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Angel Beats!

Angel Beats!

Alternative Titles

Japanese: エンジェルビーツ

Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 22, 2010 to Jun 26, 2010
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 8.571 (scored by 76541 users)
Ranked: #572
Popularity: #25
Members: 111,532
Favorites: 7,262
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top anime page.

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Synopsis

Otonashi awakens only to learn he is dead. A rifle-toting girl named Yuri explains that they are in the afterlife, and Otonashi realizes the only thing he can remember about himself is his name. Yuri tells him that she leads the Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront) and wages war against a girl named Tenshi. Unable to believe Yuri's claims that Tenshi is evil, Otonashi attempts to speak with her, but the encounter doesn't go as he intended.

Otonashi decides to join the SSS and battle Tenshi, but he finds himself oddly drawn to her. While trying to regain his memories and understand Tenshi, he gradually unravels the mysteries of the afterlife.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Adaptation: Angel Beats! Track Zero, Angel Beats! Heaven's Door, Angel Beats! The 4-koma: Our War Front March Song
Side story: Angel Beats!: Stairway to Heaven, Angel Beats!: Another Epilogue

Characters & Voice Actors

Nakamura, Yuri
Nakamura, Yuri
Main
Karbowski, Brittney
English
Karbowski, Brittney
Sakurai, Harumi
Japanese
Sakurai, Harumi
...
Otonashi, Yuzuru
Otonashi, Yuzuru
Main
Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese
Kamiya, Hiroshi
Shepard, Blake
English
Shepard, Blake
...
Tachibana, Kanade
Tachibana, Kanade
Main
Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese
Hanazawa, Kana
Neves, Emily
English
Neves, Emily
...
Takamatsu
Takamatsu
Supporting
Mizushima, Takahiro
Japanese
Mizushima, Takahiro
Guardiola, Illich
English
Guardiola, Illich
...

Staff

Horikawa, Kenji
Producer
Kishi, Seiji
Director
Ogura, Nobutoshi
Storyboard
Hashimoto, Masakazu
Storyboard



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May 13, 2010
coldcoal
I have to admit that I first started watching Angel Beats because of two main reasons: the pretty visuals, and the presence of guitars. But once I began watching the show in earnest, I found a lot more here than I expected. Angel Beats is a show that keeps me guessing, and consistently tugs at strings I didn't know existed until they were pulled.

Basically, Angel Beats is about an afterlife in which a group of dead students refuse to 'move on' to the next life, because they have some sort of peace to make with the world and themselves. There's a unique mix of read more
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Jul 4, 2010
Archaeon
Sometimes anime studios manage to confuse me, not because of anything they do, but because of what they don't do.

Take Angel Beats as an example.

Any fan of certain Key visual novels (or their KyoAni adaptations), will undoubtedly be familiar with the work of Maeda Jun, whose inimitable style, approach, and methodology to storytelling is clearly on display in Angel Beats, and on the surface this may actually seem like a good thing. Given the whole concept of a high school purgatory one would think there was enormous scope for the tale, and in some aspects the story is delivered very well. The only problem is read more
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Recommendations

Both shows have a supernatural feel to them. They also involve Clubs, Gods, and some Fighting. Plus both Haruhi and Yuri look alike, you can't go wrong with that :).
Jun Maeda is the writer of Air, Clannad, Kanon and finally Angel Beats!

Opening Theme

#1: "My Soul, Your Beats!" by Lia (eps 1-3, 5-12)
#2: "My Soul, Your Beats!" by LiSA (ep 4)

Ending Theme

#1: "Brave Song" by Aoi Tada (eps 1-9, 11-12)
#2: "Ichiban no Takaramono (一番の宝物)" by LiSA (ep 10)
#3: "Ichiban no Takaramono (一番の宝物)" by karuta (ep 13)

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Maeda Jun is Preparing a Game Adaptation of Angel Beats ( 1 2 3 4 5 )
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I want you guys to hold up hope about a second season. ( 1 2 )
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05-22-12, 9:24 AM
so they were playing MMORPG
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05-22-12, 6:52 AM

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