Everyone, it is with a joyful heart that I can finally make this post.
Chapter 100: aka the last appearance Phil made in the manga.
Until now.
Tomorrow, Chapter 175 will release, marking Phil’s long-awaited return!
The 100th chapter of The Promised Neverland was officially released on August 23rd, 2018. It was 175 days after this that I decided to make this sideblog, originally intended as a joke but also to spread the love for Phil. Since then, you’ve all shown incredible amounts of love for this blog! And I want to express how grateful I am that we could all wait together for the 422 days since I began this countdown!
Now, for the numbers:
Although spoilers have been leaked, tomorrow marks the official release of Chapter 175 on April 11th, 2020.
Phil’s hiatus in chapters: 75 chapters
Phil’s hiatus in terms of real-time: 1 year, 7 months, 19 days (or 19 months, 19 days)
That being said, it’s incredible to see how Shirai has woven the story’s plot together over these past 75 chapters, and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to seeing where things will go from here on out. Phil’s re-appearance was worth the wait, and I’m sure that his reunion scene will be perfectly beautiful~ After all of the hardships he and Emma have endured, it’ll be so emotionally gripping to see him reunite with the other Gracefield children!
I’ll still keep this blog active to post about Phil (which I’ve been more active on than my main TPN account), for anyone who is still seeking Phil content. The final countdown post has been made– Which after almost two years, feels so strange yet relieving to say.
Conclusion: Phil is safe and alive, and here’s to hoping the manga will end that way!
im still so heartbroken that they just completely took them out i was so excited for everyone to jump on the yuugo x lucas bandwagon and seeing all the great art that ppl would make!! :(
It’s a shame that I didn’t have time to post earlier, but the newest chapter (139) confirms it completely:
Ayshe’s narrative parallels Krone’s from the escape arc
I have been thinking that with all the parallels from the escape arc, we have been missing Krone’s tag game and her becoming an unexpected ally to the kids.
But looking at Ayshe now, we can see a very similar narrative:
Both of them are introduced as very dangerous, and are seemingly assigned to just keep watch over the kids and the kids:
Both also have exceptional abilities: Krone is extremly strong and fast, whereas Ayshe has exceptional senses and shooting skills. In both cases they show their skills in a tag game, in a forest, looking for Mujika and Sonju isn’t that different from tag.
There are a couple more panels that are drawn as parallels:
Also, Don and Gilda are easily outdone by both of them:
It doesn’t take much from either Krone or Ayshe to discover Don and Gilda’s intention, and in both cases, they unexpectedly offer to join forces, rather than tattle to their superiors (Isabella in Krone’s case, and Norman in Ayshe’s).
We learn about both that they have their own motives that neither the kids or us as readers expected as to why they don’t want to follow their superiors agenda.
However we also learn that neither Isabella nor Norman trusted them. In both cases they are assigned as guards as merely distractions, and the real “traitor” and information suppliers are Ray (escape arc) and Hayato (new arc), who again no one saw coming.
Edit: Given these parallels, I don’t expect that Ayshe will be successful in her revenge against Norman. After all, Krone was easily outsmarted by Isabella, but until we see Ayshe with a butterfly, I am hoping that she won’t have to die as Krone did after her failure.
Omigod you’re right! Norman you cinnamon sneaky bastard for making this sort of plan
And I can’t believe we have two people with opposite personality who shares the same role in their respective arc
But it’s true though, we didn’t expect them to be a double agent in the beginning.
It’s really interesting to see the gradual shift of objective from GF children’s POV based on this parallel.
In the beginning, they’re trying to survive by escaping adults and demons. Now, they want to survive too, but they’re trying to save demons as well.
The overall plot has changed a bit and some characters has changed/added, but the parallel stays the same. To make a simple comparison, it’s like
With
A = demons and/or adults
B = children
B1 = children who wants to kill demons
B2 = children who wants to protect demons
And this parallel happens between the one I circled red.
Is that it? Sorry, i’m just trying to make sense of what happened.
Wait. Did I.. just saying there’d be a civil war?
Ahahaha naahh no waayy nope
Very nice reply, thank you!
Yes of course Norman is sneaky, he learned it from Isabella (), and I think it makes absolute sense for him not to trust Ayshe. I think he is clever enough to have noticed that she wasn’t kept as food, based on the circumstances.
Yet he still chooses to use her, because he believes he can handle her. It was a similar scenario with Isabella and Krone. Isabella knew all along that Krone would try to undermine her, yet it wasn’t obvious to us as the readers until Isabella suddenly dealt with Krone.
I hope Norman won’t be as severe as that, but I guess it will depend on the situation. After all, Ayshe may choose to try to kill him or endanger his plans seriously, and he may not have a lot of options to handle her peacefully. She is a dangerous individual.
