Angel Beats!/Characters
Loads and Loads of Characters here.
Consistent character characteristics
"That's right. Our main weakness is that we're stupid."
—Yuri
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- Anti-Hero: Type I
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Everyone eventually.
- The Ditz/Idiot Hero: All of them really. They're all idiots. Yuri even calls herself one even though she's the smartest of them all.
- Brainless Beauty: The most.
- Character Development
- Mr. Fanservice: Most SSS male members.
- Fire-Forged Friends: As a result of rebelling against a god.
- Hair Colors: Lots of them. Range from several colors.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: More blue haired characters than any others really.
- Not quite. They're tied with Blondes 3 to 3.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: More blue haired characters than any others really.
- Immortality/Death Is Cheap
- Ordinary High School Students: Who cannot die.
- Rage Against the Heavens: For giving them all such a short and unfair life.
Main Characters
Yuzuru Otonashi
"When it all ends, what will happen to us?" |
- Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (JP), Blake Shepard (EN)
The Protagonist. He wakes up in the afterlife, not knowing where he is, or who he is really. He lost all of his memories.
He only remembers his last name.
When he regains his memories, he learns that his first name is Yuzuru. He had a little sister who was ill. He lived and saved money only to see her. When she dies, he realizes that she had more life than he did despite the fact that she was confined to her bed. He then starts studying medical terms, cuts his hair, and moves out. He was on a train when it crashed. However he did not die instantly. Both ways in the tunnel were blocked by rocks. He helped the survivors live for seven days despite suffering from an internal wound himself. His last act was to fill out an organ donor card, and died just as rescue arrived.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: To Kanade.
- Bishonen
- The Caretaker: To his sister, the survivors of the train wreck, and to help his friends pass on in life.
- His final living actions in episode 9 can be seen as this in the way that they inspired everyone around him, although they're more unambiguously a Tear Jerker moment (see below).
- Dead Little Sister: Otonashi's sister, Hatsune
- Deadpan Snarker
- Decoy Protagonist: Hinata is the protagonist of the Manga, which pretty much depicts the beginnings of the SSS.
- The Everyman: Subverted. Otonashi may initially be presented as an average guy onto whom we're meant to project, but he ultimately proves to be far more virtuous than your average person.
- Fan Nickname: Brotonashi. Because, just look at the list of what he does when alive and dead!
- Otonashi is such a bro, he's basically the Brototype.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Debatable. Helping other passengers in the tunnel probably didn't do much for his own condition. Seeing as he died right before everyone was rescued, it's reasonable to conclude that he would have been strong enough to survive until getting help had he only looked after himself.
- Hypocrite: After successfully sending away his friends to the other side, Otonashi choose to remains in the afterlife with Angel, thankfully it didn't work, though it's left ambiguous whether he left right away or if he was there for years.
- Important Haircut: when he was still alive.
- Incurable Cough of Death: in episode 9.
- Wasn't it internal bleeding?
- Ironic Hell: For someone who sacrificed everything for the happiness of his friends he himself is denied of his own happiness and is left all alone; however, it all depends on how you interpret the ending.
- The Medic: Subverted. Otonashi never shows his skills in purgatory. Not that he needs to.
- The Messiah: If episode 9 doesn't make you think of Otonashi as this, you're probably watching the wrong show.
- Hell, he should be marked for this by episode 6. Ayato is taking over the school, has beat the hell out of the entire SSS, and is threatening to force them to disappear via hypnosis and brainwashing. The most obvious solution, in Otonashi's opinion? Tackle the guy, yell at him, and hug him. It works, too.
- The Mole: Otonashi is determined to fix all of the SSS members' regrets, so he has Angel become the villain again so he can stay close to the group and find out their pasts.
- Starting at the end of episode 9; this just reinforces his neutrality.
- Apparently, Yurippe already knows about his plan, as shown in Episode 11.
- From a different perspective, that also makes him a Reverse Mole.
- Only Sane Man: He has touches of this amongst all the various quirks of the SSS, and defintely qualifies in the OVA.
- Redheaded Hero
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Hinata's Blue.
- Right Man in the Wrong Place: Otonashi lived a fulfilling life and died content. The setting is specifically designed to help people experience the youth and happiness they never had in life. When he regains his memories, he helps everyone move on to the next plane.
