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What is the SEVEN WALLS and where is the DEMON WORLD? Promised Neverland Theory with MANGA EVIDENCE

So y’all, ready for me to drop one of the biggest BOMB of all? YES, I have figured out both the location of the demon world, and the identity of the seven walls separating it from the human world. Brace yourselves!

What’s more, I have found an OVERWHELMING amount of EVIDENCE to back up my claims. At this point, while not all the details may be correct, I estimate a 99.9% likelihood for the core of the theory to be confirmed.

Anime-only readers, this post is full of manga spoilers, but even manga readers, note:

PROCEED AT RISK OF BEING SPOILED SOME OF THE BIGGEST SECRETS OF THE SERIES

There really is just that much evidence.

But before we get there; I have to explain that I am changing my post format to deal with image limit. I have also decided to do more of a research paper style format to help you understand the points I want to get across.

That means that I will start with a summary of my core theory in the main post, and then I will present all the pieces of evidence in reblogs, along with discussion of each.

Okay, so I have one last thing to say before I make my claims: I want to thank @ajarofearwigs for being a huge help in figuring this one out and listening to my screaming in excitement! Kudos to her actually getting the Seven Walls by making a bad offhand joke… 😂

And without further ado, lets get onto the MEAT of this post (sorry, I cannot not do these bad puns):

The Demon World is…

Oh wait, you didn’t get it? Let me rephrase it:

And the Seven Walls are…

Hmmm I wonder if you are going a bit like this:

So how about you now go and check out the reblogs for an explanation and evidence? Just click on the notes.

THIS NOTE IS HERE UNTIL I FINISH ADDING REBLOGS SO YOU KNOW WHEN I AM DONE

(also damn, looks like tumblr is set on screwing up my formatting if I put in pics later and it needs manual fixing… grrr… don’t be surprised if the pics look jumbled at first)

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(I recommend that you start listening to the actual Disney song, Under the sea from the Little Mermaid while reading this. It will a 100% enhance the experience.)

PLOT EVIDENCE NO.1 - SONJU’S EXPLANATION

Here is a list of things that Sonju states about the situation they are in when he explains the Promise:

-They are on EARTH

-The human calendar YEAR is 2O46

-Demons USED TO live in a MUCH BIGGER WORLD

-The world was SEPARATED into human and demon SIDES

-The demon side that they live in NEVER BELONGED TO HUMANS

Please see the panels for yourself.

While Sonju may not always be completely honest with the kids, when Mujika comments to him IN PRIVATE, she never says that he lied, only berates him for keeping some parts of the story.

Based on those facts, we know that the demon world has to be somewhere on Earth, but the books from the human world suggests that they can completely avoid human detection somehow in modern times. How is that possible?

We literally have explored more of space than the bottom of the deep sea.

IT’S THE PERFECT PLACE TO HIDE A WHOLE OTHER CIVILISATION

It fits the bill, but is there solid evidence for it other than it being the most logical choice?

Also, I bet that demons would want the BIGGER half…

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PLOT EVIDENCE NO.2 - MINERVA’S ADVENTURE BOOK

If you have read my theory on the demons descending from aliens, then you will remember these panels, and me stating that it was VERY CLEAR FORESHADOWING

However, this time I want to talk about the other book, not the mythology book! The adventure book of Minerva that does make an appearance later on.

OOOOOoooooh it has a SHIP on the cover! Funny coincidence, right?

THE ESTABLISHED GUIDE TO THE DEMON WORLD LITERALLY DESCRIBES THE PLACES THEY GO AS THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!!!!!!

SIMILAR RIGHT? (to literally quote Emma from those panels…)

I am not sure if I can spell that one out more clearly. Oh yeah, ofc you thought it was JUST A METAPHOR!

Look, THAT IS exactly THE TRICKS how these authors have managed to hide all these hints from people noticing!

But if that wasn’t enough, here have some FRIGGING SEA ANEMONES.

The hints are not even subtle, and then Kaiu Shirai-san has the galls to lay it on even thicker

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PLOT EVIDENCE NO.3 - GOLDY POND’S CONTROL ROOM

You might have been wondering how my theory could be correct when we have always seen a skies and a horizons inside the demon world? Or when the pressure or lack of oxygen and light at the bottom of the sea would make it impossible to live in.

