The Promised Neverland - Innocent Courage

Kenyatta 2022-03-10 08:02:47

I recently watched the new show "The Promised Neverland". The mood is like a roller coaster, hoping against a background of fear, despair, and sadness.

Completely, allowing myself to feel the joys and sorrows of the characters in the anime.

This feeling is really long gone.

The setting of the anime is an orphanage, 35 children, and a "gentle" mother. Although we are not family, but we are in love with each other, the children love their mother, and the mother also treats the children tenderly. Even Emma, ​​one of the protagonists, hopes that she can grow up like a mother, gently teach and take care of the children .

But the rules of the orphanage are that it cannot be near the gate and the forest. Sometimes some children will be [adopted], and the oldest will be no more than 12 years old. Emma, ​​Ray and Norman are all 11 years old.

Lei always knew that the so-called adoption was nothing more than [shipping] to the ghosts outside. The mother is the breeder and the orphanage is the farm.

Ray "deliberately" let Norman and Emma know about the existence of "ghosts" and the ghost's accomplice "mom".

Then everyone planned to escape.

As my mother said, Ray's advantage is that he is knowledgeable, but his disadvantage is that he judges quickly and gives up quickly.

Ray's escape plan is to sacrifice himself and let Norman and Emma escape, who are the most capable and most eager to protect.

But Emma's disadvantage is naivety, she hopes to run away with everyone.

Norman is smart, but lacks physical strength. He hopes to see Emma's smile, so he also works hard to realize the future that Emma expects.

They gather intelligence and guard against Mom. Find out how to escape.

Thinking it's impossible to escape with everyone, Ray threatens Norman to deceive Emma.

I just watched it at the time, and I thought Norman was right, because no one knew what the outside world was like. If it was all ghosts, it would most likely be wiped out, and those younger siblings would be brought along with them. It's really hard to get out.

In particular, when they went to investigate what the forest outside the wall was like, Mom took action and broke Emma's leg, informing Norman that he was about to [ship].

Like Ray, I feel like it's over.

Ray immediately decided to let Norman escape first, and when Norman came to the fence, he found that it was a cliff.

At that moment, I felt Norman's despair across the screen.

Although I think that since it is an anime, I will definitely not give up. But I also felt that Emma's idea of ​​saving everyone was really an illusion.

Two months later, Ray informed Emma of his plan, and he doused himself with gasoline, intending to set him on fire to cause chaos and give Emma the opportunity to escape.

But Emma, ​​following Norman's instructions, was unable to move her legs for two months.

Quickly adjusted the plan, taking advantage of the blind spot that the mother only stared at "the three of them", and let Dong and Gilda train and inform other children over 4 years old.

Leave the children under the age of 4 in the orphanage, because there are still two years before they are shipped at the age of 6. Emma plans, in two years, to survive outside and come back to take Phil and them.

So for two months, the other children prepared supplies and used hide-and-seek to simulate the escape plan.

Knowing that the other side of the bridge will definitely be caught by a ghost, so he swung over directly with a rope.

They did escape, and I was like Ray, shocked and ashamed. If you don't give up so early.

If you think carefully about whether there is really a way to escape together.

Will he be able to force out his potential? Will Norman be shipped out.

I think that's what Ray was thinking at the time.

When I saw this episode, I couldn't help thinking, me, myself.

When I was young, I finally learned to play chess, but I always couldn't win my brother. At that time, my brother didn't like to play with me, because even if he gave half a word, I couldn't win.

But I always pestered him. Although I was abused badly and lost every time, I wanted to win my brother. When I won half of his words, I let him fight me fairly, and I was killed again. Not left.

But at that time, I still didn't give up, I always challenged my brother from time to time, until I won once, until I forced my brother to start really serious with me.

At that time, like Emma, ​​I never gave up.

But as I grew up, I found that I began to make quick judgments like Norman, and if I judged it to be impossible, I didn't even try.

Just like when I was watching anime, I didn’t expect to finish it now, but I can still trust the power of my companions and keep working hard.

I, who shipped the goods from Norman, imagined that the best ending was that Emma and Ray escaped without thinking at all that the future that Emma was looking forward to could be realized.

So when they actually escaped, I was shocked. After the shock, I couldn't help thinking, whether, in the process of growing up, knowledge did accumulate a little, but less, the naive courage when I was young.

When faced with a challenge now, my first reaction is to judge whether the challenge is beyond my ability, not to think hard about what I can do to complete the challenge.

And when I was young, I believed in eternal belief and believed that I could create the future I look forward to little by little.

But as I grew up, I rarely looked forward to the future.

Compared with when I was a child, I understand and understand more things, but less, that innocent courage.

But it is true that courage alone is not enough, especially naive courage. It is this that should be practiced.

Wisdom + clear self-knowledge + deep thinking + 200% effort and preparation.

Wisdom allows me to judge, what to do and what not to do, self-awareness, let me pay attention to what I can do well, deep thinking lies in understanding the real world, and it goes without saying that hard work, make decisions and then move , Since it is to be done, it must be done really well.

I didn't expect that an anime would make me reflect so much.

Perhaps, the author of the anime also wanted to convey the feeling of [must live, believe in hope, and realize the expected future together], so I drew this type of anime.

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  • Cletus 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    Line: You can't lose. Just do the last two episodes. Nothing ahead

  • Shakira 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    (7/10) After reading the manga version, I dropped two stars for the anime version. The image of the animated version of Emma has been distorted very much. Not only have many lines been deleted, but some plots that can show Emma's intelligence and maturity have also been transferred to Norman, and Emma's other children's drug tests are original animations. ... In the second season, the entire 50-episode plot that best represented Emma's growth was also cut out by the crew. The original author said: [Emma is not a princess waiting to be rescued by a knight, she is a knight. ] But the animation version just wants to portray Emma as a silly white sweet who relies on men. Can Japanese animation allow a smart and brave girl to become the protagonist of the story? As an accomplice that distorts the real protagonist in order to please and flatter certain otaku tastes, it does not deserve such a high score. The last time I was so angry was when the animated version of "Stone Gate 0", the animated version madly deleted the scenes of Zhenfan, and even transferred some touching plots belonging to Zhenfan to others... I wish the publishers BD sales to die.