Angel Beats! - The 2010 anime series

Angel Beats!  is a 13-episode Japanese television animated (anime) series produced by PAWorks and Aniplex and directed by Seiji Kishi. The story was originally conceived by Jun Maeda, who also wrote the script and composed the music with the Anant-Garde Eyes group, with the original character design of Na-Ga; both Maeda and Na-Ga come from the visual novel brand Key, which has produced titles such as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. The anime aired in Japan between April 3 and June 26, 2010 on CBC. The original home video animation (OVA) episode was released in December 2010 and a second OVA was released in June 2015. The story takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who has lost his memories of his life after death. He is enrolled in the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront, an organization she leads that fights student council president Kanade Tachibana, a girl also known as Angel with supernatural powers. .

Key worked in partnership with Dengeki G's ASCII Media Works' magazine to produce the project in a supporting franchise. Four manga series are published in series on Dengeki G's Magazine and Dengeki G's Comic: two illustrated by Haruka Komowata and two drawn by Yuriko Asami. A series of illustrated short stories written by Maeda and illustrated by GotoP were also serialized in Dengeki G's Magazine between the November 2009 and May 2010 issues. Two Internet radio programs were produced to promote Angel Beats! . The first volume of a six-part episodic visual novel adaptation produced by Key was released for Windows on June 26, 2015.

Angel Beats!  received generally positive reviews from critics. The integration of various individual elements, such as musical performance, humor and action, was praised in one review but panned in another, saying the story was overloaded with too many elements. PAWorks was praised for the animation of the action sequences and attention to detail with the weapons used. A major flaw noted by critics, however, was the length of the anime, with its short duration leaving many of the characters' backstories unexplored. The anime was selected as a recommended work by the jury of the awards of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010.

History

Angel Beats! is set in a high school in the afterlife, a kind of limbo for people who have experienced traumas or difficulties in life and must overcome them before dying and reincarnating. The story follows Yuzuru Otonashi, a boy with amnesia who ends up in the afterlife. Meet Yuri Nakamura, a girl who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront, or SSS, an organization she founded and led that rebels against an invisible God, for their unfair circumstances in life. Their enemy is Angel, the student council president, who has supernatural powers and is believed to be a collaborator of God. After joining the SSS, Otonashi meets other members, including Hideki Hinata, the co-founder; Masami Iwasawa, the lead singer of a four-girl rock band, Girls Dead Monster (GDM); and Yui, an underclassman and GDM fan. In addition to members of the SSS, the afterlife is populated by fictional students and teachers, whom Yuri calls "non-player characters" (NPCs).

Otonashi participates in several SSS operations and missions, despite continuing to question the morality of their actions. During one of GDM's diversion concerts, Iwasawa passes from the afterlife after achieving satisfaction through his music. After the SSS manages to downgrade Angel from his position, Otonashi partially recovers his memories with the help of Vice President Ayato Naoi's hypnosis.. He later befriends Angel, whose real name is Kanade Tachibana, and remembers the rest of his past while in his presence. Otonashi helps her make peace with the SSS and discovers the true purpose of the afterlife. He later offers to help Kanade help other SSS members pass, and Kanade is reinstated as student council president in accordance with their plan. They are joined by Hinata and Naoi, with the former helping Yui to move forward by fulfilling her desire for marriage.

Mysterious shadow-like entities begin to appear, attacking the afterlife residents turning them into NPCs. Otonashi reasons with the other members of the SSS and many of them agree to switch instead of becoming an NPC. Yuri destroys the source of the shadows, which were created by computers programmed to activate when love is detected in the afterlife, to prevent it from becoming a paradise. Her affection for the SSS members allows her to finally overcome her regret and, at this point, the only others who have not died are Otonashi, Kanade, Hinata and Naoi. The five remaining students hold a graduation ceremony before Naoi, Yuri and Hinata pass by leaving only Otonashi and Kanade.

Otonashi confesses to Kanade that he has fallen in love with her and wants them to stay in the afterlife to help others move forward. However, Kanade reveals that her regret wasn't that she couldn't thank her heart's giver, Otonashi, for extending her life. Otonashi is heartbroken after she thanks him and leaves, leaving him alone in the afterlife. Later, two people who look like Otonashi and Kanade meet on the street in the real world. In an alternate epilogue, Otonashi becomes the president of the high school student council and helps lost souls from the afterlife while waiting to see Kanade again.

