Remember when I spent half of the last review prefacing all of my thoughts with a disclaimer about how difficult it can be to divorce my experience with The Promised Neverland from its manga source material? Well, go ahead and multiply all of those sentiments by a hundred this week, because I'm really having a hard time framing the events of “Episode 4” from the perspective of an anime-only viewer. For whatever its worth, I still don't know how pleased I would have been with where the story goes this week. To explain why that is, we can brush aside all of the spoilery thoughts I'll expound upon in the Odds and Ends below and ask one simple question: What does this episode accomplish, narratively? In the beginning, it seems like the answer would be “quite a lot!”, since that ringing payphone that Emma and Ray found contains a recording from none other than William Minerva himself, aka James Ratri, a human who was once associated with the running of the farms before he eventually defected and began planting clues all around the orphanages like the world's most overambitious Escape Room manager. Except, that's really