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.

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 zipline 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 world '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 offscreen 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 offscreen because Him appeareas 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.

Mister

 * 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.
 * He died as he traveled to his destination.
 * His body was shown but not his face.

Lucas

 * This character exists in the anime because of the names in the walls
 * His face was not shown.

Andrew

 * There is a big chance that he exists in the anime because the house pursuers attacks in the shelter, He might leading them. There is a big chance that the wild demons ate him same as the manga.