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{{Infobox animanga/Header
| image           = [[File:Angel Beats! DVD Complete Collection cover.jpg|230px]]
| caption         = Cover art of the ''Angel Beats!'' DVD compilation set released by [[Section23 Films]], featuring main characters (from left to right) Yuzuru Otonashi, Yuri Nakamura, and Angel (Kanade Tachibana).
| ja_kanji        = エンジェルビーツ!
| ja_romaji       = Enjeru Bītsu!
| genre           = [[Action (fiction)|Action]], [[Comedy-drama]], [[Supernatural]]
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = light novel
| title           = Angel Beats! Track Zero
| author          = [[Jun Maeda]]
| illustrator     = [[GotoP]]
| publisher       = [[ASCII Media Works]]
| magazine        = [[Dengeki G's Magazine]]
| demographic     = Male
| first           = November 2009
| last            = May 2010
| volumes         = 1
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| title           = Angel Beats! The 4-koma:<br />Bokura no Sensen Kōshinkyoku
| author          = Jun Maeda
| illustrator     = Haruka Komowata
| publisher       = ASCII Media Works
| demographic     = ''[[Seinen manga|Seinen]]''
| magazine        = Dengeki G's Magazine
| first           = December 2009
| last            = October 2013
| volumes         = 4
| volume_list     = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = tv series
| director        = [[Seiji Kishi]]
| writer          = [[Jun Maeda]]
| music           = Jun Maeda<br>Anant-Garde Eyes
| producer        = {{Unbulleted list|[[Kenji Horikawa]]|Hiro Maruyama|Hironori Toba}}
| studio          = [[P.A.Works]]
| licensee        = {{English anime licensee
  | AUS = [[Siren Visual]]
  | NA  = [[Section23 Films#Sentai Filmworks|Sentai Filmworks]]
  | UK  = [[Manga Entertainment]]
}}
| network         = [[Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting|CBC]], [[Mainichi Broadcasting System|MBS]], [[RKB Mainichi Broadcasting|RKB]], [[Tokyo Broadcasting System|TBS]], [[Tulip Television|TUT]]
| first           = April 3, 2010
| last            = June 26, 2010
| episodes        = 13
| episode_list    = List of Angel Beats! episodes
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| title           = Angel Beats!: Heaven's Door
| author          = Jun Maeda
| illustrator     = Yuriko Asami
| publisher       = ASCII Media Works
| publisher_en    = {{English manga publisher|NA=[[Seven Seas Entertainment]]}}
| demographic     = ''Seinen''
| magazine        = Dengeki G's Magazine<br>[[Dengeki G's Comic]]
| magazine_en     = ComicWalker
| first           = May 2010
| last            = 
| volumes         = 9
| volume_list     = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = ova
| title           = Angel Beats!: Stairway to Heaven
| director        = Seiji Kishi
| producer        = 
| writer          = 
| music           = 
| studio          = P.A.Works
| licensee        = {{English anime licensee
  | AUS = Siren Visual
  | NA  = Sentai Filmworks
  | UK  = Manga Entertainment
}}
| released        = December 22, 2010
| runtime         = 24 minutes
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| title           = Angel Beats! The 4-koma:<br />Osora no Shinda Sekai kara
| author          = Jun Maeda
| illustrator     = Haruka Komowata
| publisher       = ASCII Media Works
| demographic     = ''Seinen''
| magazine        = Dengeki G's Magazine
| first           = December 2013
| last            = 
| volumes         = 1
| volume_list     = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = ova
| title           = Angel Beats!: Hell's Kitchen
| director        = Seiji Kishi
| producer        = 
| writer          = 
| music           = 
| studio          = P.A.Works
| licensee        = 
| released        = June 24, 2015
| runtime         = 29 minutes
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Other
| title           = Related
| content         = *''[[Angel Beats! (visual novel)|Angel Beats!]]'' (visual novel)
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}
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[[File:Angel Beats game logo.svg|thumb|250px]]
'''''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 character]]s" (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. After dying, he [[Retrograde amnesia|lost his memories]] of the time when he was still alive,<ref name="ep1">{{cite episode|title=Departure|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=[[Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting|CBC]]|airdate=April 3, 2010|number=1}}</ref> but later regains them.<ref name="ep7">{{cite episode|title=Alive|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=May 15, 2010|number=7}}</ref> He had a younger sister, Hatsune(初音)(voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Jessica Boone (English)), who died of cancer and who he cared for very much. When she died, he decided to go to school to become a doctor, but died in a train accident before he could take the entrance exam to college.<ref name="ep7" /> Initially unskilled in any equipment, he starts to practice his marksmanship,<ref name="ep3">{{cite episode|title=My Song|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=April 17, 2010|number=3}}</ref> and pulls through for the team when they are in danger.<ref name="ep6">{{cite episode|title=Family Affair|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=May 8, 2010|number=6}}</ref> He carries a [[Glock pistol|Glock 17]].<ref name="visualstyle16">{{cite journal|journal=Visual Style|issue=August 2010|publisher=VisualArt's|volume=16|page=10|language=Japanese}}</ref>
;{{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..<ref name="ep2">{{cite episode|title=Guild|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=April 10, 2010|number=2}}</ref> She invites Otonashi to join the SSS, an organization she founded and leads which fights against God.<ref name="ep1" /> She is smart and decisive when making operations and decisions.<ref name="ep2" /><ref name="ep5">{{cite episode|title=Favorite Flavor|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=May 1, 2010|number=5}}</ref> She carries a silver Beretta 92.<ref name="visualstyle16" /> Not only is she skilled with a gun, but she is also capable in close range hand-to-hand combat, which is shown when she fends off Angel's hand sonic with a combat knife.<ref name="ep2" /> She vowed to fight against God after her three younger siblings were murdered by burglars looking for valuables and never forgave herself for failing to prevent their deaths.<ref name="ep2" /> She is an effective leader, but does not think so.<ref name="ep2" /> She regrets even fighting with Kanade later in the story, because she feels she could have been great friends with her.<ref name="ep13">{{cite episode|title=Graduation|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=June 26, 2010|number=13}}</ref> She disappears after the graduation ceremony.<ref name="ep13" />
;{{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. The SSS initially calls her "Angel" since they do not know her real name, but they still refer to her by it even after finding out her real name to be Kanade Tachibana.<ref name="ep5" /> It is difficult to understand what she is thinking due to her rarely showing any outward emotions and her way of talking bluntly.<ref name="ep7" /> She is personally dedicated to helping others overcome their regrets and pass on.<ref name="ep9">{{cite episode|title=In Your Memory|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=May 29, 2010|number=9}}</ref> However, she often lacks a proper understanding of others, as she never thinks to try to explain to the SSS why she was doing what she did.<ref name="ep11">{{cite episode|title=Change the World|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=June 12, 2010|number=11}}</ref> She enjoys eating 'Mapo Tofu', a spicy dish.<ref name="ep6" />
<br>Despite her gentle demeanor and small frame, she is incredibly powerful and near indestructible to the point of ejecting bullets out of her wounds during battle.<ref name="ep1" /><ref name="ep7" /><ref name="ep8">{{cite episode|title=Dancer in the Dark|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=May 22, 2010|number=8}}</ref> She creates her powers known as "guard skills" via a computer program called Angel Player.<ref name="ep3" /> Her primary ability is "hand sonic", a blade on one or both forearms with five forms.<ref name="ep6" /> Other skills include but are not limited to: "distortion", an invisible barrier that deflects bullets or other projectiles;<ref name="ep1" /> "delay", which creates an after-image to disorient opponents;<ref name="ep1" /> and "harmonics", where a clone with a consciousness of its own is formed from the original.<ref name="ep7" /> These abilities are activated at will; however, her ability "overdrive", which gives her great physical strength, is always on.<ref name="ep8" />

