English Dub Review: Platinum End: “The Time for Talk”

Overview: Mirai (Alejandro Saab), Saki (Laura Post) and Temari (Cristina Vee) anticipate the meeting with Professor Yoneda (David Vincent) and Nakaumi (A.J. Beckles) as it fast approaches with all eyes on their exchange.  

Our Take: The momentous conversation between the God candidates and that of Professor Yoneda and Nakaumi is set to take place at a stadium.  

Truthfully, the fact that it even took this long for the God candidates to shoot all government officials trying to kill them with red arrows is silly. Thankfully, Yoneda, Mirai and Saki finally came to their senses and did so so they do not interfere and can talk peacefully. 

Mirai’s goal of not ruining others lives or happiness, as he and others incessantly rant about, continues to be plagued by poor writing, with him acting a brainwashed Winter Soldier with the activation word, happiness. However, it at least allows for an intimate, albeit brief, moment with Mirai and Saki discussing their progression from the dark place they were in and their feelings for each other. So much has happened since his meeting with Mirai that I almost forgot about Mizukiyo, who has had little screen time since then. He and Sayuri’s cute chemistry also serve to show the character’s fear and drawbacks associated with forgetting about God candidates in Sayuri being scared of not remembering Mizukiyo. This is a good counterpoint to how Temari pointed out people would need to forget about the God candidates in order to believe in God and find true happiness. 

With how cold and calculating Yoneda has been up to this point, a large portion of the world nonchalantly believing he will do the right thing mostly because of his intelligence is downright asinine. While that worldview may be one-dimensional, thankfully, the inconsistency presented with Yoneda is nicely cleared up when he meets with the other candidates. His desire to not inconvenience others is really out of disgust of conversations lingering longer than they need to, even regretting his short-lived interaction in high school with Hoshi as it caused one in the present. Funnily enough, Nakuami seemed like the resident edgelord, but Yoneda says, “hold my beer.” But to his credit, it makes him an enjoyably dark antagonist, albeit an over-the-top one. 

Mirai’s character has been decently progressive with him becoming more human as the season has gone on. Mirai’s decision to kill Yoneda to preserve others’ happiness and lives, develops him into an ever-changing and continuously idealistic character. One who is a hell of a lot more interesting than when he started.