The highly anticipated series by Death Note creators Tsugumi and Takeshi Obata, Platinum End has created another supernatural mystery that has amazed viewers across the world!
God candidates have emerged and been eliminated over the last few months and now, Platinum End’s ending is in sight!
As the story is adapted from the Platinum End Manga, many people already know how Mirai’s story finishes. If you really want to know what happens for yourself, we’ve explained it all below.
Warning: Major spoilers for Platinum End below!
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Does Mirai Kakehashi Become God?
In the end, Mirai Kakehashi does not become God.
Fans of Mirai can rest assured, though, that it’s not bad news for him. After the new god has been selected, the remaining god candidates that are alive return to normal lives, with the world’s memory of the contest removed.
Mirai and Saki, together for much of the show, end up getting married and opening a flower shop, fulfilling their wishes.
A happy ending! Well, almost…
Who Becomes God in Platinum End?
It is not Mirai but another God candidate, Shuuji Nakaumi, that ends up being the one chosen to become God.
Shuuji is a quiet character who, initially, is against the idea of becoming God, similar to Mirai.
However, the story gets to a point where it is essentially a choice between Mirai and Shuuji.
In the end, Shuuji actually volunteers to take the position. While Mirai and Saki enjoy their life after the God candidacy on Earth, Shuuji watches from his new position above.
Platinum End’s Ending Explained
At the very end of the Platinum End Manga, the series delivers a dramatic turn that shocked many readers.
During the series, Shuuji makes clear his argument for suicide, seeing it as a legitimate option for humans. When he becomes God, he sees the world’s inequalities laid bare; some are happy while others take their lives.
Shuuji asks what he can do to help balance the world, but discovers that there is nothing that can be done as humanity is in control of itself. Concluding that there is, therefore, no need for a God, Shuuji commits suicide himself.
God’s death is followed by the disappearance of all life, starting with the angels and then all of humanity on Earth.
So, in the conclusion of Platinum End, everybody is dead, both human and angels.
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Will the Platinum End Anime End the Same Way as the Manga?
It’s worth noting that many fans were disappointed with the manga’s conclusion, noting that it felt rushed and anticlimactic given all that had happened before. There’s every chance that the anime will decide to end differently, although nothing has been officially confirmed.
Shuuji’s suicidal conclusion happens in the very last chapter, and the series offers a slightly less dramatic (or less forced, depending on your opinion) ending just before. Other anime, including Death Note, have changed or removed the last few chapters to create a different ending for the anime, so there’s every chance this will happen for Platinum End.
No matter how you feel about the series’ ending, we can’t wait to see how this all plays out on screen!
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