angel beats 7
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Silent night, holy night /
All is calm, all is bright
Once you saw that as time went by, there was more and more medical equipment in Hatsune’s room, you knew she was a goner. And since this is Jun Maeda… well… dead girl in snow. Again. This is more predictable than Kyoto Animation skipping any sort of fanservice or the inevitable Heidi/Spencer divorce.
(Can we get a sad girl who dies in summer? And without a long sickly period? While Araragi going through a life-changing revelation after losing his beloved little sister and become a doctor– and then getting killed in a freak accident before becoming said doctor– is a sad story, it completely loses its effect when crammed into six minutes of airtime. You gotta give these things time to breathe. Hell, Tomoyo’s and Takumi’s sob story recap lasted at least twenty minutes. Angel Beats does feel rushed… I wonder what has less hope of happening: lesbian stalker on K-On!! or TK backstory for Angel Beats. Frankly, I don’t know which one I want to see more.)
Should have been episodes… one just for Araragi’s backstory and one for the fishing. Sigh. Is Stan Van Gundy coaching this anime or something?
Myssa Rei: Angel Beats is still an okay watch, but I can’t help but have a nagging feeling of deja vu since it reminds me too much of an earlier effort of a different company to compress one of Jun Maeda’s stories: Kanon 2002. Everything seems to be going past at a train’s pace, and I have to wonder just how much of the original material was sacrificed.
And we all know what happens to trains, right?
(Look, I’m willing to believe this weird Lost-type purgatory world that they’re stuck in that’s ruled by cute, petite angels of death… but for Araragi to die in a train accident? Come on. Maybe in India or China, but not in Japan. I just hope that when Kyoto Animation remakes Angel Beats in 2015 that they change the death to sleeping pill overdose or something.)
Angel respawned! At the rate Angel Beats is going with the story, I fully expect a new Gundam Alpha series to start airing in 2015 written by Jun Maeda. It’ll definitely feature the human side of the pilots as war wages around them… uncomfortable bromances taken to the next level… sequence gags will be used… Lia would sing the OP… baseball will be played… supernatural reviving of the dead… and damn right, there’s going to be a dead Gundam pilot in snow.
(Andohbytheway, if this scenario happens, I’m done blogging. It would be like winning ten Super Bowls… there would just be nothing left for me to accomplish.)
(2015 is shaping up to be a monster year. Angel Beats remake, Gundam Alpha, Haruhi Final, Evangelion II: Because We Need Cash, and Stan Lee Presents Heroman 2. Legendary.)
I liked how all of them hid behind a high school girl. Only in anime would the strongest character in the cast be some demure high school girl.
(And sometimes in a meido outfit… gosh, where’s the meido in this anime? You’d expect at least some meido or at least a costume change by now.)
One two hey let’s dance! Zetsubou of carnival! Crazy for you! Chop chop chop!
(TK scores four lines this episode. You know you’ve accomplished something when you make it through an entire anime, not say more than 100 words total, none of which make any sense, yet somehow be the most compelling character. Gratz TK.)
“No matter what happens, I’ll be here by your side.”
If it weren’t for Gundam 00 lurking later this year, I’d declare this the gayest moment in anime of 2010. Sunrise, you have your work cut out for you: I think half the cast of Angel Beats is gay. This is classic prison syndrome. They’re all trapped in a relatively enclosed area, and it’s predominately all men. There’s only three girls, with Yui being even less desirable than K-On!‘s Yui, and Yurippe is most likely already involved with Shinra.
Why doesn’t Naoi just hypnotize the entire SSS Brigade? Why doesn’t he hypnotize Araragi and get their boy x boy love scene over with?
(I would say that Araragi’s and Naoi’s underlying passion is as great as Eyjafjallajokull… except it’s pretty clear after seeing Hatsune and Kanade that Araragi prefers quiet, small, and compact little girls.)
(If Naoi were smart, as Araragi was retelling his story, he’d hypnotize Yurippe to get her out of the room, and then he’d hypnotize Araragi into thinking that Naoi is his little sister. But, obviously, he’s not smart.)
Why is Noda cleaning his axe with one of those Asian ear wax cleaning things?
I was so expecting Nayuki to show up and brush off the snow from Araragi. She would then apologize for being an hour late. Yeah, in the “I might watch too much anime” list, this one might be #456,981.
I’m convinced that all the tight hairbands that Yui uses cuts off circulation to her brain, much like how that damn hairband cuts off circulation to Derek Fisher’s brain. Playing the which one doesn’t belong game, what would you choose out of: Jameer Nelson, Rajon Rondo, Steve Nash, and Derek Fisher?
