Angel Beats!/YMMV


 * Broken Base: Is Yuri cruel or kind?
 * Complete Monster: The lead robber in Yuri's flashback who threatened to kill to kill her siblings if she doesn't find anything valuable for the robbers to take in 10 minutes.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: All team members that  in episode 8 got this but TK and Matsushida are the most notable ones. Hinata even lampshades this, by comparing it to a scene from shonen manga.
 * Angel gets lots. Overlaps Mundane Made Awesome
 * Episode 7, Angel goes fishing.
 * As of Episode 11,
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: All team members that  in episode 8 got this but TK and Matsushida are the most notable ones. Hinata even lampshades this, by comparing it to a scene from shonen manga.
 * Angel gets lots. Overlaps Mundane Made Awesome
 * Episode 7, Angel goes fishing.
 * As of Episode 11,

"Yuri:"
 * Dying Moment of Awesome: Not necessarily dying, but disappearing to the life beyond,
 * When died in the real world, he gave a particularly awesome showing of keeping a half dozen people alive despite serous injuries and few resources to work with. He tops it by.
 * Episode 11 has EVERYONE (except Oyama, Fujimaki and Takamatsu) being a badass in
 * And in episode 12,.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Many enough for a page.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Somewhat more depressing than usual,.
 * In episode 12,.
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"Otonashi:"
 * Also in episode 12, the end credits It's a nice touch.
 * Otonashi hugging at the end of episode 6.

"Anonymous: I see what's going on. You are really TK, who is God, but Yurippe beats you and takes you memories, and then she becomes God, but she knew Otonashi in her past life, who was her childhood friend, but she fell in love with him, and when as God she realized he was going to die, so she made his sister who is really Angel who is waiting for Otonashi into the enemy and with her God powers made this world so that when Otonashi got there he would think Angel was the enemy and now she made a new Angel after Otonashi befriended the old one who is really his sister and she wants to tear them apart."
 * It was heartwarming when Otonashi recalls his death and wonders what became of his donated organs and Kanade reassures him that the person receiving them would thank him for the rest of their lives. But it becomes a true crowning moment in hindsight when you realise Kanade wasn't just guessing.
 * Episode 13 overall.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The opening, My Soul, Your Beats!
 * Perhaps even more so, the rock arrangement featured in Episode 4.
 * Which makes Yui-nyan ACCIDENTALLY hanging herself by kicking the microphone into the roof straight afterwards all the more gutbustingly funny.
 * the remix version definitely better
 * Ichiban no Takaramono is both this and an epic Tear Jerker. Both the Yui-version or the original.
 * You will not forget Theme of SSS and Kanade. that just example what the OST offer. Everything in there is awesome.
 * Many will not forget the ridiculously earwormic bassy jig that plays after the credits, as they reveal the next episode. Otherwise known as Let's Operation!.
 * Itsumo Hitori~
 * For being named after a guy who's name means 'No Sound', Otonashi is quite the earful.
 * Deus Ex Machina:
 * Downer Ending: It seemed like a bittersweet ending at first with
 * It certainly felt more so if you see the epilogue  But,again, an alternative ending has been confirmed.
 * And even if you interpret the ending straightly, there's still the fact that it feels like an Ass Pull just because the creators thought the real ending was too sad; or worse, the result of more Executive Meddling.
 * Dude, Not Funny: Yes, pulling all of those stunts to make Angel fail her tests was hilarious. However, it suddenly stops being so amusing when you realize that: a) and b)  .   Seriously, she's so sad, it makes you want to give her a hug.
 * For this troper, it was the moment that Angel moved from 'that kind of cute girl they keep fighting who probably isn't as bad as they think' to 'oh my word this is probably going to be my favorite character in this show' (a prediction borne out following future episodes). It was also something of a Growing the Beard moment for the show in general; before that, it had been a very good show, but at that moment it became excellent.
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: Seems to be the entire point of the Afterlife.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: TK is remarkably popular among viewers.
 * On this very wiki, Naoi's section is huge compared to other character's
 * Epileptic Trees: There've been a few here and there, but it wasn't until the appearance of that they started spreading like wildfire.
 * On this very wiki, Naoi's section is huge compared to other character's
 * Epileptic Trees: There've been a few here and there, but it wasn't until the appearance of that they started spreading like wildfire.


