History Anime / AngelBeats

* BlackComedy: Those traps seems painful... until you realize that people can't die (permanently) here. And thus it's OK to get killed again and again.
-->'''Yui:''' Even death doesn't cure idiocy.
** They're still painful. Dying hurts.

*** Episode 9 also features "Poaky".

** Angel has a lesser example but [[spoiler: her rank as Student Council President was taken away, the teachers and students have lost all respect for her, and her comfort food was taken away from her all because of the SSS's actions.]] It's also sad when you realize that [[spoiler: Angel is a human like the rest of SSS and was just trying to fulfill her duties as Student Council President. Her reputation and life in the afterlife are ruined because she was trying to play by the rules.]]
*** [[spoiler: Not that her past life as the IllGirl Kanade Tachibana was much better.]]

** Shiina: "How foolish."
*** "This is so stupid" in the English dub.

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

* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 10 mainly features Yui.
** And Iwasawa in Episode 3.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: So far, both [[spoiler:Naoi]] and [[spoiler:Kanade]] have been [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]].

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Yuri is caught by the shadows in episode 12 but unlike Takamatsu barely escapes with her soul.]]

* DwindlingParty: Sort of, considering how [[spoiler:more and more characters disappear]].
** Played straight in episode 2 and 8, even though DeathIsCheap.

* EvilLaugh:
-->'''Yusa:''' [[LampshadeHanging Yuri-san, you sound like a villain.]]

* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: [[spoiler:After Hinata says he would have married Yui despite her paralysis, we see images of them meeting in their previous lives and falling in love. Yui disappears shortly after, having found peace]].

* GirlsWithGuns

-->'''Yuri''': That's right. Our main weakness is that we're stupid.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Several of the more potentially gruesome deaths in episode 2 aren't fully shown onscreen.
** VomitDiscretionShot: Ooyama can't hold his stomach after seeing Matsushita get minced by the LaserHallway.

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[[caption-width-right:310:(From left) [[OnlySaneMan Otonashi]], [[RebelLeader Yuri]], and [[ReiAyanamiExpy Angel]].]]

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Each of the {{Action Girl}}s have one, combined with ZettaiRyouiki.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuri.

* FightToSurvive: Otonashi's backstory, which is revealed well into the anime, involves an underground train catastrophy, followed by attempts to find evacuation routes and manage the resources properly. It leads to his death with little justice in it — as is normally the case for the inhabitants of the place he comes to at the story start.

* MonsterSobStory: [[spoiler: Naoi, most noticeably in episode 6.]]

Waved goodbye

->''I felt like I heard it
Because I felt like I sensed it
Just now, in my heart that has begun to tremble

->''I felt like I heard it''
->''Because I felt like I sensed it''
->''Just now, in my heart that has begun to tremble''
->''I felt it come again''
->''Some hundred million stars vanishing''
->''I saw them off''
->''Waved goodbye''
->''And said "Good for you"''

* PlotHole:[[spoiler:Kanade recieved Otonashi's heart transplant after Otonashi died, yet she showed up at the school ''well'' before he did with no explanation as to how that would be possible.]] Various fan theories about the school not running in standard logic to time have been postulated, but to this day an official explanation doesn't exist.

* MoreDakka: Not that they work against [[ImmuneToBullets Angel]]...

* PlotHole: A fairly infamous one given it concerns the meaning of ''the title!'' [[spoiler:Kanade recieved Otonashi's heart transplant after Otonashi died, yet she showed up at the school ''well'' before he did with no explanation as to how that would be possible.]] Various fan theories about the school not running in standard logic to time have been postulated, but to this day an official explanation doesn't exist.

** Ooyama.

* TheStinger: [[spoiler: After the credits, Otonashi and Kanade are shown to meet up again in their next lives.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: Naoi]]

''Angel Beats!'' is a franchise consisting of a thirteen-episode {{anime}} (plus two {{OVA}}s and a short epilogue), four {{manga}}, a LightNovel (adapted into one of the manga) and a VisualNovel by Creator/KeyVisualArts. Jun Maeda, co-founder of Key/VisualArts and scenario writer of many of the company's previous works, has conceived and written all of the installments in the series.

''Angel Beats!'' is a franchise consisting of a thirteen-episode {{anime}} (plus two {{OVA}}s and a short epilogue), four {{manga}}, a LightNovel (adapted into one of the manga) and a VisualNovel by Creator/KeyVisualArts. Jun Maeda, author of the manga ''Manga/HibikisMagic'', has conceived and written all of the installments in the series.

-->-- "My Soul, Your Beats!" '''(Opening Theme)'''

->''My soul, your beats''
-->-- '''Opening theme'''

The anime, directed by Seiji Kishi for studio P.A. Works, 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.

* FromACertainPointOfView: [[WomanInWhite Angels]]? [[LightIsNotGood Horrible, vile things]].

* 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.]]

* AnAesop: Life is what you make of it. [[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.]]

* RedemptionDemotion: [[spoiler:Naoi]] goes from credible villain to yet another comic relief character when he makes his HeelFaceTurn. This is largely because his main power of [[spoiler:hypnosis]] is pretty morally dubious, so he can't use it after his [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn]] He's still scarily competent, to the extent that he's effectively Yuri's second-in-command, but he's not considered threatening enough to be a counterpart to Angel like he was before.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Yuri disappearing in episode 13.]]

*** It's implied in episode 13.5[[spoiler:/Another Epilogue where it says "NEXT STAGE", that the series might continue and get a 2nd season.]]

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler: Subverted. The characters ''wish'' they could RageAgainstTheHeavens, but they can't seem to find any. Their efforts only end up hurting themselves.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: ''Angel Beats!'' is essentially a mixed media project. Much of the background between Yuri and "Angel", including the SSS's formation, plays out in the LightNovel.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The mysterious Programmer who changed the purgatorial world the first time by setting up a system that he used to create the NPCs, the Angel Player software, and the Shadows as a clean-up program should the amount of love in Purgatory exceed a certain rate. This set in motion the bulk of the problems faced in the actual story, but he is not an active character in it , as he turned himself into an NPC a long time ago, leaving his identity forever unknown.]]

** Episode 3, where at its climax [[spoiler: it's learned that Angel is making all of her own techniques using a special computer software rather than having been given them from God, and Iwasawa passes on into the next life after finally fulfilling her greatest desire, the first major hint to the true nature of what's going on in Purgatory.]]

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[[caption-width-right:311:(From left) [[OnlySaneMan Otonashi]], [[RebelLeader Yuri]], and [[ReiAyanamiExpy Angel]].]]