(Reason #456,982 as to why the NBA needs an age limit: Dwight Howard has all the tools to be great, but, unfortunately, he hasn’t improved since joining the NBA. Signing fat contracts do not motivate people to get better, and having Patrick “Massive Underachiever” Ewing as his special coach ain’t helping. If he went to college, got some tough love from a good coach and at least learned how to shoot free throws, the Magic would have won game one. And this doesn’t even get to the “Dwight Howard has exactly one low post move… for Oharuhi-sama’s sake, he’s an unstoppable seven footer, how the hell does he only has one low post move!” argument yet.)
(Don’t mind me. The NBA… it’s FANTASTIC!)
A melancholy Yurippe is fine too.
Wouldn’t doing nice things like this make the SSS Brigade disappear sooner? And it still hasn’t been explained as to why it’s bad to disappear. I swear, this anime games the rules more than Umineko. I keep expecting witches to join in the fight sooner than later.
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>> Wouldn’t doing nice things like this make the SSS Brigade disappear sooner? And it still hasn’t been explained as to why it’s bad to disappear. I swear, this anime games the rules more than Umineko. I keep expecting witches to join in the fight sooner than later.
You’re thinking too hard. :D
Also, this post is missing a lot of cute Tenshi moments… which is a pity, since she’s like the least annoying character in the series. And the most huggable.
PS: This thing kept timing out on me.
Is there anything TK can’t somehow make hilarious? Even Mahjong!
Jun Maeda must really like the fishing mini game in P4…
Angel Beats seems to be a mash up of all his masturbatory fantasies, however will it satisfy anyone apart from him? It feels like he wants me to be sad, amused, uncomfortable and contented all in one episode but the tastes aren’t strong enough to evoke the level of emotion he wants and it is too diverse for me to truly enjoy it as a whole.
I thought it was following school rules made them disappear, not being nice. I don’t think having a huge BBQ on the soccer field is going to looked upon kindly by the administration.
Don’t jinx it. You know very well that animation companies read this blog.
I’m still holding out my pet theory that Ayato is in reality a reverse trap. It would explain perfectly why “he” didn’t disappear.
Then again, the rules of the world might not be what viewers assumed, and the requirements for passing on may be something else entirely.
But more importantly, MULTIPLE TENSHI INSTANCES! Think about the awesome doujins that would take advantage of the fact that Tenshi is a non-unique PC. Oh, wait-
Prison syndrome indeed. That’s why it’s clear that the hero there is hitting on Tenshi/Angel for all he’s worth.
Crap, I can’t even remember his name; curses, the entire post (which was to be my reference) only calls him Araragi! That doesn’t sound right… and yet…
What’s a bigger downgrade than Iwasawa to Yui for Girls Dead Monster? I hazard to think of a parallel (Nightwish is my first thought). Yui is funny comedy relief, but she’s no Iwasawa.
I bet TK’s backstory involves either a gang war or brain damage. There’s no in between.
>>And we all know what happens to trains, right?
They get wrecked!
Oh wait I get it.
I can understand a lot of the problems that this show has, which I also believe is mainly due to rushing because of the fact that it’s running 12 episodes (or so I’ve seen). But god I love this show regardless, I also love Yui, if cutting off more oxygen to the brain makes her more awesome then she should throw a few more on there.
“quiet, small, and compact little girls”
Totally reminded me of this
Train accidents *do* happen in Japan. The most recent and serious one being the 2005 Amagasaki rail crash, which saw over 100 casualties. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if the train accident that Otonashi was referencing that. Will rewatch the episode to make doubly sure.
>>Why doesn’t Naoi just hypnotize the entire SSS Brigade? Why doesn’t he hypnotize Araragi and get their boy x boy love scene over with?
You just gave the idea for the best-selling yaoi doujin of the upcoming comiket.
Trains get wrecked ,but what if Arararagi manages to make Black Tenshi into the group as well?there’ll be two tenshis just for him.And then they’ll finnaly do an onsen episode.That would be awesome.
>>And it still hasn’t been explained as to why it’s bad to disappear.
first eps 7:50 – Buddhist belief reincarnation, sucks to go from human to possible barnacle. Also points were brought out how it sucks to live in the real world and dying suddenly, and their goal of taking over this world so dying unfairly doesn’t happen. Well they got White Angel and Naoi they would basically of have taken over this world after they defeat Black Angel till the next random plot twist.
>>Why is Noda cleaning his axe with one of those Asian ear wax cleaning things?
It’s a Powder Ball used to polish Katana generally. http://www.realarmorofgod.com/.....aning.html
I for one somehow just love Yui-nyan, and don’t get why most ppl seem to hate her so much. But well, guess i just have weird taste or something, i find her quite cute and sexy even though im not normally that much into lolis. I also thought Iwasawa was good for singing but quite bland character otherwise. TK’s chop chop just completely broke me, i burst laughing uncontrollably when i heard it.
I hope TK gets his own OVA.
Can we get a sad girl who dies in summer?
