Angel Beats!/WMG

Wild Mass Guessing for Angel Beats.

TK is related to Angel/Tenshi in some way
Angel and TK are the most popular characters, and probably the strongest too dood!
 * And T.K, short for Tachibana Kanade
 * TK is Kanade's original heart. He died in the transplant that saved her life, which is why he's always dancing. He's always moving to his own beat.

TK was deaf when he was alive
TK can't speak English, as Otonashi himself says so in Episode 9, "So TK's useless at English after all..." The one time TK speaks Japanese (in episode 2), it's garbled and nonsensical. This seems to indicate a PASSING familiarity with the language. TK is ALWAYS moving and dancing, and most of the phrases he says are song lyrics.

Given all of that, TK was probably deaf when he was alive. He always saw people dancing, but his inability to hear the music prevented him from doing so himself, hence his constant dancing and song references, and his inability to speak English OR Japanese.

The "Purgatory" is an Alternate Reality Game for paralysed patients.

 * Most people dies either violently or ambiguously.
 * Both thinking and action are needed for the protagonists.

Tenshi's nickname wasn't formed because Yuri thought she works for God.

 * Hinata was the one who came up with it in the novel, in awe of her power as I recall.

Not everyone goes to the afterlife as soon as they've died.

 * Where is Hatsune, Otonashi's sister? She's not in the Afterlife Battlefront Building...

Tenshi .
I mean,
 * Actually,
 * Wait a second, Tenshi has been in the Afterlife far longer than Otonashi. That explanation wouldn't make sense.
 * Possible explanation: And if you want to take a very broad look at things, it could be that God Himself pulled the strings so that things would happen the way they did, knowing that the SSS members would never find peace otherwise.
 * Possible explanation: The Afterlife exists outside of time, which would make relative time of death irrelevant.
 * Another possible explanation:

There is no God!
Everything in Angel Beats, from the buildings to the NPCs, was set up piece by piece by humans like the Angel Player programmer. The existence of the afterlife at all is not the product of a god's intent but rather a more natural phenomenon of young souls with lingering regrets gathering together in some other plane of existence. It could still be argued that this phenomenon of gathering souls was set up by a god, but that's as useless as using gravity to prove the existence of god--at the very least, everything that followed was completely independent.

Angel Beats is in fact, an RPG.

 * NPCs are called NPCs because they act the same mostly.
 * Guild is a bunch of l33t hackers because they can generate weapons out of dirt.
 * Angel is an admin or even one of the game developers, due to her ability to develop skills.
 * Naoi is a GM due to his position as Student Council President
 * SSS could be a guild of some sort.
 * All of the SSS are high level characters- except Otonashi.
 * In the manga, Ooyama refers to himself as the team cleric, and casts "spells" on Hinata to protect him from Yuri's wrath
 * In the manga, Ooyama refers to himself as the team cleric, and casts "spells" on Hinata to protect him from Yuri's wrath

Otonashi was God

 * He may or may not really have amnesia. His presence is meant to figure out what's gone wrong with the Afterlife from a human point of view, and possibly help the members of SSS to move on.
 * This naturally has special significance when combined with the Haruhi theory.
 * The first part has been Jossed.

The SSS are screwing things up for the NPCs
The NPCs are normal people like the SSS, waiting for their next reincarnation. SSS keeps them stuck in purgatory, while they themselves find inner peace and move on,. Tenshi's job is just to be such a pain in the ass that they give up on their rebellion.
 * Well, the SSS do screw things up for Angel. Quite a bit, really. Heck, any day now and we get the proof that they're the reason she can't move one.
 * The NPCs are not normal people; they're constructs of the afterlife world that allows the actual humans who were sent there to live out a high school life that they couldn't in their time alive. Without the NPCs, the only people would just be those with terrible childhoods, and everything would go to hell pretty fast.

The Afterlife is in fact a Matrix-like construct.

 * Similar to programming language, Guild and Angel are able to manipulate the rules of the world to create anything they want, and all of Angels moves and attacks have a very electronic theme and are even made of ones and zeroes. Meanwhile, Yuri's description of the Afterlife makes it sound like a game or computer program, since she refers to regular students as NPCs. However, there may be a number of reasons why somebody would create this Matrix-like construct. Perhaps all of the SSS members are in fact still alive, but implanted into the Afterlife with false memories as a way to help them deal with their insecurities and psychological problems. Episode 3 seems to imply that this is the case, since . On the other hand, it may be some sort of experiment, with some or all of SSS being AI constructs. They're being pitted against a rival AI (Angel) to see who will prevail.