Characters

yuzuru otonashi

Due to his past, Otonashi has a caring personality and doesn't want anyone to feel pain or sadness. After he died, he lost his memories of the time he was still alive, but later regains them. He had a younger sister, Hatsune (初 音, voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese); Jessica Boone (English)), who died of an unknown but debilitating disease that she cared a lot about. When he died, he decided to go to school to become a doctor, but he died in a train accident before he could take the college entrance exam. Initially inexperienced in any equipment, he begins to practice his shooting, and passes through the team when he is in danger. Carry a Glock 17.

Yuri Nakamura

Yuri, also known as Yurippe (ゆ り っ ぺ), has a determined personality but is secretly very sensitive and protective. She invites Otonashi to join the SSS, an organization she founded and leads that fights against God. She is intelligent and decisive when making operations and decisions. He carries a 92 silver Beretta. Not only is he proficient with a pistol, but he is also proficient in close range hand-to-hand combat, which is shown when he repels Kanade's sonic hand with a combat knife. She swore to fight God after her three younger brothers were murdered by thieves in search of valuables and never forgave herself for not preventing their death. She is an effective leader, but she doesn't think so. He also regrets having a fight with Kanade later in the story, because he feels he could have been great friends with her. He disappears after the graduation ceremony.

Kanade Tachibana

Kanade, initially known as Angel (天使, Tenshi), is the student council president of the afterlife school. This puts her at odds with the SSS as her responsibilities require her to suppress delinquency and other destructive activities the team does. The SSS initially calls her Angel as they don't know her real name, but they keep calling her with it even after they find out that her real name is Kanade Tachibana. It is difficult to understand what he is thinking due to the fact that he rarely shows external emotions and his way of speaking in no uncertain terms. He is personally dedicated to helping others overcome their regrets and move on. However, she often lacks adequate understanding of others, as she never thinks of trying to explain to the SSS why she was doing what she did. She likes to eat mapo doufu, a spicy dish.
Despite his gentle demeanor and small frame, he is incredibly powerful and nearly indestructible to the point of ejecting bullets from his wounds during battle. He creates his powers known as "guard ability" through a computer program called Angel Player. His primary ability is "hand sonic", a blade on one or both forearms with five shapes. Other abilities include but are not limited to: "distortion", an invisible barrier that deflects projectiles or other projectiles; “Delay”, which creates an afterimage to confuse opponents; and “harmonics”, where from the original a clone with a conscience of its own is formed. These abilities are activated at will; however, its overdrive capability, which gives it great physical strength, is always active.

Hideki Hinata

Hinata is a bright and reliable guy, the closest to Otonashi. He always tries to save his friends if he can and is a reliable force on the team. He and Yui constantly irritate each other every day, but deep down he takes care of Yui, as shown when he helps her get through by telling her he was going to marry her. He is a talented baseball player, and his lifelong regret was not being able to catch a baseball, which cost his team a major baseball game. She nicknamed Yuri after Yurippe when they co-founded the SSS because she didn't feel comfortable calling her Yuri, because her mother has the same name. He has shown romantic feelings towards Yuri in Track Zero, although he finds himself drawn to Yui much later in the series. He died hit by a truck. It uses an RPK-74 and an S&W 645.

Ayato Naoi

Naoi is a human originally meant to be a non-player (non-human) character. After his death, Naoi developed hypnotic powers that allowed him to control others and put them into a dream state. In life he was the son of a famous potter. However, it was his twin brother who had the talent in pottery, and as a result, Naoi was ignored by everyone, including his parents. When his brother died, he was forced to replace him by his father and was given rigorous pottery training, even though he was scolded severely if he was wrong. As a result, he felt like his own life was fake and all he wanted was to be recognized for his own existence. He later befriends Otonashi after recognizing him and joins the SSS. As interim student council president for a time and a self-proclaimed God, Naoi is stern and arrogant, but quickly disperses when Otonashi chastises him. He is affectionate with Otonashi, much to the latter's chagrin, and always tries to earn his affection. Uses two USP 45 pistols.

