Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu Short Stories

Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu Short Stories (白井カイウ×出水ぽすか短編集) is a short story collection related to The Promised Neverland manga series, written by Kaiu Shirai, illustrated by Posuka Demizu and published by Shonen Jump. It was published in the United States by VIZ Media on November 8, 2022 under the title, Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland.

The volume will include the "Dreams Come True" epilogue story for The Promised Neverland. The epilogue manga was previously featured at The Promised Neverland Special Exhibition.

In addition to "Dreams Come True", the volume also includes short stories such as "DC3", "We Were Born", "Poppy no Negai", and "Spirit Photographer: Saburo Kono". Lastly, the collection included a previously unpublished manga called "Takashi to popī" which is a squeal to "Poppy no Negai" and was specially drawn for the book.

Summery
From the creators of The Promised Neverland comes a collection of their best short stories, including a special one-shot with the key elements that would later go into their biggest hit and an epilogue that shows what the main characters are up to after the end of the manga series.

Publication
Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland features six one-shot stories written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu: Poppy's Wish (ポピィの願い, Poppy no Negai), launched in Feb 18, 2016 on Shōnen Jump+. Spirit Photographer Saburo Kono (心霊写真師 鴻野三郎, Shinrei Shashinshi Kouno Saburou) published in the 35th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Aug 11, 2020; DC3 (DC3デイーシースリー, DC3) published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in Aug 2, 2021; We Were Born (私たちは生まれました, Watashitachi wa Umaremashita) published in Weekly Shōnen Jump on January 4, 2021. The volume included the Dreams Come True (夢が叶う, Yumegakanau) epilogue story for The Promised Neverland. The epilogue manga was first featured at an art exhibition for the franchise in Tokyo and was previously unpublished in any volume. Lastly, the collection included a previously unpublished one shot specially drawn for the book. Shueisha released the collected tankōbon volume on September 3, 2021. It was published on November 8, 2022 in North America by Viz Media.

Chapters

 * 1) "Poppy's Wish" (ポピィの願い)
 * 2) "Spirit Photographer Saburo Kono" (心霊写真師 鴻野三郎)
 * 3) "DC3" (DC3デイーシースリー)
 * 4) "We Were Born" (私たちは生まれました)
 * 5) "Takashi and Poppy" (タカシとポピー)
 * 6) "Dreams Come True" (夢が叶う)

Author Notes
This is a short story collection!

It features four stories, three of them stand-alone stories released after The Promised Neverland. But all four of them were storyboarded before The Promised Neverland in order to get The Promised Neverland released into the world. (I actually wrote a bunch of stuff.)

That is why they have elements and a feel that is reminiscent of TPN.

These four stories could be called "the road to TPN."

It would be great if you could enjoy them, whether you're a fan of TPN or you're completely new to our work.

How will you like the short story collection?

It's been five and a half years since "Poppy's Wish." I'm full of emotion. And they created the best Japanese title logo for us again! It looks like a theme park at first glance, and that gets me excited.

Characters from all the stories appear on the cover, but TPN takes up such a big space in my heart. So Emma is drawn bigger. Please forgive me for that. Even my drawing speed was faster for TPN characters.

I was looking at an image of a toaster while I was drawing Poppy and got hungry. So when I finish my work today, I'm going to eat a pizza toast.

Well then, I'm looking forward to the next time I see everyone.

This is a special manga that was displayed at the Promised Neverland Exhibit. The staff made the exhibit so wonderful that I'm confident that everyone who came had fun.

But due to the new virus variant, many people couldn't come due to travel restrictions between prefectures, parents refusing to let them go, or restrictions for those working in the health and elderly care industries. I was told that even if they wanted to go, some people had to give up on it.

We were already planning on including this manga somewhere, but we decided to hasten publication and put it at the end of this book.

It's only one part of what was a huge exhibit, but I would be happy if you enjoyed it.

Trivia

 * There is only one one-shot by Kaiu Shirai that is not related to The Promised Neverland that was not included in this book, which is "Ashley Gate no Yukue" ( アシュリー＝ゲートの行方 ) which was published in 2015 on the Shonen Jump+ website.
 * The reason "Ashley Gate no Yukue" was not included might be because Posuka Demizu was not involved with it.