Nobody is dead
Similarly to the matrix scenario above, everyone is just plugged into some kind of simulation in a hospital, possibly post-Singularity. Alternately, they may be in a magically shared coma. It's very convenient how none of the backstories involve causes of death that would be instantly fatal; as of episode three, the only confirmed cause involved "death" in a hospital. Also, the opening contains a very prominent EKG monitor, which is often used as a symbol of coma wards.
 * Which is not that far-fetched, since Maeda Jun has dabbled with this format before. Little Busters, anyone? It could easily be that finding peace is a major contributor to the healing process and that the people who vanish simply wake up.
 * Supporting this, if you analyze all of the shown "deaths" carefully, you notice a pattern.
 * It seems that one didn't have to die in childhood to end up in that afterlife; they just had to have a bad childhood, and die at some point. They could have died at age 60 and ended up in the afterlife as a teenager.

Tenshi is not an Angel
In episode 1 she says she's not an angel. In episode 3 we find out that her powers are not received from God, and in fact were created in the same manner as explained in episode 2, a method available to all. Tenshi is a just a girl with an even worse past than Yuri. Building on the above WMG, God has inserted his avatar Otonashi into this afterlife with the goal of helping Tenshi move on.

Going off the above Tenshi...
...was just a normal, Korean girl who was an avid Starcraft player and died/fell into a coma after an excessive play session. Due to her obsession with Starcraft, she lacks the skill to socialize with others. This is the reason why she's always alone and nobody likes her. In her life, she was a huge fan of the Protoss. For this very reason, she styled her weaponry after the Protoss: To her, the SSS is nothing but a bunch of evil Marines who must be slain - for Aiur!
 * Hand Sonic (Psy Blades)
 * Distortion (Protoss Energy Shield)
 * Delay (Zealot Charge)
 * Harmonics (Hallucination)
 * Howling (Psionic Storm, debatable)
 * Absorb (mass Dark Archon warp, possibly)
 * The lack of ability to socialize with one another is jossed by episode 6.
 * Great, now she's a Gamer Girl too. Her popularity should increase by about 2-5% in the next few minuets.

Yuri and Tenshi are actually secretly working together.
Yuri and Tenshi are both trying to get SSS to overcome their own personal shortcomings and come to terms with their pasts. Yuri actually deliberately sets up missions so that there's a good chance of an SSS member disappearing. This works because since she's the leader, she would of course know every member's backstory and motivations. Yuri
 * Yuri seemed rather put out that Hinata's team was the only one left, though.
 * True, but she could have
 * Possibly confirmed. Episode 10 after the credits, before the next episode preview,
 * I must correct you. This wasn´t Angel, but Yusa. However, I don´t blame you for confusing them.

Hinata was hit on the head by that ball he missed.
That's why he doesn't remember if he caught it.
 * Then again, considering how seriously the damage caused by a head wound is played in 's case...
 * Jossed.

Christ is the big bad.
Because they are fighting God.
 * But even when God Is Evil, Jesus Christ is portrayed as a good guy.
 * Takeyama really doesn't strike me as Big Bad material.

The from the end of episode 7 is

 * Confirmed in Episode 8 that it was in fact  Even worse is the clone can
 * Confirmed in Episode 8 that it was in fact  Even worse is the clone can

This is heaven for idiots
Just look at the SSS and think about it.

TK was a rapper.

 * He was a American-born teenage rapper who moved to Japan, and died before getting a chance for a career. The name he uses is the nickname he used while being alive. (Possible since he always seems to be dancing, snapping, and doing rhythm-related things.)

Yusa's description of Yuri's punishments in episode 4 was foreshadowing
"Yusa: Those subject to Yurippe's punishment games are known to be driven to madness or personality changes."

After the events of episode 8,. The result will be either madness or a personality change, not because of, but because of.

Yuri died avenging her siblings.

 * She seems to be more skilled and pragmatic in combat than others. Perhaps after the robbery, she trained herself very hard and managed to hunt down and killed the robbers but dies in the process, cursing God in her dying breath that her revenge feels empty.