- Secret Stab Wound: The train crash left him with internal bleeding, though he hides the injury from the other survivors to avoid demoralizing them.
- Shirtless Scene: In the first episode.
- Super Window Jump: Courtesy of the SSS.
- Tear Jerker: Otonashi's final actions were not panicking or feeling sorry for himself, he signs his organs to be donated for medical use.
- Foreshadowing: Since his body was probably the only one in good condition when the digging crews finally came for rescue right after his death, it was used for just that purpose. His heart was donated to a still-living Kanade.
- They Killed Kenny: Three times within the first six minutes--of the first episode, yet!
- Averted after episode 1, not counting his death in the real world that is.
- Trauma Conga Line: First his little sister dies from a terminal illness. Then he gets in a train accident. While trying to find an exit, he finds out that both sides of the tunnel are blocked, and the remaining survivors have very little supplies. Then he finds out he's got some serious internal injuries when blood soaks through his shirt. Finally, he dies just moments before a rescue crew is able to breach the rubble.
Yuri Nakamura
"Operation, Start!" |
- Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (JP), Brittney Karbowski (EN)
Leader of the SSS. She hates God and is willing to lead a rebellion against him. She fought and nicknamed her Angel because people were disappearing because of her, and she presumes that she is an angel from God.
When she was little, robbers broke into her house, and told her that if she brings something worth value, her 3 little siblings held at gunpoint would be spared. Every 10 minutes that pass they kill a kid. Yuri could not find anything worth value, and the police came 30 minutes later. By that point she'd been pushed over the Despair Event Horizon and wouldn't recover until late in the series.
- Action Girl: Borders on Dark Action Girl given her questionable grasp on morality.
- Affably Evil: When she's at her worst... See here. Check this one too.. Ultimately limited by the fact that she never does permanent harm to anyone - she's just a very mean boss.
- Taken Up to Eleven in the Special episode where she makes everybody starve to death for her mistake.
- Both those instances put her dangerously close to the Moral Event Horizon; however, she never crosses it, which shouldn't be surprising since she's redeemed at the end of episode 12.
- Depends on your perspective - the NPCs that she threatens to kill are just that, mindless programs (very evident from their behaviour) - and whilst starving everyone to 'death' is incredibly cruel punishment, they cannot *actually* die. The morality scale in Angel Beats! is a rather hard one to judge.
- A God Am I: Yuri actually thinks about becoming God. Then she realizes that she came there to save everyone.
- Anti-Hero: Type III. Until episode 11, this often blended with Villain Protagonist. Following the cementation of her Heel Face Turn at the end of episode 12, she becomes Type II for the rest of the series.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: She is capable of fighting one on one with Angel.
- Badass Adorable: See above
- Broken Bird: Due to the tragedies she suffered in real life, this caused her to start the SSS.
- Byronic Hero: Though mitigated by the light-hearted nature of the story.
- Cool Big Sis: To the SSS.
- And now to Kanade
- Dangerously-Short Skirt: Dangerous indeed. Short... even more indeed.
- Decoy Protagonist: in the first couple of episodes, it seems as though she is the main heroine of the story. That role actually belongs to Kanade. Subverted towards the end where it becomes clear that Yuri is arguably the true protagonist of the story, it's just that she's been a Villain Protagonist for most of it while Kanade/Angel has actually been The Hero.
- Despair Event Horizon: The murder of her siblings at the hands of thugs.
- Diabolical Mastermind: Has the tendency to act as though she is one at times.
- Disney Death: In episode 12
- To elaborate: while Disney Deaths are the norm in Purgatory, episode 12 deserves a special mention because Yuri managed to escape with her soul despite being assimilated by the shadows seconds earlier.
- Easily Forgiven: Especially in the Manga.
- Hair Decorations
- Evil Laugh: In episode 4, when she thinks Otonashi's team is about to win against Angel's team.
- Another in Episode 12, but for something real serious--when she's considering becoming the new God.
- Lampshaded by Yusa in the first OVA. Even better, in the OVA she is obviously imitating Lelouch.
- Expy: Yuri is often referred to as Haruhi with a different hair color and outfit. Although her headband is supposedly inspired by Yukiko Amagi
- Heel Face Turn: It's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when she pulled this, but it's quite obvious she made the turn by the time she officially "redeemed" herself at the end of episode 12.
- Fiery... Purplehead?