Yui

Yui is a huge fan and initially a Girls Dead Monster assistant.She is known to be hyperactive and talks very fast. Hinata finds Yui annoying, which results in fights between the two, although in truth they really care about each other, saying that if they met before they died, they would fall in love with each other. She wears a devil's tail and bracelets on her wrists, which give her the image of a little devil or a devil. It also has wings hidden by the hair on its back. After Iwasawa's departure, Yui becomes the new rhythm guitarist and singer of Girls Dead Monster, as well as its leader. Yui plays a Gibson SG Special electric guitar. He later joins the main SSS, following them on missions, although he doesn't contribute much. In life, she was hit by a car and was paralyzed from a young age. His regret was that he could not do anything with his body. Otonashi helps fulfill most of her wishes which include many things she saw on TV when she was alive, although it is Hinata who fulfills her last wish to get married by proposing them.

Takamatsu

Takamatsu is an honored student who has a polite personality and wears glasses. It primarily contributes to the SSS through intelligence gathering and other affairs, but does not actively fight. Yuri herself says not to be fooled by his glasses and that in reality he is an idiot. Although he looks slim, he trains and is actually muscular and well built.After revealing this for the first time, he tends to take off his shirt, much to everyone's discomfort. He is absorbed by a shadow and is transformed into an NPC. However, having strong enough feelings (according to Yuri), he manages to regain consciousness and manages to disappear like the others. He carries a desert eagle as a side arm, but is also seen using a Sig 552.

Noda

Noda is a self-sufficient young man who executes the strategies formed by the SSS and fights with a halberd. He does not listen to anyone except Yuri, for whom he has adoration, and is antagonistic to almost everyone else. He has a one-sided rivalry with Otonashi. He is a complete idiot whose weakness is education; at one point Takeyama manages to knock him out by acting pi. He is not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who gets in Yuri's way. Although he prefers to fight with his halberd, he sometimes uses guns out of necessity, the kind of weaponry he hates.

You were Shiina

Shiina is a ninja woman who fights with kodachi and double-handled shurikens. He is able to sense when danger is coming and is a highly capable fighter. Despite his serious demeanor, he has a penchant for cute things like stuffed animals. She is strict in her training and is very self-critical when she fails, especially with a newcomer like Otonashi. He decides that his weakness is that he has little concentration. She is shown balancing on a broom and other objects with her fingers for long periods of time. She rarely speaks, but usually observes "how superficial" or "how silly" ("this is so stupid" in the English dub) whenever she comes. said the obvious or something stupid. Since she had no name when she arrived in the afterlife, Yuri named her Shiina after her callsign, 'C7' (Shi-nana).

Yusa

Yusa is an SSS operator who communicates the status of the battlefield to Yuri. She is a calm and gentle girl with an outspoken character. Just like Kanade, she doesn't express her emotions and is called scary by Otonashi and Hinata. He can't calm down without his headset. He rarely speaks and sometimes hurts the feelings of others even if he doesn't mean it.

Fujimaki

Fujimaki is a thug who fights with a long shirasaya, and is similar in character to Noda. He takes Otonashi when he initially joins the SSS. He can't swim. Use a PPSh-41 submachine gun.

TK

TK is a mysterious character who wears a large bandana over his eyes and tends to dance from time to time. Nobody knows his real name or his past. He speaks in semi-nonsensical English phrases depending on the situation, mostly quoted by pop culture, but apparently he doesn't know English fluently. He saves the team many times and knows some Japanese but rarely speaks it. He carries Browning Hi-Power and LAR Grizzly pistols or a Bizon PP-19 submachine gun on missions. His name TK, given to him by Noda, is an abbreviation of tonikaku kiteru (と に か く き て る, lit. Comes one way or another).

Matsushita

Matsushita, also known as "Matsushita 5-dan" ("Matsushita the fifth" in the dub), has a sturdy build and is a master of judo. He never forgets a debt he owes, especially when it comes to food (especially niku udon). Bring heavy weapons like rocket launchers or machine guns into battle. He later loses weight after mountain training. It uses a H&K P7 and an MG3 light machine gun.

yama

Ōyama is a normal guy who has no special talents. He excels at nothing, but he is as capable as any normal person; in other words, he is a handyman. He is an innocent boy whose feelings are hurt by things like making a false confession or watching his teammates "die". Carry a Remington 700 sniper rifle or P226 pistol.