Tenshi is actually an angel
Unlike what the SSS is thinking currently, Tenshi actually is an angel. However, she still has to follow the same rules as the other player characters. To give her an advantage, she received the Angelplayer program she uses to develop her skills. She has been at this for a long time, explaining why she is such an Emotionless Girl.

This series is going to have one hell of a Downer Ending
Ok, so as of episode 9

If anyone can find a way for this to end happily, I'd sure like to hear it. ;-;

Clothespins really ARE fragments of God
I mean... you pin them... and the clothes don't fall! The laundry doesn't get dirty!

The happy scenes between Hinata and Yui are actually visions of the future.
Admit it, at least in some small part in your heart you're hoping this is true.

Tenshi is actually the last remaining member of a previous resistance group.
She, like Otonashi, decided it was best for everyone to find happiness with their lives and move on. After all her previous comrades disappeared, she choose to stay behind so as to guide others.

Otonashi is a Decoy Protagonist for Hinata.
Otonashi's past has been described in detail already, while we still don't know what happened to Hinata after. He was the protagonist of the light novel/manga and as of Episode 10. If it weren't for the obvious focus on Otonashi, Hinata probably would be the protagonist.

Yui was a cat in her past life.
Because no way in hell am I letting that tail of hers go unexplained.

Not everybody died at a young age
All it takes to wind up in purgatory is to have an unhappy youth, leading to regrets. Some may even have died of old age, but they reappear in their teenage forms to work out their issues.
 * Chaa is a pretty good indicator; in the novel, he reveals he had a wife, plus he know fairly much about guns. These are generally not traits you see in teenagers.
 * And revealed in the manga that, yes, Chaa has a wife - because he eloped with her in high school. There's even a page where it shows that he was a part of a gang with her, which might explain the guns thing. Not everyone died while they were still in high school, but a lot of them did once they got out of it, so they're still high school age.
 * Pretty much confirmed in episode 13, when.
 * "Long time" is a relative concept. Remember,  It's entirely possible that by "long time" she meant that, say  . A little depressing, yes, but it's that kind of show.

People who disappear don't Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence, they get reincarnated.
We've learned that when people, they disappear. Rather than people getting out of purgatory by disappearing, they're given a second chance at life with the hopes that the next life will be better to them. God just wants everyone to come to terms with their life and death before letting them try again.
 * Jossed in part.


 * Dude's just an NPC programmed to run the Shadow NPC procedure when the flags are raised.

The one who set up the shadow-generating, love-hating computers was

 * I have no clue about whether the novel/manga discusses more and renders this WMG moot, but

Yui and Hinata's would-be love story actually happened when they re-incarnated.

 * Because there is no way that I can accept that the adorable little 'vision' wasn't real. I don't think my tear ducts can take it.
 * That is unbelievably cruel of you. Would you really condemn Yui to another lifetime of paralysis so that she can get one marginally better than her last? It would be nice of her to fall in love with a reincarnated Hinata, but I'm not sure I'd want it to be in a way that would require her to live through this again...

SSS was needed.

 * Not everyone would be able to "graduate" just by being a normal student.

The Person Otonashi is waiting for in "Another Epilogue" is someone to replace him as the Student Council President (and The Messiah), so Yuzuru could pass on and meet Kanade.

 * Possibly the new guy would be fitting to that role

The only people who use glasses in the Afterlife are those trying too hard to look intelligent
Yui is not a quadriplegic, even though she's been one for the vast majority of her life and at the time of her death. Iwasawa isn't aphasic, even though she died as one. The only conclusion is that the Afterlife somehow cures you of any and all physical disabilities or illnesses you had during your life, to make it easier for you to overcome the bad memories. Nearsightedness and farsightedness are just two more disabilities that are cured, so nobody actually needs to wear glasses. The only ones who do are those who are trying to look smart (like Takamatsu and Takeyama)

All actions and consequences in the Afterlife are predetermined
The characters may think that they have the freedom to choose, but that, too, is just a part of the plan. To be in the Afterlife is, in a way, to star in a movie over which you have no true control, regardless of what you may think. Just consider for a moment all the Contrived Coincidence that occurred over the story without which one or more of the characters would never have been able to Transcend. Otanashi caught that specific meal ticket. Yui jumped at Hinata at that specific moment. Iwasawa wrote her song on that specific day. There is a God, but It is far too great for a mortal soul to perceive in any way. God manifests through probability and chance, and It is a compassionate, loving God, subtly steering the tale of the Afterlife towards an inevitable, happy conclusion.

