The Promised Neverland: The meanings of Isabella's Lullaby (and the second season opening song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEz5ckRV6U - 16:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rYe2KjsXUY - 11:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WFaMvWZjg - 4:40

     The Promised Neverland is a series that is both an anime and a manga.  I do not think the manga is

always better than the anime (this depends on the series), but that there are definitely differences

between them (a good example is the series Dororo, which is one I reflected on recently).  Differences

between anime and manga involve how things are done based on what anime is and what manga is.  I 

am not sure if this really accounts for the differences between the anime and manga, particularly season 

2, but I still like the second season and the anime being different from the manga means, or should 

mean, that it is not the same as the manga and that the anime is not worse than it.  Music in anime 

usually lets you know when something happens (just went over that with my classes this past week), 

which is obviously something manga cannot do.  This is something that the first video focuses on a lot, 

but a specific example of music in the anime version of The Promised Neverland is seen in the second 

video and in the third video.

     The specific example of music in the anime version of The Promised Neverland seen in the second

video is Isabella's Lullaby.  This video for it talks about how the meaning of this song changes

throughout this series.  This also includes its characters.  For certain characters, this song has a different

meaning than it does for others depending on what they are doing, or what is happening at the

moment, and their reactions to what is happening.  Sometimes, a reaction can be singing.  What the

singing means is up to the singer.

      The specific example of music in the second season of the anime version of The Promised 

Neverland seen in the third video is the English cover of the opening song for the second season.  Not 

liking the anime is one thing.  Not liking the opening song is another.  I do not recall hearing Isabella's 

Lullaby in the second season at all (maybe in the montage at the end of the last episode?), but even if it 

was used at all, the opening song definitely explains the second season better.  Even before hearing the 

English cover, I felt like this is what the opening and season itself were saying.  There was a lot going 

on, even if you didn't like how it happened (as an anime only person, I can definitely see it was rushed, 

particularly with the last few episodes), and the music for the opening definitely reflects that.

     Anyway, music is something that can tell you what is going on in anime.  This is seen in the anime

version of The Promised Neverland with Isabella's Lullaby and what this song means to certain

characters throughout the series, as well as what the opening for the second season means.   


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