angel beats 13 (end)
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“Living is wonderful.”
“I wish I had more time… but now… it’s time to part.”
Goddamn, that’s exactly how I feel. See, this is the problem with blogging every episode. Themes carry over from episode to episode, and what am I supposed to do, ignore them? Pfft. There’s nothing worse than a great anime turned into a lesser being by rushing it. It’s as bad as the World Cup being ruined by craptastic officiating and all the flopping… it’s being run looser than Paris Hilton. And Angel Beat-o is rushed. In the end, we never got an explanation for what this world really is. We never got an explanation of most of the important characters, like, oh, how Yurippe actually died… why is TK here… and like either other members of the SSS Brigade. We never got an explanation for who did the smoke monsters. I would have been fine if this were a 24 episode series and gotten a few character stories and a fanservice hot springs episode, but, no.
That’s not even the worst part…
They threw a monkey wrench at us in the end. Sure, it’s theoretically possible to predict that Kanade had Otonashi’s heart, but… why? How does this make sense? How did she get here? I like her explanation, “I got lost and wandered here.” O RLY? If this is a place for dead people, did she die after getting Otonashi’s heart? What gives? If she were alive, why is she here? More importantly, she got here a lot earlier than Otonashi, as Yurippe and the SSS Brigade already established Guild and weapons to fight against her well before Otonashi arrived. Doesn’t add good. But good news is that ABC and J. J. Abrams have contacted Jun Maeda to create a dramatic series about dead people stuck in a weird rule-altering purgatory.
(Good news though! We just wrapped up the 36th episode of Koihime Musou! I would like to nominate myself as Czar of Common Sense for Anime. If PA Works and Maeda-san showed me the plot for Angel Beats and told me that it was going to be only 14 episodes, I would have said, “Wait, wait, let’s back up here for a second.” And if Sunrise said, “We’d like to remake Angel Beats, but with Code Geass characters… like with Suzaku instead of Otonashi, Lulu instead of Hinata, Rolo instead of Naoi, Kallen instead of Yurippe, Nunnally instead of Yui, Shirley instead of Kanade, and TK reprising…, I would have interrupted, “Swiftly approved.”)
Manly tears…. goddamn, so that’s what it’s like to be hit by a two by four… Otonashi had it almost perfectly planned out. He wanted to remain with Kanade and, in quite possibly be the closest connection to Lost, be the Hurley on the island. Besides Kanade unable to reciprocate since, if she does, she’ll disappear, the only problem is… there hasn’t been any new students since Otonashi. They’ve been there for quite a long time, yet no new students. I enjoy picking out plot holes as much as my readers enjoy picking out my spelling mistakes. So, if you’re keeping track at home, my favorite anime to watch are either those with too many, not enough, or no plot holes. Preferably with meido.
(I did enjoy this scene. I liked how Kanade started calling Otonashi by his first name, Yuzuru. “I love you!” “Thank you!” “I love you!” “Thank you for loving me!” Get a room, already!)
(More interestingly, “Angel Beats” is a literal name for this anime… hun, now all the EKG-inspired graphics for this show makes sense. Who would have thunk it?)
(Would it be selfcest to fall in love with someone, but that someone is comprised of organs from you originally? I’ll give Otonashi a pass since Kanade only has one of organs, but let’s say, for the sake of discussion, she had a lung, a heart, and some skin graft from Otonashi. Would that be selfcest?)
And the final scene… I’m guessing it’s a parallel world a la the Yui/Hinata montage. Don’t get me wrong. Despite the Sunrise-class plot holes, I enjoyed Angel Beats. It won me over like Code Geass— just so meandering and ridiculous at times that I couldn’t wait to see what’s next. And that’s really the point of any television series… does it keep my attention? Am I looking forward to the next episode? Am I disappointed at the last episode? Check, check, and check.
(You have to be slightly disappointed in the final episode for every great series, mainly because you know you’re not getting another episode the next week and are angry at how the final one turned out… I’ll toss Seinfeld, Lost, and The Sopranos into this category. However, there are rare shows where you are not disappointed in how it turned out because the ending actually met expectations. These then become pantheon tier. I can count these one with one hand. Cheers, the greatest final episode ever, and then maybe Gurren Lagann.)
