The story is constantly keeping you on your toes with characters always pulling out new ideas or tricks on each other, like getting in each other’s face subtly or calling in reinforcements to help them out. It’s an absolutely tense battle of the minds the likes of which I haven’t seen since Death Note, as characters try to figure things out without letting the other side know exactly what they’re up to. The book is packed to the brim with content, moving at a brisk pace that keeps it from being boring. It does an absolutely excellent job at laying out the premise, the plot focus, the setup, the antagonists, establishing the stakes at play, how difficult it will be for our heroes to achieve their goal, and the eerie tone in less than 200 pages. The first volume of The Promised Neverland is about pitch perfect when it comes to story and plot. But even looking at this from the perspective of a newcomer to this series, it still holds up well and will suck you in, making you want what’ll happen next. Knowing everything I know now, I can pick up on all the little subtle hints and foreshadowing going on, seeing more of the genius in the series. However, going all the way back to the very first few chapters again has been great. In working with Mom undercover, Ray set a goal for himself that if he could not save everyone, he would work his hardest to save Emma and Norman if nothing else.I’ve been reading this series since it first debuted back in Viz’s Weekly Shonen Jump in August of 2016 and it’s been one hell of a ride. On top of this horrific discovery, it was clear that Ray knew about the secrets of the orphanage long before Norman and Emma, proving that he had been dealing with the stress of the situation for months, if not years, prior to his friends discovering it. Faced with this horrifying revelation, there was little Ray could do as even if his friends studied their hardest, there was always going to be a child that was sacrificed to the ever growing hunger of the monsters.
Every two months, the child who scored the worst on the test that was administered to the occupants of the orphanage was "adopted", aka fed directly to the monsters.
Ray, who was actually the biological son of "Momma", has more light shed on his past with this new chapter, as the manga dives into the fact that the one time traitor had discovered the secret behind who was "chosen" to be food for the monsters that were secretly running the world.
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