Angel Beats

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Name: Angel Beats! エンジェルビーツ!

Status: Completed

Episode: 13 + 1 OVA

Release date (for eng sub): -

Summary:

Angel Beats! takes place at a high school acting as a limbo for those who have died, where students learn to give up any lingering attachments they still have from life before passing on. Those in the afterlife school can still feel pain as they did when they were alive, as well as dying again, only to awaken later with no injuries. The story follows the main protagonist Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He meets Yuri, a girl who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront (死んだ世界戦線 Shinda Sekai Sensen (SSS)), an organization she founded and leads which fights against God for the cruel fates the SSS members experienced in life. In the SSS, there is a four-girl band named Girls Dead Monster that acts as a diversion during missions, and an organization called the Guild that mass produces weapons out of dirt and supplies them to the SSS. Their only enemy is Angel, a girl who has supernatural powers and fights against the SSS. The rest of the afterlife school is populated by a large number of "normal" students and teachers Yuri deems "non-player characters" (NPCs) as they are not human, but look and act the part.

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Personal ratings: 3.5

I totally love this anime. I know there are a lot people who thinks that this anime is incomplete and should have more episodes, since it does not cover all the character's past. But for me, i feel that it is good this way. The reason for them not showing all the character's past is probably because all the character's past would seem the same and would become boring. There is a limit to how many types of sad past there are in the world. However, one thing that keeps bothering me is Yuri's past. Even though they did show in the show, they did not show how she died. Which was a big question mark left when the show finished.

I really love how it has action, comedy and music all in one; it makes it a really unique anime. I think that this show was well thought out, like the proportion of humor, action and music they have in the show was just great! But than, maybe it had too many genre mixed together, it seemed as if the pace of the anime and the direction is it going towards is all over the place.

I never thought that this show is short, but i really want a second season to come out. This time about the time in real life after they were re-born.  

I loved the great twist at the end of the first wave in the show, because I always thought Ootonashi would be together with Yuri

Art ratings: 5

really really perfect. totally loved the art. 

Recommended for:

Gender: Female & Male

Age: 13 and above

Ratings: PG-13