YMMV / Platinum End

• Americans Hate Tingle: While not the juggernaut that the authors' previous works were, the manga is still a pretty big seller in Japan. In the West however, despite having an official release and its own pedigree, the series has barely made anything close to a ripple, in major part due to its bleakness and Audience-Alienating Ending turning off potential fans. The rest of the world's anime fanbase reception to both the manga and anime are also equal to the West.
• Audience-Alienating Ending: The story concludes with Shuji Nakajima becoming the new God, and then killing himself afterwards, bringing the entire universe with him and making everything that happened beforehand pointless. Since it is the one thing everyone talks about when mentioning Platinum End, anyone who reads or watches it will be aware of its conclusion. While the manga tries to soften the blow via a "Ray of Hope" Ending where a new universe is created that has the potential to be better than the old one, this naturally failed to satisfy angry fans who declared they would not watch the anime adaptation (which was then just announced) since there would be no point to revisiting the story if it has the same ending. And indeed, the anime does not bother with an Adaptational Alternate Ending, ensuring the already-niche series would sink into obscurity.
• Catharsis Factor: There's something tremendously satisfying about Metropoliman getting brutally shot to death by Mukaido.
• Complete Monster: Yamada Mimimi, also known as Misurin, was an amateur model who was arrested at age 14 after murdering several of her classmates just because she felt like they were prettier than she. Her cruelty attracts the attention of Metropoliman, who breaks her out of prison and grants her the Angel Wings and the Red Arrows, the latter of which could make people fall in love with her and easy to manipulate. She used that on various school girls she could easily kill, and one of them she forced to have sex with her, all the while telling her victims that they're ugly. It was even implied that she penetrated the girl she controlled with her knife, which was how she killed her. After setting up her most recent victim, the police try to stop her, so she pierces them with the Red Arrows. However, one officer, in spite of the Arrow's effects, fights it well enough to still try to apprehend her, so she orders the rest of the cops to kill him. While she was under Metropoliman's control to lure out Kakehashi, committing rape, murdering the cops, and slaughtering her classmates were all on her own volition.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Kanade/Metropoli Man is often called "Metrolicon" or "Metrosiscon" due to his unhealthy obsession with his dead little sister. It was also his motivation to win the Death game: to revive his dead sister as an angel.
  • Prof. Yoneda is often called Professor Kenpachi due to his resemblance to the 11th Division Captain of the Seretei.
• Fanon Discontinuity: The conclusion of the series via an "Everybody Dies" Ending is one of the darkest and depressing imaginable, which deeply upset a sizable chunk of the audience. It's led people to ignore the final chapter or write Fan Fiction to bypass the unhappy conclusion.
• It Was His Sled: Due to the infamy of the ending, Shuji Nakajima becoming God, killing himself, and taking the universe with him is something that even those only remotely familiar with Platinum End know about.
• Jerkass Woobie: Hajime may be a fanatical supporter of Metropoli Man and used his Red Arrows for superficial purposes, but he was also shunned his whole life for being a Gonk and his mother committed suicide.
• Moral Event Horizon: Metropoli Man crosses it in Chapter 6 when he holds Chii, a little girl, as leverage for the other God Candidates to show themselves. When he realizes that the other candidates figured out she was only bait, he kills her with the White Arrow.
• Narm: In a series otherwise trying to keep itself relatively grounded for Earth, the entire Metropoliman plotline invokes superhero comic plots as the antagonist gets together a downright cartoonishly evil and fetishistic trio of sociopaths that feel like they stepped out of a completely different series, with particularly out there logic, technology and character motivations. To further hammer this home, the rest of the story after this arc has almost next to nothing to do with any of what had just happened plot-wise or tonally since Susumu hijacks the plot to a very different direction afterwards, besides informing Mirai and Saki's experiences going forwards, keeping the identity-concealing suits Mukaido made for them, and vastly lowering the God Candidate count.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Some people disliked Saki, feeling like she was a Satellite Love Interest and for being The Load most of the time. However, Chapters 12 and 13 rescued her by going into her backstory and building up that she'll be joining the fight.
• The Scrappy: Yuuri Temari. Although she was likely intended as comic relief to give the serious and bleak second half of the manga/anime some levity, viewers found her Spoiled Brat Gold Digger personality whiny and grating instead of amusing. Her manga counterpart gets even more hate due to her going on a homophobic tangent that feels like an Author Filibuster. The fact that her only appearance in combat was attempting to shoot Professor Yoneda In the Back with a Red Arrow didn't help her perception.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Almost every character is significantly flawed, especially the God Candidates by design, and a large amount of the series runs around the ideas, philosophies and consequences of the nature of those that want to kill themselves and what happens when these people are picked for being the next God. Any likeable characters are few and far between, and likely to die tragically. Mirai as a protagonist attempts Thou Shall Not Kill to a maddening degree that makes it hard to sympathize with his efforts that repeatedly endanger others, and a number of the events that unfold are needlessly cruel and violent to an absurd degree. Needless to say, one of the common criticisms of the entire series is that it tries way too hard to be dark, which eclipses its more thought-provoking ideas. This combined with the equally depressing and alienating ending led to quite a bit of readers not bothering with the anime adaptation, which was released after the manga's conclusion.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Kanade, aka, Metropoliman, is revealed to have a deceased little sister in Chapter 7, and his goal as a god is to revive her. Some people find it offputting that he has a Freudian Excuse to be revealed so soon after the previous chapter had him remorselessly kill several God Candidates, one of them an elementary school girl. The chapters leading up to Kanade's death showed that he is a immoral bastard who was going to have a genocidal purge if he was going to become God. He truly believed that being born rich or poor determined everything and that he may judge what may remain.

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