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'''''Angel Beats!''''' is a [[Light Novel]], [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] series by [[Key Visual Arts]].

 

 

The world they are in seems like an enormous Japanese boarding school populated by soulless, though realistic and harmless, "NPC"s who act like ordinary students and faculty. The only apparent enemy of the self-named Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront) is the student council president, a short, white-haired girl they call Tenshi (Angel), who wields supernatural powers in an effort to force the SSS to behave like the normal students. Every real person who has submitted to this behavior has disappeared forever, so the SSS members are understandably unwilling. The ''Angel Beats!'' anime is the story of Otonashi's time in this strange afterlife, as he learns about his situation, interacts with the others in the SSS and Tenshi, waits to regain his memories, and decides what to do after he does.

A manga adaptation quickly followed the light novel, under the title ''Angel Beats! The 4-koma'', first published in December 2009. Also authored by Jun Maeda and illustrated by Haruka Komowata, the manga was again published by ASCII Media Works in ''Dengeki G's Magazine''. The manga is currently ongoing.

 

 

Finally, a second manga was published, coinciding with the completion of the light novel series. This manga, ''Angel Beats! Heaven's Door'', is again written by Jun Maeda, illustrated by Yuriko Asami, and once again published by ASCII Media Works in ''Dengeki G's Magazine''. First seeing publication in May 2010, this manga series is also ongoing.

 

 

 

* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: {{spoiler|At the very least, the new [[Student Council President]] has a good number of mooks at his disposal.}}

** That is more because {{spoiler|Naoi can hypnotize people. [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council|Absurdly Powerful]] [[Student Council President|Student Council]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|President?]]}}

** And she's right, considering that they don't seem to notice, well, anything that happens during the exams.

** Averted in the manga, where the teachers and staff are constantly interfering with things.

* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Yuzuru to Kanade, towards the end of Episode 13.}}

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Angel's Hand Sonic Version 4 is a blade in the shape of a giant lotus flower.

** It does work (in episode 6), actually, so it's not ''that'' impractical.

* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Very briefly, but Noda and Hinata in Episode 11.

* [[Baseball Episode]]: Episodes 4 and 10

* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]: Episodes 2 and 8. Emphasis on the cheese.

** Also, the OVA has a 'cavalry battle' between two teams of NPC students and the SSS. Again, emphasis on the cheese.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Hinata and Yui

'''Otonashi''': Do you love him or hate him? }}

** Definitely [[Foreshadowing]] if you saw {{spoiler|Episode 10}}.

* [[Bishoujo]]: The design aesthetic used for the female cast.

* [[Black Comedy]]: Those traps seems painful... until you realize that people can't die (permanently) here. And thus it's OK to get killed again and again.

** They're still painful. Dying hurts.

** Yui accidentally {{spoiler|hanging herself}} in the fourth episode is damn hilarious.

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: [[Gratuitous English|Guard Skill - Hand Sonic]]

* [[Blade Run]]: Shiina in the ED.

** In the same episode, "Bolvic" brand bottled water.

*** "Bolvic" water reappears in Episode 9, {{spoiler|and it was vital to the survival of train wreck survivors.}}

*** Episode 9 also features "Poaky".

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: TK when fighting {{spoiler|the Shadows}}.

** "I kiss you."

** "[[Bob Dylan|Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]"

* [[Break the Cutie]]: It seems that any cutie out there has been/will be broken by the end of the series.

** Yuri had {{spoiler|her siblings killed in front of her by robbers when she was a kid. The worst part: it was Yuri's "fault" that they died because she couldn't find money in the house to give to the robbers. They probably would've killed them all regardless, but that doesn't really help Yuri's feelings of guilt.}}

* [[Breather Episode]]: Episode 4 is rather lighthearted compared to the drama-filled episode 3. Episode 8 piles on the [[Black Comedy]] just before {{spoiler|episode 9 shows us how Otonashi actually died}}.

* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: Never actually happens, but all through episode 8 Yui keeps saying she's going to wet herself out of nervousness or fear.

'''Yui:''' Care, damn you! }}

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Shiina is a hypercompetent ninja. She is also very [[Strange Girl|strange]].

** Yui: "What an idiot."

** TK: "Get chance and luck!"

* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: {{spoiler|"My Song"}}

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Kanade stabbing Otonashi in the 'heart' in Episode 1, combined with her hospitalisation in Episode 9.}} The relevance of these doesn't become clear until 5 minutes before the end of the final episode.

