Platinum End By Death Note Creators Gets Anime in Fall 2021

Platinum End is a dark thriller manga by the creators of Death Note and Bakuman. Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba have once again come together to produce a mind-boggling series for fans!


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Death Note is one of the most popular psychological thrillers in the anime world, and that raises our expectations from Platinum End as well. This new series will no doubt help us rekindle our love for the thriller genre.

The Jump Festa 2021 event announced that the Platinum End manga will be adapted into an anime series. It will premiere on TBS in Japan in fall 2021.

A short teaser was revealed by the staff for the upcoming anime. It consists of glimpses from the manga which shows us the two main characters, Mirai and his angel Nasse.

Mirai’s boring and abused life is going to end as he receives an angel and is given a chance to become the next God. However, he will have to face the devil inside him to reach the ultimate position of God.

Platinum End is being animated by studio Signal MD. The staff for the anime have also been revealed:

PositionStaffOther Works
DirectorHideya TakahashiStrike Witches: Road to Berlin
Character DesignerKoji OdateNo Game No Life
Series ScriptShinichi InotsumeHayate The Combat Butler
Platinum End By Death Note Creators Gets Anime In Fall 2021
Platinum End | Source: Crunchyroll

Ohba and Obata have been serializing the Platinum End manga in the Jump SQ magazine since November 2015.

Viz Media has licensed it for release in North America. Ten volumes of the manga have been released as of 4th September 2020.

An official website has also been created for the anime. The website opens with the sentence, “You have to fight, to be God”. This perfectly summarizes the struggles that Mirai will go through in the series.

About Platinum End

Platinum End is a manga series by Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba. It was first serialized on Jump SQ in November 2015. It is a dark thriller series that will get an anime in 2021.

Mirai is a highschool student who is abused by his relatives and lives in his own darkness. He decides to commit suicide but a guardian angel named Nasse saves him.

Now, he has to participate in a competition to become God. However, with 12 other participants, he needs to stay in touch with his inner devil to win.

Source: Official Website of Platinum End

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