I don’t know what’s happening with Platinum End Episode 22, and I doubt anyone does. The show has gotten really deep into philosophy, but it is, unfortunately, the kind where no one seems to agree on the meaning of something. Let’s see what the episode was all about in this review!
Platinum End Episode 22 Overview
Platinum End comes to us by the writers and creators of Death Note and Bakuman, Takeshi Obata and Tsugami Ohba. As if that wasn’t enough reason to get excited about this show, it is being directed by two prominent people in the anime industry. As it is a two-cour series, its first part was directed by Hideya Takahashi, who previously directed JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5. The second part is directed by Kazuchika Kise, the animation director behind Your Name and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The series is being produced by Studio Signal.MD, the studio behind several well-known anime such as Recovery of an MMO Junkie and Mars Red. If you’d like to catch up on our review of the twenty-first episode, you can do so right here!
– Platinum End Episode 22 Review does not contain any spoilers –
Platinum End Episode 22 Review- I Will Be God, No I Won’t
Personally speaking, I’ve never seen a show change this much from its starting to its ending. We have already talked about a lot of these changes in earlier reviews, such as the show’s foray into everyone knowing the existence of God Candidates and the introduction of Gaku Yoneda as an anti-hero/antagonist. However, this time, we are talking about something that didn’t change for once. Keep in mind that this really needed to be improved upon but was curiously left alone for some reason.
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We are talking about the entire characterisation of Mirai Kakehashi, the show’s main protagonist. He has been a terrible character for far too long, and the show realised that. Its solution to that was to reduce his agency in the show drastically. That resulted in him being just as important to the show’s plot but going along with the motions and barely participating in anything. While we didn’t have to hear him cry about happiness for the 400th time, it also meant that the show gave up on evolving his character and left him right where he was, in the absolute depths of hell.
That was fine for a while since Platinum End was exploring different avenues, but now that it is coming to an end, it has brought Mirai back into the fold to round things up. As soon as he came back, along with him came all his awful beliefs and philosophical theories that are inconsistent and make no sense. One gets the feeling that the shown wants the viewer to see Gaku and Mirai as intellectual equals and their stances on God as comparable. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Platinum End Episode 22 was almost entirely about a singular conversation between Mirai and Gaku, and it might have been the wackiest thing I have ever seen. The show wants to be taken seriously and then streams such a conversation to billions of people in the universe and expects them to keep a straight face. If two goofballs were arguing with each other in front of the world by using such basic rationality, and these were the two guys entrusted to become the God of your world, you might as well go the way of the depressed kid in the show and kill yourself to escape this nonsense.
Mirai was still spewing his nonsense, and Gaku wasn’t very far behind. Meanwhile, due to some very convenient plot holes and contrivances, Saki and the group have now gotten themselves captured by a 7-year-old after having him unable to move for a while. The show keeps playing fast and loose with the importance of angels, and nothing makes sense plot-wise. Even worse, we seem to be going the Jesus way with Mirai, as he seeks to sacrifice himself for the world. The show couldn’t be less subtle if it tried. I guess expecting this show to improve was too big of an ask.
Verdict
Platinum End Episode 22 was confusing, boring, and full of plot holes bigger than the ones on your average road. At this point, we can only hope the ending is swift and merciful.
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