With a planned two-cour adaptation set to begin in the fall of 2021, the anime adaptation of Platinum End previously found itself a home as both Crunchyroll and Funimation are simulcasting it. Now, three more cast members have been added to the project with a trio of god candidates that include:
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Metroblue
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Metroyellow
- Shiori Sugiura as Tomoyo Nakayama
Hideya Takahashi is directing the series based on the series composition by Shinichi Inotsume. Koji Odate is adapting the character designs with Signal.MD set to handle animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Miyu Irino as Mirai Kakehashi, Yui Ogura as Nasse, M.A.O as Saki Hanakago, Natsuki Hanae as Revel, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Nanato Mukaido:, Ai Kayano as Baret, Kaito Ishikawa as Kanade Uryū, Kikuko Inoue as Meyza, Tomoaki Maeno as Hajime Sokotani, Hikaru Midorikawa as Balta, Kaori Maeda as Mimi Yamada, Shoya Chiba as Mizukiyo Minamikawa, Maaya Sakamoto as Mirai Kakehashi (child), Yū Sasahara as Akira, Mirai’s younger brother, Mai Nakahara as Mirai’s mother, Kenji Hamada as Mirai’s father, Yu Kobayashi as Mirai’s aunt, Fukushi Ochiai as Mirai’s uncle, Tomokazu Sugita as Tonma Rodriguez, Takehito Koyasu as Luta, and Yūsaku Yara as the “Aged God”.
The manga from Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba, creators behind Death Note and Bakuman, began the series in the fall of 2015 and will have the fourteenth and final volume will arrive quickly on February 4th, 2021. Viz Media simulpublished the series monthly and has twelve volumes out of the manga as of the first week of January 2021.
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Plot Concept: As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.
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