Angel Beats! is a 13-episode Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works and Aniplex and directed by Seiji Kishi. The story was originally conceived by Jun Maeda, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the music, with original character design by Na-Ga; both Maeda and Na-Ga are from the visual novel brand Key, who produced such titles as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. The anime aired in Japan between April 3 and June 26, 2010. Key worked in collaboration with ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine to produce the project into a media franchise.
PLOT
Angel Beats! takes place at a high school acting as a Purgatory, where students learn to give up any lingering attachments they still have from life before continuing to an afterlife or reincarnation.While the injury or cause of death are gone, those in the afterlife school can still feel pain or other things as they did when they were alive, as well as dying again, only to awaken with no injures several minutes later. The story follows the main protagonist Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. Upon awakening in the afterlife, he meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Shinda Sekai Sensen (SSS) ( Afterlife War Front), an organization she founded and leads which fights against God for the cruel fates the SSS members experienced in life. Their only enemy in the world is the school's student council president Angel, a being with supernatural powers who fights against the SSS. Yuri believes that anyone who follows Angel's orders and behaves like a normal student at the school will eventually disappear and pass on. However, those who fulfill their dreams in the afterlife will pass on as well.
CHARACTERS
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Yuri Nakamura:
As well as being known as “Yurippe” She is the leader of the SSS in the fight against God, She is smart and decisive when making operations and decisions and every member looks up to her as a great leader.Her personality towards the main character in a third view is usually cold, mainly due to the fact both him and her look at the world in two opposite directions, she believes in the fact God exists somewhere, whereas the main character from a third view doesn’t believe in a God, and as a result he isn’t in the SSS.
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Hideki Hinata:
Being one of the co-founders the SSS alongside with Yuri, He is one of the SSS’s original members from the very beginning, and is also responsible for Yuri’s nickname “Yurippe.” He and Yui constantly irritate one another on a daily basis.Hinata and the main character from a third view is about average, he doesn’t care if the main character belives in God nor the fact he isn’t in the SSS, just normal friendship is built between the two.
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Kanade Tachibana:As being the student council president of the school set in that world, It is difficult to understand what she is thinking due to her rarely showing any outward emotions. She has an affinity for eating mapo doufu, a spicy dish.
When encountered with the main character in a third view, she doesn’t seem to remember who he is after a specific time since their encounters are small and forgetful. she is incredibly powerful and near indestructible to the point of ejecting bullets out of her wounds during battle.
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Noda:
Being another original member, Noda was around when the SSS was first created, and fights with a halberd. He does not listen to anyone other than Yuri. He is not afraid to harm or kill anyone who gets in Yuri’s way.As the main character from a third view isn’t in the SSS he is seen by Noda as an enemy and so will try to fight or even kill him under certain conditions, however is usually stopped by another SSS member most of the time or when he has something important to do.
Oyama:
Being the third original member of the SSS, Oyama is an ordinary boy who has no special talents. He does not excel at anything, but is as capable as any normal person; in other words, he is the most normal character overall.In third view he is hardly noticed by the main character in the series and so isn’t seen much, despite that both of them are friends and talk to each other occasionally.