Awesome / The Promised Neverland

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In a world where every character does what they need to do to survive, sometimes even facing impossible odds, you can bet there will be plenty of awesome moments.

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Introduction Arc (Chapters 1-9, Episodes 1-3)

• The establishing character moments of the main trio. Though they are all child prodigies, there is something that makes them unique.
  • Emma is an academic athlete, while not being as smart as Norman or Ray, she is still the most physically fit member of the orphanage as she outruns Norman who had previously caught all the other kids in their game of tag.
  • Norman is a prodigy even among the trio, consistently receiving perfect scores in all his tests and stated to be a strategist by Ray for always thinking ahead.
  • Ray is an instant expert at everything he does, almost always being seen with a book in hand, giving him a photographic memory as he retains the knowledge of everything he reads for later arcs.
• The anime includes some impressive shots when Emma and Norman search for Conny, that are rarely seen in other modern anime.
  • A tracking shot when they approach the truck.
  • A rotating shot when Norman sees Emma's terrified reaction.
  • A close-up headshot when Norman approaches the back of the truck.
• Emma and Norman correctly deducing the shipping order the demons use and that they eat more developed brains with no evidence except for what he and Emma saw the previous night.
• Isabella gets one when she secretly reveals that her pocket watch is a tracker. Though she still doesn't know Emma and Norman know the secret, showing it is treated as a declaration of war, telling the two she won't let them escape.
  • In the manga she has Emma, Norman and Ray along with Don and Gilda, clean out the storage room for Sister Krone under the guise of chores. This successfully hinders the main trio's escape plans and tricks them into welcoming a new enemy into the orphanage.
• A villainous example but when Isabella meets with Krone in her office, Krone reveals that Isabella is the youngest selected for a 'Mama' position and producing the best 'merchandise' among all the plantations.
  • Another one is where Krone memorises the personal information of at least seven children in seconds, which appear to resemble essays.
• Emma deducing where the tracker devices are by taking page out of Norman and Ray's books and successfully finding one in the back of the ear of the newest orphan, Carol.
• The tag game during the last episode is definitely the highlight of this arc, for several reasons:
  • Emma has the idea to play under the guise of training to prepare the rest of the orphans for the upcoming escape, using her skills as an Academic Athlete to train the children into pushing their bodies to their limits while Norman and Ray teach them how to sharpen their minds.
  • Krone demonstrates the full extent of her training when she volunteers to play with the children. This includes her enhanced strength by destroying a tree with her bare hands and enhanced speed, successfully catching everyone except Emma (at first), Norman and Ray in under twenty minutes.
    • A villainous example, Krone also makes Emma experience a Heroic BSoD when she corners her by mentioning the harvest and listing off the main trio's weaknesses, successfully leading to her capture.
  • Though Krone is nearly victorious, Norman and Ray demonstrate their exceptional skills by outmaneuvering Krone in over 8 minutes, almost half the original time-limit.

Escape From the Farm

• Chapter 32 - How does Ray finally convey his thankfully not-so final "fuck you" to the antagonists? He douses himself and the dining room in gasoline and sets himself on fire.
• Chapter 33 - The kids finally outwit Mama in spectacular fashion, fooling her into thinking that Ray set himself on fire long enough to drop the trackers, which they had almost all already removed, but weren't planning to dispose of them until just the right time. By the time she realized something was amiss, everyone was long gone and virtually untrackable. Plus, Emma foils Ray's suicide attempt, revealing that Norman predicted he would try a stunt like that, and factored that into his plan. The escape is finally happening, and Ray left completely shocked.
• Chapter 34 explains the how. Emma bitchslaps Ray into getting a hold of himself. Turns out all the other kids were brought into the plan by Don and Gilda over time, and they used Ray's clothes, some meat and Anna's braids to convincingly emulate the smell of burning flesh, hair and clothes. Turns out Norman discovered the fire plan in advance, and realized that the key item Krone left was the materials to make a key. In the present, Mama is thrilled that the kids are still alive, and preparing to use some kind of device to track them... Only for Phil to show up and surprise her. What's he up to...?
• It gets deeper. Phil was the only four-year-old who was in on the plan, and he was smart enough to figure out something was already up with the 'orphanage'. He volunteers to distract Mama and be left behind with the other kids. However, Isabella is able to sound the alarm earlier than Emma's group hoped. The chase is on.
• At the age of four years old Phil had not only worked out that something was terribly wrong with the orphanage, but upon being told the reality of their situation, he not only copes with a truth that would cause a Freak Out in damn near anyone, but he voluntarily stays behind to do what he can for the other kids AND to distract Isabella so the older kids can escape. Given how much thought he'd already put into the situation, it's not likely he thinks everything will simply work out and his own escape is guaranteed. Possibly the most Badass Adorable person ever.
• Chapter 36: The bridge is too far and the enemy knows the bridge is their only way out. So what do the kids do? They pick a spot that they figured out would be closest to the wall, and use special equipment they prepared to attach ziplines to the trees on the other side. By the time Isabella figures out what the kids did, they're long gone. Barring any other possible security outside the complex? The escape was a complete and total success.
  • The last page deserves mention. As the kids escape into the woods, Emma gives her on final glance before running after them. You can still see Isabella standing on the wall as she runs off, just processing what happened. Her farm is in ruins and her remaining livestock isn't ripe yet, her crowning achievement as a Mama was stripped away from her by the girl she shaped to be her successor, and she allowed a mass breakout to happen on her watch. They won. She lost.
  • Even more awesome: Ray believed only he, Norman and Emma would be able to escape, and that the other kids were dead weight. Nope. If anything, it was because everyone above the age of 4 used their ingenuity, careful planning and training (with Ray and Emma being the distraction for two months to take Mama's attention away from the others) to be able to enable all 15 kids in the escape group to get away successfully, and in a way neither the adults nor the demons would be able to anticipate, and in a way the original trio could never have achieved on their own. Everyone was able to contribute meaningfully to the group's triumph.
• Chapter 37: Now it's Isabella's turn. She accepts her defeat, silently wishes the children who escaped all the best and hopes that they stay safe, and gathers up the ropes and covers up all evidence of Emma's party escaping over the ravine, knowing her superiors won't even realize they've already escaped until they've spent a long time on a wild goose chase inexhaustibly searching the whole complex. And the chapter ends with the escapees seeing their first sunrise as free children, excited but also aware that they need to keep working hard and continue to stay on their toes to survive. The escape arc is over.