Takeyama

Takeyama is a smart guy who is good at hacking computers. He wrote the "Briefing Manager" program that Yuri uses to inform the SSS before a mission. He insists that he be referred to by his username "Christ", but no one ever does. Try to execute all plans as perfectly as possible. It does not engage in combat or other physical operations, but rather collects data and information.

Look

Chaa is the leader of the Guild. Although he looks much older, he is about the same age as Otonashi and the others. He is the fourth member to join the SSS, at the time he had no facial hair. He first met Yuri and Hinata holding the school principal hostage at gunpoint in an attempt to learn more about God, having him stabbed by Kanade.
Dead Monster girls

Masami Iwasawa

Masami Iwasawa is the original leader of the Girls Dead Monster who is in charge of the vocals and is the rhythm guitarist. He also writes the lyrics and composes the music for the band's songs. He plays a Fender Stratocaster Sienna Sunburst / Maple guitar. While she is usually a quiet girl, she is able to captivate listeners by striving to make music that speaks to her thoughts. He used music as an escape from his constantly struggling parents in life, but ended up dying from a brain injury he received. He disappears playing his song, “My Song”. Accept that one day she will use her voice to influence others.

Hisako

Hisako is the second-in-command of the Girls Dead Monster playing a Fender Jazzmaster electric guitar as a lead guitarist. She has an outspoken personality and likes to play mahjong, which she has incredible luck with. As noted by Hinata, Hisako is also athletic and is highly admired by Yui for her guitar riffs. In life, she was part of a band whose lead singer ended up committing suicide, but after meeting Iwasawa, she forms the Girls Dead Monster with her.

Miyuki irie

Irie is the drummer of Girls Dead Monster who, despite having died herself, is not good at hearing stories of ghosts or spirits, which Sekine likes to take advantage of. She is best friend of Sekine and has joined Girls Dead Monster at the same time as her.

Shiori sekine

Sekine plays a G&L L-2000 bass guitar in Girls Dead Monster. She likes to prank those around her to see the surprised faces of her victims. She also likes to suddenly improvise during performances, much to Hisako's chagrin. Privately she is jealous of the attention Iwasawa receives as the leader and center of the band.

Technical data

light novel
Angel Beats! TrackZero
Texts Jun Maeda
Drawings GotoP
Editor ASCII MediaWorks
Magazine Dengeki G's Magazine
1 edition November 2009 - May 2010
Volumes unique

Manga
Angel Beats! The 4-koma: Bokura no Sensen Kōshinkyoku
Author Jun Maeda (drawings by Haruka Komowata)
Editor ASCII MediaWorks
Magazine Dengeki G's Magazine
Target seinen
1 edition December 2009 - October 2013
Tankōbon 4 (complete)
Volumes it. unpublished

Anime TV series
Author Jun Maeda
Regia Seiji Kishi
Music Jun Maeda (with Avant-Garde Eyes)
Studio PA Works
Network CBC, MBS, RKB, TBS, ALL
1st TV April 3 - June 26, 2010
Episodes 13 (complete)
16: 9 ratio
Episode duration 20 min
1st Italian streaming Netflix (subtitled)

Manga
Angel Beats! Heaven's Door
Author Jun Maeda (artwork by Yuriko Asami)
Editor ASCII MediaWorks
Magazine Dengeki G's Magazine, Dengeki G's Comic
Target seinen
1 edition May 2010 - ongoing
Tankōbon 8 (in progress)
Volumes it. unprecedented

OVA
Angel Beats !: Stairway to Heaven
Regia Seiji Kishi
Studio PA Works
1 edition 22 December 2010
Episodes unique
Relationship 16:9
Episode duration 24 min

Manga
Angel Beats! The 4-koma:
Osora no Shinda Sekai kara
Author Jun Maeda (drawings by Haruka Komowata)
Editor ASCII MediaWorks
Magazine Dengeki G's Magazine
Target seinen
1 edition December 2013 - ongoing
Tankōbon 1 (in progress)
Volumes it. unprecedented

OVA
Angel Beats !: Hell's Kitchen
Regia Seiji Kishi
Studio PA Works
1 edition 24 June 2015
Episodes unique
16: 9 ratio
Duration 29 min

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