Alright, I enjoyed this scene for two reasons. One, I want Kanade to come up with a battle anthem for blog好ã. Hell, you guys can try too, but you’re not besting Kanade. She’s the strawberry sundae of battle anthems. Secondly, I loved how she hides behind Yurippe when Hinata attacks her work. That was awesome. The little girl slash most powerful entity in this world cowering behind a slightly larger little girl slash third most powerful entity in this world.
(Second most powerful entity is Otonashi. He figured out the game. He played it. He “won” it.)
Disappointed that Hinata and Otonashi’s (and, you know what, don’t hate me if I start referring to a certain character in a coming soon final episode post as “Otonashishishi” instead of his alter ego… you’ve been warned) didn’t have a more complicated celebratory high five routine. I was expecting at least something in the Victor Martinez class, but I was hoping for something more along the Gilbert Arenas class.
So much crying by male characters… I wonder if Jun Maeda was thinking, “Mmm… I had too many girls cry in Clannad, maybe I should mix it up for Angel Beats.” The worst part was I wasn’t sure if I should be terrified or giddy during the scene where Naoi breaks down and thanks Otonashi. He was so close to embracing and then trying to kiss Otonashi. If he did, it would have replaced Suzaku and Lulu as my go-to joke. But no. So you’ll have to put up with more Suzaku penetrating Lulu jokes at least until at least this fall’s Code Geass prequel.
Of course Kanade is calling Yurippe “Yuri”… with all the other characters gone and with only three other guys left, who else is going to be there to change Yurippe into her pajamas? And I’m disappointed her pajamas don’t have cat imprints on them like a certain other notable anime character right now. Also wondering if Yurippe ever takes off that headband. Does she shower with it on? Is it a parasite? I want the backstory for the headband.
The Haruhi analogue in the end… eh, it would be like Yuki hooking up with Kyon, which isn’t outside of the realm of possibilities. I think I will remember Angel Beats as Haruhi meets Lost with a dusting of K-On! topped with Jun Maeda’s secret sauce.
Needed more tsundere Yurippe, but not Yui as Yurippe Yurippe. More importantly, she ripped control of the name from Gatekeeper‘s Yurippe.
So predictable, even I predicted it.
“I liked how the brought all the characters back for (maybe) the last montage. Hinata doesn’t have Yui in a headlock anymore! I think the real final montage would have Kanade over everyone. Just my hunch.”
And I just noticed that 5th Dan is imitating TK, which just furthers The Second Modern Law of Anime: TK is all kinds of awesome. Sadly, he wasn’t dispensing his Confucius-like wisdom in this episode. I’ll let it slide. But the Angel Beats! OVA better be TK’s backstory.
Keep on dancing.
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I would have to agree with you on the season finale.
I was quite dissapointed on how it ended, it was highly predictable
Hopefully, I hope, just really really hope, (shush, I know there is a 10% chance of another season) there is another season D:
Besides Otonashi’s epic twin waterfalls of tears, what I found odd with the Otonashi/Kanade parting scene was that Kanade never said “I love you” back to Otonashi. She just kept thanking him for what he has done. Feels like unrequited love here, and that she doesn’t quite care for Otonashi in the same way.
The after-credits scene managed to have some animation inconsistency. Earphones appeared on Kanade, then disappeared. Also, random matching necklaces.
Then again, #WTFMaedaJun.
I loved the Failure Whale Kanade of the Maintence Mode.
Also… I dunno. They jumped moods/themes/etc so often that at the end, the Otonashi thing came out of nowhere. But I’ll have to say she didn’t get her money’s worth from Otonashi’s heart, not if she ended up there… somehow.
By the way, the Blu-Ray for Ep 1 (Special Edition) has two episodes on it, plus a drama CD. For $70.
I’ll just re-iterate what everyone in the world is saying, should’ve been 24-26 eps EASY.
Past all the plot holes and lack of clarity, this show had so much effort and creativity put into it, that it’s still fantastic in my book.