Manga

• Chapter 54: ETR3M8 has Emma held hostage with a gun, and is threatening to kill the other kids if they don't leave their pen and get out. How do Ray and the others manage to save her? They don't. While Ray's still thinking, Emma hits ETR3M8 with a Groin Attack, proceeds to determine he was bluffing, and tells him off for threatening her family and giving up on his. It hits him so hard he passes out after having an implied hallucination.
• Chapter 66: Emma ends up in a Hunting the Most Dangerous Game where demons hunt children. When she learns most of the contestants are from other orphanages and sees a group about to be killed, she grabs an axe and tosses it at the demon's weak point. He's saved by Grand Duke Leuvis, a demon that sees Emma as the perfect hunt.
• Chapter 74: Turns out Norman isn't just smart by Grace Field standards. He's been moved to a facility where the tests are even harder and they're amping up the difficulty faster and STILL GETS A PERFECT SCORE EVERY TIME.
• Chapter 77: Gillian and Nigel pull an epic double-team and take down not only one of the demons, but all his retainers as well. Bonus points to Gillian, who at one point dual-wields GATLING GUNS.
• Chapter 78: Luce receives his Karmic Death at the hands of Nigel and Gillian. The Dirty Coward pathetically failing at fleeing and then begging for his life at the hands of the kids he tormented before Gillian finally puts him down is a sight to see. Not so tough without your henchmen, are you Luce?
  Gillian: You have ten seconds.
  • While the human characters had previously killed the less intelligent demons, the smarter ones they only survive against by running. This was the first time we actually saw them fight back and kill one of those demons.
• Chapter 86: Nous has taken out most of team Nous & Nouma. He can still detect Violet's presence, and has her on the ropes when Ray and ETR3M8 show up. He detects Ray's presence, but not ETR3M8's, who kills him in one blow.
  ETR3M8: You want to be a sniper, kid? This is how you do it.
• Chapter 91: The kids are getting desperate, but they still have Lewis on the ropes. So far, they damaged his mask, they figured out the weakness in his regeneration, so now they're just firing their guns as much as they can. When Lewis tries to escape by fleeing outside, the Stranger hits him with a sniper rifle. Then when he thinks he's ready for everything, the big child Adam punches him in the face, catching him off guard!
• Chapter 92: The kids' battle with Lewis turns the whole park into a battle ground as they pull out all the punches such as Adam throwing chunks of buildings at him and all the other kids shooting him with whatever they got to destroy him for good after figuring out his regeneration is slower than the other demons, having age finally catch up to him.
• Chapter 93: At the end of the previous chapter, Lewis regained his eyesight and impaled Emma. She's bleeding out, but refuses to die, remembering what Lewis and the other demons had been doing to the kids at Goldy Pond. As she forces herself back to her feet she asserts she isn't dying until she achieves the future she desires. Even Ray is shocked to see that she's still able to stand. As everyone surrounds Lewis and opens fire, he is certain he's won since with his eyesight back he can catch all the bullets. He realizes too late that what Emma fired at him wasn't a bullet, it was a flashbang. The entire following page was a blank white panel to show how Lewis was once again blind, and he that he has lost as the barrage of bullets rips into him. He survives, but his injuries allow ETR3M8 to put a bullet in the eye.
• Chapter 95: Everyone leaves Goldy Pond and starts the Self-Destruct Mechanism. Bayon's servant are wondering what new humans will be brought in for the next hunt, and then they notice a beeping that they are unsure of the source of. Ray proclaims that with the destruction of the demon's secret hunting grounds they made a step in changing the world before explosives go off and what is left of Goldy Pond sinks into the water. Chapter 97 stated Bayon's servants all sunk into the water and drowned.
• Chapter 102: The Grand Valley kids show their stuff by making demon disguises good enough to fool actual demons, with the only things giving them away being their feet. Even then, it's implied that they've made these intel runs many times without bringing any sort of suspicions.
• Chapter 104: Lucas ambushes and takes down a commando with a clothesline. A ONE-ARMED clothesline.
• Chapter 106: Lucas ambushes and kills another commando, this time with a bullet to the head, even though he's handicapped by having one arm. This puts a hole in the team's encirclement plan that allows the kids to make their escape from the shelter.
