Adults Are Useless: Yuri essentially believes the teachers are this way.Her voice actress played an Ill Girl in another Key property. When Naoi, with the same voice actor, is shown completely deranged on a bloodied battlefield, what is the main line Otonashi delivers? Shinji Ikari is a kid committed to fighting off against Angels using husks of steel as his bidding, while trying not to lose his sanity and/or self in the process.
The series was released with an English dub on DVD in July 2011. No surprise, considering that they've picked up many Key titles in the past.
The TV series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks for the North American release. Subsequent volumes will cover the rest of the character routes. The first volume covers up to the tenth episode of the anime as well as Yui's, Iwasawa's, and Matsushita's routes with Otonashi as the main protagonist.
Angel Beats! -1st beat-, the first volume, was released on Jfor Windows PC. Yuriko Asami returned as illustrator for the manga, which is described as the "True Angel Beats! wanted to write".Ī six volume Visual Novel adaption exists and promises to feature more of the Angel Beats! universe that couldn't be crammed into the other works. Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in North America.Īnother manga, Angel Beats! The Last Operation, began in 2017. This manga, Angel Beats! Heaven's Door, was illustrated by Yuriko Asami, and once again published by ASCII Media Works in Dengeki G's Magazine and, later, Dengeki G's Comic. The Angel Beats! anime is the story of Otonashi's time in this strange afterlife, as he learns about his situation, interacts with the others in the SSS and Angel, waits to regain his memories, and decides what to do after he does.Īnother manga (May 2010 - October 2016) was published, adapting and continuing the story of the Track Zero Light Novel.
Every real person who has submitted to this behavior has disappeared forever, so the SSS members are understandably unwilling. The only apparent enemy of the self-named Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront) is the student council president, a short, white-haired girl they call Tenshi (Angel), who wields supernatural powers in an effort to force the SSS to behave like the normal students. The world they are in seems like an enormous Japanese boarding school populated by soulless, though realistic and harmless, NPCs who act like ordinary students and faculty.
Before he even has time to get his bearings, a purple-haired girl with a sniper rifle informs him that he is dead and asks him to join her rebellion against God.
In the anime, simply entitled Angel Beats!, our viewpoint character, high-school-aged Otonashi wakes up suddenly to find that he can't remember anything, not even his full name. Jun Maeda, co-founder of Key/Visual Arts 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 OVAs and a short epilogue), four manga, a Light Novel (adapted into one of the manga) and a Visual Novel by Key/Visual Arts.