Platinum End #5

[informationgeek]

Writer: Tsugumi Ohba
Artist: Takeshi Obata


23 1/3 out of 70 pages


This chapter contains material discussing suicide. Be warned.



Both Saki and Mirai have arrived at the stadium to check things out, staying under the radar. They both notice a couple of other angels in the area, but try not to look at them to draw suspicion on themselves. At home, Revel and Nasse watch the action on TV.

Metropoliman shows up soon, but...








Blue takes a shot, but the Red Arrow doesn't work on the guy! It turns out to be an impostor dressed up as Metropoliman, who has been already struck with a Red Arrow. Blue angrily demands that the real Metropoliman appear.

While they wait, the two talk amongst themselves...


















The three argue a bit (there's a lot of technical stuff about the power of their arrows and stuff) and the two state they'll be taking the impostor, since they guess they can get some info out of him. Suddenly...













Metropoliman stabs the girl with a red arrow, putting her under his control. He flies off and reappears on the jumbo screen, mocking the two and saying he'll kill them both.





Then two more people in costume show up...





Blue and Yellow shoot the two both with Red Arrows, go and pick them up from the stands, and return back to homeplate where the impostor Blue is.









Turns out our villain switched places with the impostor when the two were getting Pink & Green, who turned out to be actors hired by Metropoliman. The chapter ends with Blue dead and Yellow under Metropoliman's control. He calls out for the little girl to come over, since it's time to begin Stage 2.



Sorry guys, this was a hard chapter to do a post on. It was much heavier on the dialogue and the characters were all about talking about their plans and the rules of arrows in great detail. To get a better grasp of the situation, I recommend reading the chapter yourself since I had to trim a lot of material.

Comments

[q99]

Well, the bodycount has certainly escalated!

I'm impressed with everyone's ability to get costumes ^^

[informationgeek]

Oh, the body count hasn't remotely stop going up. Dark hint hint for next month's post... :D

[q99]

Oh noz, and this series looked like it was going to be so peaceful!

[janegray]

Aww. It was obvious that the two guys were cannon fodder, but I'm still sad that Blue died, I really liked them. Yellow will most likely die too, but I hope he gets to strike back at the villain before then.

Although, if the villain can brainwash people, I'm not sure why he chose to kill Blu instead of brainwashing him like he did with Yellow. Maybe one of the rules is that you can only brainwash one person within a certain time frame, and then you have to wait a bit before you can do it again?

[penguinzero]

That's more or less it. A big plot point in this chapter is that it takes a little time to reload an arrow -- two seconds, in fact. Which isn't much, but it would be enough for whoever you didn't shoot first to react and shoot you. That's why the two of them showed up together, to cover each other.

However, the red and white arrows are separate -- it only takes 0.3 seconds to fire one and then the other. Metropoliman managed to just barely take out the two of them before they could fire back by taking advantage of that fact.