Angel Beats!

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: Angel Beats!(エンジェルビーツ!)
English: Angel Beats!
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 3, 2010 to Jun 26, 2010
Premiered: Spring 2010
Broadcast: Saturdays at 02:00 (JST)
Studios: P.A. Works
Source: Original
Genres: DramaDrama, FantasyFantasy
Theme: SchoolSchool
Duration: 26 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.051 (scored by 13201811,320,181 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #6052
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #32
Members: 2,147,606
Favorites: 49,756

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Synopsis

Death is one of many mysteries that has left humanity in the dark since the dawn of time. However, the burning question of what happens to the soul after one dies is soon answered to 17-year-old Yuzuru Otonashi. Waking up with no previous memories in a dimension between life and death, he discovers the unsettling truth of the afterlife.

Taking the form of a high school, this bizarre dimension is designated to shelter those who died unwanted deaths. Feeling wronged by God during their earthly lives, the school's residents have decided to form the Afterlife Battlefront—a rebellious faction determined to oppose their god-like student council president, Kanade "Angel" Tachibana. The group's leader, Yuri Nakamura, recruits Otonashi in their fight against Angel in order to take control of their own lives. However, questioning the morality behind their actions, Otonashi takes a step behind the enemy lines to understand the opposing side of their common fate.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Angel Beats! is an original anime that was created by screenplay writer Jun Maeda and directed by Seiji Kishi. A manga adaptation was later released by Jun Maeda and published by ASCII Media Works in Dengeki G's Magazine. The manga was used as a way to expand on elements of the plot that could not be fitted into the show's original running time. The show was chosen as a recommended work by the awards jury of the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival in the year 2014.

Characters & Voice Actors

Iwasawa, Masami

Supporting
Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Hinata, Hideki

Supporting
Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Naoi, Ayato

Supporting
Ogata, Megumi
Japanese

Shiina

Supporting
Saito, Fuko
Japanese

Noda

Supporting
Takagi, Shun
Japanese

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Opening Theme

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1: "My Soul, Your Beats!" by Lia (eps TV: 2-3, 5-9, 11; BD/DVD: 1-3, 5-13)
2: "My Soul, Your Beats!" by LiSA (eps 4)
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Ending Theme

1: "Brave Song" by Aoi Tada (eps 1-9, 11-12)
2: "Ichiban no Takaramono ~Yui final ver.~ (一番の宝物 ~Yui final ver.~)" by Girls Dead Monster feat. LiSA (eps 10)
3: "Ichiban no Takaramono (一番の宝物)" by karuta (eps 13)

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Reviews

May 12, 2025
An overall average anime that really picks up steam after the three quarters mark and somehow becomes one of the most heart-wrenching yet happy anime I've seen. It is certainly impressive when you take the whole anime ending included, but watching it from the beginning is rather difficult. While the ending is predictable from the beginning of the series, it is still incredibly good. The mid parts should be suffered through to get to the gem of an ending at the end. The serious story beats are sometimes interrupted by mid slapstick, but when the comedic parts are segregated, they also are rather effective.
May 11, 2025
Mixed Feelings
This anime has a couple of plot holes and unexplained stuff, but it still manages to be a good show even if it only has 13 episodes. It really shows how you should enjoy life and it gets you thinking if a purgatory state even exists. It also gets you questioning if a greater being even exists, and if they do then why do bad things happened to innocent people for no reason? I would definitely recommend you watch this show if you like shows like for example "The Good Place" type of beat.

To be honest I clicked on this show on accident while ...
Jul 31, 2023
I finally decided to watch this show, after years of seeing it get highly praised by the community, and i am pretty disappointed.

-Plot: Angel Beats is a show that in 13 episodes tried to do what not even a longer anime would be able to. Watching the series felt like getting bombarded with new plot points and plot twists almost every episode, just to then resolve them quickly and never talk about them again; this anime had so many chances of getting more interesting, but it seemed to just have an adversion against going deeper into world-building and actually explaining things that otherwise just make ...

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