- Hey, It's That Voice! : To those who played Little Busters! You probably guess this, sort of.
- If you need a hint, listen to her Evil Laugh in the Baseball Episode. It should sound very familiar...
- Knife Nut
- Moe: she has her moments.
- Nay Theist: Naturally due to her intense hatred of God.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: She is called "Yurippe" by some of her comrades.
- Hinata is the first one to call her because his mom has the same name as hers
- Rebel Leader
- Redemption Equals Disappearance: She disappears just one episode after she redeems herself by eliminating the source of the Shadows.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Angel's Blue.
- Shut UP, Hannibal: "Humans don't have the patience to wait even ten minutes for something!" Cue destruction of computers and the halt to the shadow attack, as well as her redemption.
- Team Mom: In episode 11, when she orders her entire militia to put some serious thought into passing on lest they get assimilated by the Shadows. If that didn't seal her Heel Face Turn, her actions at the end of episode 12 certainly did.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Yuri's rivalry with Angel can be interpreted as this.
- The Rival: Of Angel.
- Tsundere: Very heavy on the Tsun.
- Villain Protagonist: At least at first. Especially evident in the OVA. In the main series, though, this tends to blend with either Type V or Type III Anti-Hero, and she goes to pure Anti-Hero around episode 11, when she decides to have everyone in the SSS pass on before they can get assimilated by the Shadows, eventually going on to Adopt the Dog at the last second by blasting every computer into oblivion that was responsible for the Shadows and cementing her Heel Face Turn in the process.
- If anything, this is largely Played for Laughs. Much as she may try, how much of a true villain can she really be when she and her SSS honestly assume that Angel is evil and disappearing from the afterlife is bad, and when she personally assumes God to be cruel and unfair? So far in all the material available set prior to the anime, they are not given reason to assume otherwise. The right and wrong in this story is very much down to personal judgement (ie. in the Bhuddist faith of the author, reincarnation is obviously a good thing, but to other audiences, the fear of being re-born as a plankton seems like a perfectly reasonable one).
- You Gotta Have Purple Hair
- Zettai Ryouiki
Angel/Tenshi/Kanade Tachibana
"I am not an Angel." |
- Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (JP), Emily Neves (EN)
She is what the SSS are fighting against. The Student Council president. She was assumed to be in purgatory to make people disappear, but she just helps people go to heaven and move on. It is assumed she doesn't have any friends because all of her friends have disappeared, and the remaining people do not wish to disappear.
She is now good friends with Otonashi.
- Angel Needs An Organ: Kanade's reason for remaining in purgatory was to thank the individual who had donated the heart she had received.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: She has numerous powers, and she's the Student Council President.
- Badass Adorable
- Behind the Black: More like behind his back because he's twice your size.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Pretty much.
- Dangerously-Short Skirt: Very dangerous.
- Decoy Antagonist: Who is also the main heroine.
- The Ditz: Yuri lampshades on this. She says that Angel is better at fighting than pondering over a plan.
- Doppelganger Attack: One of Angel's abilities. All copies have the same abilities as the original, including the aforementioned Doppelganger Attack.
- Dungeon Bypass: Laws of physics need not apply.
- Emotionless Girl: Though, she's more of the "emotionally repressed" type than outright emotionless.
- She is so emotionless that SSS considers her even less alive than NPCs.
- Everyone Calls Her Angel/Tenshi
- Subverted. She's not really an angel, and Otonashi at least makes a point of calling her by her real name from the moment he finds it out. Well, one of them, anyway.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Because Overdrive works passively, Angel manages to fling Takeyama by his nose just by casting her fishing rod during Operation Monster Stream.
- In the same episode, Angel manages to lift both the entire SSS (sans Yuri, plus Fish Saitou) and a giant monster fish by jumping.
- Eyes of Gold
- First-Name Basis: Otonashi and her have formed this special bond.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon
- Heel Face Pirouette
- Her latest Heel Face Turn, as of episode 13, is permanent.
- Hero Antagonist
- Ill Girl: While she was alive.
- Implacable Girl: A shot to the legs will slow her down, at least until she activates Guard Skill - Distortion.
- Literal Change of Heart: She was the lucky recipient of the heart Otonashi donated upon his death.
- Magic From Technology: She conjures hand blades, slingshots and wings using a single computer program.
- Meaningful Name: Angel's real name is Kanade Tachibana, and Kanade means "playing music".
