Sunday 26 January 2014

Angel Beats

                                          Angel Beats

   This anime is the one I found after watching Elfen Lied(a horror anime), it takes place in the after life world and you could only join if you have regrets. When I started to watch this anime, I thought it was really weird because you suddenly see a guy just join the scene and meet up with someone with a gun. But as it goes along, Yuzuru Otonashi (The red hair male) also one of the main characters joins the rebels of god and starts to understand why each one of the people in the image are in the world of regrets. Otanashi's regret was that he brought out his sister to see the city's lights which made her grow sicker and when he went on the train and that broke down, that's where he died. In my opinion, this anime is really depressing especially if you hear out everyone's story of how they were 'sent' to this world of regrets. But, Yuri Nakamura, the leader of the rebels of god (SSS), believes that if you defy the normal things you do, you can stay in this world where you can find happiness and recover the memories that you've lost during your death. My favourite story was told by Yuri Nakamura because her story was the worst, where she was given time to find the most valued items in her house otherwise her siblings would get shot down every 10 minutes because she was getting robbed. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to find the 'valuables' because her family never told her where they were and when she attempted to bring the vase, it broke and it was already too late. Also, not only that when it was "graduation day" where people accomplished what they wanted, they would exit the world f regrets and live happily but as everyone started to leave, Kanade Tachibana (the girl on the far right) and Otanashi were in love but in this scenario if you showed emotion, you would disappear. So, Kanade's last request was to ask Otanashi to say 'I love you' and so she disappeared leaving only Otanashi behind at the world of regrets. This was so depressing because I actually felt bad for him considering that he was in love but she wanted to hear him say it and none was there to accompany him after everything.
   I would recommend you this anime if you aren't completely emotional because if you understand what the characters are facing and you can relate it, you will definitely be sad. Also, before you watch the anime, you should listen to Girls Dead Monster (The group that was formed from rebels of god)and the OSTs. Anyways you should give it a try, I definitely like it asides from it being a sad ending but things never go the way you expect it to be.

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