The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba's Platinum End manga has announced that the anime's new ending theme song titled, "Last Straw" will be performed by Kuhaku Gokko.
While it is a fantasy, the inner lives of the characters and what is happening in their lives are very real. What is life? What is death? Just when you want to look away, you are confronted with the question, "What would you do? That's what confronts me, and I can't take my eyes off them. I'm the only one who can play Mirai Kakehashi. I went to the audition believing that strongly. I went into the audition with a strong belief that only I could do it.
I am pleased to announce that I will be taking charge of the CV of Nasse, a special class angel. From the moment I heard about the audition, I thought "I definitely want to play this role...! So I'm honestly very happy to be able to voice her. "Life and death" for humans and angels. What is true "happiness"? I was naturally drawn into the story, thinking that while it is a fantastical world, it could possibly happen to someone close to me. I would like to enjoy myself as I post-record the story, staying close to the world view and the characters.
M・A・O as Saki Hanakago
Hideya Takahashi was previously announced as directing the anime at Signal.MD, but the staff now say he is directing just the "first series." Kazuchika Kise is directing the "second series." Hideyasu Narita is working on the art design, and Ayumi Ikeda is the color key artist. Yūsuke Ueno is editing. Masahiro Tokuda is composing the music. Kōji Ōdate is designing the characters, and Shinichi Inotsume is supervising the series scripts. KUSANAGI is handling the art, Masanori Ikeda is the CGI director, and Takatoshi Hamano is the sound director at Magic Capsule.
The opening theme song titled, "Sense" is performed by BAND-MAID.
The 1st ending theme song titled, "Kōfuku-Ron" (Theory of Surrender) was performed by Yuu Miyashita.
The anime will have a full uninterrupted 24-episode run in order to adapt the manga's full story.
Platinum End will premiere consecutively from October 7, 2021 to March 2022.
Crunchyroll streams the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS. Funimation will also stream the anime.
MAIN JAPANESE CAST:
Miyu Irino as Mirai Kakehashi
Comment from Miyu Irino:
While it is a fantasy, the inner lives of the characters and what is happening in their lives are very real. What is life? What is death? Just when you want to look away, you are confronted with the question, "What would you do? That's what confronts me, and I can't take my eyes off them. I'm the only one who can play Mirai Kakehashi. I went to the audition believing that strongly. I went into the audition with a strong belief that only I could do it.
Yui Ogura as Nasse
Comment from Yui Ogura:
Additional cast members include:
Natsuki Hanae as Revel
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Nanato Mukaido
Ai Kayano as Baret
Kaito Ishikawa as Kanade Uryu
Kikuko Inoue as Meyza
Tomoaki Maeno as Hajime Sokotani
Hikaru Midorikawa as Balta
Kaori Maeda as Mimi Yamada
Shōya 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
Yūsaku Yara as the "Aged God"
Daisuke Hirakawa as Metroblue
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Metroyellow
Shiori Sugiura as Tomoyo Nakayama
Masumi Tazawa as Fuyuko Kohinata
Volcano Ōta as Ryūji Bakumatsu
Megumi Han as Fukumen no Shōnen
The English dub cast includes: Alejandro Saab as Mirai Kakehashi, Michaela Murphy as Nasse, Daman Mills as Revel and Laura Post as Saki Hanakago.
The English dub is directed by David Walsh.
The English dub premiered November 18, 2021.
KEY VISUAL:
Viz Media published the manga in English and describes the first volume:
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.
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.