Sure, this series was too short. But it was freakingly awesome ! I can understand your desappointement about a finale that don’t answer all the mysteries of the show. But it makes the “charm” of the stuff, just like – here it comes – the Lost finale, that most of the French fans has hated, ’cause of the answering issues. Angel Beats has a semi-happy end, emotion, epic of epicness (TK, man, TK !) and a great story that keep the line all along the show. Don’t torture yourself with unanswered questions that are not so important in the understanding of the serie.
One more thing
How did Kanade arrive in the world first when Ootonashi died first?!
“And the final scene… I’m guessing it’s a parallel world a la the Yui/Hinata montage. ” What I think we are seeing is the two of them meeting in their next life (remember we are talking eastern philosophy here). The tune Kanade is humming and reaction to the it is due to a memory embedded in Kanade and Otonashi Nozomu’s souls. This is to make everyone feel better about their final scene together.
Arrgh So close so close, instead of singing the greatness of mapo tofu they could have went and eat some like I wanted.Before going to the pool.
“(and, you know what, don’t hate me if I start referring to a certain character in a coming soon final episode post as “Otonashishishi†instead of his alter ego… you’ve been warned).”
Actually I watched like 30 seconds of Bakemonogatari 15 and now I see Otonashi instead of the hero.
Loved how Naoi and Hinata disappeared after talking to Otonashi and the best one was the literal Yuri hug of Kanade before disappearing.When Yuri said she and Kanade could have been friends she actually meant “I could have been your Onee-sama”.
@Atashi: I thought the same thing about unrequited love when watching the scene and then I recalled something: it was great for Otonashi to be thanked by someone he loves like his sister.
There’s gonna be an extra episode on the final bluray.
And about the organ thing , I don’t think it would be selfcest,I think it’s selfcest if there’s a outside physical similarity.
Actually a few flaws in this revew,
You say that Otonashi was the last to arrive which is lies, Christ arrived after Otonashi, Not sure when “god”;P came into it but whatever.
Yeah its strange that kanade was there BEFORE Otonashi.
Could speculate that there is perhaps a transition phase and it takes different times to get through it
Or she ungrateful and did not lay off the fast food and got another bad heart :D
The smoke monsters WERE explained in episode 12, being a programme made as a reset incase people became attached to that world which was to only be a transition world as they achieved their life ambitions or whatever, due to “love” or whatever reasons.
This also explains what the world is for, for those with bad childhoods to be able to live happy and fullfill their lives so they can move on complete.
Overall I enjoyed this anime and would rate it high for only 13 episodes, but yes I agree it should of had 20+ episodes.
Furthermore I kind of liked TK’s mysterious nature and was happy not knowing about him haha he was epic in a few scenes.
Liked the final ending but kind of disagree with saying Gurren lagann had a good ending :P
It was soo sad and wasn’t what I hoped for, but i <3'd kamina saving the day when they got trapped in the parallel universes (I was SOO hoping for him to make another appearance! cuz I <3 him)
But off topic and perhaps spoilers :3
@martin: Maybe in the series, there really is a God. Said God knew Kanade wanted to thank Otonashi badly, so badly that she was stuck in High School Purgatory after she died. So he pluck Otonashi from the resurrection schedule, wipe his memory, keep him stuck around in limbo, wait until Kanade dies then dump him in High School Purgatory to let Kanade thank him. Maybe.
There’s a theory for the Otonashi / Kanade time discrepency. Otonashi died without regrets since he managed to save lives with his organ donations, but Kanade died later on (presumably of natural causes) with regrets because she never got to thank her savior. So Otonashi moves on, while Kanade gets stuck in purgatory. But Kanade can’t ever move on, since she doesn’t even know let alone meet her savior. After a long period of time, eventually Otonashi is pulled into purgatory to help Kanade move on.
But, the first episode, Otonashi appears with school clothes…
It wouldn’t make much sense with the theory …
Anon’s Time discrepency sounds interesting, at least more interesting than most others. But one that I thought was also plausible was that assuming she was on life support due to her lack of working heart she might’ve been in a comatose-like state and was in the afterlife already, then when she got Otonashi’s heart around the same time as him entering the afterlife, she understood that she had been given a replacement but then didn’t want to leave the afterlife until thanking whoever had given it to her.
