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*** YMMV depending on what your interpret that epilogue to be exactly; see above.
*** 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 [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|stops being so amusing]] when you realize that: a) {{spoiler|Angel is a real human girl named Kanade Tachibana and had to suffer the consequences for getting zeroes on all her tests}} and b) {{spoiler|Naoi, her [[Ax Crazy]] vice-president, replaced her}}. {{spoiler|Oh, and just to rub the salt into the wound a bit more they then go and steal her comfort food.}} Seriously, she's so sad, [[The Woobie|it makes you want to give her a hug]].
** For this troper, it was the moment that Tenshi 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 favourite 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 for this troper; 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.
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* [[Hand Wave]]: {{spoiler|The anime just [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] the reason of Takamatsu's sudden change from an NPC back to 'human' and his disappearance.}}
** {{spoiler|Not entirely, as Yuri also broke free of being an NPC in the previous episode, so it had already been shown that it could be done.}}
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Overlaps with [[Dude, Not Funny]] in regards to Hinata and Yui. Originally their abuse of each other is [[Slapstick Knows No Gender|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 [[Genki Girl|hyper and sort of annoying all the time]] is because {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|she was paralyzed in an accident at a young age from a car slamming into her back and was bedridden and cared for by her single mother until she died]]}} while Hinata's regret {{spoiler|was just being unable to catch a baseball during an important match. That was it.}} {{spoiler|Yes it sounds about as funny as as pushing a kid in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs. This revelation made Yui just an [[Unacceptable Target]].}}
* [[Hype Backlash]]: There are a good deal of [[Image Boards|/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 [[Key Visual Arts|the same guys]] [[Deus Ex Machina|who pull happy endings]] [[Ass Pull|out of their asses]] whenever a main character's world comes crashing down.
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** {{spoiler|This could apply to when Otonashi was climbing Yuri. He hugged her, and then was right in front of her face. He even comments on how she smells good.}}
** {{spoiler|Naoi's... passionate way of reassuring Otonashi before he regains his memories in Episode 7.}}
** {{spoiler|Otonashi wanting to call [[First
*** {{spoiler|There are also close-ups whenever Otonashi takes Kanade's hand.}}
*** {{spoiler|She smooths his face with her hand in episode 9.}}
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* [[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 <s>Christ</s> 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]]: {{spoiler|Angel}}
** Most of the cast also qualify but varies from character to character. Yuri, Masami, Naoi and Yui have significantly worse pasts {{spoiler|consisting of murder of loved ones, guilt and death, parental abuse and death, death of loved ones and long term paralysis respectively}} than say Hinata {{spoiler|whose only regret was not being able to catch a baseball costing his team an important match. That's it.}} Other characters don't even have that much development.
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