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Disney Plus Adds Platinum End Anime in Southeast Asia

Disney Plus announced last week that it will stream the television anime of Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba's Platinum End manga. The first episode debuted last Friday, and the service will premiere a new episode every Wednesday. The anime's official website notes that MediaLink Entertainment Limited holds the license for the series in Southeast Asia.

The anime premiered on October 7 on TBS in Japan. The anime will have an uninterrupted 24-episode run (until March 2022) to adapt the manga's entire story.

Hideya Takahashi (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) is directing the "first series" of the anime at Signal.MD, and Kazuchika Kise (Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie) is directing the "second series." Kōji Ōdate (No game, No Life) is designing the characters, and Shinichi Inotsume (Persona 5 the Animation, Hayate the Combat Butler, Gangsta.) is supervising the series scripts. Masahiro Tokuda (Cestvs: The Roman Fighter, Last Hope) is composing the music. The group Band-Maid are performing the opening theme song "Sense." Singer Yuu Miyashita performed the first ending theme song "Kōfuku-Ron" (Theory of Surrender). Kuhaku Gokko are performing the second ending theme song "Last Straw."

Viz Media describes how the story begins:

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.

Obata and Ohba (Death Note, Bakuman) launched the manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in November 2015, and ended it in January 2021. Shueisha published the 14th and final volume in February 2021.

Thanks to Chicky for the news tip.

Source: Disney+ Hotstar Thailand Facebook page