The only fallacy there is the fact that she would’ve had to have some type of regret in the first place to be there in the first place.
Whatever, I’ve been searching far and wide for a suitable answer but by now I’m just thinking that stuff wasn’t supposed to make sense in the end lol. Thanks Maeda confuse us more.
Here’s to hoping for SOME kind of clarity in the OVA ep.
I was absolutely in tears when I watched this this morning.
I still sort of am, and not because of USA 1, Ghana 2….and not because the Indianapolis Pacers drafted Paul George. And the fact that my Milwaukee Bucks with the 15th pick drafted Garry Shandling , would on an ordinary day, put a smile on my face.
Flaws mean nothing when emotions rule, and Angel Beats had, perhaps, besides the best closing episode in a million years or a million seconds, the corner on emotion. No other anime since Clannad After Story has come close.
Shame on anyone who thought this show was a poor man’s Haruhi…. Wow! I’m almost crying again, and my wife, who has naught watched this, is close to becoming a believer.
Meanwhile, we join Italy, France, Bad Korea, Good Korea, and our old pals from Slovenia at the deep end of the pool….no, scratch that…..at the shallow end.
Ultimately….who cares about plot flaws if the story rips our beating heart from our chest and crushes into our brain forever.
Actually, I’m glad this was only 13 episodes.
If it had been 25ish episodes, we would have gotten the following:
…
The first 6 episodes unchanged
10 episodes worth of re-hashing the Fuku arc from Clannad
The next 6 episodes compressed into 4 episodes, to make room for more Fuku
Episode 12 would be split into 2 parts, resulting in 2 additional trip to the Guild
The graduation ceremony then would be stretched into 2 episodes, with a static shot of everyone crying, for 15 minutes.
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Things never expand where or how you want them. I have no doubt Jun Maeda can write a good story, but he does not regurgitate stories that he’s told before well at all.
Well, to be more specific, the whole premise of Angel Beats is based off of the Fuko arc, so if there were 25 episodes (+1 recap montage) you’d get your Fuko, within your Fuko arc.
..
Dozo! Have a starfish.
Well instead of Fuuko, you’d get Kanade. 24 eps of Kanade goodness sounds great to me! Of course needs more TK too.
Well – I have to say, I teared up watching this episode when it came down to Yuzuru and Kanade. Like a previous comment, I found it interesting that Kanade never said “I love you” back to Yuzuru, but I think that can be justified given that to her, getting the opportunity to finally say “thank you” meant much more to her. I definitely will miss this anime, plot holes and inconsistencies and all, given that I think it’s really hard for any other anime I’ve seen in the last few years to compare with the amount of emotional investment that I’ve put into Angel Beats. Part of it I think is the fact that I wasn’t expecting the story to turn out the way it did.
End verdict?
I’m recommending this to EVERYONE.
“in quite possibly be the closest connection to Lost, be the Hurley on the island.”
I was totally thinking that when it happened. The guy jumped from Jack to Desmond and finally to Hurley.
“I think I will remember Angel Beats as Haruhi meets Lost with a dusting of K-On! topped with Jun Maeda’s secret sauce.”
That’s probably the best thing this season too…and probably the year for anime.
“Needed more tsundere Yurippe”
SECONDED!
Really, if the show is 24 episodes long, or EVEN 6 SEASONS, it will be greatly flushed out not to mention the supposedly ‘final bosses’ will be better explained. Still, its great ride while it lasted now my Saturdays are empty again…
In my opinion, Yuzuru came to this world just because Kanade came to this world because he was the only one that could help her, that why he didn’t need to have his memory at the beginning (he understood that he lost his memory, but actually it’s just that the momery is not necessary for him, he just came as a key to meet kanade and make kanade realize that the one that donated the heart for her is him (if she thank him at the beginning then everything would end there))
(He also stated himslef that he’s special case that came to this world as he had nothing left to do with his life because he already did when he passed away. He firstly understood that he came for help everyone, but actually he’s just for Kanade). Nothing he need to do in that world actually (that why he couldn’t disappear by himself (no reason for him to disappear)).