 * Family-Unfriendly Aesop: The Aesop seemed to be: "Any desires you may have or actions you may take are completely useless and you shouldn't have them. Strive instead for nonexistence. All you should want is to be erased, you and your meaningless journey though life."
 * Fan Nickname: The SSS Battlefront's initials are referred to as the "Soul Society of Suzumiya Haruhi".
 * There's also, based on their eye colors, to differentiate between the two.
 * The SSS Brigade!
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: Yui prevents Hinata from winning his team's baseball game in episode 4. Six episodes later,
 * Genre Savvy: EVERYONE. To the extent that can be called dangerous. Some battles are won or lost depending on who is more genre savvy. This even affects the plot: the movie is an action anime, until everyone realizes that they star in a drama.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: Overlaps with Dude, Not Funny in regards to Hinata and Yui. Originally their abuse of each other is fairly equal albeit Hinata is prone to attacking Yui more than the other way around and for no apparent reason either. Yui only attacks him out of revenge and even then it doesn't last since he's quick to deal out Disproportionate Retribution on her. It's gets to the Harsher in Hindsight point when we find out that the reason why Yui acts hyper and sort of annoying all the time is because  while Hinata's regret
 * Hype Backlash: There are a good deal of /a/ browsers extremely displeased that the abundance of Angel Beats threads that make discussing any other anime rather difficult.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: Otonashi saying that God cannot just give people fake happy endings as their lives were real is more funny when you realize that this was made by the same guys who pull happy endings out of their asses whenever a main character's world comes crashing down.
 * Or if you really want to go literal, fake happy endings as in the kind where it looks bad, but if you look hard enough, (or believe in a theory) it's more sweet than it sounds.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Yuri "Yurippe" Nakamura, the tough and ruthless yet efficient and insanely charismatic leader of the Afterlife Battlefront, seriously goes for this at times, particularly in the special episode Stairway to Heaven, where her diabolical scheme to unnerve Angel to the point of her revealing a big secret is actually successful...just not in the way Yurippe had wanted. And even after this miscalculation, Yuri comes out looking like a winner by ordering all of her subordinates in the SSS Class to starve themselves to a temporary death, with even the end credits having every character vanishing quickly except for Yuri, who remains the last one standing there for the remainder of the credits.
 * Memetic Badass: TK. To enumerate: stops a frigging ceiling falling down, makes the most awesome Heroic Sacrifice speech, goes guns ablazing against shadows with a friggin Dodge This line:
 * Memetic Mutation: Anything that comes out of TK's mouth.
 * Angel is the cutest Protoss Zealot you'll ever lay eyes on.
 * And with the revelation of her Harmonics skill, there's a possibility that she can become Agent Smith. Zealot Smith, even.
 * Clothespins are quickly becoming objects that are praised to be fragments of God.
 * Itsumo hitori-- is well on its way to be one.
 * That face Yuri makes when
 * Yuri's Evil Laugh in "Stairway To Heaven."
 * CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
 * Mood Whiplash: Often during a single scene. This show is notable for being one of the shows for which one can easily find themselves both laughing so hard they cry, and then genuinely crying, in short succession.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Averted in the manga.
 * Also averted in Stairway to Heaven due to a Foregone Conclusion from watching the entire anime. Yuri makes everyone starve over a simple miscalculation she had made; however, the anime had already established her as redeemable by the time Stairway to Heaven rolled along, and she even lampshades that it's not like everyone who starves "to death" are actually going to really die (since everyone's already dead anyway), though the credits has everyone fade away as a joke.
 * Never Trust a Trailer: The next episode previews just consist of a white screen with random lines from the next episode flying by. The lines are quite out of context so deducting any clues about the plot of the next episode from this is next to impossible.
 * On top of that, every Monday the online preview adds short, half-second clips from the next episode. This can answer some questions, but often raises many more.
 * Seems like that Maeda was channeling Abrams in some cases.
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Episode 6
 * Reverse Funny Aneurysm: Some of Otonashi's wild imagination regarding SSS operations became this,.
 * Both of which turn out to actually happen, albeit slightly differently from what he imagined.
 * Rousseau Was Right: After episode 9, were it not for the Poor Communication Kills, the war should never have happened in the first place. See entry above.
 * Ship Tease: Hinata, due to being Mistaken for Gay with Otonashi.
 * In the manga, there's quite noticeable teasing with Hinata and Yuri. Considering that the events of the manga came before the anime though, things didn't seem to go anyway.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: This show loves to abuse its ending song.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Since the anime is only 13 episodes long, there isn't a lot of time to focus on any of the interesting side characters, so they come and go without us knowing anything about their pasts, nor do they get a decent sendoff onscreen.
 * What an Idiot!: Even after all the time they've been fighting Angel, nobody in SSS has ever bothered trying to figure out Angel's real name.
 * Well, Yuri had apparently heard it before. She just didn't bother trying to remember it.
 * Also, in episode 8, Yuri attempts to reprogram Angel's Harmonics technique, but has trouble because she doesn't quite understand the programming language. Remember that SSS has Christ Takeyama, who is a master hacker and computer expert, and he doesn't even show up in the episode at all! Although Takeyama became A Twinkle in the Sky in the last episode, he was seen again during the fish barbeque, so his absence from episode 8 is even more jarring.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: See Dude, Not Funny. At the time, only Otonashi seems to even consider that they may have crossed the line from La Résistance to Jerkass here.
 * The Woobie:
 * Most of the cast also qualify but varies from character to character. Yuri, Masami, Naoi and Yui have significantly worse pasts  than say Hinata   Other characters don't even have that much development.
 * You Can't Go Home Again: Because you're dead!
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: This show loves to abuse its ending song.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Since the anime is only 13 episodes long, there isn't a lot of time to focus on any of the interesting side characters, so they come and go without us knowing anything about their pasts, nor do they get a decent sendoff onscreen.
 * What an Idiot!: Even after all the time they've been fighting Angel, nobody in SSS has ever bothered trying to figure out Angel's real name.
 * Well, Yuri had apparently heard it before. She just didn't bother trying to remember it.
 * Also, in episode 8, Yuri attempts to reprogram Angel's Harmonics technique, but has trouble because she doesn't quite understand the programming language. Remember that SSS has Christ Takeyama, who is a master hacker and computer expert, and he doesn't even show up in the episode at all! Although Takeyama became A Twinkle in the Sky in the last episode, he was seen again during the fish barbeque, so his absence from episode 8 is even more jarring.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: See Dude, Not Funny. At the time, only Otonashi seems to even consider that they may have crossed the line from La Résistance to Jerkass here.
 * The Woobie:
 * Most of the cast also qualify but varies from character to character. Yuri, Masami, Naoi and Yui have significantly worse pasts  than say Hinata   Other characters don't even have that much development.
 * You Can't Go Home Again: Because you're dead!