Jun Maeda. Jun Maeda is exactly who I intend to not talk about. Instead I speak of the Angel Beats.
If you look at the anime without thinking too much then it was a pretty decent anime, no?
Anyway, I thought that the characters were fun and stuff. It’s good that everyone had some sort of personality and had even more focus the the all too imperfect NPCs around. However the personalities sometimes felt sort of… whats the word… one dimensional? Whatever.
Something I really did not like was how the personalities of some of the characters flipped crazy hard in the last episode. Seeing Kanade skipping around whistling a happy tune to herself really annoyed me – although I do have to admit it was adorable. But that was not the really bad one, Yuri turned into some silly girly girl.
What? Just because you resolve some mildly painful memory about some s**theads wasting away your three cute and harmless little sisters right in front of your very own eyes and it all being your own fault because you could not find anything remotely of value in the place of which you have lived in all your life does not give you permission to do a mental back-flip into the mental state of bunnies and unicorns. Go cry yourself to sleep, bitch.
The plot was pretty much incomprehensible but that’s fine. It’s actually quite simple at first glance.
Basically this is what I got.
1) There is this place. God created it in the image of hell. Yes, this place appears to be some sort of school that you would in an anime of something.
2) To enroll your life must be blessed with copious amounts of suck.
3) TK is awesome. GET LUCK AND CHANCE!
4) Killing people does not work too well. Inversely, dying is cheap, it’s about as cheap as the dirt they use to make weapons out of. Weapons, which by the way are about useless at the dirt used to make them because dying is easy and killing is impossible. Seriously, they should have just tied angel to a tree or something. Trust me, if they just made some duct tape the SSS would have figured a way to win long ago.
5) NPCs are boring people and are no fun to hang out with.
6) If you stop being emo you move on or become an NPC. Neither choice seems to be a good way to go so the students just try to find more effective ways to not pay attention during class. I for one look forwarward to what comes after death. If it involves three foot long spoons though, then that means I lost a bet.
7) T.K. is also awesome. Wings adds a times two prestige multiplier don’t cha know?
So what is the purpose of this place? I have know idea. Possibilities include purgatory, sanctuary, the matrix or a hallucination due to lack of food and water. Hell, for all we know it was some grade schooler’s failed science experiment.
I also don’t really understand the bit about the NPCs. Especially that one NPC guy. I really think that the last it of the story could have been handled a little bit better, or at least a little bit more clearly. I think that perhaps the place that they were staying was sanctuary without the NPCs and it became more like purgatory with the NPCs. I still don’t know how the NPCs fit together with the place though. No really, I watched the second to last episode like 4 times and still did not get it, and usually I am really good at getting things like that.
I would look for more information right now but I am over 500 miles way from my computer and the distance is only increasing. Oh, and my awesome wireless mouse broke. TT_TT
Before I finish up I feel like I should tell you guys my favorite scene seeing as I actually definitely have one this time… Remember that time when Ayato was defending Kanade and he was talking about Kanade’s wings and how it would bring prestige to the school, I thought that was freaking funny.
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