Emma, carrying one of the siblings, and Ray running away from a demon in The Promised Neverland Season 2.

Director: Mamoru KanbeCast: Sumire Morohoshi, Maaya Uchida, Mariya IseLanguage: Japanese with various subtitles

Streaming on Netflix and iQiyi from 1 September

3.5 out of 5 stars

This review covers all 11 episodes of The Promised Neverland Season 2.

The second season of The Promised Neverland continues the story from its first season, after Emma (Sumire Morohoshi) and Ray (Mariya Ise) successfully escape from Grace Field House with the older siblings. While they struggle to survive in the wild filled with all kinds of demons, they come up with a plan to free their remaining younger siblings, and children from the other Farms.

The Promised Neverland is one of the better animes recently, with a thrilling, dark fantasy plot. The antagonists are the demons who devour children, although there is no specific face given to these so-called higher-ranking demons — or at least this is so in the anime (more on this later). These children are specially bred in Farms with the facade of an orphanage, to become as intelligent as possible, and their smart brains are considered a delicacy for the demons.