* [[Cooldown Hug]]: {{spoiler|Otonashi}} attempts this with {{spoiler|Kanade, but fails}}. Earlier on, he succeeds with {{spoiler|Naoi}}.

* [[Cool Gun]]: The SSS actually uses real world firearms. {{spoiler|They are created using memories of their past life.}} You can see all the firearms featured in the series [http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Angel_Beats! HERE].

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: In episode 6 {{spoiler|Yuri hands Otonashi a Walkie-Talkie in the beginning of the episode figuring if things went to hell she could contact Otonashi, who would be near Angel, and get him to ask Angel for help. Guess how things went. Guess who Otonashi happened to be sitting next to.}}

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: The entire SSS - the frequency of idiots in the group seems to be directly proportional to the amount of asskicking they're capable of. [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Not]] [[Immune to Bullets|that]] [[The Juggernaut|it]] [[Nigh Invulnerability|helps.]]

* [[Cry Cute]]: Ooyama

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Tiny little Yui pulls off a German Suplex on [[One Head Taller|Otonashi]]... after several failed attempts.

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Yui.

** Angel is described as having this weakness as well. In the OVA, she {{spoiler|abandons a Student Council meeting to question the SSS, who are causing a ruckus, and gets sidetracked by harvesting some "cute turnips"}}.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Every character more or less {{spoiler|because it is a prerequisite to enter the afterlife.}}

** And Iwasawa in Episode 3.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: So far, both {{spoiler|Naoi}} and {{spoiler|Kanade}} have been [[Defeat Means Friendship|befriended]].

** In the prequel novel, we have Chaa, Noda (somewhat) and Shiina.

* [[Death Course]]: SSS's secret supply route is protected by one.

* '''[[Death Is Cheap]]''': {{spoiler|Unless you come to terms with your actual death that is. Then you disappear}}.

** This gets especially jarring in Episode 2, where after the rest of the SSS has been killed off in a various of manners played for laughs, {{spoiler|Yuri tells Otonashi about how her three siblings were killed by robbers, and this time no one's laughing.}}

* [[Deflector Shields]]: Angel has her own personal one capable of deflecting <s>bullets</s>pretty much any kind of projectile, including grenades.

* [[Descending Ceiling]]: One of the traps on the way to Guild.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|The murder of Yuri's family, which is why she's fighting God in the first place. It's worth noting that the murders serve as a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for the perpetrators.}}

* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Yuri is caught by the shadows in episode 12 but unlike Takamatsu barely escapes with her soul.}}

** {{spoiler|Episode 13 reveals that Takamatsu was able to break free like Yuri did, eventually.}}

* [[Dodge This]]: In episode 11.

* [[Driven to Madness]]: Yuri's "penalties" are said to have this effect on people, though she denies haven ever given any that bad.

* [[Dwindling Party]]: Sort of, considering how {{spoiler|more and more characters disappear}}.

** Played straight in episode 2 and 8, even though [[Death Is Cheap]].

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: ''Everyone'' here is messed up. No exceptions. {{spoiler|Though Otonashi's worst problem is just amnesia. Before his death is revealed, [[Nothing Is Scarier|not knowing makes you really wonder what happened. ]] }}

* [[Easy Logistics]]: It turns out people in the afterlife can literally create any item they can think of out of dirt if they can remember it well enough. With this ability, SSS was able to create a massive underground factory to manufacture their weapons and ammunition.

** Hilariously subverted when they try to use a large cannon on Angel, only to have it explode on them because while they may have known what a cannon looks like, they didn't know the mechanics inside it to make it work properly.

** Not necessarily. After seeing {{spoiler|his backstory}}, he becomes more or less the leader of the group, being logical, intelligent and strong-willed.

* [[Evil Laugh]]

** It happens again in Episode 12. {{spoiler|Right before she denies becoming God that is a CMOA.}}

* [[Evolving Credits]]: As characters are replaced and removed through various circumstances, the OP and ED, both of which focus on showing off the characters, change accordingly.

** Also, when characters interact in the show in a noteworthy way, it also reflects the interaction. Examples include Yui strangling Hinata as per episode 4, and Takamatsu not wearing a shirt to show off his (surprising) 8-pack from episode 5.

