Angel beats REVIEW

Pre Warning: spoilers!!!

Recap:

Angel Beats takes place at an after-life high school 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 Otonashi, a boy who lost all his memories of his life after dying. He meets Yuri, a girl who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront (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. Angel creates her powers with the aid of a computer program called Angel Player. The rest of the afterlife school is populated by a large number of "normal" students and teachers that are not human, but look and act the part.

The first of the characters to fulfill her dream and pass on is Iwasawa, the leader of Girls Dead Monster. Angel, whose real name is Kanade Tachibana, loses her position as student council president and the vice president Naoi succeeds her. Naoi uses powers of hypnosis to control the 'normal' students to fight for his own interests against the SSS, but Otonashi stops him after acknowledging Naoi's existence and he subsequently joins the SSS.

 Otonashi regains his memories with the aid of Naoi's hypnosis and agrees to continue with the SSS. Otonashi befriends Kanade (Angel) and invites her to join in on SSS activities. 

After Otonashi fully remembers the details of his life and death, he starts cooperating with Kanade to help the other SSS members move on, and Kanade is reinstated as student council president in accordance with their plan. 

Yui, the girl who replaced Iwasawa in Dead Girl Monster, passes on when Hinata confesses his love for her. She's the second to pass on.

Mysterious shadow monsters begin attacking the SSS. Otonashi reasons with the other SSS members and many of them agree to pass on in lieu of becoming 'normal students' including the rest of Girls Dead Monster, Chaa of the Guild, and several unnamed members. 

Yuri destroys the computers responsible for the shadow monster program, which was programmed to activate when love was detected in the world, to prevent it from becoming a true paradise.

Those who are left—Otonashi, Yuri, Kanade, Hinata and Naoi—hold a graduation ceremony where they thank each other for their support. After Naoi, Yuri and Hinata pass on, Otonashi learns that Kanade's regret was not being able to thank him for the heart she received from Otonashi after his death.

Otonashi is heartbroken after she thanks him and passes on, as he had fallen in love with her. 

In the epilogue, two people resembling Otonashi and Kanade meet each other on the street in the real world. 

Thoughts and feelings:

The first episode was slightly confusing but afterwards the series made sense and was fantastic.

Emotional but action packed at the same time, it always kept me entertained.

I cried a lot, espically at the last episode when Kanade passes on.

It's the saddest part of the whole series!

Just thinking about it makes me cry!

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(Dialogue and pictures from last scene) 

So after this very emotional scene ^^^ it shows them in the real world as different people.

Kanade starts singing a song which catches Otonashi's attention.

He runs after her and just before he touchs her shoulder, the whole series ends there and then.

All I can say is; 

WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME!?

I'm not good with cliff hangers.

I also think that Otonashi and Kanade were a cute couple... I guess thats why I got so upset.

Episode 10 is about when Yui passes on which is another heart-tugging episode.

Yui was completely paralized when she was alive and wanted to do so many things but couldn't as she was disabled.

So Otonshi, on his mission to pass everyone on, does all the things she ever wanted to do.

But there's one thing he can not do for her in the end: love and marriage.

Hinata confesses his love for her which is ironic, because Yui and Hinata fight with eachother all the time.

They talk about what their life would of been like if they had met in the real world. Then Yui disappears and passes on.

I cried a lot at that episode as well.

Conclusion:

Angel Beats is amazing and I recommend it to anyone who likes animes that are a bit different.

Please watch it!

~Sophie Senpai

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