Warning! Contains spoilers for Fabricant 100 Chapter 15!The Promised Neverland‘s brutal premise made it Shonen Jump‘s darkest series, but a new manga has put a twist on its central idea that is so much darker. That series is Fabricant 100 by Daisuke Enoshima, which follows Ashibi Yao as he tracks down and kills the Frankensteinian creatures known as Fabricants that murdered his family. These Fabricants strive to acquire high-quality body parts to incorporate into themselves, leading one to set up a farm similar to the one in The Promised Neverland.
In chapter 15, translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash, Ashibi and his companion Fabricant 100 defeat a Fabricant who has been kidnapping children and harvesting their bodies. Before they die, they think back to one of the children they raised, who had been shunned due to a mark on her face. When they told this child one day that they didn’t care about the mark, she became very happy and started to grow incredibly close to the Fabricant. When the day came for her hands to be harvested, the child gladly gave them up, saying that they were a sacrifice she’d gladly make for the years of happiness she had found living with the Fabricant. This is an incredibly twisted attitude that The Promised Neverland never explored.
Fabricant 100 Makes Its Take on The Promised Neverland Darker
The Promised Neverland was an innovative Shonen Jump manga by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu that ran from 2016 to 2020. The series focused on a world where demons raised human children as livestock on farms, similarly to this Fabricant raising its orphans. But in The Promised Neverland after finding out about their fate, the children naturally rebelled and attempted to escape. While there were some betrayals and exceptional children could become Moms to escape their fate, none of the children developed Stockholm Syndrome and welcomed their harvesting. This makes their situation a bit less disturbing than the one in Fabricant 100.
The comparison between the two series seems to be almost purposefully established by Enoshima, as the unnamed orphan in Fabricant 100 is a red-haired girl like Emma, the main character in The Promised Neverland. This makes the panel depicting her joyous death even more disturbing. The fact that the entire flashback is narrated from the unfeeling viewpoint of the murderous Fabricant makes it even darker and further sets it apart from the other series which mainly focused on the viewpoints of the humans.
Hopefully, Fabricant 100 Will Get Even Darker
Of course, The Promised Neverland‘s entire first arc was set on the child farm with Fabricant 100 only diving into the idea for one chapter. But the latter manga’s darker take on the concept hints that it is willing to be more twisted. This isn’t the first time Fabricant 100 has put a dark twist on a popular manga, but it is the most extreme example of it. And since Fabricant 100‘s more episodic nature lets it turn every Fabricant encounter into a disturbing vignette, the series can lean into its new title as Shonen Jump‘s darkest manga to present fans with even more disturbing stories in the future.
Fabricant 100 Chapter 15 is available to read from Viz Media.