==SSS Members==
;{{Nihongo|{{visible anchor|Hideki Hinata}}|日向 秀樹|Hinata Hideki}}
Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura (Japanese), David Matranga (English)
<br>The protagonist of ''Angel Beats! Heaven's Door'', Hinata is a bright, dependable guy who is the closest to Otonashi.<ref name="ep4" /> He always tries to save his friends if he can and is a reliable force in the team.<ref name="ep2" /> He and Yui constantly irritate one another on a daily basis, but deep down, he cares for Yui, as shown when he helps her pass on by telling her he would marry her.<ref name="ep10">{{cite episode|title=Goodbye Days|series=Angel Beats!|credits=Jun Maeda (writer), Seiji Kishi (director)|network=CBC|airdate=June 5, 2010|number=10}}</ref> He is a talented baseball player, and his regret in life was his failure to catch a baseball, which cost his team an important baseball game.<ref name="ep4" /> He nicknamed Yuri as Yurippe when they co-founded the SSS as he did not feel comfortable calling her Yuri, because his mother has the same name. He has shown romantic feelings towards Yuri in ''Heaven's Door''. He died from getting hit by a truck.<ref name="trackzero">{{cite book|title=Angel Beats! Track Zero|publisher=[[ASCII Media Works]]|date=June 23, 2010|isbn=978-4-04-868680-8|pages=1–96|language=Japanese}}</ref> He uses an RPK-74 and an S&W 645.{{sfn|Angel Beats! Official Guidebook|2010|p=16}}

;{{Nihongo|{{vanchor|Ayato Naoi}}|直井 文人|Naoi Ayato}}
Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
<br>Naoi is a human originally thought to be a [[non-player character]] (non-human).<ref name="ep5" /> After he died, Naoi developed [[hypnosis|hypnotic]] powers that allow him to control others and cause them to enter a dream-like state.<ref name="ep6" /> In life, he was the son of a famous potter. However, it was his twin brother who had the talent in pottery and as a result, Naoi was ignored by everyone. When his brother died, he was made to replace him by his father and was given strict training in pottery. As a result, he felt as if his own life was fake and all he wanted was to be acknowledged for his own existence.<ref name="ep6" /> He later befriends Otonashi after he acknowledges him and joins the SSS.<ref name="ep7" /> As acting student council president for a time and self-proclaimed God, Naoi is strict and arrogant, but this is quick to disperse when Otonashi chastises him. He is affectionate to Otonashi, much to the latter's chagrin, and always tries to earn his affection.<ref name="ep7" /> He uses dual [[Heckler & Koch USP|USP 45]] handguns.{{sfn|Angel Beats! Official Guidebook|2010|p=17}}

;{{Nihongo|{{vanchor|Takamatsu}}|高松}}
Voiced by: Takahiro Mizushima (Japanese), (Kalob Martinez, Illich Guardiola) (English)
<br>Takamatsu is an honor student who has a polite personality and wears glasses. He mainly contributes to the SSS through intelligence gathering and other affairs but does not actively fight. Yuri herself says to not be fooled by his glasses and that he is actually an idiot.<ref name="ep1" /> Though appearing to be slender, he works out and is actually well-built muscle-wise.<ref name="ep5" /> After he first reveals this, he tends to take his shirt off, much to everyone's discomfort.<ref name="ep7" /> He is absorbed by a shadow and is turned into an NPC.<ref name="ep11" /> However, having strong enough feelings (according to Yuri), he is able to regain his senses and manages to disappear like the others.<ref name="ep13" /> He carries a Desert Eagle as a side-arm, but is also seen using a [[Sig 552]].{{sfn|Angel Beats! Official Guidebook|2010|p=27}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

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


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