Angel Beats! takes place at a school that acts as Purgatory, where students learn to eliminate the burden of remnants or regret from the previous life, before continuing into the afterlife or reincarnation. Injury and death do not exist in this place, although people in this afterlife school can still feel pain or anything else as they did when they were alive, they also can die again, only then would come back some time later without injury. This story follows a protagonist that is Otonashi, a child who suffers amnesia about his life before the afterlife. After the resurrection in the afterlife, he meets a girl named Yuri who invited him to join Shinda Sekai Sensen (SSS), Sing. Afterlife Battlefront). An organization that he founded and he led the fight against the Lord as a protest against the cruel fate of the SSS members in their previous lives. Their only enemy in this world is student council president, Angel, a creature with supernatural powers who fought against the SSS. Yuri believes that people who follow orders from the Angel and behave like normal students in this school will eventually disappear and leave reincarnated. However, those who fulfill their dreams in the afterlife would go reincarnated as well.
