Episode
Platinum End: World's Greatest Assassin
Overview
God candidate and grade school student Susumu reveals information relating to the new God selection process on a live TV broadcast. As a result, people around the world begin searching for God candidates. Mirai and Saki are under a lot of stress. The whole world is looking for them, and their identities must not be discovered no matter what... but one day, on the way home from school, an MPD detective named Hoshi approaches Mirai.
Details
- Series
- Platinum End
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2022-01-28
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
World's Greatest Assassin is Episode 16 in Season 1 of Platinum End. It aired on 2022-01-28. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 15: Diffused Power
In exchange for Mukaido's life, his actions finally end their long battle with Metropoliman AKA Kanade. However, Mirai notices that Kanade has secretly been shot with a Red Arrow by someone else...Who was controlling Kanade? The MPD begins investigating the identities of the God candidates, and the situation enters the next phase. And then, a new God candidate begins to act.
Episode 17: The Other Five
With the help of Hoshi and Yumiki of the MPD, Mirai and Saki begin searching for the other God candidates. Acquaintances of the middle school-aged Nakaumi brothers have been dying one after another. Believing one of them must be a God candidate, Mirai and Saki head to the Nakaumi family home. There they witness an unexpected sight... Mirai attempts to convince the younger brother Shuji Nakaumi, but he is stubborn and not easily persuaded. Mirai is forced to face the question "what is happiness?"
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: Two Lights
Mirai and Kanade are unaware that their duel is being streamed online by someone. As people all across Japan and even the MPD watch the stream and leap into action, their duel approaches its end. A Red Arrow seeking happiness against a White Arrow that will grant his desire. What fate awaits those who battle for their lives?
Episode 18: Last Supper
Mirai, Saki, Susumu, and Nakaumi... So far, the intentions of four God candidates have been confirmed. Two candidates remain. One of them, Yuri Temari, has been captured by the police and is under house arrest. Mirai's group sets out to rescue her... Mirai's group hopes to choose the next God through a discussion between the six remaining God candidates. However, the intentions of the final unidentified God candidate are still unknown...
Episode 13: World Peace
Mirai and Metropoliman agree to fight fair and square by taking turns firing Arrows at each other. As their duel unfolds, Metropoliman reflects on the past and his own personal values.
Episode 19: The Future of Humanity
In order to bring the final God candidate into a discussion, Mirai and the other four God candidates reach out to them through a live TV broadcast. As the situation grows tense when Self-Defense Force attack helicopters show up, the last God candidate finally appears.
His name is Gaku Yoneda. Known as the world's smartest man, he's a Nobel Prize recipient and college professor. Yoneda's involvement causes people around the world to swell with excitement. Then Yoneda begins to explain his theory regarding God to Mirai and the other God candidates.
Episode 12: A Fine Line Between Offense and Defense
Fuyuko, one of Kanade's underlings, is a researcher who develops killer viruses. Fuyuko threatens Mirai and his companions by telling them that she'll conduct an indiscriminate terrorist act and spread her killer virus. She demands that they allow her to test her newest drug on them if they want to prevent the attack. Kanade names Mirai as the first guinea pig. Mukaido and Saki desperately try to stop him, but Mirai won't listen, as he doesn't want anyone to die, and instead he faces Fuyuko one on one. The needle approaches. What will be Mirai's fate...?
Episode 20: The Price of Honor
The first meeting of all the God candidates ends in the worst possible way, and the candidates split into two factions. The leader of one group is Mirai, while the other group is led by Yoneda, whose partner is Muni, the Angel of Destruction. Hoshi, Yoneda's former classmate, tells Mirai about an experience he had with Yoneda during school. Yoneda's character is gradually revealed, but meanwhile... Disaster strikes heaven. The time limit approaches.
Episode 11: Your Own Worth
Revel is promoted to first-rank angel and Saki acquires her Wings. They rush to the park where the fight is taking place, and she successfully shoots Hajime with a Red Arrow. Through the power of the Red Arrow, Hajime experiences love for the first time in his life. After an intense internal conflict, what choice will he make...? Meanwhile, Kanade has a trump card he's been hiding up his sleeve. It throws their fight into chaos, turning it into a roller coaster of a battle.
Episode 21: The Time for Talk
Mirai's group and Yoneda secretly prepare for their upcoming showdown. When the time is ripe, Yoneda makes the first move. He uses the media to tell Mirai's group the time and location of their final showdown. Mirai and Saki spend some time alone together so they can brace themselves for what is coming. Finally, the final showdown between the God candidates begins. What is Yoneda planning...?
Episode 10: Where the Tears Go
Mukaido's wife and daughter are taken hostage by Hajime. He is so intent on rescuing them that he is caught inside a trap from which there is no escape. Mirai also enters the trap in order to save them. Meanwhile, with only a Red Arrow, Saki is left at home because she cannot help in a fight. Though she can't fight without Wings, she still attempts to go help Mirai and Mukaido. Upon seeing her, Revel the angel reflects on his own powerlessness... and tears fall down his cheeks for the first time...!
Episode 22: Wings of Determination
The new national stadium is chosen as the location for their final showdown. After describing his theory on the future of humanity, Yoneda requests a one on one conversation with Mirai. Mirai agrees, and Saki, Temari, Nakaumi, and Yumiki depart... leaving Mirai, Yoneda, and only Hoshi to observe the events. Yoneda is attempting to prevent the birth of the next God for the sake of the future he imagines for humanity. With the whole world watching, in order to defeat Yoneda, Mirai demonstrates his resolve.