I missed Phil so much, it's baffling how they managed to make the moment when they reunite so bad.
I gotta say, I was wrong with my comment on the last episode, I fell for it, I believed the bald guy betrayed them, I was wrong, the writter/s did not try to artificially create an obstacle to make this climax a climax, instead they went full speed the other way, giving even more advantages to the protagonists, thanks guys, it's not like I wanted to be excited about the finale or anything.
They even try to give the perspective of the demons so we get excited or something, trying to make the audience confused about what the actual plan is. this is what happens in season 1, but in season 1 we had smart individuals with everything going against them, here we get demons that are dumb as shit and have everything against them. the thrill of season one came from seeing seemingly weak individuals overcoming impossible challenges thanks to their persistence and intelligence. Here, it's just supposed to be a power fantasy.
It's like playing a game where you grind until you become invincible, and only after that you kill the final boss, it doesn't feel good, there's no thrill, no challenge. but this episode isn't the black sheep of the season, this has been a long time coming, demons have been established to be strong but dumb, even the smart ones are seen failing every time due to not thinking ahead of time, the only challenge has been physical power, so once the protagonists have that, there's no fight, the protagonists have the upper hand because they are smarter.
Take a look at code geass, the story of a man that starts with nothing but his intelligence, and thanks to his strong will he gets awarded the power he needed to take on the world, being at a numerical disadvantage most of the time throughout the anime keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat wondering how he is going to overcome it. By then of the anime, and the climax begins, the protagonist has around as much power as the antagonist, and yet it's not an easy fight because the antagonist is equally smart. That was an exciting climax, this isn't.
Whoever wrote Yakusoku no Neverland shot themselves in the foot because there's no way they could have made this interesting. the closest they could have done would be to have a secret super powerful demon final boss that would be stronger than anyone forcing them to start sacrificing people and forcing them to default to the ideals they have been trying to extinguish triggering some inner conflict in the protagonists. The issue is, they can't do that with 2 episodes of climax, it's just not doable.
With how this garbage season and climax are going I wanna try to predict the ending, here are my options:
1- nothing more happens, they make it to the human world, and a) everything is good, or b) everything sucks there. both irrelevant.
2- they have a final super demon boss like I mentioned before, defeat it and nothing interesting happens, at that point, you can go and watch dragon ball or any other garbage shounen that has these kinds of fights
3- demon lord, but people die, creating stakes for the first time in this entire season making it super artificial and boring and it will feel like they are killing off characters just for the shock value to make the villain intimidating, like JoJo no Kymio na Bouken Part 3
As you might notice, all these suck, but as I said previously, I wanna stick around till the end and see just how much of a mess they make this anime.
