Master creators Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba are back with a new dark story with an angelic twist.

These two creators first got together on Death Note, a series that will go down as one of the most successful in manga history. When it was first released in Japan, volume 1 became the fastest to sell one million copies in Shonen Jump history. And that success extended throughout the world. Even now, years after its conclusion, Death Note is still one the bestselling series in the United States and many other countries. A new Death Note movie is premiering in Japan this fall and an American-made version will hit Netflix next year.

The duo followed that up with Bakuman, a series starring aspiring manga artists that revealed the many secrets of the manga-making industry. Unlike Death Note, Bakuman did without any supernatural elements and focused more on comedy and romance. But now with Platinum End, the duo is back to their roots, a dark story full of suspense and intrigue.

And Platinum End doesn’t mess around. Main character Mirai attempts suicide less than ten pages into the story. Mirai had a dreadful childhood and has lost any hope of finding happiness. Luckily for him, he’s had an angel watching out for him. Nasse is a high-ranking angel who not only saves Mirai, but gives him two powerful tools. First, he receives angel wings that allow him to travel anywhere in the world at inhuman speeds. Second, Mirai gets angel arrows that can either kill a person or turn them into his slave for a time period of 33 days.

But Mirai’s emotional wounds aren’t shallow enough to be healed that easily. His new tools are nice and allow him to gain his freedom, but that is just a beginning. Nasse soon reveals that 13 candidates have been given angel tools as part of a ceremony to choose the next god. Mirai is one of them and each is being judged to see who is most worthy. One candidate, however, decides the easiest way to settle to competition is to eliminate it. Mirai is then caught up in a game of elimination with the world’s future in the balance. How can an emotionally crippled young man deal with so much pressure?

Takeshi Obata is arguably the best artist in the manga industry and Platinum End is filled with examples of this. The angels are beautifully drawn and you can really feel Mirai’s anguish in his facial expressions. Tsugumi Ohba is the master of the plot-twist, and the cliffhanger at the end of volume 1 is brutal! Luckily, the series is also available to read by individual chapter on both VIZ.com and the Comixology website for those who can’t wait to find out what happens next!