some of you thought that once you see a manga written by the famous duo mangaka Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata the first thing that crosses upon your mind is either Death Note or Hikaru no Go but frankly enough Platinum end is really different from their other works https://i.ur.com/zN8YrUZ.png the rest of my review will be full of unmarked spoilers.. or maybe not that much hehe Death note is made to entertain the enjoyers of the detectivemystery sort of thing meanwhile Hikaru no Go is made to entertain the major shounen readers out there. it balances the game elements and the comedy elements like most shounens out there. Both of them later became really popular and is open to every readers/watchers of every genre. but platinum end is rather different from the authors previous work. it started of pretty much seinenlike but something that the shounen readers can still grasp. and it later became the one thing that shounen readers cannot interwine with their entertainment medium https://i.ur.com/m7ayewA.png oh my of course i will elaborate further the story starts with a rather desperate man who loves a girl who actually falls in love with him yet also falls into a desperate situation once miraculously saw the main character committed suicide in a whim. and here the series is introduced with 10 other desperates and desperatees and the existence of God whose his identity remain ambiguous started a contest ripped off from mirai nikki. Well with an obvious reasoning this time well you could say its a better mirai nikki. An obvious superior one https://i.ur.com/QP8x2aZ.png The first half rather started with something exhilarating thrilling yet captivating experience rather crudely violent bizarrewell not as much as you think and a rather bit of a lesspsychological one. it is ment for its hype moments and it does have its hype moments. needless to say the first half is written well done https://i.ur.com/Hd1Kfi8.png though for those of you who read death note you will find a certain similarity while reading platinum end. and that is the stack of opinions about the second half is inferior to the first half of it and we all know about this well i wouldnt quite agree. What happened? it turns out the majority of readers quite disliked the philosophical storytelling of it or rather the story is carried by the philosophical elements that amounts to 90 of it since then. Id say i also really liked this arc though it sort of loses its shounen hypeelements and turns it into a fullfledged seinen ones. its heavily mixed welldone of the psychologicalphilosophical elements. https://i.ur.com/2sEt0iy.png what i quite dislike about the series is how incoherently combined both of the story arcs. Death note combines both of the story arcs by recreating similar events that leads to the breakdown of the main character in the ending it connects well between the first arcs and the finale ones. Platinum end however is rather a miss. The death of mukaido metropolitan doesnt bring a significance to later arcs instead we were introduced into a rather different villain like 180 twist compared to metropolitan. how it doesnt affects the second arc rather imbues me into dissatisfaction. You could say its a rather 2 episodic arcs named hype shounen And mindfuck seinen both didnt fit the same sentence. It rather leaves some annoying questions like is it okay if i skip the first half of it? i mean yes you can but we all know its definitely the taboo of the weeblets out there. Though overall this series is really fun and I would give it an 8 out of 10 overall. Edit : i include Hikaru no Go up there because its similar not their works. incase of misunderstanding