Platinum End is a mind-bending horror cartoon with the god at heart and the story has many tense twists and turns.
Kodoani.com – Platinum End, a horror anime by the same creators of Death Note, starring the humble, peace-loving Kakehashi Mirai, whose goal is simply to live a normal happy life – and its efforts to win a divine battle to decide who will become the next next lord of the world. It takes more than angel wings and red arrows to win this war.
The story of Platinum End begins as a fairly conventional survival fighting game scenario with an angel theme but soon expands its scope and explores many fascinating themes about the purpose of life, the price to pay for taking another life , what is the true meaning of God and beyond. And these themes are explored in more than a few wild and unpredictable plot twists along the way.
When Nasse chose Mirai as God’s candidate
The first plot in Platinum End ranks among the most important. In fact, if it hadn’t happened, Mirai wouldn’t even have lived to see the rest of the series. After graduating from junior high, miserable Mirai is ready to end her own life and tries to do so by falling off a skyscraper. That’s when the playful angel Nasse literally jumps in to save his life, and Mirai vows to make the most of what she’s done for him.
He was then selected as one of the 13 God candidates who will fight for the throne of Heaven, kicking off the rest of the Platinum End. From this moment on, Mirai will fight to protect her own life and those of those around her. He will never take the path of self-destruction again.
When Mirai’s team defeated Metropoliman
Mirai’s strongest opponent, the armored hero Metropoliman, is ready to win the entire battle with his advanced arrow techniques and insidious methods. This includes sending his henchman Hajime to take Mukaido Nanato’s wife and daughter hostage. During the battle, Mirai and Saki finally turned the tide in Metropoliman and overpowered him, giving Mukaido a chance to use his last strength to destroy the villain with a heavy machine gun.
Metropoliman’s death not only helps end the threat he poses – it also shifts the story away from violence and towards philosophical debate and discussion, which is something Mirai enjoys. But the guy won’t be the one responsible for the upcoming debate.
When Yuito Susumu called for a peaceful meeting
Not long after Metropoliman’s death, the youngest God candidate, Yuito Susumu, made his move. He appeared on live television and encouraged the remaining candidates to join him in peace negotiations over who should become God and why, a plan that Mirai and her allies he is Saki cautiously agreed.
This helped transition Platinum End from a fighting anime to something more like a predecessor to Death Note, complete with its use of vehicles, mind games, and plot twists. Susumu meant well, but other God candidates like Nakaumi Shuji and Professor Yoneda would complicate Susumu’s efforts to peacefully vote for a new God. Soon after, Yoneda was the showrunner, not Susumu.
When Professor Yoneda vowed to kill the god creature
The brilliant but reclusive professor Yoneda Gaku, the last God candidate to appear, wants to end the battle royale in a whole new way. He did not want to fight and become a classist king like Metropoliman, nor did he want to vote for a new god. Instead, the skeptical Yoneda proposed a shocking new theory: prayers and collective human emotions created God, similar to the negative emotions that create curses in Jujutsu Kaisen, and Yoneda did not want a false god to deceive humanity with vain hopes.
So he came up with a daring plan to kill most of the other God candidates, then let his ally Nakaumi and himself kill each other to make sure no one wins the contest. This will ensure that God will never be replaced, and the very idea of this being will disappear.
When Nakaumi destroyed herself like a god
In the end, Nakaumi was chosen as the new God and ascended to heaven as an enlightened being. There, he witnessed with his own eyes how many people around the world wanted to take their own lives, and he felt powerless to help them. That, combined with his own desire for self-destruction, caused the God-Nakaumi to destroy himself with a giant white arrow – and chaos ensued.
This has an apocalyptic impact not only on Platinum End’s main characters, but also on humanity and the angels. Everyone was wiped out – but in the end, Mirai and Saki died happily in each other’s arms and reached their true platinum endings. Either way, they’re winners.
Theo: Kodoani.com