Well, AIR’s main girl died in summer….
I wonder what has less hope of happening: lesbian stalker on K-On!! or TK backstory for Angel Beats. Frankly, I don’t know which one I want to see more.
TK’s episode. Because we at least enjoyed the lesbian stalker chapter in Kakifly’s manga, while TK’s backstory remains an enigma.
nc on hatsune? ._)
You know, sometimes you go on and on about these bromances like you WANT them to happen.
Ah, Jun Maeda does love him some sickly girls. Also breaking younger, weaker characters out of hospitals; didn’t Sayuri do it for her little brother in Kanon, and Tomoya for Ushio in Clannad? I don’t remember it in Air, but I wouldn’t bet against it being in the VN version.
Loved Naoi’s sudden change of character at the start of the episode when Otonashi hauled him up by the collar, and of course all the Kanade moments.
I can’t say I really mind the pace, it stops things getting stale and predictable, and I haven’t seen any real breaking of the rules of the world, just the fact that maybe the SSS Brigade’s interpretation of some of the rules may have been wrong. That’s nothing like Umineko’s level of rule stupidity.
Other commenters beat me to certain points. I have only one point left: “Demure”?!
>>And it still hasn’t been explained as to why it’s bad to disappear.
first eps 7:50 – Buddhist belief reincarnation, sucks to go from human to possible barnacle.
…but then as a barnacle you could scare Mio, and a scared Mio is fine too. So it can’t be all that bad, they should go for it…
Gonna go out on a limb and say that since Yurippe is Haruhi, she’ll obviously have Haruhi-like powers and she un(?)consciously created Black Tenshi as a manifestation of her desire for something to struggle against. This can only end when White Tenshi reminds Otonashi of a fairy tale and he convinces Yurippe to wear a ponytail.
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TK said something in Japanese? That’s just not right.
He may seem to make no sense now, but once the show is over and his words can be studied as a whole I’m sure they’ll contains some sort of kabbalahistic gnosis that is the key to understanding everything.
” I swear, this anime games the rules more than Umineko. I keep expecting witches to join in the fight sooner than later.”
I’ve been feeling this way, for quite a while.
2015 would probably be the remake-remake
Just 3 things I forgot : I laughed a lot when Shinji said “god doesn’t fall” while falling ,The fact that in the op and last week too Otonashi cries like in the episode,and best thing last:TK screaming “IT’S A TRAP” in the preview.Wonder what that means…
I can’t stop thinking of Lockon and Setsuna skipping a battle to play space baseball (spaceball?) with their Gundams.
I thought that the Red-Eyed Tenshi was the product of the Gold-Eyed Tenshi’s Harmonics.
You know… the skill shown in episode 3 I think….
Btw, I think that it was the Red-Eyed Tenshi who chopped up Giant fish
I’ll watch the NBA when I get my sonics back.
If I had a dollar for every blog commenter that said that, I’d buy out KyoAni in a week.
“(Don’t mind me. The NBA… it’s FANTASTIC!)”
There needs to be an 800 page Book of blog好ã, with 100 pages of footnotes and expanded pantheon. This should happen right? You’re nodding along with me.
I don’t mind the 13 episode schedule. Too many directors are incoherent with their story for the first couple of episodes, expecting everything to work out in the end. At least with 13, everything goes too fast for people to pick up on everything going crazy.
Besides, Angel Beats started at a fast-ish pace, if things suddenly went sad girls in snow, the change would be noticeable.
Angel Beats seems to be a mash up of all his [Jun Maeda] masturbatory fantasies, however will it satisfy anyone apart from him?
Too right. The first episode set everything up (albeit, a Haruhi-parody was slightly suspicious), and then suddenly the whole story goes back left and centre. I was expecting something amazing; it from being Key and all, and the starting 5 minutes hooked me in.
Then suddenly, Haruhi operations, giant fans, underground caves where they can make anything out of dirt, sad girl in rain, dead girl in snow, evil twins.
“I wonder what has less hope of happening: lesbian stalker on K-On!! or TK backstory for Angel Beats.”
Hmmm ;)
Heh…would that be KyoAni listening in again?
Naw.
(Waits for 48 episode remake of Angel Beats by KyoAni in 2015)
I wonder what has less hope of happening: lesbian stalker on K-On!! or TK backstory for Angel Beats.
Someone needs to watch K-On Episode 7. Nao. And then apologize for EVER badmouthing KyoAni. :D
(If Naoi were smart, as Araragi was retelling his story, he’d hypnotize Yurippe to get her out of the room, and then he’d hypnotize Araragi into thinking that Naoi is his little sister. But, obviously, he’s not smart.)
Seems someone in Japan thought of that too. This is why i love pixiv XD.
http://img180.imageshack.us/im.....671766.jpg
are they making a season two