The post-credits scene in the last episode took place before Otanashi and Kanede died.
Several years before Otanashi  he happened to walk past a pretty young girl humming a beautiful tune and chased after her to try and talk to her.

Hinata was a drug addict.
The scene that takes place after the baseball incident when he was alive was the first time he was offered a drug. That's why he regrets missing the catch; If he had caught it, he never would have become addicted.

Dante qualifies for purgatory.

 * Dante had an unfulfilled childhood.

T.K. is the biomerged form of TK and Patamon.

 * The bandana covering his eyes is just a version of Angemon's visor.

The entire series is a prerequisite, result or warping of Haruhi Suzumiya's use of that God Mode Power of hers, subconsciously.

 * A.) The series was the culmination of Haruhi's original past life, as Yurippe, and Haruhi either is or is not God, as everyone assumes, in that, or isn't, but because of a misunderstanding involving this purgatory all the characters are in, the espers etc of the Haruhi Suzumiya-verse believe her to be so. For all the pain and shaping up she and the others in Angel Beats had to go through, this time she is able to have a more lighthearted life and act more like a Jerkass than The Determinator, becoming attracted to people who remind her of her old friends, such as Kyon (who's kind of like Otonashi) and Yuki (who's a lot like Kanade).
 * B.) The series was a Bad End of Haruhi's life, as while she sinks into some kind of depression, she one day awakens as Yuri, her world rewritten as unknowingly as always, and finds herself breaking again . But then, after she finds the strength to carry on, she dies and finds herself in the purgatory with all the characters in the series wind up in. She finds a new meaning in life (or rather, after-life), and Otonashi and Kanade in part were there to remind her of those she knew in the past (Kyon and Yuki), or they just strongly remind her of the friends she had cared about back then, and her resolve to get all her new friends through this is strengthens,.
 * C.) The series is yet another example of Haruhi warping the world, as Kyon and the others constantly try to prevent her from doing, into the entirety of Angel Beats Perhaps this leads into a Bad End for her, as Otonashi and Kanade's relationship mirrors that of Kyon and Yuki's, or maybe Haruhi is actually a subconscious shipper. Who knows?
 * C2.) Or, leading in from C., if Haruhi is Yuri, maybe Kyon and Yuki are Otonashi and Kanade, with Yuki/Kanade being the only one aware of what has happened, as with the Groundhog Day Loop she originally had to suffer through, . Itsuki's split into Hinata and/or Naoi? Mikuru=Naoi? Tsuruya-san=Yui? Kunikida=Ooyama? Asakura=Shiina and/or ? In the end, perhaps, everyone except Yuki wakes up the next day with no memory of what happened, and Yuki discovers an abnormality.
 * D.) The series is a Key game one of the characters of Haruhi Suzumiya is playing.

The Field of Dreams is the Angel Beats! purgatory for baseball players.
Think about it, he builds the field, and then suddenly all the baseball players that ever had regrets in their life like the eight Black Sox come to play again on his field. He even has to find Doc and bring him to the field in order to heal his regrets over never being able to bat an inning with major leaguers. Ray then fulfills

Obviously, their purgatory is a lot more flexible as it lets them phase in and out into the real world at whim as long as they are in the baseball field. Maybe each purgatory has its own rules.

Tenshi is Misuzu from AIR.
After Misuzu's entirely unfair childhood (and heartbreaking death) she entered the Angel beats afterlife to experience a more normal childhood. Unfortunately, due to her eagerness to make friends after a short lifetime of not being able to she quickly fulfils alot of the other inhabitants wishes and so they disappear each time leaving her feeling more and more lonely. Her inability to ever make one true 'best friend' leads to her becoming more withdrawn and un-communicative, even though she still maintains her will to make other peoples lives better she realises that to spare her own feelings she needs to keep a distance and so becomes the student council president. All goes well until people start arriving with no intention of moving on peacefully, Misuzu, in an attempt to restore the status quo tries to stop the trouble makers eventually leading to an all out war. Otonashi's arrival triggers a series of events that lead to Misuzu finally gaining her wings as well as making a true friend (possibly even someone she can love) allowing her to move on.

