Platinum End

After the death of his parents, a young Mirai Kakehashi is left in the care of his abusive relatives. Since then, he has become gloomy and depressed, leading him to attempt suicide on the evening of his middle school graduation. Mirai, however, is saved by a pure white girl named Nasse who introduces herself as a guardian angel wishing to give him happiness—by granting him supernatural powers and a chance to become the new God.

In order to earn the position, he must defeat 12 other "God Candidates" within 999 days. Soon, Mirai begins a struggle to survive as a terrifying battle royale erupts between himself and the candidates looking to obtain the most power in the world.

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Platinum End is simultaneously published in English by VIZ Media on the same day as the Japanese release. The volumes were published by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint from October 4, 2016 to March 1, 2022. The series has also been published in French by Kazé since May 25, 2016, in Spanish by Norma Editorial since March 9, 2017, and in Portuguese by Devir since May 6, 2017.

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Jan 8, 2021

Axelthrow

Not Recommended

Platinum end is a bizarre manga, and an interesting failure.

Story (3/10): The plot of platinum end starts out as a death game/sentai parody. It's an exaggerated action manga that is played mostly serious. It has its moments but ultimately just feels over the top in its set pieces and gore, with a cast bizarre side characters who don't last very long. They aren't entertaining and some are just unpleasant to read about, namely the 'ugly' guy and the 'disease' girl.

However half way through there is a direction change, and the plot becomes more of a slow paced political thriller with some moral and philosophical arguments. ... During this time it becomes fairly boring and is a series of confrontations that lead to nothing. After the entire series builds up to a certain event it finishes off with a weak anti-climax and one of the worst endings I've ever seen in a manga in the very last chapter. Some unanswered questions remain so I wonder if the ending was rushed because of declining sales.

Art (9/10): Obata seems to have put some of his best work in his whole career in Platinum end, and that's saying something considering his track record. In the first half of the series the panel style is similar to in Bakuman, with a lot of creative panel shapes and dramatic drawings. At points it is overwhelming and confusing to look at. After the direction change half way through, the panels become more straight and the art less dramatic, it kind of loses it's steam, but still is excellent throughout.

Character (3/10): The characters are extremely weak. The protagonist is very annoying with his refusal to give up his ideals in the beginning. He 'develops' into a boring, passive shell of a character. The heroine of the series and main love interest isn't interesting either and is basically a non-entity after her character arc at the start. Many other characters appear but usually only briefly and are pretty one note. The two main antagonists of the series are weak as well. The first is stereotypical and the second is one-note and boring. Neither of them have motivations that make much sense.

Enjoyment (2/10): This is the preachiest series I have ever read. Multiple times characters will go on long rants about moral or philosophical arguments. But what is conveyed isn't deep or interesting. The themes are basically outright told to the reader multiple times, but they aren't even good. You might think that a manga with lots of moral and philosophical arguments would be interesting, but it's obvious the author doesn't understand the arguments and just reads like someone talking to themselves while missing the whole point. This series is just a massive slog that thinks it is far more intelligent than it actually is.

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Jan 7, 2021

SteelingMax

Not Recommended

I can't believe i got excited to read this trash.

Story(3.5/10): I never thought a Tsugumi Ohba story, would remind me so much of all of the super cringy, gorefilled edgy manga, that were funnily enough inspired by Death Note, it's like seeing Akira Toriyama writing the FanFic plot for Dragon Ball Super.
There was no real meaningful development aside of the first few chapters, no new powers, no new rules, no interesting new concept or even any event that would give any motivation whatsoever to the main character, or maybe make we see him in a different light.
The story grew stale even before the end ...

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Apr 3, 2021

emi_the_em1

Not Recommended

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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

This is my first ever review, so I apologize for the lack of experience, and for its length. Please keep in mind that this is my personal view.

Art(9/10)
The art is amazing. It is very pleasant looking and it fits well with the theme. The characters, the scenery, objects, rooms, cars, buildings, everything is very well drawn. I would give it 10/10, but there are panels, whole pages from time to time, where I had a difficult time understanding what’s happening, or what I was looking at. One thing that bothered me is the unnecessary presence of ecchi shots, ... with butts and breasts.

Characters(4/10)
The character design is pretty good, with some exceptions. When I refer to character design, I mean only their appearance, as their personalities seem dull.
There is little to no character development. You’d expect that from a manga about people being saved from suicide by celestial beings, and given a second chance, there would be a deeper exploration of their feeling, and a change as they interact and fight with each other for the ultimate goal of becoming a god. However, this is not the case, as most of the characters hold tight to their original ideals, especially the main character, refusing to, or rather, being unable to change.

Meet Kakehashi Mirai, the male protagonist of this story. To put it simply, he is a budget version of Light Yagami. Right off the bat you can notice the similarity between the two, when being faced with an enemy, and having to choose between fighting and hiding. His personality is not anything spectacular. He is a suicidal kid that was saved by an angel just to be part of a battle royale game. He seemed a bit cliche, a shounen protagonist whose motives and reasoning lie in the death of his parents and some phrases he has heard from them as a child.

Now, to the female character, Miria’s love interest, and another cliche, (might be a spoiler) his childhood friend (end of spoiler), Saki Hanakago. She is one of the most uninteresting characters I’ve seen in a story, and through most of it, I forgot she was even there. She has little impact in the first half of the story, and later she did have an interesting role, but the way she managed to do what she did seemed kind of bullshit to me.

As for the other characters, we have the antagonists, which seem to be taken out of Jojo in some cases, with extreme beliefs, and sometimes they are forced to be bad just for the sake of being bad, so that the main group has something to fight against. When I say out of Jojo, i don’t mean that they are copycats, i mean to say that they are so badly designed, that they seem to be part of a story that is not similar in the slightest with what platinum end is trying to achieve.

Story(2/10)

The story wasn’t anything special. It didn’t bring anything new to the table, as the concept of survival games to become god, or to acquire some sort of power, has been done before. Some parts of it were unnecessary and didn’t have any meaning. To be honest, this whole story lacks meaning, as after reading it, at least I, personally, didn’t think much of it. I couldn’t find any message or feeling after reading it, and I now consider it a waste of time.

Overall 3/10
It was hardly enjoyable, and even though I'd give it a 2/10, it did have some nice things going for it. I hope the anime adaptation will fix those few major issues and make it easier to digest. It took itself too seriously, just like an edgy teenager would, and it killed itself with that meaningless ending. The story hardly conveyed any message about suicidal victims, and to sum it all up, it was a waste of reader’s time. It was extremely boring. A lot of characters started randomly to rant about psychological matters, rants that would go for pages at a time. And it wasn’t much philosophy, it was always the same concept and debate about whether someone should kill themselves or not, or if it is acceptable to take someone else’s life.

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