Platinum End

SPOILERS AHEAD! (it won’t ruin the story anymore than it’s ruined itself)

Platinum End is a show that I had a ton of hype for. After all, it’s from Tsugumi Ooba, who gave the community amazing works like Bakuman and of course, Death Note. I imagine many of you, including myself, who sat through this absolute shit show had high hopes for this, hoping for another excellent story, another Death Note. We didn’t get that.

Characters
To start off, let’s talk about the shows weakest point by far, and that’s the characters. The characters in this series are quite possibly the most frustrating, bland, paper thin, stupid, monotonous, loathsome characters in all of animanga. There was not a single person in this show who commanded a second of respect or sympathy. Mirai is the worst mc I’ve ever had the displeasure of going through a story with, not only did he draw out the plot, he effectively made it worse. He’s this whiny little bitch boy, and nothing the show tries can get you to like him. No matter how many times he thinks about his dead family(a couple times, they don’t really matter), or how many people die because of his moral indecision, or just how… sad they make him I guess, he just couldn’t become more likable. He has no personality, no drive, no anything. Nothing he says or does is good. He just cries until someone has to step in and do something for him cause he’s too much of a crybaby to act. And that’s also kind of why I dislike the other characters. They don’t really do anything but make the cast bigger. Saki sucked, the romance between her and Mirai was incredibly forced and just cringe. I was hoping Mirai would just slap her stupid face and leave him alone. He’s Mirai though, so when she confessed he just said, “Thank you.” Mukaido was the best out of the three characters in the first half of the season, but Platinum End has a problem with characters, so they did the only thing they could. They killed him off. I know that he was going to die from the second he’s introduced, but come on. They killed off by far the best character, and he was mid at best. At least he had the balls to kill Metropoliman, the only character in this entire show I actually liked. Or at least I did like. They had a good character, so Platinum End did what it does best, it ruined him. His backstory about his sister is so incredibly weird and cringe, I couldn’t even watch. To see the best character in the entire show be soiled like that, it pissed me off. I could talk about the characters more, but I think I’d go insane, so I’ll leave it at that.

Plot(or lack thereof)
The plot is way better than the characters, but it was still pretty atrocious. It’s riddled with unnecessary characters, fights, scenes, and backstory. At some point, when it tried to give characters backstory I actually started to get annoyed, because no one in this entire show besides possibly Mukaido has a remotely interesting backstory. When I saw a new backstory coming I would just sigh, because it meant more of my time was about to be wasted. And it was wasted because the backstory they provided didn’t make me like the characters any more or respect them any more, it just made me bored. The plot has two major arcs I guess you could call them, and both are awful. Metropoliman is dragged on for far too long, and Yoneda is just weird, I couldn’t really figure out how to feel about him. Other things that annoyed me were the decisions our “crew” would make. One of the the things that tilted me the most was when they went with like a 6th grade kids idea to have a simple vote on who would be god, and then they nominated this weird fucking suicidal middle schooler to be the god of the new world. Like how fucking dense can you be, does that seem like a good idea in any capacity? No, and that’s why they of course chose him. Luckily that idea fell through. Or so I thought. THIS STUPID FUCKING MIDDLE SCHOOLER IS AGREED UPON BY EVERYONE TO BE THE GOD OF THE NEW WORLD AND THEN HE FREAKING ENDS THE WORLD ACCIDENTALLY. Is this some kind of lesson they squeeze into the last episode? The lesson is deadass kids should not be entrusted with big decisions. This is just one of many things that bothered me about this show, but look anywhere in any episode, you’ll find more.

The rest of this will be about miscellaneous things also in relation to the show. The first thing I wanna mention in this is the animation, it’s pretty mid or below mid by today’s standards. Or at least I thought so, I’m somewhat new to the anime community. Maybe you guys didn’t find it so bad. One thing that we can all agree on though is that the pacing is horrendous. It is absolutely ridiculous how long some of the fights in this thing lasted. The fights in this lasted twice as long as they really had to if I’m being honest, waiting for Metropolimans death was a slow and painful process. Among other things. The slice of life moments between Mirai and Saki were also bad, and they were laid on thick sometimes and not at all at others. The whole thing is a mess.

And so that’s platinum end. Easily tied for the worst or the worst show I have ever seen. And I watched the wonder egg special! It’s as if they had a book about how to make a god awful show and then followed it to the letter. There is not a single thing in this entire show that is worth your time. As your friendly neighborhood anilist user, I look out for my other fellow anime watchers. And so I beg of you, don’t watch this show.

Before I wrap this up, I would like to mention two things. First, there is one good thing about this show. It taught me that I have some resolve, and those of you still reading this god awful review about this god awful show do too. We all sat through this shit for half of an entire year. Think about that. You may not like it, but be proud you persevered at something. I hope that makes your day just a little bit better. And secondly, this is only my second review on Anilist, so I sincerely doubt this will be a very good review. I would love for you to message me on how to improve my reviews, feedback is always welcome. Thank you all for reading and suffering with me.

tl;dr - Verdict: Terrible show, do not watch, even if you lose a bet. Your sanity is more important.