Which is better, the manga or the anime? The source material or the adaptation?

I’ve never been a fan of writing that begins “Since the beginning of time” or “Throughout history”. In general, I detest generalizations. Yet this once, an exception seems very appropro.

Ever since anime started adapting manga (and v.v.), fanbases have fractured into civil wars (or counting the Internet, uncivil wars).

We’re three episodes into the anime of the Promised Neverland, today, and so we’ve got enough to start getting the feeling of the show. And while there have necessarily been some minor adjustments from the manga, this is the first time the anime has provided some extended material not in the original.

The plot is very much the same, which is essential in a narrative as carefully crafted as TPN’s. What is new is the presentation of certain characters, rounding out facets of their personalities in innovative ways. We’ve already seen some slight tweaks to Emma and Norman; now comes the Les Miserables edition of Sister Krone.

In the manga, Krone is a cunning, conniving Mother-aspirant. In the anime, she’s a cunning, conniving Mother-aspirant who treats an ugly doll like a real baby (except when she’s flinging it against the ceiling). And she also tells the “baby” her plans to double-cross Isabella in song. Sister Krone? More like Sister Croon.

“The hills are alive, with the sound of music…”

In sum, she’s a few episodes short of a cour, if you get my drift.

In the manga, Krone ultimately comes off as someone we can feel sorry for (won’t say why, because spoilers). She, like Isabella, is trying to make the best of a situation stacked against since she was born. The anime has the potential to make her even more of a sympathetic character, by hinting at a frustrated maternal side and by portraying her as borderline banana nuts. Only time will tell whether the series can pull it off.

It would be really awesome if it succeeded.

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