So, after Kanade’s gone then he should gone too (because he’s not belong in that world since the beginning already. Sincerely, he’s in this world just as tool to help Kanade) that why the anime didn’t show what’s next for him in that world.
Kanade, in my opinion, didn’t pass away yet but slept in the hospital and couldn’t wake up (KEY favorite’s plot) and came to this world. Yuzuru had to come after Kanade because there must be Kanade in the world first (and Yuzuru is just the option in this world to help her, he’s not in this world for himself since the beginning). It’s not important that when Yuzuru passed away, he didn’t come to this world after he died, he came just as tool to help Kanade (sorry to reuse this sentence again and again).
So, the ending when they met again, it’s just their reborned life after Kanade passed away in the real world. (It’s romantic for me to think that after Kanade return to her real world, she living with Yuzuru’s heart until she passed away, and then she born again to meet him (the owner of the heart that she used in the nearly whole last life))
That’s just my idea after watched the ending episode, it might be wrong but it makes sense for me.
Sorry for my English, just tried to write (sorry for my vocab and repeated words as well (I should not call Yuzuru as tool but I don’t know exact word properly)) and giving opinion because I love KEY anime and I think the end it’s too short to explain everything clearly :)
(I actually didn’t so understand Air and Clannad ending as well at the first time, so I need to think by myself after watched it like this one and then everything makes sense, the anime already told us through the story IMO)
So I conclude it as very happy ending ^__^
>(Second most powerful entity is Otonashi. He figured out the game. He played it. He “won†it.)
Damn, now I want to see an anime adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The Player of Games with Kamiya Hiroshi voicing Gurgeh
Anyway, 14th episode will come with 7th DVD. Real ending or side story, we will know then ^__^
This episode brought a smile to my face at the end. And new moe modes are handed out, embarrassed Yurippe and cowering Kanade!
But that doesn’t excuse the fact that the start of this episode felt like turning up late to a party. “Oh, by the way, everyone else moved on, there’s just us left now”. Show, don’t tell. The first 3 quarters of the show were great, though a little rushed, but then it really fell down for the last few, repeatedly jumping around between ideas and plans, breaking the rules it had kept fairly well to, and generally not giving itself enough time to finish the story properly and coherently. It had a large cast, so it’s not like they didn’t have material for an extra bunch of episodes before giving a more filled out conclusion in a 24 episode timeframe.
My interpretation of Kanade turning up first, and Otonashi last is that time doesn’t necessarily apply in the afterlife the same as in the world of the living, or flow logically from one to the other, so they don’t turn up in order of time of death, so Kanade could have lived on for years after receiving his heart. As for more people not appearing you could explain that with the above as well, or just suspend disbelief and accept that from a production perspective adding a constant stream of new people to an already large cast isn’t a good idea.
As for Otonashi being there I quite like Anon ‘s theory that he was brought there to help Kanade, or to help resolve the status quo, but it could be he died feeling like he hadn’t accomplished the goal he finally found as he thought once he recovered his first set of memories, but only realised on reflection in the afterlife once he’d got the second set of memories back that he had actually helped someone live.
Nice image for the maintenance page as well, btw.
More than the plot holes, the way disappearances were handled killed my suspension of disbelief. At first with Yui, Iwasawa, Hinata’s near miss, and Kanade’s friend candidates, it seems like a process that may take a roundabout while but when enlightenment happens it motherfuckin’ happens. Right then, right there, no seeing it coming, no rain checks. Then they run out of episodes and suddenly it’s “I’ma dispear kthxsbai… wait for it… wait for it… now.” Which isn’t to say the series wasn’t thoroughly enjoyable. Would a bad series spawn so much text? So many comparisons? So many parentheticals? It’s just… when previous Key adaptations seemed rushed in 13 episodes, who thought trying to cram a Jun Maeda narrative into one season was a good idea?
(Parenthetical Only Tangentially Related But Whose Topic I Feel is Worth Spreading At Any Cost – Speaking of comparisons: Gorram if Fragile Dreams isn’t atmospheric. I can’t remember the last time I got sucked into a game, despite the *holes)
Ninja Masters Fuko & TK. The buddy cop movie practically writes itself.
