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Really people all around the world are all clueless.
heres what the ending of platinum end is meaning.

Ohba created the manga keeping the suicidal issues of Japan in mind. It's a manga about suicidal people. And keep in mind he kept all the characters morale, ideologies and mentality as real as an actual human.

The whole story of platinum end revolves around the concepts of depression and suicide. And both are connected to eachother in real life and in the story of platinum end.

Those who don't really know anything about either suicide or depression will never understand the story. The following explanation all revolves around the concepts ... of depression and suicide.

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The "Depression" , the "Suicide" and the "Will/Hope"

"The Depression"

First let's see what Depression IRL is.
Depression (major depression) is not sadness, it's best described as emptyness. You can l be laughing and smiling one moment, everything seems just fine, the world is beautiful and the very next moment and all of a sudden depression kicks in and sucks away your "hope to keep living".

Depression can also be caused by abuse in one's childhood, oh wait that's Mirai.

The embodiment of depression in the ending of the story is Muni the angel of destruction (**explained later)

"The Suicide"

Depression is one of the leading cause of suicide. People prefer death then to keep living in agony.

Depression makes you hollow, it makes you "shallow", it makes you forget who you once were.

The most depressed character of the story, Mirai, is perfect embodiment of real life depression. He choose suicide when there was no "hope" in his life.

The embodiment of "hope" in the story is God (**explained later)

"The Hope/Will"

We all are living becz we have a hope/will to continue live.

Depression can surely suck ones "hope to live."
In the story of platinum end, that "hope" for candidates who were once hopeless upto some extent in life were given a 2nd chance i.e. "by becoming god".

Death of God is the "death of hope" (**explained below)

**Explanation

What u witnessed in the ending is the inter relationship b/w depression, suicide and hope to live.

Since her debut, Muni the angel of destruction (depression) has always shown her desire to bring havoc to the heaven & the God (hope) and ultimately humanity.
Muni chooses Yoneda becz they both have the same goal i.e. humanity's despair (Episode 18 although Yoneda's "despair" is a paradox)
God's death ("suicide") i.e. heaven's fall is what Muni always wanted, and she succeeded.

With no God (hope/will) the lives all around the world ended.

The Meaning: Depression saps the hope/will to live and often results in suicide.

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"The ending events and meanings"

As god, Shuji Nakaumi observes the truth of the world. He saw the differences among people, he saw several people committing suicide.
He asks 'why' the previous god didn't helped the once in need, and instead did nothing.

The *original God* inside him answers "I watched, gods purpose is to create life."
Original God continued and said "you may do anything, you are god, if you want to kill them, kill them. If you want to save them, save them."

Shuji remembered Mirai saying "I will do nothing" and prof. Yoneda's theory of "no need for god."

He came to the conclusion that there is no need for a god as god doesn't do anything in the 1st place. This is where he was wrong,
Shuji wanted to tell Yoneda that his theory of 'no need for God' and 'God being a creation of human imagination' were right. (But they weren't)

Shuji Nakaumi concluded there is no need for a god and gods death will not bother the human world.
The *original God* inside Shuji warned him that and said "Not true, don't do this." (remember this)
Shuji concluded his death won't make a difference in the human world. (remember this)
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The Meanings

The ending is very simple in terms of meanings. It revolves around the concepts of suicide.

The feeling of hopelessness, the feeling of uselessness, the lack of 'color' in life, the lack of interest and desire to do keep living and many many more feelings and thoughts constantly revolve around in the mind of a suicidal person.
Ultimately when these 'negative' feelings overtake the 'positive' feelings, the positive feelings that makes one to keep living, many surrender to suicide.

Note that how I used the words 'positive' and 'negative'. For us normal and healthy minds the feelings of suicide are a 'negative' becz we have a will to live and a hope in life, we want to keep living and suicide is opposite of what we desire.
But for a suicidal person, life is nothing but a living hell. For them, life is the 'negative' and death is the 'positive' as they want to end the suffering .

Another common thought in many suicidal people is, "What difference will it make if I die?"

The ending of platinum end answers that very question. Shuji Nakaumi never ever intended to end humanity. He believed the death of God will make no difference, just like how a suicidal person thinks his death will make no difference to the world around him.

Suicidal people often think their lifes are insignificant, and so their deaths won't really matter. Most of them fail to see what havocs their death can cause to their close ones, just like how Shuji failed to see how his death will effect the human world, and he will never realise how wrong he was.

God does nothing for the world, still his death affects the entire world. With the end of god, there was no one to maintain death. Without death there is no life, just like there is no light without darkness.

Mirai for example, was going to die in agony but was saved by Nasse. He lived a happy life and then finally died happy.

These 2 messages above r what the author is trying to say.

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Some interesting takes from the ending

∆ After God's death, Ogaro said "This couldn't had happen once they (original God & Shuji) were completely fused".
The whole reason to pick suicidal people as god candidates was to make it easier for "The original God" to absorb and fuse with the candidate's mind.

If u didn't knew that even after watching 24 episodes then idk maybe u were watching with closed eyes.

∆ After God's death all life on earth started disappearing in ascending order (young to old).
This is what I think,

This is entirely my theory, I could be right I could be wrong:

Children are most vulnerable to depression BUT they have support of parents and thus the rate of depression in children is quite low. But if children r exposed to a adult's level of depression, they will surely crumble from it.

Now note that females vanished before males (of the same age group).
Studies from different groups all around the world stats that depression rates in females are higher in than that in males.

The last ones to vanish were the olds like Yoneda. Again if you check the stats of how depression affects different ages, studies show that most older adults feel satisfied with their lives, despite having more illnesses or physical problems than younger people. Not saying they can't have depression, but they are old enough can have factors like experience that does help fight depression.

∆ Yoneda couldn't finish his last sentence. "The creature is____..." this is set up my the author so that the viewers can use their own brain and pick what he's saying.

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There are 2 types of people in the world, one who understands Platinum end and one who does not understand Platinum end.

With the 1st half of the show showing about how people deal, live and make decisions with depression (like Mirai & Saki)
How depression affects different individuals and how with help of other humans it can improve. (Like Mukaido with Mirai)

2nd half was about suicide, depression and the hope/will to live. Just like I explained earlier.

Not the most satisfying ending but the meanings in it are an absolute masterpiece.

Platinum end has always been an anime of meanings, philosophies, ideologies, there is so much one can learn *if* they try to pick the meanings b/w the line. But that's where so many people fail, they don't want to use their brains and instead call every as bs and leave.