** Some episodes don't even show the typical ending, replacing it with more footage.

** [[Played for Laughs]] in the [[World of Ham|OVA]], if you watched the OVA itself, that is.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Orignally written for 26 episodes, Executives abruptly cut it down to thirteen, forcing several loose ends to be tied up hurriedly and some subplots being unresolved. The Director was not happy about this ''at all,'' plus this decision has helped contribute to a lot of the flak this show has gotten.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: {{spoiler|Yuzuru Otonashi had [[Peek-a-Bangs]]. He soon realizes that his ill sister had more life and hope than he did, and that she had a purpose. He cuts his hair and applies for medical school.}}

** This serves as the driving force of a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6149731/1/ crossover fanfiction between the two franchises.]

* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|[[Played for Laughs]] in the manga. Out of irritation, Yuri stabs Hinata's eyes out using chopsticks.}}

** {{spoiler|And for a more serious example, Shiina stabs one of Hinata's eyes out during their fight.}}

** Also, Yuri's "punishment games". The only one we see, in the OVA, ends with {{spoiler|all of the SSS dead of dehydration}}.

** And now getting {{spoiler|1=assimilated by a Shadow NPC and being turned into an NPC}}, thereby being stuck in that world forever.

** To put it more in perspective, {{spoiler|1=the SSS believes that NPCs have no souls. Therefore, being turned into one by a Shadow means that it has devoured your soul!}}

* [[Female Gaze]]: The SSS are quite [[Bishonen]], but it's the [[Shirtless Scene|shirtless scenes]] that seals the deal.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Yui can act out if she is pushed enough. See [[Rose-Haired Girl]] and [[Genki Girl]] below.

* [[Finale Credits]]: Normally, the credits sequence shows Yuri slowly being surrounded by the various members of the SSS. At the end of Episode 13, {{spoiler|the sequence ''starts'' with all the characters present, and they start to disappear one by one, until only the five characters that were in Episode 13 remain. Then they, too, disappear, in the same order they vanished in the episode, with Otonashi going last.}}

* [[First-Name Basis]]: {{spoiler|Between Otonashi and Kanade, starting in episode 7.}}

* [[Five-Man Band]]: As of Episode 11.

** Kanade is [[The Big Guy]]

** Otonashi is [[The Chick]]

* [[Fond Memories That Could Have Been]]: {{spoiler|After Hinata says he would have married Yui despite her paralysis, we see images of them meeting in their previous lives and falling in love. Yui disappears shortly after, having found peace}}.

** There's also at least one theory that {{spoiler|[[The Stinger]] is not a [[Distant Finale]] but Otonashi's desperate imaginings of a world where he knew Kanade while alive}}. Most find it too depressing to consider.

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: In episode 2, Fujimaki tells Otonashi that he will be the next to get (temporarily) killed by an anti-Angel trap. Cut to Fujimaki showing off his [[Super Drowning Skills]] in a water trap while Yuri, Shiina, and Otonashi escape unharmed.

* [[Good Is Dumb]]:

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Several of the more potentially gruesome deaths in episode 2 aren't fully shown onscreen.

** [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Ooyama can't hold his stomach after seeing Matsushita get minced by the [[Laser Hallway]].

* [[Gratuitous English]]: "Angel Beats", "Girls Dead Monster", "Guard Skill", ''everything'' out of TK's mouth (despite having a native English speaker for a voice actor)...

'''Hinata''': So, TK was useless at English at the end... }}

* [[Grievous Bottley Harm]]: Played for drama. Poor {{spoiler|Iwasawa}}...

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: TK and Naoi in episode 11, Yuri in Episode 12.

* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: Against Tenshi's Distortion shield. Lampshaded.

* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: {{spoiler|In episode 3, Iwasawa comes to terms with her past, disappears, and leaves her guitar behind. She's also omitted from the end credits of that episode.}}

* [[Healing Factor]]: While immortal, everybody can still be seriously hurt. If they are injured or die, they will eventually heal and revive regardless of how much damage their bodies have taken. The OVA shows that they will even revive after dying of starvation or dehydration.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Shiina in response to her [[Cuteness Proximity]] weakness, as well as the thought of a newbie (Otonashi) outlasting her in Guild's [[Death Course]].

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Played with, since nobody actually stays dead.

'''Otonashi''': "You guys sacrificed him." }}

** Played straight in episode 9, where {{spoiler|Otonashi ignores his own injuries to help the other train crash survivors, and spends his final moments filling out a donor card}}.

