English Dub Review: Platinum End: “Heart’s Beloved”

Overview: Mirai (Alejandro Saab) reunites with his childhood love, Saki (Laura Post), and discovers that she too is a God candidate with her very own angel in that of Revel (Damian Mills). 

Our Take: A disheartened girl in that of Saki seems in line for a previously disheartened boy like Mirai. Saki’s mental state shows how there is a potential for some for a down-to-earth dialogue between the long lost lovers. But it also highlights how poorly it handled Mirai’s depression for a deeply emotional issue to be resolved away within a few contrivedly written family backstory scenes that is there to instigate a plot, rather than any actual gradual development. With Saki representing a state that Mirai was in before his realization, the series has an opportunity to not repeat its mistake by not developing and/or resolving her internal issues in the same superficial manner while also course correcting with the latter in deepening the character through development of what true happiness means to him and/or what path to walk to get there. Saki’s angel, Revel, is a nice change of pace from Nasse with his pragmatic thinking making for fun chemistry with her and Mirai. Speaking of Mirai, his transition from melancholy to lovesick schmuck for Saki is beginning to become more annoying than his ranting about happiness and shows how little of a personality he has shown to have with dryness and cheesiness being his only two modes seemingly. 

Metropoliman, at least, keeps things exciting when Mirai can’t, with his plot to lure out other God candidates making for a coming confrontation with new characters outfitted with similar armor, perhaps with others lurking as well. It leaves off with much excitement going into the next episode with how the sadistic “superhero” can seemingly guard against red arrows, which offers an intriguing paradigm shift especially as new combatants are introduced.