- Memetic Mutation: The cutest Protoss Zealot in existence.
- Moe: Very much so, and turned Up to Eleven in in the finale where she smiles, sings a song about mapo doufu, and does this.
- Not Good with People
- The Messiah: Unfortunately her poor ability to get her message across is basically a casus belli for Yuri and the SSS.
- One Girl Army
- Precision F-Strike: It happens...
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Angel clones.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Yuri's Red.
- Rei Ayanami Expy
- Relationship Voice Actor: Tenshi, Otonashi, and Iwasawa are pretty much Nadeko, Araragi, and Suruga, and Anri, Izaya, and Celty.
- Spell My Name with an "S": Everyone either calls her Angel or Tenshi. The dub calls her Angel.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Angel's rivalry with Yuri can be interpreted as this.
- The Rival: Of Yuri.
- The Stoic: For most of the time.
- Sugar and Ice Personality: She could be a perfect example of an Emotionless Girl in the first few episodes but after Otonashi learns her name he begins noticing that she does subtly display humanity and feeling.
- This is partially due to the fact that she realizes that people who get close to her will move on. In the last episode, because almost everyone has moved on she drops the Ice Queen act entirely.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Mapo Doufu
- Also in the last Episode she made a song about it.
- Waif Fu
- White-Haired Pretty Girl
- Winged Humanoid
- Wings Do Nothing: Subverted. Angel's wings seem to be mere decoration at first, but they actually function for gliding short distances.
- The Woobie
Hideki Hinata
- Voiced by: Ryohei Kimura (JP), David Matranga (EN)
The Protagonist of the Manga adaptation of the SSS, who quickly becomes friends with Otonashi. In his past life, he was a baseball player who let his team down at a major tournament and has yet to really forgive himself, and was given drugs to make himself feel better. He died in a truck accident.
- Berserk Button: Minor one: he hates Kawaiiko, as Yui learned the hard way:
Hinata: *Death Glare* Huh? What did you just say? |
- Bishonen
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Yui in the anime. With Yuri in the manga.
- Bromantic Foil
- Butt Monkey: The most notable of the SSS.
- Even better the 3rd time around.
- Chekhov's Gunman: In a way. He turns out to be the key to Yui moving on in the end. No wonder she deliberately derailed his team's baseball game against Angel six episodes earlier!
- Genre Savvy: During episode 8 he calls out TK's Heroic Sacrifice as a scene from a shonen manga.
- The Lancer: To pretty much anyone that needs one.
- And as one of the original creators of the SSS along with Yuri.
- Mistaken for Gay: A running gag between Otonashi and Hinata.
- Number Two
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Otonashi's Red.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Extreme case whilst the rocket propulsion chairs are happening.
- True Companions: In the Manga, Yuri and Hinata team up and form the SSS.
- Would Hit a Girl: Though to be fair, Yui is also
hitting backthrowing and bending him with wrestling moves and it's always slapstick and Played for Laughs. - Wrestler in All of Us: See Berserk Button.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Girls Dead Monster
Masami Iwasawa
"Just as I was saved, I'll save someone else." |
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (JP), Luci Christian (EN) |
The original vocalist and also the leader of Girls Dead Monster.
When she was alive, she had a troubled home life, with her parents fighting constantly. As a teenager, she discovered music as an escape and inspiration. Later, she found an abandoned guitar and taught herelf to play, busking on street corners and dreaming of gaining independence from her parents by supporting herself with her music. However, during one of her parent's arguments, her father accidentally hit Iwasawa in the head with a bottle, causing a cerebral contusion which eventually led to a stroke. She woke up in the hospital, unable to speak due to aphasia caused by the stroke, and died in the hospital some time later. In episode 3, she disappears after deciding to inspire others with her music in her next life (see the quote above).
- Berserk Button: Do not touch her beloved guitar.
- Dying For Your Art: Literally in the manga where she collapses from hunger, not realizing she still has to eat.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Not necessarily dying, but her last concert.
- Informed Ability: In life, according to her teachers, she could go anywhere with her grades, however, she doesn't want to depend on her parents any more.
- Les Yay: With Hisako in the manga.
- Rose-Haired Girl
- Sacrificial Lamb: She's the first character to disappear during the series.
Yui
"Even death can't cure idiocy." |
- Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (JP), Hilary Haag (EN)
The new vocalist of Girls Dead Monster.