** [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Kaworu]] is {{spoiler|the final boss}}

** [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Fuhrer King Bradley]] is the computer technician.

** [[Soul Eater|BLACK STAR]] IS OOYAMA!!!

* [[Hidden Eyes]]: TK's are always obscured by his wide bandana.

* [[High School]]: Although it's technically in...y'know, purgatory.

* [[Hopeless War]]: SSS and Angel will probably be fighting each other forever since neither side can truly die.

* [[How We Got Here]]: The manga starts out with the framing of Hinata explaining to Otonashi how he met Yuri and how the SSS got founded.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: {{spoiler|Otonashi and Kanade.}} Very much obvious when he hugs her in the last episode.

** She's so small because {{spoiler|her heart condition inhibited her growth. She's still about the same age as the rest of the cast.}}

* [[I Have the High Ground]]: {{spoiler|Red Angel.}}

* [[Indy Escape]]: One of the Guild's anti-Angel traps is a giant rolling boulder of doom.

* [[In Medias Res]]: The anime series starts off when the SSS is already established. The newly released manga series starts off from the very beginning, even before the creation of the SSS.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Shiina

* [[Immortality Hurts]]: The characters can regenerate from anything, and some of the deaths are quite painful.

* [[Impairment Shot]]: Done in the third episode to illustrate {{spoiler|the effects of Iwasawa's stroke.}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: In episode 2, Otonashi starts to feel a little uncomfortable with Hinata's rather chummy nature and asks if he's gay or not, which Hinata angrily denies. In episode six, {{spoiler|Otonashi runs over to Hinata, who's severely injured. He makes a note of the fact that he ran to him first, and asks the same question as Otonashi did four episodes back.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: {{spoiler|[[No Indoor Voice|Everyone]] in the OVA}} It [[Makes Sense in Context]]...

* [[Laser Hallway]]: One of the anti-Angel traps.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: In Episode 12, {{spoiler|the entire SSS gets to be awesome fighting the Shadows. Even Ooyama does something impressive!}}

* [[A Lighter Shade of Gray]]: {{spoiler|The SSS went from a band of [[La Résistance|rebels]] trying to take down the God that destroyed their lives to a group of self-centered teenagers blindly lashing out at the world in about three episodes.}}

** They were lashing out at the world from the beginning.

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Episode 12, {{spoiler|Yuri imagines life as an ordinary student while the Shadow consumes her. Luckily, she breaks out of it and is saved in the nick of time.}}

* [[Loud of War]]: Guard Skill - Howling.

* [[Mission Control]]: Lots of SSS members work away from the front lines or behind the scenes, most notably Takeya, who gathers intel for the team. Yuri does this from time to time as well.

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]:

** He brings it upon himself, really.

** He reverses this on Otonashi in Episode 6 when {{spoiler|they were getting massacred by the Student Council.}}

* [[Mouthful of Pi]]: Call him [[Running Gag|Christ]].

** Played straight to the point of it affecting one of the listeners physically.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: {{spoiler|After the credits of the final episode, reincarnated Otonashi and Kanade are shown meeting when Otonashi hears Kanade humming Iwasawa's "My Song." A short segment entitled "Another Epilogue" replaces this scene with one depicting Otonashi still in the afterlife helping another soul discover how to move on.}}

* [[Mundane Afterlife]]: Subverted thanks to the SSS's insistent tries to wreak havoc and prevent their own disappearance.

* [[Musical Theme Naming]]: Most of Angel's abilities, such as Harmonics and (Hand) Sonic. Also, Distortion, Overdrive, and Delay are various guitar effects.

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: In Episode 8, during everyone's {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]] to stop an Angel clone}}, Naoi is sadly unnoticed (Yui doesn't even know his name).

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: A minor version when Otonashi realizes that preventing Hinata from catching the baseball probably wasn't a good idea.

* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: TK, [[Surprisingly Good English|when speaking Japanese.]]

* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]: Yuri does it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aduSGRn_sG0&feature=related at least][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5coI6PqM0&feature=related twice in the anime]. Complete with hand near mouth. The other person talking to her over the walkie even [[Lampshade Hanging|asks if she's the villain for doing such a laugh.]]

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The drama CDs. The characters' commentaries in the second disc point out all the incontinuities in the "NG" takes.

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Averted; death presents no objective risk, so nobody really sweats it.