As far as I can tell it’s a hair discoloration due to a ribbon shaped fungal brain parasite. Other side effects include:
– sudden lapses into tsundereism
– reckless disregard for personal safety inversely proportionate to threat, status, and offered aid
– unfortunate naming conventions leading to awkward nicknames, i.e. Operation Golden Shower (How much pee could a Yurippe pee if a Yurippe could pee pee?)
Rewatch the end of episode 12. It was proto-Otonashi. The character Yurippe met in the control room was an NPC edited/created to run an event when certain flags are triggered. Think Lord Genome to Otonashi’s Simon.
Not really, unless those organs are not only the sole thing you love about them but the only part of their existence you even perceive. Every bit of Kanade except for her brain (or including the brain if there’s some way to imprint a personality and memories on foreign wetware) could be replaced by Otonashi parts and it still wouldn’t be selfcest. The key part there is the term “self”. I think that one scene form Kaiba is far more justifiable as selfcest despite the bodies having nothing in common.
You could always take the gnomic route and refer to him as “Taniguchi”.
Think of it this way: why would TK not be here? Rather than being stuck in purgatory for his own deficiencies, TK choose martyrdom to enrich everyone’s karma.
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess.”
‘Casue, y’now, pop-culture mysticism is always completely representative of the theology it cribs from.
Delicious sarcasm aside, what I mean is thus:
[step 1] Person A makes a statement by way of assumed shared memes. [step 2] Persons B through ZZAlpha generate equally valid conclusions based on Person A’s explicit conditions. [step 3] GODDAMMIT JUN MAEDA STOP BEING SO BLOODY AMBIGUOUS. [step 4] On the other hand I can twist to what I want. [step 5] GODDAMMIT JUN MAEDA THAT’S EVEN MORE REASON TO STOP BEING SO BLOODY AMBIGUOUS. [Step 6] Oh wait, the uncertainty leading to discussion is what makes it awesome.
The ending kinda reminded me of /What Dreams May Come/’s ending. Which I kind of like.d But I agree on the big point, this series needed to be twice as long as it was. Still quite enjoyable show this season though. But I think Spring overall has been pretty good this eyar. So whatevah. <_<
And stuff.
LOL don’t you get it Otonashi became god in ep 11, then he became a replacement for Kanade. Bait & switch.
I don’t see what is the problem with Otonashi arriving after Kanade to the high school purgatory. We humans are so bound by idea of time being linear that we can’t think outside that box. Still many todays scientific theorys actually combine idea of time being also non-linear in some cases. Also i’d like to add Otonashi’s comment about wandering to the purgatory. Even if time in afterlife would be linear, could’t he just have wandered around for long time before happening upon purgatory?
ok so heres what i gather…
we were told that the world was created by a person who was in love, but was left alone.
He/she grew so tired of waiting, they made the smoke program to become an NPC until
he/she met back up with their love.
im sayin that Kanade created the program. Her regret was that she couldnt say thank you, so she trapped souls in the school. After years of fighting her savior never showed up, so otonashi was brought into the afterlife school.
Or maybe even otonashi created it. long ago, he and kanade found each other in the afterlife. After they fell in love and realized their connection, kanade dissapeared. otonashi, too scared of the possibility of never being able to find or remember her, stayed as an NPC, hoping that kanade, after living her life, and never finding him again, would come back to the school. This is hinted at by the fact that “Creator” of the world and his true love sought to stay and live forever, but she disappears, and he removes love from the world (MISSING HEART). This is also proved by that fact that after he shows up (and naoi and computer-nerd-dude) and falls in love with Tenshi, love is restored to the system. This could also explain why no one else shows up in the world after that…..
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They’d make so much money out of this if they made a visual novel version with complete storylines for everyone.
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Choose the girl you want to save and reincarnate with…pick Yuri and get a Haruhi-Lite version for yourself, Steal Yui from Hinata, Be the Girls Dead Monster’s second manager and reform the group in the next life, and of course a Kanade AND Tenshi route (one where you stay and another where you find each other again), etc, etc…
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Of course there will be a gay/bromance route too. Go flirt with Naoi, take Hinata’s bromance to the next level, Be a national sensation with T.K…..so much potential and financial moolah’s to be had.
