B06-32, as opposed to the world 'Poachers,' which appears in the manga version of the shelter.

Goldy Pond Battle Arc

 * The anime skips over this arc and instead depicts an abridged version of the Cuvitidala Arc, with unnamed members of a human military team destroying Shelter B06-32.
 * There is chance that this arc happened off-screen in the anime. It can happened between the events of episode 4 and episode 5 and because of Emma's had a clip in her hair that she got from the Goldy Pond.

Imperial Capital Battle Arc
This arc appears briefly as the slide show only

Seven Walls Arc
There is a chance that this arc happened in the anime off-screen because Him appears as as a slideshow.

Krone

 * Krone talks to a doll that was given to her as a child in the anime that is not present in the manga.

Norman

 * Rather than reunite with the Grace Field children in the Paradise Hideout, he does so while disguised as a demon in a demon village.

Yugo

 * There is a big chance that he exists in the anime because of the letters, the names on the walls and the word "Help" on the wall that he wrote.
 * His face was not shown.

Yugo's comrades
Their faces are not shown, but they exists in the anime because their names are written on the Shelter wall.
 * Lucas
 * Dina
 * Nicolas
 * Mike
 * Erica
 * Anny
 * Walter
 * John
 * Maria
 * Viviana
 * Damian
 * Flore
 * Pedro
 * Abel
 * Jatte
 * Hilda
 * Bess
 * Stacie

Legravalima

 * Briefly shown in the slideshow in the final episode.

Him

 * Briefly shown in the slideshow in the final episode.

Cuvitidala Dragon

 * Briefly shown in the slideshow in the final episode.

Julius Ratri

 * Briefly shown in the slideshow in the final episode.

Orange-haired man

 * Briefly shown in the slideshow in the final episode.

Andrew

 * There is a chance that he exists in the anime as one of the house pursuers that attacks in the shelter.

Hao

 * Mentioned, but never shown.

Sadie

 * Mentioned, but never shown.

James

 * Mentioned, but never shown.

Gary

 * Mentioned, but never shown.

Michelle

 * Appears briefly in the Season 1 end credits song.

Olivia

 * Appears briefly in the Season 1 end credits song.

Marcus

 * Appears briefly in the Season 1 end credits song.

Robert

 * Appears briefly in the Season 1 end credits song.

Abby

 * Appears briefly in the Season 1 end credits song.

Susan

 * Appears briefly in the Season 1 end credits song.

Manga characters who did not appeared in the anime.

 * Jackie
 * Helen
 * Matilda
 * Scarlet
 * Jessica
 * Sienna
 * Cecile
 * Chucky
 * Jimmy
 * Helena
 * Kate
 * Hana
 * Cindy
 * Eric
 * Grant
 * Mack
 * Rosie
 * Gotao?
 * Oliver
 * Gillian
 * Zack
 * Nigel
 * Pepe
 * Violet
 * Paula
 * Sandy
 * Sonya
 * Theo
 * Jake
 * Monica
 * Mary
 * Johnny
 * Michael
 * Malcolm
 * Elliot
 * Fred
 * Windmill Boy
 * Lucy
 * Adam
 * Hayato
 * Jin
 * Mike Ratri
 * Alex Mikhaylov
 * Margo
 * Rita
 * Leo
 * Mr. Mendel
 * Ayshe
 * Ayshe's father
 * Ayshe's dogs
 * Nous
 * Nouma
 * Luce
 * Bayon
 * Leuvis
 * Palvus
 * Geelan
 * Bayon II
 * Dozza
 * Yverk
 * Noum
 * Pupo
 * Awla
 * Mawla
 * Bayon II's child
 * Bayon II's wife
 * White-haired woman
 * Black-haired man
 * Bald man
 * Bearded man
 * Gillian's Sister
 * Nigel's Sister
 * Oliver's brother
 * Sonya's brother
 * Sonya's friend
 * Sandy's friend
 * Light-haired boy
 * Black-haired girl
 * Light-haired girl