# Promised Neverland ・ Volume 4
**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168
**Category:** Book Clubs
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168 "2025-05-09T21:30:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/1 "2025-05-09T21:30:39Z")
# Volume 4 Discussion Thread
**Start Date:** 10th May 2025
**Promised Neverland Reading Club** : [Home Thread](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/66980)
**Previous Volume:** [Volume 3](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/69516)
**Next Volume:** [Volume 5](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/70734)
## Reading Schedule
| Week | Chapter | Start Date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Week 1 | 26 | May 10 |
| Week 2 | 27 | May 17 |
| Week 3 | 28 | May 24 |
| Week 4 | 29 | May 31 |
| Week 5 | 30 | Jun 7 |
| Week 6 | 31 | Jun 14 |
| Week 7 | 32 | Jun 21 |
| Week 8 | 33 | Jun 28 |
| Week 9 | 34 | Jul 5 |
## Discussion Rules
- If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
- Please mention the chapter and page number.
- Please use spoiler tags for _ **major** _ events.
- If you read ahead, please hold questions until during or after the appropriate week.
**Don’t forget to set this thread to watching!**
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/2 "2025-05-09T21:33:56Z")
# Chapter 26 - 生きたい
Start date: 10 May 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/2))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 8:51am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/3 "2025-05-10T08:51:15Z")
> **Chapter 26**
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> Great first chapter! This manga is really good at building suspense. Nothing really happened but I was absorbed in every page!
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> I also really liked the scenes where Norman was seeing scenes in the top of his water glass.
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/4 "2025-05-16T19:14:58Z")
# Chapter 27 - 死なせない
Start date: 17 May 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/4))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/5 "2025-05-23T18:29:09Z")
# Chapter 28 - 潜伏(1)
Start date: 24 May 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/5))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/6 "2025-05-30T17:06:00Z")
# Chapter 29 - 潜伏(2)
Start date: 31 May 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/6))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/7 "2025-06-01T20:26:07Z")
> **Chapter 29**
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> That was an intense chapter - the goodbye was very sad. This sort of moment would be very intense in any story, but seems much more so given he’s only 11 or 12 years old.
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### Author:  [@mtlvmpr](https://community.wanikani.com/u/mtlvmpr)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/8 "2025-06-01T22:13:15Z")
New favorite furigana in this chapter.
唯一の逃げ道へい
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### Author:  [@Cathm2](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Cathm2)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/9 "2025-06-02T01:09:42Z")
Warning: definite spoilers for chapter 29!
I’m really keen to know what Norman was confronted with, because it doesn’t seem to be what he expected. My question at this point is, does he actually die??
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### Author:  [@fyrember](https://community.wanikani.com/u/fyrember)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/10 "2025-06-04T11:23:48Z")
I feel like he will get recruited to be a caretaker, it would make sense for the smartest children to be saved for that so that they raise smarter/tastier food. Also makes sense story-wise so that he isn’t just killed off, but it would also make sense to kill him off to raise the stakes even higher.
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/11 "2025-06-06T17:11:40Z")
# Chapter 30 - 抵抗
Start date: 7 Jun 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/11))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/12 "2025-06-07T09:20:47Z")
> **Chapter 30**
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> Very emotional chapter again. I don’t think it was clear whether Emma pushed the button or whether Norman realised in time what she was about to do and stopped her.
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> @Cathm2 wanted to know if Norman actually dies - we are no clearer yet after the end of that chapter!! But that “え” reaction at the end - he saw something that surprised him!
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### Author:  [@Cathm2](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Cathm2)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/13 "2025-06-07T11:13:10Z")
Umm - isn’t that chapter 29 you’re describing?
Oops - I realised I had actually been talking about chapter 30 when I posted last week as the break point isn’t really obvious…apologies.
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/14 "2025-06-13T17:49:49Z")
# Chapter 31 - 空虚
Start date: 14 Jun 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/14))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/15 "2025-06-20T21:45:41Z")
# Chapter 32 - 決行（1）
Start date: 21 Jun 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/15))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/16 "2025-06-21T21:16:35Z")
Chapter 32 was a cracker! Perhaps one of the best we’ve had so far! We definitely need to carry on without a break into the next volume…
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### Author:  [@Cathm2](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Cathm2)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/17 "2025-06-21T21:41:36Z")
I think chapters 31-32 were where I just read ahead.
I love Emma’s face on the final page of chapter 31.
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/18 "2025-06-27T20:46:03Z")
# Chapter 33 - 決行（2）
Start date: 28 Jun 2025
**Penultimate week** - I’ve put a poll in the home thread as to whether to have a week break before the next volume.
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/18))_
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/19 "2025-06-28T07:30:54Z")
Chapter 33 - another absolutely stunning chapter!
> **Summary**
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> I think Isabella’s absolute confidence that she has everything under control at the start of the chapter, makes her downfall even more sweet. But the moment she finds the ear on the floor was the real highlight for me.
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> Poor Ray - always in control, and suddenly finding everyone else in charge and him just following along. Having resigned himself to death, and even dropped the match - to find himself pulled back into life, and with a new hope and a new plan - he looks absolutely stunned!
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### Author:  [@Micki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Micki)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/20 "2025-07-04T18:55:01Z")
# Chapter 34 - 決行（3）
Start date: 5 Jul 2025
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.wanikani.com/t/promised-neverland-%E3%83%BB-volume-4/70168/20))_
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