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…….But then, there will also be the Adult version for PC’s that will sell like sexy shaped, viagra laced pancakes.
@ Jano
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Or maybe even otonashi created it. long ago, he and kanade found each other in the afterlife. After they fell in love and realized their connection, kanade dissapeared. otonashi, too scared of the possibility of never being able to find or remember her, stayed as an NPC
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Otonashi has been brought to this world at episode1,so he was not there before,and that makes ipossible for him to be an npc,cause npcs was always there.
@At the guys worrying about the dime discrepency between otonashis and kanades arrival
At episode 7, #10:39 otonashi says “After That,I continued to walk and talk by myself”.That proves that his little sis was dead even before otonashi grew up,also at the same episode #12:15
we can hear his thoughts again “And now that I’ve lost her,is my life over?”
Because of the above its normal for kanade to be there before otonashi.When he realized that he is going to die (when he was outside of the crashed train,at the episode 9) he donated his heart, to someone that is going to need it so that he’ll not suffer like otonashis sister did.I beleieve that he did not regained his memories because of his own heart beats when he was sleeping on kanade chest but because of the bond that they had.Or it was the time for him to remember.
P.S
Sorry for my bad english :S
Wait a minute… Gatekeepers has no Yurippe, it has a Rurippe. I thought something was off.
Well..
I kept putting this off, and for good reasons, after seeing it.
The running out of space is evident. Yuri goes from badass leader to tsunderedere in 1 episode. Kanade goes from Yuki 2.0 to Kotomi-chan. Otonashi became Zetsubou, then back to Otonashi.
The story… ugh. I guess they needed a way to finish the damn thing off, because having open ends for a hope of a second season (that might not go through) is worse.
I liked the shiny hall. Good work, PA works. We’ll make another KyoAni just yet.
Hm, so I guess no one here knows about Track Zero? It’s the prequel to the anime, covering the formation of the SSS. It was originally supposed to be in the anime though, but time constraints forced them to cut it (among many other stuff). Here, give it a read:
http://www.mediafire.com/angelbeatstrackzero
And you might want to rewatch a few episodes afterwards, since there are subtle references to Track Zero in them (specially the last few episodes).
My two cents on theories though:
The person described as the Shadow maker, sounded exactly as Otonashi. A guy who was happy with his life but had memory loss. A guy who fell in love and the love had left him. Seeing as how Kanade was already a time paradox, couldn’t Otonashi be the one who created the NPC’s to prevent it from ever happening again?
It bring tears to my eyes….this anime is really about how you take you life as it is and keep going to be born again…
I hope to be a season 2 because it cant not end this way so drepressing……
this is one of the best anime i’ve ever SEEN! but it’s very depressing how it ended. And the end gave me the thought of what would happen if i died?(would i be another person somewhere in the world?)
I really want to see the 2nd season if there is..
I cried at the ending…I wanted to die… That Ova better come NOW! >:-I
I wonder if in the Ova everybody will meet again but be alive this time. :O
And they will face the dead world morphing with the living world? I dont know. All i know is that when the final episode finally came out and i finished the last second…i was crying my eyeballs out and asking god for the Ova. God never answered my prayers and i cant find any Ova. Oh the life of a black otaku. *grabs Naoi out of computer and hugs him and locks him in a closet* Lol… idk >;P
WHEN WILL THE OVA COME OUT? *aura of depression* – Elyssa
I wonder what would happen if i just right now died…WOuld i go to the Afterlife like Otonashi and them? Would i spend eternity with them? I know i have a lot of regrets so i would go there if i there is an Afterlife. -.-
I agree that the ending felt rushed… though the way they explained the ending made it seem that Kanade was that girl from Yuzuru’s past… the one with the whole christmas back story episode… and that is what raised the question of ‘Who the Hell is she?” I had thought she was his little sister or something! I would have liked more time explained on that.
Er… eh?
Kanade was a random girl that survived due to Otonashi’s heart. Hence, Angel “Beats”.