* [[Not Quite the Right Thing]]: Otanashi's {{spoiler|little sister was terminally ill. She wished to see the city on Christmas Eve, but the doctors wouldn't let her leave the hospital, especially considering that it was snowing outside. Otanashi decides to sneak her out himself in order to grant her her wish... and just like the doctors warned, she dies very soon, and almost certainly would have lived (even a little) longer if it wasn't for that foolish trip. Otanashi tries to convince himself that it was the right thing to do, since she died happy, but even he doesn't really believe that.}}

* [[Nice Hat]]: Yuri wears one while issuing commands at headquarters. Naoi has a nice one too, as part of his uniform, and Angel wore one in episode 7 in the garden.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Otonashi's face when he discovers that {{spoiler|the train tunnel is blocked on both ends and there's no signal.}}

* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]]: Although they end up {{spoiler|covered in hearts}}...

** TK. He's basically a gag character with his random english/stoner accent, and he {{spoiler|vanishes with the rest of the SSS in episode 12 without us learning his real name.}}

* [[Ontological Mystery]]

** No one bats an eye when she speaks again a few episodes later. By that point, things [[It Got Worse|have gotten much worse]], though.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Takes on a ''whole'' new meaning in this series. The "ordinary students" are the [[NPC|NPCs]] of the school. They have no souls, acting as model students under Angel and God. The SSS are acting against Angel and God, souls intact and rebelling against what had been dealt them in their former lives. This situation is highlighted by the different uniforms between the two factions of students.

** This is most likely what [[Memetic Badass|TK runs on.]]

* [[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler|In this case, it breaks the system - anyone who fell in love in the afterlife might stay there forever, never accepting the need to move on and thus never reincarnating.}}

** Iwasawa plays a Fender Stratocaster, Hisako plays a Fender Jazzmaster, Yui has a Gibson SG, and Sekine plays a G&L bass.

* [[Prongs of Poseidon]]: {{spoiler|Angel's Hand Sonic version 3}}

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Hinata and Otonashi's baseball team in episode 4.

** Pretty much all the SSS.

*** The anime tends to play hopscotch with the line between [[Subversion]] and [[Double Subversion]] on this one.

* [[La Résistance]]: The SSS.

* [[Redemption Equals Death|Redemption Equals Disappearance]]: {{spoiler|Yuri in episode 13.}}

** This is the entire purpose of the afterlife, as well.

** {{spoiler|The evil Tenshi clones, too.}}

* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: {{spoiler|Implied between Otonashi and Kanade}}

* [[Replacement Sibling]]: {{spoiler|Naoi}}

* [[Reverse Grip]]: How Noda swings his baseball bat. He hits a home run with it, too.

* [[Rhetorical Question Blunder]]: At the beginning of the first episode, Otonashi demands that Angel prove he can't die. So she stabs him in the chest.

* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]: Yui, and Iwasawa as well.

* [[Rustproof Blood]]: After Otonashi wakes up in the nurse's office after being offed for the second time so far, his shirt is still sopping wet.

* [[Say My Name]]: Episode 8, whenever someone in the SSS {{spoiler|pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to stop an Angel clone}}, the rest of the SSS have a [[Say My Name]] shot for the character in question. Lampshaded, no less:

'''Hinata:''' What's with this last-chapter-of-a-shonen-manga scenario?! }}

** Lampshaded hilariously during {{spoiler|Naoi}}'s turn, right after he {{spoiler|[[Kick the Dog|hypnotizes Ooyama into thinking he's a clown and sending him to get stabbed by a Red Angel]]}}.

'''Yui:''' I don't know his name... }}

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The Christmas lights on the trees - then the main Christmas tree itself - on the main street where Otonashi lived in his former life. {{spoiler|He snuck out his younger sister from the hospital so they could see them together.}}

* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: The Shadows appear ''immediately'' after {{spoiler|Yui disappears.}}

** The school vending machines, aside from a full line of [[Bland-Name Product]] drinks, also carry Key Coffee, bearing the studio logo.

** TK seems to love referencing popular media, from two lines of song lyrics to:

*** Also this one as mention in Episode 8.

** Episode 10's title "Goodbye Days" relates to Jpop artist YUI's song of the same name. It's sung in her movie, Taiyou no Uta, with similar implications to Angel Beats Yui's past. {{spoiler|Both characters had an illness which contributed to their death, not living the life they wanted to.}} Can you guess who disappeared this episode?

** Episode 12 has the title, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, shouted out by TK. Even the other characters recognise it as a reference to Bob Dylan.

*** The ending of episode 12 has been compared numerous times to {{spoiler|''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]''}}.

