But once I began watching the show in earnest, I found a lot more here than I expected. I have to admit that I first started watching Angel Beats because of two main reasons: the pretty visuals, and the presence of guitars. However, questioning the morality behind their actions, Otonashi takes a step behind the enemy lines to understand the opposing side of their common fate.

The group's leader, Yuri Nakamura, recruits Otonashi in their fight against Angel in order to take control of their own lives. Feeling wronged by God during their earthly lives, the school's residents have decided to form the Afterlife Battlefront-a rebellious faction determined to oppose their god-like student council president, Kanade 'Angel' Tachibana. Taking the form of a high school, this bizarre dimension is designated to shelter those who died unwanted deaths. Waking up with no previous memories in a dimension between life and death, he discovers the unsettling truth of the afterlife.

However, the burning question of what happens to the soul after one dies is soon answered to 17-year-old Yuzuru Otonashi. Death is one of many mysteries that has left humanity in the dark since the dawn of time.

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