The Dark Meaning Behind Angel Beats! 

This story was made with the concept of hating god for creating a world were we all suffer unfulfilled lives but in the end, it isn't about god. It's about acceptance.

Not many anime can make me laugh and then cry just as easily. A shame this was cut short due to budget reasons. All characters deserved their backstory

Made me cry again watching those bits of Angel Beats again. Such a good anime.

Man I really appreciate the fact that he’s looking out for the viewers well-being before starting

The fact that ppl are still talking abt this show truly puts a smile on my face

Yuzuru Otonashi is an angel , sent to save them children from themselves .

Loved this video. I think angel beats perfectly demonstrates the depths of despair and how it can make you blind to what happiness truly is (the path and not necessarily the destiny). Awesome job as usual, mister Ben 😊

This hit me that no other anime, no, not even another show, could. It left me crying for a week because of my struggle with comprehending death beforehand. I couldn't get over it for a month. And what hurt the most was how underrated the show seemingly was.

I've seen angel beats and it makes me cry every time I watch it

Angel Beat was Lost before Lost was a thing. If you like this, check the author's other works. I like Little Busters, but Clannad is probably Jun Maeda's masterpiece.

the most perfect anime i have ever watch

there was even a darker theory that otonashi was not able leave the afterlife world because he himself is an anomaly thus he made himself an NPC out of despair. this somehow created an infinite time loop that would cause kanade's and all the SSS members' souls to get reverted and be sent back to the afterlife would to do the anime all over again.

25:54 *_A little correction:_* The shadows have nothing to do with the realm masters. They were created by a random person who also entered the realm.

I hesitate clicking on this video because how much Angel Beat has meant to me. ps. the soundtrack is touching.

Theres a manga that expands the story called Angel Beats Heavens Door with an unofficial English fan translation and a visual novel by the same name with an unofficial English patch to the Japanese game that expands the story but the VN was 1 out of an unknown number of sequels.

I'm not crying, you're crying

"God never fails" Idk if anyone has mentioned this, but when he said this line. He was referring to himself cause he calls himself god many times during the show.

Yui's episode will always make me ugly cry

This was an incredibly deep dive into behind the curtain narratives for this amazing show. It saddens me to see it doesn't get a lot of traffic.

Always heard of it and now hearing what Angel Beats is a about, I'm interested in checking it out, awesome video essay!

I genuinely feel bad for otanashi at the end of episode 13

This video is amazing, Ochi. Thank you so much.

Interesting concept. Good to see more videos about Angel Beats

Angel Beat is story about Young Soul who died without having chance to living their life or having some huge regret Sad is understatement

Personally I really enjoyed it and the ending of Episode 13.5 which many do not watch, actually shows how the MC in my opinion has developed and instead of hating god for the cruelty of the ending of Episode 13, he continues with the thought that if you dislike your circumstances, you have to get up and do something about it instead of whining! (Episode 13.5 is what happened after the ending scene of Episode 13, but before the after credit scenes). Angel Beats (Ending 13.5) - "Then stop whining and do something about it. You have something you want to do, right? What do you need to do to accomplish that? What you need right now? Answer me! One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?"

Angel beats was one of those animes that you can rewatch a decade later and still cry at the ending, watching the characters share their favorite things they wish they did before they died then help each other come to terms with their past lives still makes me cry till this day.

Omg they actually did an anime episode!!

How the hell? I’m not even watching the actual show this time and I’m still bursting into tears at all the suffering they go through!

I know I'm 2 years too late on this, but you would have enjoyed this more if you had watched it subbed instead of dubbed.

God this anime is so depressing tbh it's too relatable with the backstories I was thinking oh this is gonna be a kill montage like another where it's quite hollarious when everyone said it was sad but nope that anime makes people wanna comit self sleep every time they watch it

Great video.

This was the first anime to make me cry like a baby

fun fact: this is the only anime that made me cry

There has to be a reason for the existing of all of these shows🤔 Why do we like such dark stories that much?

Welp, time to rewatch for the ... 5th time.

YAY an anime episode!

7:44 The literal second this video gives me instant Post Traumatic Sadness Syndrome

made ma cry this anime

Such an underrated anime

I liked this anime. Someone recommended this to me because I liked Chobits. The action-packed battle scenes, the stake-to-the-heart back stories of certain characters, and the improvement of the characters as time goes by... I liked them. It's my pack of gum... shows that "make people cry". It's not as heart-stabbing as "AnoHana" or "Clannad", but it fits in that category. "Angel Beats" didn't make me shed a tear, but it me hard. However, unlike "AnoHana" -- which, for me, ended with a good wrap -- the ending of "Angel Beats" was more like going a truce on Christmas Day. The last five minutes of the show were brutal. It's a good anime, though. Yurippe reminds me so much of Sora Takanashi from "Listen to Me, Girls! I Am Your Father" ("Papakiki").

Wow amazing video bro and first 🥇! Please make video about GATE Thus the JSDF Fought There anime?

Thank you.

That was a great anime

Angle beat is the first ever non-Sonia anime I watched.

Do Rurouni Kenshin next

It's 12am and I ended up here LOL

Anime 10/10 gotta get my hands on the manga

You missed a lot of what was going on by watching the dub. Go back and watch the original with subs. The whole energy is much different in the original.

i still cant after 10 years not cry at episode 10 and 12

Is there enough to pick apart and analyze in “Pacific Rim: The Black”?

