With a planned two-cour adaptation that’s wrapping up as part of the fall 2021/winter 2022 season, the anime adaptation of Platinum End is getting some new distribution for its English dub. After being showcased on the Crunchyroll service for the last few months, the first part/cour dub was recently revealed to be coming to Hulu for streaming. That’s now made its debut today where the Japanese side with English subtitles already premiered.
The production has David Walsh directing it with it making its debut on Crunchyroll with a November 18th, 2021 premiere. The English cast so far includes:
- Alejandro Saab as Mirai Kakehashi
- Michaela Murphy as Nasse
- Daman Mills as Revel
- A.J. Beckles as Shūji Nakaumi
- Andrew Kishino as Nanato Mukaido
- Anne Yatco as Chiyo Nakayama
- Griffin Burns as Kanade Uryu/Metropoliman
- Laura Post as Saki Hanakago
- Zeno Robinson as Balta & Mizukiyo Minamikawa
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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