Platinum End is the newest work from Obata, Takeshi and Ohba, Tsugumi mostly known for Death note and Bakuman. So this series should be up to the same quality of those shows right? No, not in the slightest.
Platinum End makes me annoyed, how did it end up this bad? how did the people who created one of the best psychological thrillers also create the worst?
First lets talk about its anime adaptation before the story:
Animation: Fine...Its fine. Signal.MD animated this adaptation of Platinum End and it was mediocre. It was never poorly animated but it was never fantastic either, it was just animated. it didn't take or add anything however the only redeeming quality of Platinum End's manga was how good its art was and that amazing art isn't carried over into great animation...not that this deservers it mind you. So you really are just left for the story to carry this show...which it doesn't.
Story: The story is a mess, a full blown mess. The starting concept is great and hooks you well into the first episode but loses you midway through ep 3 because it becomes Power Rangers with a really awkward forced romance. I am not kidding the show about becoming the next God ends up being a season of Power rangers for like half way through its run time. This show has messages of Morality, Death, what it means to be human, God and if the existence of God even affects humanity... but doesn't explore them until you met Yoneda around end of Ep 18, and the themes? They are poorly done to the point of me questioning why they even bothered. Yoneda says a bunch of nothing bullshit for 7eps and then the show ends with a piss poor ending that leads you thinking
'why did i even go past ep 3?'.
Throughout the whole show you are waiting for it to pick up and it never really does. The starting concept is really cool and even the themes it wants to explore could be interesting but Platinum End cannot decided whether it wants to be a season of Power Rangers or a deep dive of religious culture and what God is and means to people even if a small majority. I am not even going to start to mention the creepy as shit character/Villain of Metropoliman (Again Power Rangers Villain name) and the forgettable and overall shitty cast of characters we are forced to follow. The only redeeming quality about this show is that it ends...Not well but it does end and you can forget about it afterwards and watch something better.
Overall: Dont watch Platinum End, if you want a similar but better show watch Death note. Death Note and Platinum end are 15 years apart but Death note still does everything Platinum End is trying to do and does it so much better, Death note is the better and more loved older brother of Platinum End and that's for a reason.
3/10 just don't
