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Angel Beats!
Description
- is a Japanese media franchise, centered on a 13-episode anime television series produced by P.A. Works and Aniplex and directed by Seiji Kishi. The story was originally conceived by Jun Maeda, who also wrote the screenplay, with original character design by Na-Ga; both Maeda and Na-Ga are from the visual novel brand Key known for producing such titles as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. Key is working in collaboration with ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine to produce the project. The series began airing in Japan on April 3, 2010.
Plot
- Angel Beats! takes place at a high school in the afterlife in a Purgatory between Heaven and Earth where students learn to give up any lingering attachments they still have from life before finally going to Heaven. While the injuries or cause of death is gone, those in the afterlife school can still feel pain or other things as they did when they were alive, as well as dying again, only to awaken with no injures several minutes later. The story follows the main protagonist Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. Upon awakening in the afterlife, he meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Shinda Sekai Sensen (SSS) (死んだ世界戦線?, lit. Afterlife War Front), an organization she founded and leads which fights against God for the cruel fates the SSS members experienced in life. Their only enemy in the world is the school's student council president Angel, a being with supernatural powers who is in charge of keeping the status quo and the fight against the SSS. Anyone who follows Angel's orders and behaves like a normal student at the school will eventually disappear and pass on to Heaven, although those who fulfill something they were unable to do in life will also pass on.
In the SSS, there are two sub-divisions which help in the SSS's operations against Angel. The first is a four-girl band named Girls Dead Monster whose objective in the SSS is to cause a diversion from other activities the SSS is engaged in, while on the surface appearing to be a normal all female band. This includes distracting Angel and a large number of "normal" students and teachers at the school Yuri deems "non-player characters" as they are not human, but look and act the part. Another organization in the SSS is the Guild, located far below the surface of the afterlife world, which serves to supply the weapons the SSS uses against Angel. Anyone in the afterlife is able to create anything out of dirt that they had memories of in life, and the Guild uses this ability to mass produce weapons.
Characters
Red Block (l-r) Otonashi, Yuri/Yurippe
Blue Block (l-r) Shiina, Hinata, Takamatsu, Noda
Green Block (l-r) TK, Matsushita, Fuujimaki, Oyama
Yellow Block Iwasawa (in the left, replaced in episode 3), Sekina (next) Hisako (right) Irie (I think next to Hisako, 2nd right?)
Yui - the one who replaced Iwasawa in the girl Band (Girl DeMo [Dead Monsters])
Kanade Tachibana a.k.a. ANGEL - declared by SSS (their affliation) as their enemy
Just watch, I can't explain it all-good to you....
Description
- is a Japanese media franchise, centered on a 13-episode anime television series produced by P.A. Works and Aniplex and directed by Seiji Kishi. The story was originally conceived by Jun Maeda, who also wrote the screenplay, with original character design by Na-Ga; both Maeda and Na-Ga are from the visual novel brand Key known for producing such titles as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. Key is working in collaboration with ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine to produce the project. The series began airing in Japan on April 3, 2010.
Plot
- Angel Beats! takes place at a high school in the afterlife in a Purgatory between Heaven and Earth where students learn to give up any lingering attachments they still have from life before finally going to Heaven. While the injuries or cause of death is gone, those in the afterlife school can still feel pain or other things as they did when they were alive, as well as dying again, only to awaken with no injures several minutes later. The story follows the main protagonist Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. Upon awakening in the afterlife, he meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Shinda Sekai Sensen (SSS) (死んだ世界戦線?, lit. Afterlife War Front), an organization she founded and leads which fights against God for the cruel fates the SSS members experienced in life. Their only enemy in the world is the school's student council president Angel, a being with supernatural powers who is in charge of keeping the status quo and the fight against the SSS. Anyone who follows Angel's orders and behaves like a normal student at the school will eventually disappear and pass on to Heaven, although those who fulfill something they were unable to do in life will also pass on.
In the SSS, there are two sub-divisions which help in the SSS's operations against Angel. The first is a four-girl band named Girls Dead Monster whose objective in the SSS is to cause a diversion from other activities the SSS is engaged in, while on the surface appearing to be a normal all female band. This includes distracting Angel and a large number of "normal" students and teachers at the school Yuri deems "non-player characters" as they are not human, but look and act the part. Another organization in the SSS is the Guild, located far below the surface of the afterlife world, which serves to supply the weapons the SSS uses against Angel. Anyone in the afterlife is able to create anything out of dirt that they had memories of in life, and the Guild uses this ability to mass produce weapons.
Characters
Red Block (l-r) Otonashi, Yuri/Yurippe
Blue Block (l-r) Shiina, Hinata, Takamatsu, Noda
Green Block (l-r) TK, Matsushita, Fuujimaki, Oyama
Yellow Block Iwasawa (in the left, replaced in episode 3), Sekina (next) Hisako (right) Irie (I think next to Hisako, 2nd right?)
Yui - the one who replaced Iwasawa in the girl Band (Girl DeMo [Dead Monsters])
Kanade Tachibana a.k.a. ANGEL - declared by SSS (their affliation) as their enemy
Just watch, I can't explain it all-good to you....