In terms of the conflict, well, to me the thing isn’t about lining up exactly who is on what side, but the fact that in each case Shirai-san chooses to portray the conflicts as complex problems, and even if people want to get to the same overall goal, they may disagree about how.
The escape arc had its fair share of conflict too, even if everyone wanted to escape:
Emma insisted on rescuing everyone, Norman chose to support her.
Ray wanted to leave everyone but Emma and Norman behind to maximise their chances of survival.
Gilda pointed out that even if they could take a lot more than Ray wanted, it was unrealistic and dangerous to take the toddlers.
Don flipped out about being lied to and punched Norman and Ray.
In the new arc as well, we get different viewpoints that don’t agree. All of the kids (including Norman) want the same: no more humans being eaten by demons. But they have different ideas on how to achieve it:
Emma thinks they can spare all the demons as long as they reforge the promise. Ray supports him.
Norman wants to kill all the demons to maximise their chances of survival.
Gilda for now wants to save Mujika and Sonju at least, but she doesn’t seem so far to have a problem with other, “evil” demons being killed. I wonder if she will speak up about this later, like she did in the escape arc.
Don hasn’t flipped out yet and punched anyone. I think this one is in the brewing, and will come later.
Hayato may be the opposite of Ray, but what they share critically and make them both the perfect spy is: TRUST.
Ray was trusted in the escape arc because he was an old and close friend, if he wasn’t, he would have seemed shady. Hayato is trusted because he seems naive and harmless, but that is exactly what Norman is using. So that’s why they share the same roles.
It’s a shame that I didn’t have time to post earlier, but the newest chapter (139) confirms it completely:
Ayshe’s narrative parallels Krone’s from the escape arc
I have been thinking that with all the parallels from the escape arc, we have been missing Krone’s tag game and her becoming an unexpected ally to the kids.
But looking at Ayshe now, we can see a very similar narrative:
Both of them are introduced as very dangerous, and are seemingly assigned to just keep watch over the kids and the kids:
Both also have exceptional abilities: Krone is extremly strong and fast, whereas Ayshe has exceptional senses and shooting skills. In both cases they show their skills in a tag game, in a forest, looking for Mujika and Sonju isn’t that different from tag.
There are a couple more panels that are drawn as parallels:
Also, Don and Gilda are easily outdone by both of them:
It doesn’t take much from either Krone or Ayshe to discover Don and Gilda’s intention, and in both cases, they unexpectedly offer to join forces, rather than tattle to their superiors (Isabella in Krone’s case, and Norman in Ayshe’s).
We learn about both that they have their own motives that neither the kids or us as readers expected as to why they don’t want to follow their superiors agenda.
However we also learn that neither Isabella nor Norman trusted them. In both cases they are assigned as guards as merely distractions, and the real “traitor” and information suppliers are Ray (escape arc) and Hayato (new arc), who again no one saw coming.
Edit: Given these parallels, I don’t expect that Ayshe will be successful in her revenge against Norman. After all, Krone was easily outsmarted by Isabella, but until we see Ayshe with a butterfly, I am hoping that she won’t have to die as Krone did after her failure.
I think that the poster of the leaks may have forgotten what Yuugo has taught the kids: that’s it’s actually worse to kill a wild demon than to escape it.
They even get more pissed off, and it’s not like it’s that easy to kill them to begin with. If you don’t need to kill it, you are just wasting valuable resources like bullets or arrows.
So Don is probably being more practical than just merciful, but we know Hayato is inexperienced, and wouldn’t understand this yet.
Also, I wonder what kind of plant demon attacks Hayato, if it’s branches like the roots in the caves before they met Mujika, or a bit more like this, lol:
Also, we are yet to have a parallel to Krone’s tag game. I am thinking Ayshe with her superhuman senses may be the stand in for Krone’s superhuman strength and speed.
After all Krone also easily defeated Don and Gilda, so it makes sense then for Ayshe to see through them trying to mislead her:
I wonder if Ayshe speaking at the end is a bit like this:
At least Don and Gilda tried, but like we knew from the start Ayshe had exceptional abilities. Also, I wonder if she hid understanding human language on purpose, or if she is just very antisocial?
@ironthe reminded me that I had made a post before about how I thought Zazie and Phil shared the butterfly association, which foreshadowed their death.
Now the new volume 14 extra reveals that they also share their age… plus they are drawn together….
I have theorized that they might die during the same events (when the crew inevitably invades Gracefield to rescue Phil and something goes terribly wrong). I wonder if these panels are a foreshadow to their meeting and death together…
Not good news to those who are worried about Phil’s fate
At least this new info finally debunks the Zazie is Leslie theory without the shadow of a doubt.