** In Episode 3, TK says "Get chance and luck!", which is a line from one of the ending themes to [[City Hunter]].

* [[Shown Their Work]]: All of the guns in the series are accurately modeled after their real-world counterparts.

* [[Smells Sexy]]: Yuri, according to Otonashi.

* [[Special Edition Title]]: Episode four has the [[Theme Tune Cameo|opening sung by Yui]], integrating it directly into the show. There are some [[Credits Brand Products]] and different visuals, and the visuals that ''are'' retained have a very different aesthetic.

* [[Split Personality Merge]]: Played heartlessly straight with {{spoiler|all of the Red Angels merging back into Kanade.}}

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The anime has a clip of the current episode in its opening sequence - excepting, of course, the episodes that skip the credits.

* [[The Stinger]]: {{spoiler|After the credits, Otonashi and Kanade are shown to meet up again in their next lives.}}

* [[Suplex Finisher]]: Becomes the basis of an entire episode where {{spoiler|Yui mentions that performing one of these was one of her life's wishes when she was alive, but could never do it. So to fulfill that wish, Otonashi trains her in how to do it right so she can perform it on him.}} She succeeds!

* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Michael Rivas, a Japanese-born, but raised in Hawaii, singer and voice actor, does the voice of TK. His pronunciation is perfect, but most of his dialogue still makes no sense because they're all out-of-context song lyrics or quotes from movies.

* [[Survivor Guilt]]: The source of Yuri's issues.

* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Angel's 5 versions of Hand Sonic.

* [[Teleporter Accident]]: Apparently {{spoiler|Angel}} did this by accident when {{spoiler|she activated Harmonics}} to save the SSS from Monster Stream.

* [[Title Drop]]: Episode 12. By [[Memetic Badass|TK.]]

* [[Tsundere]]: Yuri is like this for Hinata in the manga and light novel, which is the basis for much of the [[Ship Tease]].

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: After joining the SSS, Naoi continues to harass everyone (usually [[Butt Monkey|Hinata]]) with his hypnosis, as well as constantly insulting the rest of the group ([[Ho Yay|except Otonashi!]])

* [[Tomboy]]: Yui, according to Yuri. After Yui {{spoiler|accidentally chokes herself to death with microphone wiring while auditioning for lead singer in Girls De Mo}} Yuri comments:

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Angel and mapo tofu, Matsushita and meat udon, Oyama and potato chips.

* [[True Companions]]: In the manga, {{spoiler|Hinata decides to stick with Yuri to fight against God even though she just kicked him off the rooftops}}. More generally, the SSS themselves.

* [[Twin Switch]]: Taken to the cruelest lengths possible with {{spoiler|Naoi and his dead brother}}.

* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Matsushita during the baseball game.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Noda brings his halberd to the baseball games, and even uses it while fielding, but the student council's only concern is that his team entered the tournament illegally.

** And in episode 5, if you can't come up with one, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fORH60LtOt4 then be prepared to be launched into the roof, complete with slo-mo replay and singing].

*** Sometimes [[Butt Monkey|more than once]].

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: The teachers and NPCs suffer from a severe case of this. They only pay attention to what's directly in front of them, and they consider it to be normal. SSS even tests the limits of this trope in episode 6.

** No [[Weirdness Censor]] can save the helpless eyes of NPCs from [[Running Gag|Team]] [[Explosion Propulsion|Rocket]].

* [[Welcome Episode]]: As soon as Otonashi opens his eyes in Episode 1, Yuri invites him to the SSS.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: {{spoiler|Naoi}}

** And then, in the same episode {{spoiler|The new student council president decides to take a more active role in stopping the SSS.}}

** And Episode 9 is the whammest of them all.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The anime was originally planned to have 26 episodes to have more [[Character Development]] among the other side characters. Since it was cut in half some of the disappearances invoke [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]{{spoiler|, with exceptions to Yui and Naoi}}.

* [[World of Ham]]: Not 100% of the time, but still. Get enough SSS members together in the same place and ham is sure to result.

** Noda is perhaps the most [[Large Ham|dependable source]], with Shiina and Yuri also making strong showings.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: It's probably easier to list the characters who don't have a hair color that makes you doubt your display settings.

* [[Zeroes and Ones]]: {{spoiler|When Angel's clones are reabsorbed, they dissolve into this.}}

** If you look closely, the flashes of light around Angel's powers are all zeros and ones.

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