Yeah, I was expecting it to be like an island of Ogygia situation, where the Percy Jackson retelling has it as a prison with a 'one at a time' policy (bar calypso herself) and only getting to leave after bonding with calypso and having to make the emotional sacrifice of never seeing her again, with them leaving guaranteed to happen by fate. With a title like 'forgotten island' I thought the island would be a bit more, well, forgotten. The villian actually looks cool (has 'aura') at least.
But theres a whole society who seemingly have lived there for years and seem to have perfectly fine memory of anything that isnt their old life, and life there seems to be fine aside from the 1 hungry demon. So if they safe everyone that seems like kind of a cop-out, because not only would it logistically be messy but I feel like a lot wouldnt want to leave anyways? In Coraline all the previous 'tenants' were ghosts. Even if its a lotus-eater situation its probably still preferable to irl for some when they remember.
And with all these side chatacters im seeing like the wolf boy and the blue fatfuck baby it feels like they didn't trust their main characters to be able to stand on their own with just an antagonist. I mean, they were definitely right bc these protagonists dont seem all that interesting, but still.