History Headscratchers / AngelBeats

** Otonashi [[spoiler: stated in that episode that he wants to help the others pass on as well, something Kanade has also been doing all that time.]]

** She didn't want to disappear just yet.

** There have been cases where a person experienced the memories of someone they got an organ from.

* Otonashi's DeadLittleSister is heavily implied to have died while he had her out of the hospital without permission. How did he not get in serious trouble for that?

* So why [[spoiler: Yuzuru's DeadLittleSister]] never have showed up or hinted to have shown up in this purgatory since her case is something similar to Yui? Sequel perhaps?

* Why did Kanade [[spoiler: wait until last episode to thank Otonashi for his heart? Wasn't she aware that she had his heart]] since episode 9? If not even earlier? If that's her [[spoiler: greatest wish, to thank him, why wait until the end?]]

** There was a lot in the series that was kind of rushed and poorly set up. The problem is that when the show was originally scripted, it was supposed to last twenty-six episodes. However, their allotment was cut in half, so they had to condense a twenty-six episode plot into only thirteen episodes. Honestly I think they did a pretty good job with what they had considering that.

** [[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog It's not about making food, it's about]] ''[[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog taking]]'' [[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog food]]. ''Angel Beats: Track Zero'' (the light novel that details the beginnings of the Battlefront) mentions that all of the students have stipends for food purchases that they can draw money from by requesting it at the school office. Operation Tornado isn't something they do so that they can eat, it's something they do because everybody thinks that breaking rules will prevent them from being erased. Monster Stream is the same way, because they're skipping school in order to go fishing.

** The aren't, not really. That is just the excuse they give Otonashi in the first episode for why he shouldn't allow himself to be obliterated. In episode two Yuri even directly states that she doesn't care about being reincarnated as some insignificant creature. The real reason they are all lingering is because they harbor resentment against "God" for their unhappy lives. Moving on would mean playing along with "God's" system, which being pissed off, rebellious teenagers they absolutely don't want to do.

* Anyone else feel the Shadows part in the last few episodes was unneeded? It wasn't foreshadowed or anything. It felt out of place. They should have spent the time giving characters like TK or Shiina proper storylines.

* Are the characters new lives or have they been reincarnated before?

* Why did Otonashi stay in limbo instead of being reincarnated?

* What's with the glasses? If Yui can [[spoiler:be mobile despite being paralyzed in life]] than shouldn't their eye problems go away?

* Why exactly is everyone so afraid of being reincarnated?

** They must be NPC fish and NPC plants (or, most plants don't have souls, so they don't count.) Also, there are implied to be many other afterlives; this one is just for teenagers who lived tragic lives to enjoy the cheerful youth they never had.

**** I sure hope so. Unfortunately though, the series is not that famous..yet.

* Why is the reason that people disappear presented as such a revelation in episode 9? It is obvious from quite early on that this happens when people have no more regrets about their previous lives and that Angel has nothing to do with it.
** Of course, Angel could be lying.

* The world of Angel Beats resembles the real world quite a bit, to the point that there's is even a sky filled with stars. Now, what would happen if people would look at that sky with a telescope? Would they see the planets normally, or discern galaxies? If so, that world must be rather vast in and of itself. Actually, the same question applies to all series with an alternate or virtual reality, such as the one in ''TheMatrix''.

** The teacher was probably just exaggerating the punishment to threaten GirlDeMo to stop the concert.

** Considering how she responded to Otonashi in episode 2 when he asked her it seems she [[spoiler: committed suicide eventually after her siblings were killed.]]

* Due to {{Executive Meddling}} the show's length was cut in half, leaving us with lots of unexplained back stories and a couple plot holes. Why isn't there a book or website where the creators talk about the things that didn't get in the show?

* FridgeLogic: I'm not sure if this is explained somewhere, but [[spoiler: Kanade, who had received Otonashi's heart in a transplant, somehow managed to establish her system in the afterlife before Otonashi even arrived there.]]

*** If you are fulfilled you could easily "disappear" from purgatory. Normally you only come to that purgatory if you died unfulfilled in your life. Otonashi died content he would have just disappeared the moment he woke up. He may have been sent there as part of a XanatosGambit by God to help the SSS members pass on as well as fulfill Angel's wish to [[spoiler: thank Otonashi for the heart he donated]].

** Considering how she responded to Otonashi in episode 2 when he asked her it seems she[[spoiler: Yuri's death]] committed suicide eventually after her siblings were killed.