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* So apparently, your memories [[You Fail Biology Forever|are]] {{spoiler|stored in your heart?}}

* Um, I hate to poop all over Otonashi's belief that he's helped people by signing a donor card, but can't organs only come from a person who has died on life support? By the time the rescue workers retrieved his body and got it out his organs would have failed and be useless. Heck even the card he says "In the event of brain death" i.e. when a person's brain dies but the body doesn't which I am pretty sure only likely to happen in very specific circumstances - dying whilst on life support, and some forms of suicide. I just find it depressing that all things considered, he didn't achieve his life wish.

** Wrong. The entire reason why donor cards exist on driver's licences is so that emergency personnel who arrive on the scene know to prepare your (hopefully) recently deceased body for the preservation of your organs. The brain is a very fragile organ, requiring a constant supply of oxygen to function properly, but the rest of the body's organs and muscles are very hardy in a healthy individual. It takes a while for the cells in those organs to starve to death from a lack of oxygen (as O2 is required in metabolism, not in second to second functioning), giving medical personnel time to remove, freeze, and implant them into another individual. While in the broader scheme of things, it is indeed a longshot that the organs will be in perfect condition for transplanting into someone else (and even a longer shot that the organs are not rejected by the body), there is enough of a demand and little enough of a supply that it is pretty much worth it. The few organs that hospitals get from this method are still lifesavers, and that's all anyone should care about. Did Otonashi save someone by registering to donate his organs? In all likelihood, probably not. Maybe, but probably not. Was he a massive inspiration to everyone who was saved, people who will probably tell his story for quite some time? HELL YEAH! Otonashi saved someone, either directly through organ donation or by simply being badass enough to become a legend among the survivors. Heck, he might even be posthumously honored by the city, getting a statue and all that.

** Related to the previous point: the SSS fights Angel because its members want to stay in the world they're in. Seen in this light, making them find peace and thus disappear would actually be a rather nasty trick, akin to outright killing them for real. Nobody knows exactly what happens when people vanish; they might simply disappear completely, or even wind up in some sort of hell and be tortured forever! Still, Otonashi's actions are presented as something noble.

*** They are not "tricked into" disappearing, it was made clear in their internal monologue before their end, that they all only disappear when they are OK with disappearing. When they consciously decide that they would rather close their past life right now and continue to the unknown than to keep fooling around in this weird place. It is never like "Ooops, it seems hitting a homerun was my key to moving on, and you tricked me into doing it, you traitor! Help, guys, I'm dissolving!"

* Even though I think Yui's story and resolution is presented in a wonderfully emotional fashion, I find it rather odd that someone is supposed to get over their regrets just by playing pretend. She did ''not'' get married, not in the previous life nor in the next one. Hinata simply ''told'' her he would have done so, and he may not even have been truthful. She also didn't seem very picky about whom she wanted to marry--she asked Otonashi first after all.

** It wasn't a matter of loving someone, it was a matter of being loved. She felt useless because in her real life she could do pretty much nothing with herself, and was convinced that no-one beyond her own mother could have feelings for her. Cue Hinata and his [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] in which he declares that he would have loved her anyway, giving her a feeling of self-worth and a reason to pass on.

** The light novel describes the terrain as slowly fading out into thick mist and fog outside the bounds of the school, which probably acts as a type of [[Enclosed Space]] / [[Closed Circle]].

* The world of Angel Beats resembles the real world quite a bit, to the point that there's is even a sky filled with stars. Now, what would happen if people would look at that sky with a telescope? Would they see the planets normally, or discern galaxies? If so, that world must be rather vast in and of itself. Actually, the same question applies to all series with an alternate or virtual reality, such as the one in ''[[The Matrix]]''.

* Otonashi's [[Dead Little Sister]] is heavily implied to have died while he had her out of the hospital without permission. How did he not get in serious trouble for that?

** Actually, I gathered she died in hospital. The trip was shown since it was important to Otonashi, being the last time he could be with his sister.

** I just assumed it was how their world works. Maybe the structure of food is too complicated to recreate perfectly, or they just didn't want to take any chances. And yeah, that was weird, but maybe he only managed to grab one because, I dunno, he was running from Angel or something.

** I always assumed that the SSS collected as many tickets as they could afterwards and then gave them out amongst the members until another Operation Tornado was required.

* Why do they need to eat? Presumably, since {{spoiler|one can survive without a heart}}, they wouldn't need a stomach or anything either.

** Maybe Otonashi's a special case? Since {{spoiler|Kanade had to have some way of knowing who donated her heart to her?}}

 

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