Angel Beats! Another Epilogue

A short review about this short episode.

Basically this is what happens if Otonashi stayed behind. Whether he really did stay, a signal for a second season, or a just a short thing to show what would happen and what he would do if he stayed is out of my knowledge's reach.

Summary: A person that was in the afterlife realizes that he is dead and questions why he is there. Otonashi comes in and helps him figure out what to do buy challenging him and offers him help afterwards. The class causes a small uproar about it and ... the teacher tries to calm everyone down and get them to finish the test. The main person refuses.

Story: 9
I'm only giving this a nine because I enjoy things that leave things out because it drives my imagination crazy. And also it also show some of the questions out there if he really stayed in the afterlife to help people. It may cause some to think that he maybe the guy who created the angel player and the Angel Beats time line maybe going in loops (which is the thing I do not want, but it's a thought nonetheless)

Art: 8
High quality art as usual. Really good tension scene.

Sound: 10
The voice acting was outstanding, and the choice of the BG was really good. It brought nostalgia even though it has only been a half of a year.

Character: 10
Otonashi showed a great deal of concern to other people in an indirect way. I like that because that's how I am. And the new character also showed a great deal of internal conflict and started to solve how to get out of it by Otonashi's help. That's really good character development in a two minute segment.

Enjoyment: 10
It brought a quench of thirst to me, since I've been looking forward to this since the first season ended. No matter what it was, I was still going to give it a 10.

Overall: 9
I'll give it a 9. It's probably because there wasn't much there, but there was something. Also, I'm sure it fires up people's imagination and excitement if there is going to be new season or not. I'm looking forward for more!

For an anime special, I was impressed with this one. This is a "what if" epilogue to the Angel Beats anime. If you haven't seen that, then do that first, as this won't make sense otherwise.

The art quality is pretty good, easily matching the main series. The sound direction was good as well, though nothing outstanding.

For someone who has seen the series, the plot was interesting, and even a little emotional. The new character didn't have time to be fleshed out, but the returning character got enough development in the 2 minutes there was.

If you've seen the show and enjoyed it, do yourself a favor ... and watch this.

I'm going to make this short and sweet as much as I can. I have NO IDEA why this was made, and to be honest, I don't think it should have.

Now, what this does, is screw us over on the Angel Beats ending which by the way I loved! Now we have Otonashi as the student council president running the school just as Kanade did, which is a great thing to put him as instead of a student, but WHY IS HE EVEN THERE? It makes no point for him NOT to leave. But now Im just rambling.

Art, amazing as ever. I always ... loved the art style and it doesn't disappoint. Plot, there is none except for the fact that we get to see an alternate ending that wouldn't have worked out. The OST didn't show itself for this one, and we get a wimpy Otonashi-clone at the beginning complaining about being stuck in the purgatory. What really made me angry is when Otonashi went up to him and showed him off, all the characters in the background were like, "Sugoi, sugoi! Watashi wa daisuke Otonashi-san!!" I mean, what the hell is up with that?!

The ending was exactly the way it should've been, this to me never existed. I can't believe I waited months for this garbage.