Sunday, December 8, 2013

Angel Beats!

Angel Beats started out as a rather unserious anime, that's to say at least. The beginning, which could develop into some thriller or horror story, turned out to be an action story with major elements of comedy. While it looked like an unpromising teen-oriented title, I found myself deeply involved in it soon after the start. The fact that jokes weren't the most clever ones I have ever heard and that anime dragged fast between comedy and drama, which came later, was repaired by elemental sincerity of this anime - and I laughed at it and gazed at it with a fainting heart in some several minutes, going through the pure and simple drama of its characters. And after its only thirteen episodes I could only sit with my mouth open experiencing endless excitement and sedation, sorrow and happiness, one the same time.


Love is not what two people feel to each other. Love is not what mother or father feels for the child and what he feels for them. Love is not what person feels to his brothers and sisters. Love is all above and yet more. It is an affection and sympathy to all people through yourself and person you call beloved. It is feeling compassion and forgiving. A dream of being forgiven came true. A feeling of being strong in your weakness. Your strongest connection to this seemingly cruel and meaningless world and life. Angel Beats truly shows and gives its viewer the best feeling in the world.

1 comment:

  1. I actually cried every other episode when I saw this, and I bawled at the last episode. It was a fantastic anime

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