As a kid, she was hit by a car. She was then bedridden, due to her being paralyzed. Her mother took care of her every day. She watched TV and admired lots of things on it. She wanted to do a German Suplex, hit a homerun, and dribble by 5 people and score in soccer. And Marriage. Hinata ends up "marrying" her. She passes on in Episode 10.
- A Disappearance In The Limelight: Episode 10 is focused entirely on her, and ends with her disappearing.
- Ascended Fangirl
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Hinata
- Catch Phrase: "What an idiot."
- Chained by Fashion
- Curtains Match the Window
- Cute Bruiser: German Suplex anyone?
- Cute Little Fangs
- Dangerously-Short Skirt: Her temper is enough to keep anyone from trying to sneak a peak.
- Expressive Hair: Yui has a difficult time hiding her excitement that she would join Hinata's baseball team because no one else accepted to it.
- Fan Girl: Yui towards SSS's diversion unit/band, Girls Dead Monster.
- Yui herself has some fangirls.
- Genki Girl: Justified by the fact that she did not have the ability to move her own body when alive.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Idiot Hair: Yui sports one, appropriately.
- Ill Girl: She was a quadriplegic in life.
- Moe: Too darned cute in spite of her foul mouth and quick temper. Oh come on, just look at her!
- My Friends and Zoidberg: During the Heroic Sacrifices, she didn't even sacrifice herself to an Angel Clone. She gets swiped at the very end by a giant construction beam.
- Rose-Haired Girl
- Sempai-Kohai: Subverted with a backhand smack.
"It would seem that the contents of your brain have melted and is dripping out your nose." |
- Shoo Out the Clowns
- Slapstick Knows No Gender
- Tastes Like Diabetes: Just look at the image, you would just DIE after seeing it.
- Yui-nyan!
- Tomboy: Cuddly and cute as a button though she may be, Yui has an extremely foul mouth by Japanese standards and is prone to using very masculine slang when addressing her seniors.
- Too Dumb to Live: Lynched herself with her own microphone.
- The Woobie: Her reaction to Hinata's "death" in episode 8.
- Wrestler in All of Us: How she and Hinata normally resolve their differences.
Hisako
- Voiced by: Chie Matsuura (JP), Elizabeth Bunch (EN)
The lead guitarist of Girls Dead Monster. When she was alive, the main vocalist of her band committed suicide. She blamed herself on her death and gave up music ever since.
- Informed Ability: According to Hinata, she's very athletic. Zig zagged, as while we never got to see her play in the baseball episode (she was on Takamatsu's team, apparently), in episode 6, she leapt out of the window very quickly when Naoi showed up.
- Les Yay: With Iwasawa in the manga.
- Mahjong: She's really good at it -- unless you believe Sekine's account in the GiDeMo short story, in which case she's an incredibly audacious cheater. (In Sekine's account, Hisako palms three tiles and then claims victory with only three melds instead of four.)
Shiori Sekine
- Voiced by: Emiri Katou (JP), Serena Varghese (EN)
The bassist of Girls Dead Monster.
- Genki Girl: A lot of fan art portrays her as one.
- Those Two Girls: With Irie, possibly.
- Name's the Same: Shiori Sekine is the Base Ball Bear's bassist/back-vocalist.
- Screwy Squirrel: She enjoys playing tricks on others to see their reaction.
- Unreliable Narrator: The GiDeMo short stories that accompanied the light novel are supposed to be her journal entries. Each one ends with her band-mates discovering the journal and objecting to how they're being portrayed -- among other things, Iwasawa is depicted as a crazy perfectionist with an Irish accent, Hisako is shown cheating at Mahjong, and Irie plays tricks on the NPCs.
- Zettai Ryouiki
Miyuki Irie
- Voiced by: Kana Asumi (JP), Luci Christian (EN)
The drummer of Girls Dead Monster.
- Ironic Fear: Despite being dead she is very afraid of ghost stories.
- Those Two Girls: With Sekine, possibly.
- You Gotta Have Purple Hair
Other SSS Members
Shiina
"How shallow-minded/thoughtless." |
- Voiced by: Fuko Saito (JP), Melissa Davis (EN)
Ninja of the SSS. Also very strange.
- Action Girl
- Badass
- Badass Boast: She compares her presence in battle to 100 men.
