Series synopsis
Angel Beats! is a Japanese animation comedy drama sci-fi & fantasy action & adventure television series that premiered on CBC on April 3, 2010. It ended on June 25, 2010. It stars Hiroshi Kamiya, Harumi Sakurai, Kana Hanazawa and Ryohei Kimura.
Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.
Premise
Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Otonashi (voice)
- Harumi Sakurai as Yuri (voice)
- Kana Hanazawa as Kanade (Angel) (voice)
- Ryohei Kimura as Hinata (voice)
- Yuuki Masuda as Fujimaki (voice)
- Yumiko Kobayashi as Ōyama (voice)
- Shun Takagi as Noda (voice)
- Megumi Ogata as Naoi (voice)
Guest cast
- Eiichiro Tokumoto as Matsushita (voice)
- Takahiro Mizushima as Takamatsu (voice)
- Michael Rivas as TK (voice)
- Yui Makino as Yusa (voice)
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Iwasawa (voice)
- Fuuko Saito as Shiina (voice)
- Hiroki Touchi as Chaa (voice)
- Keisuke Oda as Guild member A (voice)
- Chie Matsuura as Hisako (voice)
- Satoshi Tsuruoka as Robber (voice)
- Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Takeyama (voice)
- Masahito Yabe as Iwasawa's father (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 18 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 5 | May 21, 2010 | June 24, 2015 |
| Season 1 | 13 | April 2, 2010 | June 25, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Weekly Toro Station 29: Angel Beats! Joint An introduction to the Angel Beats! universe distributed through the PlayStation Network and later bundled on the 7th BD/DVD released on December 22, 2010. |
May 21, 2010 |
| 2 |
Stairway to Heaven Set between episodes four and five, Yuri comes up with 'Operation High Tension Syndrome', encouraging the other members to behave as wildly as possible, so they would appear to be enjoying school without disappearing. Yuri hopes this will make Angel wonder what's happening and lead them straight to God. |
December 22, 2010 |
| 3 |
Another Epilogue A short OVA depicting events after the ending of episode 13. |
December 22, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Departure After a mysterious accident, a young high school student wakes up to discover he is caught in some kind of violent afterlife where a strange and avenging Angel is pursuing him. Confused and afraid, he joins a band of gun-toting teens intent on destroying the Angel and taking their destinies into their own hands |
April 3, 2010 |
| 2 |
Guild Realizing they need more weapons in their battle against Angel, the group descends into the Guild. But once there, they realize that all of the hallways, staircases, and passageways have been rigged with deadly traps. It’s a race against time to see if they can get through the violent maze before Angel catches up with them. |
April 10, 2010 |
| 3 |
My Song With the aid of a new member, the genius hacker, “Christ”, Yuri and the Battlefront decide to break into Angel’s lair and steal secrets from her hard drive. To distract the NPCs, they use the girl group Gldemo. But when the teachers interfere, the lead singer suffers a shocking fate. |
April 17, 2010 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | CBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 3, 2010 |
| Last aired | June 25, 2010 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Friday at 14:00:00 |