The Fall 2022 Manga Guide
Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland
What's It About?
Go Beyond The Promised Neverland with a short story collection from the master storytellers themselves. Includes an epilogue chapter to the hit series!Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland is a collection of short stories from The Promised Neverland creators Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu. Yen Press will release its first volume both digitally and physically on November 8
Is It Worth Reading?
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Beyond The Promised Neverland is an anthology of one shots from the original creator of The Promised Neverland manga. Each one shot is self-contained enough and combined, the volume does cover a variety of different stories with some more favorably leaning towards science fiction. Despite any differences in character or direction though, each chapter has this inexplicable charm and heart to it. There seems to be this thematic throughline of overcoming personal hardship through camaraderie and making the best of some not so ideal situations. The fact that Kaiu Shirai manages to cheat towards the end of the book and find a creative way to sort of connect all of the one shots together didn't even phase me because for what is extensively a collection of random short stories, such a trick definitely felt earned. The book also contains a sort of epilogue/side story to the original Promised Neverland manga. I won't speak much to the quality of that because I have yet to finish the original manga myself but I can say that even if you're not a Promised Neverland fan who will most likely already pick up this book on instinct, there is plenty here for the average reader to enjoy!
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