Angel Beats!

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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby Megamom » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:55 am

Base ball is fun if you play with girls :lol:
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby kenisama » Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:22 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:Yes, episode 3 was epic win. I most certainly have taken a liking to this series. It started off feeling like a Haruhi ripoff, but Yuri is the character Haruhi should have been. The music is GOOD. Can't wait for these tracks to become available. Also, speculation but...

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Angel is a regular person like them, who they are using as a misunderstood scapegoat. Her role is to cause them directly or indirectly to move on. (we pretty much get this in ep 3)

Watch the ED in reverse. You have the order that everyone moves on in right there. Yurippe becomes the new Angel.


I was thinking about this on the way to work this morning... and I have to say, it makes sense... and for that I wish I hasn't read your spoiler :nono:
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:39 am

Hey hey, your fault for reading it :P And I was thinking about all this stuff also, and came up with a different idea. Might explain the amnesia for some but not others. And hey, read at your own risk :P

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What if all of them are somehow linked together in a computer system but are just comatose. That would explain the game-like quality of their reality, the ones and zeroes around Tenshi's blade, "Guild," I mean, it's pretty obvious once you think about it. Sortof a .hack type of thing.


Also I might add, there's no use in pretending anymore, I have been completely taken by this show. I love Yui. ;_;
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby kireblue » Sat May 01, 2010 7:50 am

poor Angel. I really feel bad for her.
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby Sukunai » Sat May 01, 2010 9:25 am

So much of ep 05 is just so blindingly stupid that it might make it hard to reach the concert part. The end though saves the ep.

Before the concert I was ready to delete the ep and just pretend it hadn't happened.

Now I'm wondering what 06 will be like.
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby ZephyrStar » Sat May 01, 2010 2:52 pm

Angel...
HHHNNNGGGGGGG
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby Darklydone » Sat May 01, 2010 2:56 pm

Tears in my eyes from laughing so damn hard at the exam distractions. ..After that tho... wow T_T Such a great series ^_^
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby EkaCoralian » Sun May 02, 2010 4:40 pm

Episode 5 had me crying from laughing so hard. Oh gosh. XD
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby Megamom » Mon May 03, 2010 1:56 am

I crying... I laughing O:
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby 8bit_samurai » Thu May 06, 2010 9:50 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:Yuri is the character Haruhi should have been.


This comment is the tipping point that got me to check this out, but I'm going to have to disagree. What was in the spoiler after that is what kinda makes me wanna continue this show, but I dunno...
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby kireblue » Thu May 06, 2010 10:16 pm

8bit_samurai wrote:
ZephyrStar wrote:Yuri is the character Haruhi should have been.


This comment is the tipping point that got me to check this out, but I'm going to have to disagree. What was in the spoiler after that is what kinda makes me wanna continue this show, but I dunno...

you don't agree with that comment? I completely agree with it. Haruhi was a horrible leader. She sucked at strategy and tactics, she had very little concern about the well-being of her followers, and she very rarely helped the SOS brigade succeed at anything. It was always left to Kyon and Nagato to save the day.
Yuri on the other hand is at least a good sniper, and close range fighter. If a plan doesn't work, she's actually smart enough to change it, and she is a better leader than Haruhi could ever be.

On a side note, If Angel Beats ever gets a english dub......I actually wouldn't mind Wendee Lee (English Voice of Haruhi) doing it :rofl:
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby 8bit_samurai » Thu May 06, 2010 11:13 pm

Well, yeah. But it would be like taking Jason Voorhees out of Crystal Lake and putting him in the future on a spaceship and pumped up full of nanomachines. It may sound awesome, but it would turn out horrible. That's how I see it, at least. Or to put it simply, I don't think Yuri has what it takes to fill Haruhi's shoes.
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri May 07, 2010 9:49 am

I have to semi-retract my statement. Yuri seems to be fitting the Haruhi mold more as the show goes by. At this point I'm far more interested in Tachibana as a character. And as far as Haruhi goes, I don't hate her or anything, in fact I love her personality EXCEPT for the fact that she treats other people like dirt. She needs to listen to Kyon. Yuri treats people like dirt to less of an extent, but in the last couple of eps, she's done it more and more. :/

Spoiler :
Either way, with Angel Beats I am starting to mistrust both sides. Tenshi seems to have hidden motives for how she does things, or more how she doesn't react to things. Yuri seems to actually want people to move on. Could it be that secretly their roles are reversed? Yuri started her brigade in order to present enough angst to force people to move on? That her ultimate goal is to save people from being stuck in limbo? Is Tenshi just a bystander who won't move on, thus she became the enemy? Can't wait for ep 6 :O
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby 8bit_samurai » Fri May 07, 2010 3:27 pm

Well, if you aren’t an angel alien, time traveler, or an esper, than your just a waste of Haruhi’s time. I think I’d be jaded if three years of my life of searching for the paranormal were unsuccessful.

I think I had too much time at work to think about this, but here's what I came up with
Spoiler :
I predict that everybody in the school is just a soul waiting to move on, quite possibly even the teachers/staff. And I predict that, as introverted (she seems to work indirectly) and independent (the fact she took the SSS members all by herself and the new president brought an army to bring the others to detention) as Angel is, in order for her to move on is to become a successful class president, and it is the class president’s duty to make sure the other students move on, or possibly an indirect side effect of the job.

One of the things that’s been bugging me, though, is that how Yui-Nyan knew about Hinata’s situation. Given their relationship, it doesn’t seem Hinata would tell Yui about his past, so I don’t see how Yui could interrupt his time to go, unless he was that obvious which it doesn’t seem so, to me, at least. It may be wishful thinking, but I think Yui may be wearing a paper thin disguise (the lil tail thing and the cut-off chains around her wrists) and we may have a third party involved here. But that’s just me.
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Re: Angel Beats!

Postby kireblue » Fri May 07, 2010 10:14 pm

The pacing of episode 6 was a little weird. Everything was slightly rushed, and it really felt like it should have been an hour long special. I would have loved to see the actual battle between the SSS and the new student council president. Also, the whole "your life is real. I acknowledge you" part seemed very rushed and over dramatic.

Anyway, I still love this series. I'm so glad that Mazui decided to sub this. I consider them to be one of the most reliable and consistently fast fansub groups around.
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