The girl from Yuzuru’s past… that was his little sister with the unnamed fatal disease. I’m not sure what you needed explaining, as you quite rightly mentioned, that girl with the Christmas back story was his sister, the reason Yuzuru wanted to get into medicine, got into the train accident, died, and gave his heart as a donor to Kanade, who, I guess died (or stayed in a coma until she found Yuzuru), managed to thank him, and then disappear.
well… i hope that the episode that it’s comming out on december, better be about Yui and Hinata and all the others… but if that doesnt happen like that… we should at least be happy that we are gonna see them all againg in december xD!
i think he died and wandered a long time before he ended up in that world cuz he lost his memory unlike others who already have and went straight to that world cuz they cant accept their death/cruel life or other reason…well thats my theory/my own opinion..no harm on making them right?
Really agree with you on the “anime was too short part”…
coz’ it was so awesome yet was REALLY cut short. And concerning the
question on why otonashi came later than the others, I’d think that
he was already at peace and just kinda wandered there (like what he
stated in the last episode). The more troubling question here would
be what forced him to wander? Any way that’s just what I think,
still, REALLY AWESOME ANIME!!!
I loved the entire series!! I was just really disappointed in the end for a lot of reasons. I came too love all of the characters, and seeing the series get cut short like that makes me sooo sad.): I wanted too see all of the characters lives play once they all met up, and I wanted too see them all… happy. I also wish Angel Beats was in dubs, because for once, I really enjoyed their english voices(…but it’d also ruin TK’s awesomeness–never mind, scratch the last part.) Overall, Angel Beats is one of my favorite anime’s, and I wish it never ended<3
THE BEST SHORT ROMANCE ANIME I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!! IT WAS SO SAD TO SEE THE LAST 5 MAIN CHARACTERS STARTED LEAVING ONE BY ONE AT THE END AND WHEN IT GOT TO JUST KANADE AND OTONASHI AND OTONASHI FIND OUT THAT KANADE HAD HIS HEART AND WHEN OTONASHI TOLD KANADE HE LOVED HER AND SHE SAID IT BACK… AND WHEN SHE WAS GONE I CRIED SO HARD BECAUSE HE WAS THERE ALONE CRYING… BUT WHEN I SEEN KANADE HUMMING THAT SONG AND OTONASHI TURN AROUND I GOT SO FREAKING HAPPY… THE ENDING WAS JUST AMAZING… WHAT A GREAT ANIME!!! I GIVE IT A 11\10 :)
the anime was very sad but it was way to rushed remake the last 3 episodes and pull them into the backgrounds of people like T.K. and that ninja-girl we never found out what happend to them and at the end was cool but i think they all needed to meet up again because they were reborn so Yuzuru Otonashi overheard Kanade Tachibana humming the tune of “my song”but wtf happend to Yuri Nakamura ?! she didnt seem apart of the story at all she was even the second person to go after Ayato Naoi.
its just the fact that they didnt meet up again thats why i want atleast an OVA to see them all meet again in a new life otherwise this anime has upset me also anyone feel bad for Yui? BTW were did her demon-like tail come from?._. thats disturbed me all the way though the anime >_>
overall i thing its a 7/10 but a 10/10 if they make a OVA t show them all comeback together in a new life and become friends again T.T pleaseeeeee i beg of you god!
I spent like 7 hours watching the whole series for that finale and when I watch it, there is like a cliffhanger! it was still pretty good
I loved this series, but the end made me cry, and some episodes before that, but the finale, was disappointing, just because of how it ended. I mean why cant they do what they did with total drama island and leave it for a few years and bring it back, except with all the same characters finding each other or something, and stuff from the world they where in comes to the world they’re in now. Like seriously, how can you cant just blow off good ideas of fans of a show, that’s just letting them down, and if they see the creators name on another show, they might not watch it because of the way this show ended, so please, consider my idea. Please God please!!!
Maybe The Reason That Kanade Was In The Anime Was Because She Might Of Been In A Coma Of Some Sort. But The Heart That He Donated Did Go To Her And She Might Know This Somehow, The Reason She Might Know It Was His Is Something I Cannot Explain But I Think That It Is Probable. Maybe It Is Called Angel Beats Because She Is Nicknamed ‘Angel’ And She Has Otonashi’s Heart, Which Is Where The Beat Part Comes From.