English Dub Review: Platinum End “At the End of Thought”

Overview: Mirai (Alejandro Saab), Saki (Laura Post) and the gang’s final confrontation with Yoneda (David Vincent) and Nakaumi (A.J Beckles) comes to a momentous end as they finally decide on who will take up the mantle of God. 

Our Take: “At the End of Thought” must have been a quick one indeed because it is painfully obvious there was not a lot of it put into this resolution for Mirai, the other God candidates and the rest of humanity as a complete experience. 

Saving Mirai from impending doom that is a white arrow, there are consequences for Nasse moving Mirai out of harm’s way. Or, so you would be led to believe as even though she is brought down to second rank and Mirai is stripped of his white arrow and wings, it has no lasting consequences. That is mostly because it is rectified before the ramifications can sink in or have any real effect. And when it is close to having consequences with Mirai’s life in danger again, he is saved by Saki, putting the kibosh on that, making it feel almost entirely superfluous. Almost that is. 

Mirai and Saki have finally fully appreciated their lives and each other’s in not wanting to die or have each other die is a nice finishing development point and is highlighted as a result of Mirai losing his wings. However, it is not entirely reliant upon that story plot point either with her internal progress over the course of the season so it is a bit of a double-edged sword. Also, Nakaumi’s change of heart in letting Saki and the rest of the group go is decently executed, at the very least, that calls back to his own personal ideology in not killing people who want to live.

What was not handled with as much elegance was Yoneda seeing the error of his ways in only realizing that after being saved a second time from an angel, this time in Nasse. It is half-assed to say the least in how unconvincingly hairbrained it is as a motivation for him in it being repetitive and abrupt. It feels cheap and lazy as a result. Nakaumi becoming God is also a suspect decision considering the emo boy was holding Saki, Temari and Yumiki at gunpoint (or arrowpoint?). However, he at least redeemed himself in a way that feels natural and earned. With Nakaumi letting the others retain their memories except for humanity, Hoshi, Yumiki, and also Temari in her wanting to forget, it ties up everything and, suffice to say, in breakneck and uneven fashion. Although, with that being said, it was able to close certain characters gracefully, even if not all of them were afforded that luxury, teeing them up for the series finale.