English Dub Review: Platinum End: “The Future of Humanity”

Overview: Mirai (Alejandro Saab), Saki (Laura Post), Temari (Christina Vee) and the other god candidates meet with Yoneda at long last. 

Our Take: Each god candidate plays along with Yoneda’s request and reveals what their aspirations would be if they were to become the lord almighty. Most of them are as shallow and self-serving as one would expect, but also uniquely different enough to make them interesting. The child that he is, Yuito does not want to go to school or be teased anymore. Temari wants to live a life of luxury and for others to do the same and be served by robots and A.I. which very much sounds like a post-apocalyptic Wall-E situation. Nakuami is an edgelord and promotes suicide that should celebrated. Saki and Mirai definitely stand as the most sensible and honorable candidates with Saki wanting happiness for all, but Mirai surprisingly wanting to do nothing. These intriguing answers finally bring out Yoneda to finally show himself and meet the other god candidates. 

The rules of the Gods and angels are well established and thought to be very much set in stone moving forward. So it makes it exciting when Yoneda presents an interesting and compelling new theory for the existence of deities and angelic beings that turns what has been presented on its head in that God and angels are the result of people’s widespread prayers that turned a figment of people’s imagination into a real omnipotent figure. 

Some more interesting discussion transpires when Saki goes into the purpose God serves above all else, even if He may not be real, in him being crucial to giving people hopes and that alone is not meaningless.  It is after the conversation takes a turn for the ridiculous. It is incredibly rash and extreme for Nakuami to present the stakes that all people who rely on their belief in God will lose the will to live and kill themselves if there is none and/or that everyone of a faith will come to that result. This conclusion is sloppily contrived in order for Mirai to realize his ambition in becoming God. Before the conversation can truly finish, the Japanese agents end it unceremoniously when they are caught by Yuito and open fire on him, aiming for Red, leaving his life hanging in the balance.