The supervising editor for Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu’s The Promised Neverland manga said in an interview with Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web news website on Sunday that the manga has reached its “turnaround point.”
Shirai and Demizu launched the manga in August 2016, and the seventh compiled volume shipped on January 4.
After they decided on Demizu as the artist, they spent another half a year refining the character and setting designs.
The editor also said that author Shirai brought to the blueprint for the manga to the Shonen Jump editorial department, and the search for the artist took about three years.