- Badass Arm-Fold
- Bunny Ears Lawyer
- Catch Phrase: "How shallow-minded."
- Cuteness Proximity: Just look at the image!
- Taken Up to Eleven in Episode 11 after Yuri gives out that speech about everyone choosing their own path. She stares at a bunch of them and winds up another toy. Could be a hint at her own past.
- Taken even further in the special episode when she just raised the tension meter to 9999 just for saying CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!
- Dangerously-Short Skirt: School girl uniform. Action Girl. Bonuses include a sword and Zettai Ryouiki.
- Disney Death: In episode 2.
- Hot Chick with a Sword
- Moe
- Ninja
- One-Man Army: "Consider your forces a hundred men stronger."
- Scarf of Asskicking
- Strange Girl
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
- You Gotta Have Dark Blue Hair
TK
"Get chance and luck." |
- Voiced by: Michael Rivas (JP), Adam Van Wagoner (EN)
A mysterious person in the SSS. No one knows about him at all, or his past.
- The Ace: Seems to be good at everything the plot calls him to do. Except english.
- To elaborate, his english pronunciation is perfect. . .but his vocabulary is limited to Engrish non-sequiturs.
- Chained by Fashion
- Crazy Awesome
- Dance Battler: Not necessarily battling using his dancing skills. He just dances well and can fight.
- Episode 12, he takes out Shadows using his dancing techniques.
- Dead Star Walking: Some sources say TK was intended to be a rapper and possibly black. It gives this troper a strange thought: TwopacK. If this was the joke the author intended to make, then this dead star had been walking around outside heaven for more than a decade!
- Ensemble Darkhorse: In a recent popularity poll Angel and TK dominated...of course, that they had such a huge amount and proportion of the votes reeks of internet vote rigging, however...
- Everything's Better with Spinning: Episode 8.
- Episode 12, combined with Dance Battler.
- He also looks exactly like a character in the Korean Manhwa Hip-hop, with long blonde hair and headband covering his eyes
- Gratuitous English: Includes:
- Catch Phrase: "Get chance and luck!"
- Memetic Mutation / Shout-Out: Anything that comes out of his mouth. Some of these are real hidden, so you gotta listen up.
- Precision F-Strike: (in episode 2: "Fuckin' crazy!")
- Grind Boots: Well... head.
- The Gunslinger: Tied with his Dance Battler status, TK enjoys toying with Shadows as much as he does his guns.
- Hidden Eyes
- Memetic Badass: Remember that he stronger than all of the cast combined!
- Mysterious Past: SSS members admit that they know absolutely nothing about TK's past, or if "TK" is even his real name.
- Radio Mouth
- Surprisingly Good
EnglishJapanese: TK's voiced by a North American Voice Actor.- If anyone wonders... go take a look at his official site.
Matsushita
"I feel like I could do the 100 man kumuite!" |
- Voiced by: Eiichiro Tokumoto (JP), Rob Mungle (EN)
Judo expert. Everyone calls him Matsushita 5th Dan out of respect.
- BFG: He unleashes a rocket on Angel in the first episode.
- The Big Guy
- Episode 12, he lost weight. The SSS members didn't even recognize him. However he feels stronger.
- Eyes Always Shut: Except during the Heroic Sacrifice.
- I Know Karate: The only SSS member who knows Judo.
- Offhand Backhand
- Put on a Bus: Matsushita 5-Dan apparently goes off to the mountains in Episode 10, and doesn't return before episode 12.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Meat udon.
Noda
- Voiced by: Shun Takagi (JP), Leraldo Anzaldua (EN)
The supposed rival of Otonashi, Noda wields a massive halberd compared to the guns favoured by the rest of the SSS. However, this is mostly played for laughs rather than taken seriously, as Otonashi doesn't take their 'rivalry' even remotely seriously.
- Ax Crazy
- Axe On A Stick: His weapon of choice.
- Bishounen
- Boisterous Bruiser
- Black Dude Dies First: Not black but a recurring theme nonetheless in the trips to Guild.
- Dumb Muscle
- Hikikomori: He was apparently one when he was alive, according to the second drama CD.
- Large Ham
- Shirtless Scene: Episode 4.
- Super Window Jump: In the same way as Otonashi.
- Unknown Rival: To Otonashi.
