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television series is animated by

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and directed by

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, with Toshiya Ono handling series composition, Kazuaki Shimada handling character designs, and Takahiro Obata composing the series' music. It adapted the "''Introduction''" (chapters 1–9) and "''Jailbreak''" (chapters 10–37)

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from the original manga series of the same name written by

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and illustrated by

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. The series was announced in the 26th issue of ''

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'' on May 28, 2018, and aired from January 11 to March 29, 2019, on Fuji TV's late-night Noitamina anime programming block. UVERworld performs the series' opening theme song "

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," while

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performs the series' ending theme songs "Zettai Zetsumei" and "Lamp". __TOC__

Episode list

International broadcast

The series is available with multilingual subtitles on iQIYI in South East Asia.

Notes

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Promised Neverland, The The Promised Neverland episode lists 2019 Japanese television seasons