Cookies will make me happy foRevEr and eVer!!!!!!

COOKIES WILL MAKE ME HAPPY FOREVER AND EVER!!! 24:40

i doubt its about god, but about the regrets you have, or the things wanted but never got cause your life were cut short

Ok ok,but have you watched the sub?

What's with people saying the dubbed vers. of anime's are trash. Is it the mouth matching with the voices or is it the quality of their mics. PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME Y

19:15 lol cant believe that when I watched this I didn't dislike this stuff lol, God doesn't owe you anything, he gave you life, and even if that life was quick, painful, and mysterious, you should thank Him for it forever.

But seriously when are we getting into mobilesuit gundam one year war one year waaaaar !!!!

1 month in and 0 dislikes wow

Honestly I still believe the theory that Otanashi is the Programmer.

I dont know alot about angel beats so i wanted to request death note because i love death note

Angel Beats would make more sense with 24+ episodes (which it actually was intended to have). Instead we got a literal mess

When I tried to watch this two months earlier, my level of empathy was like Angel's, which means, almost non-existent if it meant the fulfillment of duty and purpose: -I saw Yuri as a mere warmonger, as she would risk the universe's integrity by facing God, even though it could have been the Devil who arranged for the unfairness that befell her life and family; -I did not judge Angel's attack on the protagonist (I'm sometimes like Inosuke when it comes to japanese names). He was dead and he asked for proof of it. She delivered, because that's her job; -I'm not sure I can be so forgiving towards the hypnotist. He was neglected, I get it. But steal someone's identity like that just to get the love of someone who probably doesn't even deserve it... This one I'll admit I refrain from passing on active judgement. It feels too unfair for me to do it, given I do not know that kind of neglect; -And, I saw the humans' actions in resisting erasure as futile. That was the purgatory. They would either be reincarnated or ascend. That's how it works both in the East and West. All they had to do was to either follow rules or fulfill their final wish. Yuri I might even understand why she couldn't do neither, because even in my scenario, I imagine she would need not to be at peace if she hoped to one day face the Devil. My final veredict... This show was perfect. And I, am an idiot who could never deserve to have my sinful eyes gaze upon this wholesome beauty. Because, I spent too much time with my routine of overseeing. My level of human concern and care is very minimal at worst and lowly average at best. I do have one complaint though. It should have been longer. Seriously ? 13 episodes ? For a show this complex with such 3 dimensional characters ?

As a happy early viewer & comment, I’ll ask the question... Should we start recommending happier things for American Ben to review & comment on? (Edit changed: “The happy first” to “a happy early”.)

Man i was hoping for a valid analysis but the moment i saw that u are referring to the dub version I’m like OH. Hell nah. I don’t remember this show being all about god. Geez this is why u watch the subs not dubs. Alot of the original intent of the show is lost in dubs. I wish people stop using excuses and being so lazy to read subs.

Naw I’d rather wake up as a barnacle

Wait sorry what the fraking toaster? Stop me if i'm missunderstanding/interpretting what you're saying, based on clips that are just randomly thrown and have nothing to do with what you're actually saying, but 2:30 sounds a lot like overthinking more than anythin, on your part. The countless deaths and stuff in the anime are just pure comedy, there's no sadness or anything to that anime. The only sad parts of that anime are the character's backstories of how they ended up here. But none of the actual content, is sad, asside for, again, some few moments that are tied to the characters story and stuff. I guess, the most overexagerated would be the moment that one guy just go crazy and decide to replace god or whatnot. That was a bit heavy, but that was it. No need to think deeper. If you're looking at the deaths showing into those clips, like X character throwing himself at kanade clone only to get perforated, and thinking "oh this is so needlessly sad" something is fundamentally wrong xD. Also, otonashi did NOT end up in the purgatory because he had regrets or anything, he was happy with his death as he had saved all the passengers, and then some. Hence why his memory loss unlike the other characters. Otonashi is not a good argument to use here at all. 14:34 please tell me you're not serious? That guy is just a jerk that was thinking about his own survival. He didn't CARE about hurting others or not hurting them. He just wanted to save himself. His own personal suffering didn't push him to hurt others. 15:29 right.... i, give up...here... 15:42 oh my god... and now we're onto "they're bullying her because she's different" really? Really?....

I fail to see the problem with the Dub

Please, Call Me Christ Also did anyone notice that these voice actors were from clannd & there was another voice actress who was in Another

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12:30 definitely mentally ill. Hundreds of millions of people far smarter go through life with no issue whatsoever all based off a simple presupposition, I do now know much, in fact I know very little, let me not make judgements about things which I know nothing about, like for example the "fairness" of life, or if life should even be "fair" in the first place. Stop assuming so much.

dead snow

first mistake watching the dub instead of subbed lol

Why are they called "SSS"😳? Somehow reminds me of Nazi-Deutschland .-.

This dub is a fucking sin.

some of their tragic backstories aren’t as tragic as much as they are self inflicted, just petty immature children

dude please stop watching the dubbed versions, they're rarely any good and often change your experience completely

this show seems very forced in many ways, from the character development to how dragged out the obvious conclusion is. very cliche in many ways