- Yandere: Implied to be a mild one for Yuri, but Death Is Cheap and its played entirely for laughs.
- You Gotta Have Indigo Hair
Ayato Naoi
"You are toilet paper." |
- Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (JP), Greg Ayres (EN)
Was Student Council Vice-President. He then became President when Angel was kicked out for her "bad" grades. He believes that he is God. When alive, his brother was his father's apprentice in pottery, while he remained in his room, ignored by the world. Then his brother died and he had to take his place, but wasn't nearly as good at the craft as his brother. Having no choice but to live his life as someone else he began to think that his entire life was a charade.
- Abusive Parents: What kind of parents neglect their kid and then force them to switch with their twin brother when he dies?
- In fairness, his father did acknowledge that he had his own skills. If Naoi had just focused on that he might have had a happy life. His father never really hated him. Naoi was just so blinded by jealousy that he failed to realize this.
- His father did acknowledge him briefly, seen in the flashback after the hug, however it was after the events of the flashback he was forced to live like he was never himself.
- In fairness, his father did acknowledge that he had his own skills. If Naoi had just focused on that he might have had a happy life. His father never really hated him. Naoi was just so blinded by jealousy that he failed to realize this.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Is actually pretty good with firearms, wielding two pistols simultaneously during the shadow assault with pretty good accuracy
- Bishounen
- Easily Forgiven
- Evil Eye
- Even more so, he's the vice president of the student council. who, despite acting like an average student, is in fact a Manipulative Bastard with delusions of godhood who plans to take over the world with his powers of hypnosis through eye contact. Lelouch anyone?
- After episode 6 he becomes something of a cross between Lelouch and Rolo (Rolo towards Otonashi, Lelouch towards everyone else). In other words, he's a Sugar and Ice Personality.
- A God Am I
- Heel Face Turn
- Ho Yay: To Otonashi.
- Hypnotic Eyes
- Jerkass
- Karma Houdini: Even if Death Is Cheap, his actions were too much.
- Manipulative Bastard: During the Heroic Sacrifice moments, he hypnotizes Ooyama, making him think he's a clown and the Angel clone is a lonely girl, and Ooyama has to make her laugh as a clown.
- Men Don't Cry: Averted. It's implied he starts to cry in Otonashi's arms at the end of Episode 6, and flat out sobs during Episode 13.
- Nice Hat
- The Unfavorite: When he was still alive. Due to the fact that his brother was amazing at his father's trade, his brother's death got a lot of stress put on him by his father.
- Redemption Equals Disappearance: Not exactly; it took him several episodes to pass on following his Heel Face Turn, which should say something about his ego.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When using his hypnotic abilities.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Towards...guess who?
- Stalker with a Crush: Kind of this towards Otonashi.
- The Stoic: Usually.
- Token Evil Teammate
- Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty: Turning a fair fight from winnable to slaughter.
- Twin Switch: A permanent one with his dead twin brother.
- Villain Decay: Naoi becomes a lot less threatening after he joins the SSS.
- This could be due to Otonashi keeping him in check for the most part.
- Villainous BSOD: Arguably what happened during his confrontation with Otonashi; he was essentially forced to realize that he himself was ultimately responsible for his own misery.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy
- Yandere: Depending on your interpretation, he can be this to Otonashi.
- You Gotta Have Dark Green Hair
Fujimaki
"You're next."
—Fujimaki to Otonashi.
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- Voiced by: Yuki Masuda (JP), Andrew Love (EN)
Uses a shirasaya and gives off a tough guy vibe.
- Beady-Eyed Loser
- Big Eater/Balloon Belly: In the special episode.
- Gilligan Cut: During episode 2, he tells Otonashi that he would be the one who died next. A few seconds later...
- Super Drowning Skills: He cannot swim. Seen in Episode 2.
- Sword and Gun: Episode 12.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Subverted in Episode 12.
Takamatsu
- Voiced by: Takuhiro Mizushima (JP), Kalob Martinez (EN)
Gives off the vibes of The Smart Guy, but is actually an idiot.
- Bishounen
- Fate Worse Than Death: His fate to being reduced to an NPC
- The Glasses Come Off as a result.
- They thought that it was serious when Takamatsu left his glasses there.
- Ultimately an averted trope, because he gets better.
- The Glasses Come Off as a result.
- Hand Cannon: Weapon of Choice.
