YAKUSOKU NO NEVERLAND © 2016 by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu / SHUEISHA Inc.

21st Manga Division Jury Selections

The Promised Neverland

Manga published in book form, in magazine

SHIRAI Kaiu / DEMIZU Posuka [Japan]

Outline

The 38 children that lived in the Grace Field House orphanage with their caretaker Izabella, who cared for them as a mother would, had a happy life. Then one day Emma, one of the or- phans there, realized that the orphanage was a prison meant to keep them in, and the cruel reality of what happened to those children who left the facility. Portraying a game of wits lled with suspense as Emma and the others ght their destiny and try to escape.