History YMMV / PlatinumEnd

* AmericansHateTingle: 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 [[TooBleakStoppedCaring bleakness]] and AudienceAlienatingEnding turning off potential fans.

* AudienceAlienatingEnding: The story concludes with [[spoiler:Shuji Nakajima becoming the new God, and then killing himself afterwards, [[EverybodyDiesEnding bringing the entire universe with him]] and [[ShootTheShaggyDog making everything that happened beforehand pointless]]]]. While the manga tries to soften the blow via a RayOfHopeEnding where [[spoiler: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 AdaptationalAlternateEnding, ensuring the already-niche series would sink into obscurity.

* FanonDiscontinuity: The EverybodyDiesEnding of the series is one of the darkest and depressing imaginable, which [[AudienceAlienatingEnding deeply upset a sizable chunk of the audience]]. It's led people to ignore the final chapter or write FanFiction to bypass the unhappy conclusion.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: 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 [[DrivenToSuicide 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 ThouShallNotKill 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.

* ItWasHisSled: Due to the infamy of the ending, [[spoiler: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.

* AmericansHateTingle: 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.

* TheScrappy: 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 SpoiledBrat GoldDigger personality whiny and grating instead of amusing. [[spoiler:The fact that her ''only'' appearance in combat was attempting to shoot Professor Yoneda InTheBack with a Red Arrow didn't help her perception.]]

* FanonDiscontinuity: The ending of the series 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 FanFiction to bypass the unhappy conclusion.

* IdiotPlot: The late series to ending decisions of [[spoiler:making Shuji Nakaumi to be the next God. At this point, Mirai and Saki just want to be together, Yuri doesn't really want to put the effort in to be God at all, and Gaku wants to MurderSuicide all of them unaware this would end all creation. Before everyone even confronts Gaku, the rest have picked Shuji to the point that the whole final conflict is to get Gaku to stand down and pick him too, despite the fact that Shuji explicitly caused most of his family to kill themselves through his Red Arrows, and was openly proud of being suicidal to the point that he straight up makes it clear he'd push for the world to accept suicide better.]] Ultimately in the final chapter/episode, [[spoiler:Shuji-God may have started out well-intentioned, but couldn't sustain being an AllPowerfulBystander to the world's despair and death, and [[KillEmAll this gets everything wiped from existence]] because he kills himself and didn't realize it would erase all of the known universe for it. All because the rest of the adult cast didn't want to sacrifice any of their personal happiness or ways of living for the world at large and threw the seriously unstable child into the position he was ''not'' ready for.]]
** It can be argued that despite the numerous attempts at justifying it, the entire God Candidate system choosing candidates specifically in Japan who had [[DrivenToSuicide just tried to kill themselves]] ''because'' of their mental states upon their close brushes with death is such a stupendously ridiculous idea that there's just about no way the next God could ever have probably been a good choice from the selection. Especially with how the vast majority of them are sociopaths or downright emotionally damaged in some way or another.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: 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 [[DrivenToSuicide 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 ThouShallNotKill 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. [[spoiler:And the ending has the new God realizing he's stuck being TheOmniscient for a world that is filled with both extraordinary happiness.. and existential levels of despair he can effectively do nothing about. [[GodIsDead So he kills himself]] and unintentionally ends all of creation, failing yet another attempt by a mysterious [[{{Precursors}} ancient race]] to create beings that can kill them too.]] 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, [[spoiler:and the ending straight up erases what happiness the remaining cast managed to find, all because [[DidntThinkThisThrough they picked the explicitly most suicidal kid to be God]] since no one else actually wanted to do it at that point.]]
* ToughActToFollow: The series isn't nearly as popular as Obata and Ohba's previous two, being a more conventional last-man-standing storyline in vein of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' without the complex intellectual battles of ''Death Note'' or the lively comedy and quirky characters of ''Bakuman''. Not helped by the fact it's a monthly publication this time around.

* TheScrappy: 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 SpoiledBrat GoldDigger personality whiny and grating instead of amusing. [[spoiler:The fact that her ''only'' appearance in combat was attempting to shoot Professor Yashiro InTheBack with a Red Arrow didn't help her perception.]]

