Sunday, 16 December 2012

Angel Beats!

Another friend-recommended manga.

I started to read it, because there was nothing else to read, and it turned out to be interesting.

When people die, but they die unsatisfied, they will go to a world where it will give them peace and pleasure. This world is a generic school, there most of the teachers and students are programmed with generic personalities to accompany the humans. A girl named Yuri believes that there is a "god" who is pulling the strings behind  this world, and she wants to meet and defeat him. She gathers a team of other dead humas to form a resistance group against this "god". The story is told from the perspective of a schoolboy by the name of Otonashi. Throughout the story, they are able to gather up many different comrades -- a time-traveller, an idiot, a gunmaker, a mage ("mage"), and many others.

For the most part, their enemy is the "tenshi". She is the student council president. The resistance club has named this girl "angel", and she possesses supernatural powers.

^that's the Angel for you

^the hand sonic, Angel's supernatural weapon. 


Although i enjoy reading it, there are some things that bother me. 

The tenshi protects the defenseless. 

Yuri has used this fact to lure in the tenshi many times. Yuri renders herself defenseless while fighting others. Then the tenshi protects Yuri. However, Yuri is utterly determined to destroy the tenshi and use her to lure in "god". 


Also, why does Otonashi keep following Yuri? This question has been bought up many times in the manga, but i feel that it was never really fully explained. 

And...why doesn't Yuri just happily pass on? Why is she so determined to meet this "god"? This question might be answered in future chapters...but I'm not so sure.