History Anime / AngelBeats

* AnAesop: Life is what you make of it, and a life lived by you holds irreplaceable value to you regardless of the unfairness and cruelties you might have been faced with in that life. [[spoiler: Throughout the whole story, there is absolutely nothing about the school that actually requires the guerrilla warfare, weapons, and epic duels to the death. All of that is solely invented by the main characters who are unable to make peace with the lives they'd led and accept passing on to the afterlife after finding fulfillment in the school.]]

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: This applies to many of the characters.

* CuteLittleFangs: Yui.

** Shiina. Ahem, [[http://dft.ba/-shiina CUUUUUTTTTEEEEE]].

* ADayInTheLimelight:
** Iwasawa in Episode 3.
** Episode 10 mainly features Yui.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler: See above.]] Not quite "death", but close enough.

* WouldHitAGirl: Hinata

* CoolGun: The SSS actually uses real world firearms. [[spoiler: They are created using memories of their past life.]] You can see all the firearms featured in the series [[http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Angel_Beats! HERE]].
** In the first episode, Yuri is first seen aiming a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheyTac_Intervention [=CheyTac=] Intervention]] sniper rifle at Angel.
** Since he's a new recruit, Otonashi's primary weapon is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_pistol Glock 17]].
** Matsushita sometimes carries an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG3 Rheinmetall MG3]] heavy machine gun.
** Yuri wields a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDI_KRISS_Super_V TDI Vector]] SMG and an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4A1#M4A1 M4A1 CQB-R]] equipped with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_C-Mag Beta C-Mag]] in episode 12.
** Plus her [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta_92 Beretta 92 INOX]] that is her standard sidearm.
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Angel_Beats_-_12_-_Large_07_9686.jpg Ooyama's rifle]] is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_700 Remington 700]] lacking a bipod.
* CowerPower: Angel hides behind Yuri when Hinata complains about the lyrics to their graduation song.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Mostly {{averted|Trope}} though the part of the trope where [[spoiler:the person doing the CPR, in this case Otonashi, gives up before an ambulance can get to the scene]] is probably {{justified|Trope}} [[spoiler:what with Otonashi himself suffering from the massive internal bleeding that would eventually kill him at the time. Combined with the fact that rescue crews wouldn't show up for several days yet.]]

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: In episode 7, an alternate Angel appears due to Harmonics. But that Angel can clone itself, and so on and so forth.]]

The anime, directed by Seiji Kishi for studio Creator/PAWorks, began airing in Spring 2010. Included with the seventh and final BD/DVD volume was an {{OVA}} entitled "Stairway to Heaven" and a brief alternate ending entitled "Another Epilogue". A second OVA, "Hell's Kitchen", was released in June 2015. The [=OVAs=] [[{{Interquel}} take place between]] episodes 4 and 5 and episodes 2 and 3, respectively.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: Yuzuru Otonashi had PeekABangs. He soon realizes that his ill sister Hatsune had more life and hope than he did, and that she had a purpose. He cuts his hair and applies for medical school.]]

* PeekABangs: [[spoiler: Otonashi, before his sister died.]]
* PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd: When, after sneaking [[spoiler: his dying little sister out of the hospital during christmas night]], he promises her to make this night the best possible for her. She then [[spoiler: dies on his back, without him noticing, after thanking him.]]

* ExcitedShowTitle: It's written with an exclamation point: ''Angel Beats!''

** Also, the ShipTease between [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender Yui]] and [[ButtMonkey Hinata]] seems like a cute background RunningGag at first... but becomes very important when [[spoiler: his declaration of love causes her to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence disappear]]]].

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Hinata and Yui regularly wrestle each other, and Yui doesn't always win, either. Also, among other things, Yui somehow hilariously manages to [[spoiler:hang herself with a microphone cable]].

* RareGuns: The Desert Eagle, the PP-19 Bizon-2, the TDI Vector, the H&K PSG-1, the M-200 Intervention....

* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: TK, [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish when speaking Japanese.]] When he was holding up the falling block in Episode 2, he was actually singing lyrics to a song. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFn1kAUY9cU The video]] replaces his lines with the actual song.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Michael Rivas, a Japanese-born, but raised in Hawaii, singer and voice actor, does the voice of TK. His pronunciation is perfect, but most of his dialogue still makes no sense because they're all out-of-context song lyrics or quotes from movies.

A six volume VisualNovel adaption was anounced and promised to feature more of the ''Angel Beats!'' universe that couldn't be crammed into the other works. ''[[http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/angelbeats/ Angel Beats! -1st beat-]]'', the first volume, was released on June 26, 2015 for Windows PC. The first volume covers up to the tenth episode of the anime as well as Yui's, Iwasawa's, and Matsushita's routes with Otonashi as the main protagonist. In December 2016, Maeda revealed that subsequent volumes had been cancelled, with the content that had been planned for future games used as a basis for the manga ''Angel Beats! The Last Operation''.

A six volume VisualNovel adaption was anounced and promises to feature more of the ''Angel Beats!'' universe that couldn't be crammed into the other works. ''[[http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/angelbeats/ Angel Beats! -1st beat-]]'', the first volume, was released on June 26, 2015 for Windows PC. The first volume covers up to the tenth episode of the anime as well as Yui's, Iwasawa's, and Matsushita's routes with Otonashi as the main protagonist. In December 2016, Maeda revealed that subsequent volumes had been cancelled, with the content that had been planned for future games used as a basis for the manga ''Angel Beats! The Last Operation''.

A six volume VisualNovel adaption exists and promises to feature more of the ''Angel Beats!'' universe that couldn't be crammed into the other works. ''[[http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/angelbeats/ Angel Beats! -1st beat-]]'', the first volume, was released on June 26, 2015 for Windows PC. The first volume covers up to the tenth episode of the anime as well as Yui's, Iwasawa's, and Matsushita's routes with Otonashi as the main protagonist. Subsequent volumes will cover the rest of the character routes.

* {{Bishounen}}: Majority of the male cast.

* FemaleGaze: The SSS are quite {{Bishonen}}, but it's the [[ShirtlessScene shirtless scenes]] that seal the deal.
* FieryRedhead: Yui can act out if she is pushed enough. See GenkiGirl below.

* SpecialEditionTitle: Episode four has the [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage opening sung by Yui]], integrating it directly into the show. There are some CreditsBrandProducts and different visuals, and the visuals that ''are'' retained have a very different aesthetic.

* NotTheIntendedUse: [[spoiler:Purgatory is meant to let teens experience the school life they missed out on and pass on peacefully, but Yuri and the SSS have deliberately cultivated an environment based on ''not'' passing on even as it's members were finding peace, letting them potentially exist forever in an enjoyable afterlife. This triggers in a programmed fail-safe (albeit programmed in later) to summon the shadows and triggering the final act.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The {{Ninja}} (who is TheQuietOne) says something in the 10th episode. Everyone is shocked by this.