“Yakusoku no Neverland” (Promised Neverland) comes to an end in the 28th volume of “Weekly Shonen Jump” which was released today (June 15th).

The manga series writen by Shirai Kaiu and illustrated by Demizu Posuka began serialization in “Weekly Shonen Jump” back in August 2016 and has been collected in 18 tankobon volumes (as of June 2020).

Shirai wrote, “Thank you very much for supporting this manga for less than four years.  Thank you for the best four years!  I had a lot of dreams.  I am grateful to the readers who supported me by saying, ‘I will now be able to get some sleep'”.

“Yakusoku no Neverland” is being made into a live action film with a December 2020 release date.

“Yakusoku no Neverland” revolves around an orphanage at Grace Field House and this is where Emma, an 11-year-old lives with her friend Norman and Ray along with three dozen orphans.

Life was delightful for these children as they have fun, grow up with each other, eat and play and also study but many love their mama, their caretaker Isabella.

The only strict rules that the children must abide by is to never leave the orphan grounds and not enter a building, because of the dangers of the outside.

Meanwhile, Emma, Norman and Ray are the top students with the highest scores at the orphanage and they also excel in other skills.  Emma is more athletic, Norman is more of a strategist and Ray is a skeptic but is very intelligent.

And their curiosity has led them outside of the orphanage and into the building they were never to go to, when they were younger.

But typically when a child turns 12, they leave the orphanage and are never heard back.  Possibly they are starting their new lives or having too much fun.

So, they thought.

One day, their friend Conny is told she would be leaving the orphanage.  At age six, she was always holding her stuffed rabbit, Little Bernie and while not great in her grades, she was your average normal girl.  And one day, she and mama leave the orphanage.

But Emma notices that Conny has left her favorite rabbit and she and Norman decide to go to the prohibited building to give Conny back her rabbit.

But when they sneak into the car to give Conny her stuffed bunny rabbit, instead they find a bludgeoned Conny with a rose on top of her body sticking out.

Emma and Norman are caught off guard and they see their mama, Isabella talking to demons and learn that the children are kept in the orphanage to be harvested as the demons eat the children.

Shocked and disgusted, the two run back to the orphanage and it was discovered by the demons that two children were there and they left the rabbit.

For Conny and Norman, their whole lives are turned around, now knowing the orphanage is just a harvest farm for children who will be fed to demons and their beloved mama, is actually a demon or working with the demons.

Bringing in their friend Ray, the three now must plan out a strategy to rescue the children and leave the orphanage.

Meanwhile, Isabella (Mama) must find which two saw the truth of what happened to Conny and take care of them immediately.

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