List of The Promised Neverland characters

The author, Kaiu Shirai wanted to create "upbeat and hopeful" characters to echo those heroes from Weekly Shōnen Jump's series.

He stated that Emma is the epitome of the positive attitude, Norman is the mainstay of the group and Ray has an opposite and darker personality.

[1] Originally, Emma was a less decisive and active character, Norman had a "lighter" mood, and Ray was "more extreme", but Shirai and the series' editor, Suguru Sugita, decided to tweak the characters' traits and personalities, something that, according to Sugita, continued as the series progressed.

He added that, as a girl, Emma has the choice to become a "Mom" or to try to run away, and to Shirai that was more interesting in terms of the storyline.

[3] Shirai created a base of drawings with images and expressions of each character and the artist of the manga, Posuka Demizu, fine-tuned their features and attitudes.

She enjoyed drawing both, as children reminded her of the period when she was doing illustrations and the demons came out of personal taste for "all that is fantastic and scary".

[3] According to Shirai, they were about it very early to imagine the design of the demons and the new characters, to have time to think about it well and to not be rushed by the rhythm of weekly publication.

Emma and the others thought he had died, but when Norman was shipped, Peter Ratri appeared as his foster parent, and was sent to a new plantation called Lambda Λ7214 to be eaten by the queen.

Human-eating demons assume a large human-like humanoid form with polydactyly and wear armored masks to protect their central eyes, their only truly vital organ.

Also known as Area A08-63, Goldy Pond was originally William Minerva's base for human escapees and located underground to evade detection.

His victims were the children he bought from premium farms (mainly the Grand Valley House Orphanage), but sometimes also poached humans from the outside world.