Angel Beats is the prequel of Haruhi Suzumiya

 * In the end, Yuri overthrows God and creates a new reality for her, then recreates Otonashi and Tenshi as Kyon and Yuki.
 * Variation: All the people in the Afterlife is actually being prepared for reincarnation INCLUDING the NPCs, teachers, and Tenshi. The SSS all eventually accepts their death and move on and be reborn in the Suzumiya Haruhi timeline: Yurippe, Otonashi and Tenshi became Haruhi, Kyon and Yuki (like the above example), while Iwasawa became one of ENOZ and the other side-characters (whose names I don't remember) became Taniguchi and Kunikida. Oh, and Takeyama became the Computer club president or one of his glasses henchmen.

Angel Beats is linked to Clannad.
Do these light orbs in the opening remind you of anything ?
 * Otonashi's story strangely resembles that of Okazaki's.
 * When Otonashi finally moves on, his soul is seen as an orb of light rising into the heavens.

Angel Beats is an anime series that is being broadcasted in Haruhi's TV.
And to the woes of the SOS-dan (Yuki and Kyon in particular), it gives her ideas.

Hatsune Yuzuru was reincarnated into Hatsune Miku.
Their Name's the Same, so why not?

Angel Beats is in fact a parallel universe Haruhi created.
Taking the above theory even farther, Haruhi just straight up created an entire new universe because she wanted to see what it would be like to be a Visual Novel character.

X is ______

 * Yuri is Haruhi Suzumiya Haruhi
 * Yuri is Saya
 * Yuri is Morpheus
 * Angel is Agent Smith
 * Angel is Yuki Nagato
 * Angel is Mai Kawasumi
 * Angel is Rei Ayanami
 * Naoi is Shinji Ikari
 * Which just makes fighting against Angel that more funny.
 * Naoi is Lelouch Lamperouge
 * ... in a past incarnation. The hypno-eye thing, obviously. Since we're given no glimpses into what's happening in reality during the story, who knows how much time had passed? Britannia could have taken control during that time, etc etc, once Naoi leaves, he's reborn as Lelouch.
 * Naoi is Naoto Shirogane. They look very similar, they sound similar, they have somewhat similar personalities, and they both have serious gender issues. Plus, their names sort of sound alike.
 * Otonashi is God
 * Otonashi is a Time Lord
 * Jossed, both of them.
 * Whoa, whoa, wait. You mean to tell me that the show at some point said "Oh, and by the way, Otonashi is not a regenerating alien who travels through time and space in a TARDIS, also known as a Time Lord"?
 * Otonashi is Yuichi Aizawa
 * Hinata is also Yuichi Aizawa
 * Hinata is also Tomoya Okazaki
 * Yui is Makoto Sawatari
 * Yui is Etna
 * Yui is Yui
 * TK is Joel Goodson
 * Noda is Ikkaku Madarame... wait...
 * Shiina is Yomi

...given Otonashi's voice, he is probably...

 * ...Natsume. Will help explain his habit of suddenly turning all sappy in Episode 6.
 * ...Itoshiki Sensei in Ironic Hell where Death Is Cheap after he had successfully made himself taller.
 * ...Tieria stuck in a high school simulation-program created by a beserk Veda
 * ...Orihara Izaya with severe Amnesiac Dissonance after being hit in the head by a vending machine.
 * ...how about Michael, suffering severe brain damage after being sucked into space?
 * Jossed with episode 7, although judging by his hair style in life, he may have been Ararararagi.

Yuri got the idea to blast Hinata, Takamatsu, and Hinata (respectively) from Team Rocket

 * Think about it. Team Rocket's always blasting off. There are Meowth, James, and Jesse. And of course they're blasted into the sky, where as the 2 unlucky SSS members aren't blasted quite as far.

Otonashi is Kaito
The hint? Her significant other's name is

The Shinigami got their powers from Angel Player
Which is why they created an R&D, AKA the 12th division.

Angel is Lucifer, the fallen Angel
Which explains why she's in purgatory, not Heaven.

