Platinum End

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 14

Chapters: 58

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 4, 2015 to Jan 4, 2021

Genres: Drama, Supernatural

Theme: Psychological

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Jump SQ.

Authors: Obata, Takeshi (Art), Ohba, Tsugumi (Story)

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Score: 6.62¹ (scored by 22,871 users)

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Ranked: #14921²

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Popularity: #258

Members: 65,518

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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 was simultaneously published in English by VIZ Media and through MANGA Plus 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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Feb 16, 2025

Boozarda

Recommended

Platinum End is much more than it might seem at first.

True, you might be tempted to believe this show is just another one of those little tournament shows where people fight each other for a random price. And the first few chapters really are just that, but it's not until the latter half of the story that Platinum END really steps up and becomes a modern masterpiece for me.

What begins as a simple winner takes all tournament develops into a fully fledged political discussion about the nature of life, death, destiny, and morality. We meet many characters, each of them bringing up an ...

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Jun 1, 2023

DragonKestrel

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After the terrible and untimely passing of his parents and younger brother, Mirai was forced to live with his violent uncle and aunt. Later, he makes the decision to terminate his life before being spared and granted a second opportunity by Nasse, one of the thirteen angels sent by God. She tells him that before the old God retires in nine hundred and ninety days, he must compete against twelve other God contenders. From this point on, Mirai must start again and determine whether or not his second shot at life is worth fighting for.

The characteristics of the characters were all very different from one ...

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Jan 7, 2025

bergars

Not Recommended

So much to love, but Christ, I can't deny how much I hate other stuff SO MUCH.

I won't be the first guy to tell you that. The story is a simple, straight to the point battle royale. Our boy, Mirai, MC, has suffered extreme misery. His family died, his existence is reduced to being abused at a home with his uncles, for a while at school. For a while, you can only imagine “yeah, he'll become a power fantasy, and get corrupted”, but NO, hold the horse this gets interesting.

The story then presents him with a power. He can either make people forcefully ... love him, or kill them. Wings to fly, and an Angel that tries to make him happy, all for the price of fighting to become god. He must fight a certain number of people, or decide who will be god. Right, awesome, battle royale shenanigans ensue.

The MC is AWESOME here. He doesn't use the power to his benefit, or smartly, or ingeniously, no he's a dude who wants to be happy. He never wanted any of this, so he fights for a proper normality. A job, an education, finding love, he's great. Even if his motivations come from a monologue his parents have him that keeps changing, and adding stuff, depending on how the story moves and changes, I like him.

I hate how EVERYBODY screams at the heavens how he's a beta, or a weak-ass protagonist. Nah, I love him, and his development throughout the story is what made me keep going.

The battle royale shenanigans go, villain introduced, and it got really annoying at the start of the whole Super Sentai shebang. The full superhero's thing, it was just insufferable. The end of that arc was pretty great still, even if it was touching that edgy, over-the-top elements. Killing a child in public, mental control rape, “killing all the uglies”, a murdering lesbian, a super deranged girl with an over-the-top costume in yandere style threatening the protagonist with a WORLD VIRUS. It gets insane at points, where it takes you out like a stuntman on wires for the explosion. Yanked right out of the narrative to utter to myself “ha, ha, okay dude, sure”.

That's the first arc, and the BIG SHIFT. It, then, becomes something entirely different. A story about the philosophy of god himself, and his reason to exist. A scholar got this power too. Man with a novel price, outstanding in every field imaginable, holding a certain, cold, and cynical view of the world. Incredible villain, or not even villain, just a character that challenges this notion, whatever the story set up at the beginning changes right here. It becomes a matter of dialogue, and the effects the plot has over the entire world. The public opinion, the government, how they intrude in the situation, their involvement.

It was at this point we're reaching the ending. It got pretty good, while still having glaring issues, which I could forgive if the story was resolved greatly.

I won't spoil much anymore, but I'll be honest. At this point, we have to talk about the bad. The female characters, in all of this story, are written like dog water. Imagine the flattest, most simple depiction of a woman you can imagine, put them in a sexy, catsuit, and call it a day. All of their motivations are love for the guy, gold-digging, or, if by ANY chance they're interesting, wow, homophobic, mentally manipulated, or emotionally stunted to the point of being called “eternally, and terminally stupid”.

Four female characters, all written terribly. One is a mistake, two is a pattern, three is intentional, and four is just rubbing salt in the wound. Right, so, terrible female characters.

I'm still in for the ending, but with high problems. It won't have a great rating, but the ending could argue for a better level. Oh my God, it's time to talk about the abhorrent ending. No spoilers, if you still want to read it.

Think of this. The main character's philosophy, his whole reason to fight, stops existing just for him, and every other character to have a useless monologue about how “well, this sucks, but it was cool while it lasted”. The ending does change what one expects, it does subvert expectations, and the answer to everything is so interesting, but then, it all becomes pointless. The rug is pulled without any meaning, and it invalidates the WHOLE struggle the characters went through. I wanted it to be GOOD BRO, BUT WHY?

First big arc, battle shonen, with insufferable moments, but a great ending. Second arc, a great philosophical debate about the nature of religion, and the world around these characters. The ending, AN ABSOLUTE ASSPULL WHICH INVALIDATES THE WHOLE MANGA. It made the good there was, the reason I stayed, completely irrelevant. This is officially one of the worst endings I've ever seen in a manga.

4/10. Not less, because the rest was pretty great. The MC was so good, and the second half was my cup of tea. That ending will remain in my mind as one of the MOST terrible I've read.

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