In an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web Japanese newsite, a Shonen Jump editor revealed that Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's The Promised Neverland has reached the "turnaround point."
According to Anime News Network, turnaround point in Japan means halfway point.
In the interview, the editor revealed that Shirai brought an early script for the series to Shonen Jump 3 years before its publication. That's how long it took for Jump to settle on Demizu as the artist. The lengthy process let Shirai fully plan out the major story-beats of the series before ever publishing a single chapter.
The series currently has 2.1 million copies in circulation in Japan. Viz Media translates and published new chapters in English in their digital issue of Shonen Jump.
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