- Large Ham: The result of any Shirtless Scene he invokes.
- More Than Meets the Eye: Is actually quite well-built under those clothes.
- Sacrificial Lion: In episode 11, Takamatsu is attacked by the shadows and turned into an NPC, just to show how dire the situation is.
- Shirtless Scene: He's prone to these.
- The Smart Guy: Subverted. Doesn't do much except work out in the middle of class and state the obvious.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Extreme case whilst the rocket propulsion chairs are happening.
- Stoic Spectacles: Even going as far as having at least six pairs!
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Christ Takeyama
"Call me Christ." |
- Voiced by: Mitsuhiro Ichiki (JP), Dylan Godwin (EN)
A genius hacker who Yuri enlists to infiltrate Angel's computer. He insists on being referred to as Christ, but at the time of writing no-one has ever used this name for him.
- Catch Phrase: "Call me Christ"
- Do Not Call Me Takeyama
- Genius Ditz: Any "normal" person would know what kind of answers wouldn't fit in a certain subject.
- Insistent Terminology: Takeyama: "Call me Christ." No one does.
- Everyone calls him Christ in the 3rd Angel Beats Drama CD, though at this point he no longer wishes to be called Christ
- Mouthful of Pi: Enough to subdue Noda.
- Scary Shiny Glasses
- The Smart Guy
- Stoic Spectacles
Ooyama
"Ah! I forgot!" |
- Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi (JP), Corey Hartzog (EN)
A member of the SSS and Hinata's roommate. Was thought to be an NPC until Hinata figured out that he wasn't. Notable for excelling in absolutely nothing.
- Big Eater/Balloon Belly: In the special episode
- Friendly Sniper
- The Generic Guy: Hinata lampshades this in the novels.
- In the manga he is so generic that Hinata mistakes him for an NPC.
- Hey, It's That Voice!: THAT's Black Star.
- Master of None: He has no specialties.
- Jack of All Stats: He doesn't specialize in anything, but he is decent at everything.
- Moe
- Shmuck Bait: He
willinglyruns into one of Angel's clones and his death given someencouragementwords from Naoi. - Took a Level in Badass: Blowing up a Shadow with a sniper rifle
- Took a Level in Jerkass: 3rd Angel Beats Drama CD
Yusa
Voiced by: Yui Makino (JP), Serena Varghese (EN) |
In charge of communications.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments. Usually toward Yurippe.
- Emotionless Girl
- Mission Control
- Last Words: "As expected Yurippe-san, you're the best one suited for the villain..."
Char
Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi (JP), Illich Guardiola (EN) |
He leads Guild, the SSS branch that develops weapons from dirt, using their memories.
Other Characters
Shadow
Shadows multiply from NPCs. Even worse they can consume the souls of humans, effectively making them NPCs for all eternity.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Quite literally, as Takamatsu found out.
Yuri's three little siblings
They were murdered when robbers invaded Yuri's home. They depended on her to find something valuable so that the robbers wouldn't have to kill them. Every 10 minutes that pass, they kill a child. Yuri couldn't find anything and the police came 30 minutes later.
Hatsune Otonashi
- Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (JP), Jessica Boone (EN)
Otonashi's younger sister. The only reason why he lived is to see her and buy her random Manga. She dies, and because of her death, Otonashi sees that his sister had more life than he did despite being bedridden.
- Expy or Shout-Out probably: Voiced by Mai Nakahara. Can you think of any other Key character who was always sick?
- Ill Girl
- Snow Means Death: She dies on her brother's back, Christmas Eve. Guess who else dies on a snowy night?
Igarashi
- Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (JP), Mark X. Laskowski (EN)
A man who helped out Otonashi when they were caved in the tunnel. After Otonashi treated his wounds, Igarashi aids him in assisting the other victims. Little is revealed about his character.
- The Lancer: to Otonashi in the train wreck.
- Ho Yay: With Otonashi, of course, especially when Otonashi dies.
Non-Player Characters
The remaining student body who do not resist God's influence, willingly or unwillingly.
- Cannon Fodder: Any student is fair game for a shadow.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Their uniforms contrast strongly with those worn by members of the SSS.
- The Stoic: Takamatsu. Other NPCs do display emotion, especially during a Girls Dead Monster performance.
- The NPC controlling the computers behind the Shadows in episode 12 plays this straight, even admitting that he's incapable of emotions.