This world is a modern-day version of the Soul Society.
The SSS Battlefront may be one of a few squads of clubs. Yuri is the captain of the SSS Battlefront. The Student Council President is the King of the Soul Society.

TK ate the English English Fruit

 * Because yeah.

Yui was an alien from Deviluke
Just think. Yui has pink hair. Yui has a tail similar to that of Devilukians like Lala. Yui has a rather airheaded personality like Lala. It all fits.

Angel Beats takes place in the same world as Haibane Renmei
Haibane Renmei and Angel Beats share some important basic premises: nobody can get out where they are by conventional means and people "ascend" to some other place by working through their regrets. Perhaps purgatory is divided into sections, catering to spirits with different backgrounds or reasons they got here. The spirits in Haibane Renmei may have had pasts they had better not remember (like committing suicide). Who knows, if the characters of Haibane Renmei would be allowed to travel outside of Glie, they might eventually find Angel Beats' high school complex--and vice versa.
 * As per Rule Circle 9, they could also eventually stumble across Hakugyokurou. Hmm, someone needs to write that fanfic.

The whole thing is in fact someone going through Instrumentality
And that someone is most likely Asuka, taking the form of Yuri. Her antagonist is obviously Rei (who's part angel), metamorphosed into Tenshi. Shinji is split into 3 forms - Hinata is Butt Monkey Shinji, Otonashi is Ideal Shinji and Naoi gets all the angst as well as the the voice. And the boy representing Angel Player program marking the end of everything is obviously Kaworu

TK is Tite Kubo

 * What he says doesn't make any sense and he doesn't play by rules, and most imporantly, HE LOVES HIS LIFE!
 * Wait, if he loves his life, why is he stuck in Purgatory?
 * Do you really expect him to make sense?

T.K. is short for "That Kook"

 * Not knowing anything about him, the classmates gave him a Gratuitous English moniker based on his fluency with the language, then eventually shortened it so it sounds more like an actual name.
 * Never mind, Jossed - turns out
 * TK also happens to be Angel's initials if her name is read Japanese style.
 * Actually TK is Tetsuya Komuro the "Japanese Michael Jackson" His nickname is also TK and most of the songs that TK references comes from TM Network which Tetsuya is the lead singer of.

Once you "move on", you just die.
As suggested in Episode 3, there is no god. There is only one angel left, who has to do everything on her own. The system is breaking down for lack of maintenance, and although moving on was supposed to involve reincarnation, at the moment it just means final death.
 * Jossed:

They are all in a special hell for those who commit suicide.
All of them really did commit suicide, they just don't remember it.
 * Jossed, barring the possibility that they've received Laser-Guided Amnesia AND very complex memory implants.

Otonashi is Yuri's little brother.
He descends from a higher plane of existence to end her feeling of guilt and end her time in purgatory.
 * Jossed.

Yui is some sort of demon

 * That tail is far too mobile to just be a fasion statment, not to mention her ever present Cute Little Fangs. Possibly a Nekomata, based on the whole 'Yui-Nyan' nickname.
 * Taking it further, Yui is not just "some sort of demon", she is The Demon/Akuma, opposite to Tenshi. Her very existence is an extreme opposite to Tenshi, where she is stoic and plain, Yui is noticeably stylized, and intentionally plays up the Kawaiiko, Moe Moe stereotype. Where Tenshi's job is to help people pass on, Yui/Akuma intends to keep everyone in the Afterlife.
 * Also, considering that Yui, I'd say there's good reason to believe this.
 * Jossed as of episode 10.

Everyone was hit in the head at some point.
Proof: Iwasawa. Proof: Hinata. (See above) Proof: Yuri. The part were you see Tenshi stabbing Yuri reflected in her eyes yelled at me, "Foreshadowing." The reason why Otonoshi lost his memories in the first place. Also probably the reason why they all call each other idiots.
 * That was Jossed

Naoi was completely right.
Jossed,

The true identity of the malevolent shadow in episode 11's preview is

 * All of these are Jossed in episode 11.
 * All of these are Jossed in episode 11.
 * All of these are Jossed in episode 11.
 * All of these are Jossed in episode 11.

The perp behind the Shadow NPCs is
Let's look at him in more detail, shall we?
 * Jossed in Episode 12.


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 * Unjossed;