Well, actually we have seen evidence that both the Goldy Pond sky and the Gracefield sky is fake, and their environments are artifically created and controlled.

There was a whole control room at Goldy Pond which took care of the whole environment inside, you know as if the OUTSIDE ENVIRONMENT WASN’T SAFE TO HUMAN LIFE.

The rest of the demon world must sustain its environment with a technology by the demons we don’t understand yet, but Goldy Pond was fully human built, by James Ratri. He must have done it OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS of normal demon land to escape detection, so then it makes sense why he needed such sophisticated technology to create a liveable environment UNDER THE SEA.

We have also seen similar machinery exposed at Gracefield, and we can assume that the sky the kids looked at there is also fake.

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PLOT EVIDENCE NO.4 - GOLDY POND’S SELF-DESTRUCT

Ah, remember the glorious chapter where the kids activated the self-destruct at Goldy Pond? Oh yeah, wasn’t it funny how the WHOLE place got flooded? Kinda weird way to self-destruct a huge place… unless ofc you have an enormous body of water above it..

oh wait, did you notice how all that WATER got there: SURGING IN FROM THE TOP OF THE MOTHERFLIPPING CEILING.

THAT’S NOT HOW A POND UNDERGROUND FLOODING THE PLACE WORKS. SINCE GOLDY POND WAS UNDERGROUND…

BUT THE FLOODING WATER WASN’T EVEN GOLD…

Any more doubts? Since we haven’t even gotten to the list of visual hints.

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PLOT EVIDENCE NO.5 - The SEVEN WALLS and the Demon Leader’s Riddle

I won’t say that I fully understand the riddle yet, but the directions seem to describe a vortex to me… More importantly let’s focus on what we do know: we have seen Cuvitidala, the dragon, and the place where day meets night.

It’s important to look at that scene again. The place where day meets night… has REFLECTIONS and RIPPLES on it, hmm, just like WATER.

Because it is at the SEA SURFACE. The bottom of the sea is dark, light never reaches there, but at the surface the day meets the darkness, as long as the sun has risen…

Btw it is also established that the Seven Walls separates the demon leader from the demon world, and what separates the ocean surface from the depth of it? That’s right the WHOLE OCEAN.

Which is why the Seven walls are the SEVEN SEAS, just look at the wikipedia description, it’s a perfect fit.

We also have the demon leader tell us a riddle, that fits the ocean solution perfectly.

If that wasn’t clear enough yet, there is plenty of water then swirling around them and yepp,all of their speech bubbles are SURROUNDED BY BUBBLES. AS IF SPEAKING THROUGH A MASS OF WATER.

(Btw doesn’t their clothes also kinda resemble a jellyfish’s top? Or a spineless sea urchin? hmmm but visuals clues I haven’t even started on)!

While I am yet to solve what the golden water is, the fact is that Emma states its related to the Seven Walls so it makes sense that the Seven Walls would be water related.

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VISUAL CLUE NO.1 - ANGLERFISH

That is the first image I found on an ANGLERFISH on wikipedia, that live at the BOTTOM OF THE DEEP OCEAN. Not saying demons are anglerfish, but funny place to draw visual inspiration from, aint it?

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VISUAL CLUE NO.2 - BUBBLES

You know the saying: it’s like they LIVE INSIDE a BUBBLE.

YES I WENT THERE BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY THE IMAGERY POSUKA DEMIZU USES… and it’s NOT A ONE-OFF, it gets repeated again.

That colour poster really drills it home. The background is dark blue, there is water reflections and the glasses falling really look like a swarm of bubbles visually.

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VISUAL CLUE NO.3 - GLOBES TURNED TO the OCEAN

ISN’T IT JUST FUNNY HOW THE GLOBE IS TURNED SO WE SEE OCEAN. LIKE POSUKA DEMIZU TELLING US, HEY FOLKS, LOOK HERE!

Oh, and it repeats…

This one even has a MOTHERDUCKING SHIP RIGHT NEXT TO IT. And yes, you guessed it, that isn’t the only ship imagery in the series.

