How The Promised Neverland Manga Encourage World Peace

 Although The Promised Neverland is a good manga for children and young adults, it can actually bring peace to the world. It is because this 2016 manga tells us about how greediness destroys our way to live in harmony despite diversity. TPN makes us realize that we can live together without minding our differences or even make friends, just like Emma and Mujica’s friendship.

Since the beginning, we are being shown the manga villain’s greediness and the impact on the main characters’ lives. The monsters as the villain are so eager to produce food which is the children themselves. They won’t stop until they make the best and plentiful children to be eaten. They do it because human is the only food resources for them in order to survive. No children, no human, no food, and then they die. Sadly, it means the monsters must keep producing human children to keep alive. This fact will of course burning hatred from the victim. The anger will bring a grudge and revenge is the only way to redeem it. Revenge means there’ll be more violence and hatred among them. Thus, living peacefully is impossible.

There’re several keys in TPN to maintain world peace.

First, every living thing has fundamental rights. Whether human, animal, or plant, they have their own rights to live and grow. Emma shows this by praying after gets some food. Shinju, the other good monster, explains it as an act of asking for blessing from God. If God doesn’t bless the food, they shouldn’t eat it. It shows us that even dead animal as food has rights. To respect it, they must take a pray. If animals and plants have rights, humans have it too, right? If we need to respect animals and plants, why are we kill humans, especially innocent ones? Isn’t it violate human fundamental rights?

Second, greediness is unstoppable. Once you feel greedy and somehow able to achieve it, it won’t stop. At first, we may only want to take a bite. Later on, we must have the whole plate to ourselves. Our eagerness will make us do everything to get it, including sacrifice other lives. That’s what Queen’s doing. She eats and eats every good grade child to fulfill her own eagerness. It’s not just a way to keep alive but merely agreed to act. Queen’s greediness may bring a lot of advantages to her. But in the end, she’s dead due to her greed.

Something we thought right, maybe wrong in a different point of view. We can’t justify our bad attitude towards others by saying it’s the right thing. It is right for us only, not the other. These are probably what Emma’s thought when she meets the child monster. Emma doesn’t have the courage to kill them. Although Norman wants to banish all the monsters who are killing children, for Emma the children monster is not at fault. They simply eat humans to keep living, just like Emma and her friends. Therefore, ended all monsters won’t be the right answer. Emma’s view is stupid but not wrong. Imagine Emma lets Norman’s squad kill all the evils. They won’t live happily with a bad nightmare as a killer. Emma and the children probably will be dead because of the fight too. So, we need to examine every side before deciding something. We won’t know that our recklessness may initiate a world war.

Last, holding a negotiation between two enemies needs hard work, but it’s better than a war. Violence only brings violence. Sometimes, people need to sit and talk rather than shoots and kills innocent citizens. It’s what the Ratri’s clan try to do before the child plantation. They offered a covenant to the monsters so they survive the killing monster. Sadly, in the end, the agreement becomes the foundation of the children's plantation. But anyway, a dialogue is needed between enemies to clear the problem and making a consensus. War, violence, or genocide only brings a lot more loss than an advantage. It’s time to change. Just like Emma who tries to re-activate the old promise between Ratri Clan and the monsters to avoid a bigger war, a negotiation may become the weapon to ended hatred.

There’re different communities with different goals in The Promised Neverland story. Yet, after years of hard work, Emma able to break the differences and unite all communities. She knows both groups, humans, and monsters, live to fulfill their needs and will do anything even though make the other suffer. Emma, unlike her friends, doesn’t want to destroy all monsters who treat children. For her, any other solution is better than killing each other.  In the end, she chooses the best way to out of the monster’s world without destroying an entire community. She picks a better choice not minding the sacrifices she has to do. All in order to make human lives in peace and save the world.

Emma shows us what a good leader she is by reducing the hatred and finding a balance solution for both of them. She even doesn’t bother to hurting herself for creating a peaceful world. It is something that our real leader may not want to do. A good leader exists to serve the country, not treating their and neighborhood citizen lives just for his advantages.

Who knows a children manga like The Promised Neverland speaks better in order to create a world peace in the real world.