• Chapter 107: ETR3M8 ambushes and kills a commando, uses his radio call the rest of the team saying that he's killed three of them already, and he's going to kill the rest of them. If they want to kill him they can try, but he swears he will make it out alive. Andrew doesn't take him for a threat, until more of his men are killed. He never imagined he any escapees from Glory Bell would still be alive and have developed the skills to kill so many of his team.
• Chapter: 108, Lucas and ETR3M8 have bother been injured by Andrew, who mocks the former for trying to drag away an injured comrade instead of leaving him. ETR3M8 fires back that it doesn't matter what Andres does, Emma will change the world and end system where humans are killed for food. Andrew responds that his words are meaningless, he will kill the children, that is until Lucas turns out to be Not Quite Dead and fires at a tank that releases combustible gas and ETR3M8 fires off a shot from his gun that ignites it. Andrew is shown in Chapter 110 to have survived the explosion, but he's badly injured and lost his composure.
• Chapter 112: The death of the squad leader sent to kill the "cattle children". Half his body is mangled thanks to a well-aimed grenade, yet he's managed to kill two of the children. So what do the survivors do? They shoot him in the joints and the hand then take off running just as a feral "demon" arrives to eat him alive.
  • Incidentally, right before his death he derided the children as livestock meant to be eaten. Tempting Fate much?
• A botched infiltration to a factory farm leads to the kids getting noticed. As Emma attempts to escape with Anna they find the demons waiting for them at the entrance they sneaked in through. The demons fight over and nearly eat Emma before Zazzie shows up and slices throw the head of two of them while stabbing the other through the eye. The last one runs away scarred, only to get his head slashed apart to. Emma isn't even sure if he's human after seeing that.
• Chapter 120: Norman explains his plan: to use the Lambda children genetically experimented on by the demons to help destroy the farms and free all the cattle children and kill all the "demons". And these same Lambda children come with many different traits: super strength (like Adam), heightened intelligence, faster agility, etc. These are qualities the "demons" gave them via experimentations to produce better quality meat that can be sold cheap. And Norman wants to use those children to make an army.
• We finally meet the Five Nobles and the ruler of the "demon" world herself, Queen Regula Valima. Not to mention witnessing what kind of forces that are available at her command, defining how much of a threat she really is.
• How do Emma and Ray figure out the secret of the Mind Fuck room that leads to the "demon" god? By simply using their imagination.
• After Legravalima kills Geelen and his clan, Cicero, Barbara, and Vincent wear her down enough that Zazzie is able slice her head in half. Even after that, Legravalima still refuses to die and when she she's Norman enter the room she suffers a Villainous Breakdown, stating in the demons' language how she always wanted to eat him, had him transferred to Lambda in hopes she could one day eat him herself and now that she sees him, she will devour him. Norman responds her in the same language that no more humans will be food for the demons, shocking Legravalima as she never expected to hear him understand her words and speak the same language.
• Chapter 158: Musica defeats the Queen not by fighting her or even talking her to death. But by taking pity on her, revealing to her that no matter how much she ate and consumed and absorbed, she could never get enough and now it's taking a toll on her body. All the people and demons she's devoured and the toxins she's absorbed, they're all destroying her body. She even says "You Are Already Dead", and the Queen basically starts imploding only a couple of panels later.^note A fan translator noted that, yes, this was a literal translation, even right down to the Queen saying "Na... ni...?" Musica pulled a Kenshiro without doing anything.
• Chapter 170. Isabella rallies the Mamas to turn against Ratri.
  • The best part is that Ratri himself enabled her to do it. If he hadn't made her Grandma, she never would have been able to get all the Mamas together in one place.
• Chapter 172: Emma and her crew finally have Peter Ratri cornered. He mocks her for wanting to talk it out with him, calling her a naïve idiot and questioning why she would ever forgive him. What does Emma do? She stands her ground, stating she'll never forgive him, but that she doesn't want to kill him; all she wants is to be free. She delivers a Breaking Speech so effective that Ratri is completely shaken out of his worldview and slits his own throat a final penance. Emma, despite every possible odd being against her, stuck with her values and brought about world revolution— not in spite of her All-Loving Hero status, but because of it.