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VISUAL CLUE NO.4 - SHIPS

So we have seen one on the adventure book, one in the panel above, and then there is this volume cover showing all their escape plans…

Oh you haven’t noticed it yet? Let me show you the detail you missed:

There is also a ship in the secret room with all the toys, and it repeats on the volume 4 inside cover.

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VISUAL CLUE NO.5 - LITERAL WATER IMAGERY

Speaking of which, the outside cover of volume 4 (the one when they made their escape) has our main trio dramatically holding hands, over a pool of water with the GRACEFIELD HOUSE VISIBLE UNDER THE WATER.

OH YES, THIS HAS BEEN THAT LITERAL AND Y’ALL HAS MISSED IT.

(I did too before I knew what to look for, don’t worry).

Btw when Emma almost dies, she also sinks into the depth of the ocean, with Norman and Isabella pulling her out. Good symbolism, riiiight?!

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VISUAL CLUE NO.6 - CLOTHING

I have already noted that our demon leader has clothing reminiscent of a sea creature, and it is certain they know about the water relation.

I am not sure if average demons younger than the Promise know that they live under the sea. But we know Sonju and Mujika knows the world before the promise. And doesn’t Mujika’s dress resemble fish scales? Also that cloak pin on Sonju does kiiinda look like a fish bone, no?

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WILD SPECULATION TIME

Just when you have thought I was done with adding details, I also have to share my suspicion that I might have also found the REAL LIFE LOCATION of the sea where the demon society lives.

So, just South East of Japan, there is a body of water also known as the DEVIL’S SEA and the DRAGON’S TRIANGLE.

If it was anywhere else in the world, I would wave the coincidence off, but this is LITERALLY NEXT TO JAPAN, and the Japanese have folklore about it… That it’s a place where all sorts of strange disappearances happen (like the bermuda triangle), and that a giant DRAGON LIVES THERE.

I think it’s very realistic to assume that a Japanese author could have been inspired by a sea next to Japan…

Also note that it’s an area with hydrothermal vents (geothermally active seafloor that generate lots of energy… probably even enough to sustain a civilization…) and it is to one side bounded by the Mariana trench.

YES the Mariana trench is the DEEPEST PART OF THE SEA THAT EXISTS on Earth.

Oh, and one more thing, in Japanese the Devil’s Sea translates as Ma-No Umi.

(Sooo, what sails on that sea? emMA-NOrman… okay, I apologize, I know I have gone too far here, and into cray cray territory, but the rest is valid)!

Btw the shape of that tectonic plate kinda reminds me of Emma’s medallion.

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Bonus material

Uuum so CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT POSUKA DEMIZU SENSEI HAS BEEN WEARING A SHARK SUIT SINCE VOLUME 1 ?!???

Now I also recommend that you watch the official video of Part of your world from the Little Mermaid to complete your experience 😉

Also, just picture Emma as Ariel, Ray as Sebastian and Flounder as Norman. It’s a guaranteed delightful experience! 🙄😂

Thank you for reading and if you enjoyed it please reblog so it reaches others as well.

Also, I totally love to hear people’s reactions and thoughts! 😊

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The kuzupeko piece from my fanbook, Thrills Chills Kills! A reminder it’ll return for online sale briefly on the 19th, 9pm EST.

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ISAYAMA HAJIME GOT MARRIED IN 2019

(Blog post 12/31/2018)

“And then, this is a private announcement, but I got married this year. Together with my partner, I will keep making progress both as a mangaka and as a person. By the way, there was a time when my former assistant asked me ‘did you get married with Yamamoto Arisa-san?’ The name of my partner is not Yamamoto Arisa. The reason of such rumor was a report manga work from the Magazine Pocket editorial office. A character in the manga shared the same name with Yamamoto-san. The author of the manga has apologized to me ‘sorry I caused you some inconvenience…’ But I wasn’t bothered at all back then. However… we still caused some trouble to this Yamamoto Arisa-san… I will feel really happy if you (readers and fans) can just keep watching over us with a warm heart!

Anyways, I will keep drawing manga in 2019!”

#congrats!#!!!!!