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'''''Angel Beats!''''' is a [[manga]]/[[anime]] [[series]] written by [[Jun Maeda]] and directed by [[Seiji Kishi]]. 

The series takes place in a high school which act as [[limbo]] for people who have died. It follows Otonashi, who has died and lost the memories of his life. He meets Yuri and joins the Afterlife Battlefront which she founded. The Afterlife Battlefront fight against God for the cruel fates the members of the battlefront experienced in their lives. Their enemy is Angel, a girl that fights against the battlefront and has [[supernatural]] powers. She makes her powers from a computer program called Angel Player. "Normal" students (called [[Non-player character|NPCs]] by Yuri) populate the rest of the afterlife school. She calls them NPCs because they are not human but they look and act like humans. 

The anime was [[broadcast]] from April 3, 2010 to June 26, 2010 and the manga has been [[publishing|published]] since December 2009. It was broadcast on both [[Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting]].

==Plot==
''Angel Beats!'' takes place at a high school acting as a limbo for those who have died, where students learn to give up any lingering attachments they still have from life before passing on. Those in the afterlife school can still feel pain as they did when they were alive, as well as dying again, only to awaken later with no injuries. The story follows the main protagonist Otonashi, a boy who has [[Retrograde amnesia|lost his memories]] of his life after dying. He meets Yuri, a girl who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront, an organization she founded and leads which fights against God for the negative experiences the SSS members went through in life. In the SSS, there is a four-girl band named Girls Dead Monster that acts as a diversion during missions, and an organization called the Guild that mass-produces weapons out of dirt and supplies them to the SSS. Their only enemy is Angel, a girl who uses her supernatural powers to fight against the SSS. Angel creates her powers with the aid of a computer program called Angel Player. The rest of the afterlife school is populated by a large number of "normal" students and teachers Yuri deems "non-player characters" (NPCs), which are not human but look and act the part.

The first of the characters to fulfill her dream and pass on is Iwasawa, the leader of Girls Dead Monster. Angel, whose real name is Kanade Tachibana, loses her position as student council president and the vice president Naoi succeeds her. Naoi uses powers of hypnosis to control NPCs to fight for his own interests against the SSS, but Otonashi stops him after acknowledging Naoi's existence and he subsequently joins the SSS. Otonashi regains his memories with the aid of Naoi's hypnosis and agrees to continue with the SSS. Otonashi befriends Kanade and invites her to join in on SSS activities. After Otonashi fully remembers the details of his life and death, he starts cooperating with Kanade to help the other SSS members move on, and Kanade is reinstated as student council president in accordance with their plan. Yui, the girl who replaced Iwasawa after she passed on, is the second of the characters who passes on.

When mysterious shadow monsters begin attacking the SSS, Takamatsu gets devoured by one, only to reappear as an NPC. Otonashi reasons with the other SSS members and many of them agree to pass on in lieu of becoming an NPC, including the rest of Girls Dead Monster, Chaa of the Guild, and several unnamed members. Yuri destroys the computers responsible for the shadow program, which was programmed to activate when love was detected in the world, to prevent it from becoming a true paradise and maintain its limbo state. Those who are left—Otonashi, Yuri, Kanade, Hinata and Naoi—hold a graduation ceremony where they thank each other for their support. After Naoi, Yuri and Hinata pass on, Otonashi learns that Kanade's regret was not being able to thank him for the heart she received from Otonashi after his death. Otonashi is heartbroken after she thanks him and passes on, as he has fallen in love with her. In the epilogue, two people resembling Otonashi and Kanade meet each other on the street in the real world. In an alternative epilogue, Otonashi is shown to have stayed behind in the afterlife to help people pass on.

==Main characters==
;{{Nihongo|{{visible anchor|Yuzuru Otonashi}}|音無 結弦|Otonashi Yuzuru}}
Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese), Blake Shepard (English)
<br>Otonashi is the main protagonist of ''Angel Beats!''. Due to his past, he has a caring personality and does not want anyone to experience pain or sadness.

;{{Nihongo|{{visible anchor|Yuri Nakamura}}|仲村 ゆり|Nakamura Yuri}}
Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
<br>Yuri, also known as {{Nihongo|Yurippe|ゆりっぺ}}, has a determined personality but is secretly very sensitive and protective.

;{{Nihongo|Angel|天使|Tenshi|extra2= /}} {{Nihongo|{{visible anchor|Kanade Tachibana}}|立華 かなで|Tachibana Kanade}}
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Emily Neves (English)
<br>Angel is the student council president at the afterlife school. This places her at odds with the SSS as her responsibilities require her to suppress delinquency and other disruptive activities that the team does.

==Other websites==
*[http://www.angelbeats.jp/ Official website] {{Jp icon}}


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