Platinum End

Platinum End

Volume 1 of Platinum End, published on February 4, 2016.
プラチナエンド
(Purachina Endo)
Genre Action, Supernatural
Manga
Written by Tsugumi Ohba
Illustrated by Takeshi Obata
Published by Shueisha
English publisher
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Jump SQ
Original run November 4, 2015 – present
Volumes 1

Platinum End (Japanese: プラチナエンド Hepburn: Purachina Endo) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It has been serialized in Shueisha's monthly Jump SQ magazine since November 4, 2015. The series follows Mirai Kakehashi, a student who attempts suicide but is rescued by his guardian angel, Nasse, who not only has vowed to protect him, but bestows him special powers as he is also one of 13 candidates chosen by different angels to take the role of God, who is to retire in 999 days.

Platinum End is licensed by Viz Media in North America and the United Kingdom, with its chapters released digitally in English as they are published in Japan.[1]

Plot

Mirai Kakehashi is a young student fed up with a life of abuse from his uncle and aunt who raised him since his parents' death, but is saved by a Guardian Angel called Nasse (ナッセ) after attempting to commit suicide. Upon learning from Nasse that his foster parents were responsible for the deaths of his father and mother, Mirai uses the powers she bestowed him in order to confront them and enact justice. However, Mirai's ordeals are just beginning as Nasse soon after informs him that God will retire in 999 days and thirteen candidates to replace him were selected including Mirai himself. To make matters worse, not only can Mirai not refuse to take part in the contest to decide the next God, but among the other candidates there are those capable of anything to win, including killing all the competition as soon as possible.

Characters

Main Characters

Mirai Kakehashi (架橋 明日 Kakehashi Mirai)
The main protagonist.
Nasse (ナッセ)
Mirai's angel. She is an angel of the Special class, capable of bestow him with a pair of wings, a white arrow to kill his opponents, and a red arrow to make anyone he shoots with it to fall in love with him.
Saki Hanakago
Saki is Mirai's classmate, his love interest, and coincidentally, a God candidate as well. Once she learns that he does not intend to kill her, Saki joins forces with Mirai to deal with Metropoliman.
Lepel
Saki's angel. She is overly greedy and manipulative, a trait that is considered by Nasse the reason why she was relegated to be a class two Angel, capable only of equip Saki with the red arrow.

God Candidates and Angels

Kanade Namaryu
The main antagonist of the series who intends to become God by all means necessary, including killing all other candidates. He is the grandson of the principal of the prestigious Joso Academy and wishes to become god in order to bring his dead sister back to life. So far he had killed four other candidates using the alias "Metropoliman" and had claimed their wings and arrows, becoming even more dangerous upon realizing that several arrows can be combined to increase their range.
Misa
Kanade's angel of the special class, also known as the "Angel of Lust".

Release

Platinum End has been serialized by Shueisha in its Japanese monthly shōnen manga magazine Jump SQ since its December 2015 issue, which was released on November 4, 2015.[2] They began collecting the chapters into tankōbon volumes with the first published on February 4, 2016.

On October 5, 2015, Viz Media announced that it has licensed Platinum End for release in North America and the United Kingdom.[2] In March 2016 Viz confirmed that they would start releasing print editions of Platinum End, with the first volume released in Fall 2016.[3] The manga is licensed by Kazé in France.[4]

Volume list

No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 February 4, 2016[5]ISBN 978-4-08-880637-2——
  1. "The Angel's Gift" (天使の贈り物)
  2. "Man's Instinct" (男の性)
  3. "Hero of Justice" (正義のヒーロー)

Chapters not yet in tankōbon format

  1. "The Person Who I Admire" (憧れの人)
  2. "The Big Reveal" (発表の瞬間)
  3. "Private Conversation" (内緒の話)
  4. "Death Announcement"
This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.

Reception

The first volume of Platinum End debuted at number two on Oricon's weekly list of the best-selling manga, with 105,213 copies sold.[6]

When reviewing the opening chapter, Ian Wolf writing for Anime UK News compared Platinum End to Ohba and Obata's earlier series Death Note, saying: "the central character is a teenage boy fed up with life, who is guided by a supernatural force and given great power. Both leads seemingly find themselves on the path to becoming a deity. However, while Light Yagami uses his powers for diabolic ends, killing anyone he suspects of doing anything wrong while being observed by a shinigami, Mirai Kakehashi is guided by an apparently more benevolent force."[7] He also writes that the series is an example of a death game, citing the death of one of the God candidates in the second chapter.[8]

Writing for The Fandom Post Jarius Taylor gave the series a B+ rating and compared Platinum End to Future Diary writing: "while I don't have too much doubt it'll be stronger overall, the overt edginess here isn't something I was quite expecting from Ohba. Still it's a pretty interesting read from beginning to end, and there's a lot of potential in terms of both thriller aspects and the overall theme. Hopefully, it'll be able to differentiate itself from Future Diary more going forward, but for now the idea of Ohba and Obata taking a crack at their own version of it seems pretty good to me."[9]

References

  1. ↑ "VIZ Media Debuts Platinum End Digital Manga". Anime News Network. November 5, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Viz to Offer Death Note/Bakuman Creators' Platinum End Manga in Single Chapters". Anime News Network. October 5, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Viz Media Licenses Junji Ito's Tomie Manga". Anime News Network. March 26, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Platinum End" (in French). Kazé. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ プラチナエンド　　1 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Japanese Comic Ranking, February 1-7". Anime News Network. February 11, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Wolf, Ian (November 7, 2015). "Platinum End - Chapter 1". Anime UK News. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  8. ↑ Wolf, Ian (December 9, 2015). "Platinum End - Chapter 2". Anime UK News. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  9. ↑ Taylor, Jarius (November 5, 2015). "Platinum End Chapter #01 Manga Review". The Fandom Post. Retrieved December 10, 2015.

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