* AntiClimax: Played with. [[spoiler: The "action" climax occurs in the middle of the story and the final conflict is just talk and a (mildly) tense situation.]] However, the ending [[spoiler: is a subversion as the worst outcome possible occurs because of the main characters' decision and is truly climactic and tragic.]]

* {{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 MonsterOfTheWeek crew 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 [[spoiler:[[SpannerInTheWorks 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.

* {{Narm}}: In a series otherwise trying to keep itself ''relatively'' grounded for Earth, the entire Metropoliman plotline invokes superhero comic plots as the antagonist outright gets together a MonsterOfTheWeek crew of sociopaths that feel like they stepped out of a completely different series, with particularly ''out there'' logic 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 since [[spoiler:[[SpannerInTheWorks 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.

* IdiotPlot: The late series to ending decisions of [[spoiler:making Shuji Nakaumi to be the next God. At this point, Mirai and Saki just want to be together, Yuri doesn't really want to put the effort in to be God at all, and Gaku wants to MurderSuicide all of them unaware this would end all creation. Before everyone even confronts Gaku, the rest have picked Shuji, despite the fact that he explicitly caused most of his family to kill themselves through his Red Arrows, and continued to be suicidal enough to be a ''horrible'' choice for God.]] Ultimately in the final chapter/episode, [[spoiler:Shuji-God may have started out well-intentioned, but couldn't sustain being an AllPowerfulBystander to the world's despair and death, and [[KillEmAll this gets everything wiped from existence.]] All because the rest of the adult cast didn't want to sacrifice any of their personal happiness or ways of living for the world at large and threw the seriously unstable child into the position he was ''not'' ready for.]]

* IdiotPlot: The late series to ending decisions of [[spoiler:making Shuji Nakaumi to be the next God. At this point, Mirai and Saki just want to be together, Yuri doesn't really want to put the effort in to be God at all, and Gaku wants to MurderSuicide all of them unaware this would end all creation. Before everyone even confronts Gaku, the rest have picked Shuji, despite the fact that he explicitly caused most of his family to kill themselves through his Red Arrows, and continued to be suicidal enough to be a ''horrible'' choice for God.]] Needless to say, [[spoiler:Shuji-God may have started out well-intentioned, but ultimately couldn't sustain being an AllPowerfulBystander to the world's despair and death, and [[KillEmAll this gets everything wiped from existence.]] All because the rest of the adult cast didn't want to sacrifice any of their personal happiness or ways of living for the world at large and threw the seriously unstable child into the position he was ''not'' ready for.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: 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 [[DrivenToSuicide 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 ThouShallNotKill 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. [[spoiler:And the ending has the new God realizing he's stuck being TheOmniscient for a world that is filled with both extraordinary happiness.. and existential levels of despair he can effectively do nothing about. [[GodIsDead So he kills himself]] and unintentionally ends all of creation, failing yet another attempt by a mysterious [[{{Precursors}} ancient race]] to create beings that can kill them too.]] 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, [[spoiler:and the ending straight up erases what happiness the remaining cast managed to find, all because [[DidntThinkThisThrough they picked the explicitly most suicidal kid to be God]] since no one else actually wanted to do it at that point.]]

* IdiotPlot: The late series to ending decisions of [[spoiler:making Shuji Nakaumi to be the next God. At this point, Mirai and Saki just want to be together, Yuri doesn't really want to put the effort in to be God at all, and Gaku wants to MurderSuicide all of them unaware this would end all creation. Before everyone even confronts Gaku, the rest have picked Shuji, despite the fact that he explicitly caused most of his family to kill themselves through his Red Arrows, and was suicidal enough to be a ''horrible'' choice for God.]] Needless to say, [[spoiler:Shuji-God may have started out well-intentioned, but ultimately couldn't sustain being an AllPowerfulBystander to the world's despair and death, and [[KillEmAll this gets everything wiped from existence.]] All because the rest of the adult cast didn't want to sacrifice any of their personal happiness or ways of living for the world at large and threw the seriously unstable child into the position he was ''not'' ready for.]]