Angel Beats! is a Japanese anime series over 13 episodes produced by PA Aniplex Works and directed by Seiji Kishi. Original story conceptualized by Jun Maeda, who also wrote and composed the musical dialogue with the group-Garde Anant Eyes, original character designs by the Na-Ga; Maeda and Na-Ga both come from well-known visual novel company Key, who also produced the Canons, Air, and Clannad. The anime first aired in Japan between 3 April to 26 June 2010. Key works with ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine to bring this project into a media franchise. Two manga serialized in Dengeki G has published magazine: one illustrated by Haruka Komowata, which started in December 2009 serial, and one illustrated by Yuriko Asami, which started in May 2010 issue serial, short story has been written by Maeda and illustrations have also been published by GotoP in Dengeki G's Magazine between November 2009 to May 2010. Two internet radio shows have also been produced to promote Angel Beats!.
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.
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.
