“That’s something we say here all the time since no one dies here,” she adds, now speaking normally. Sniper girl whirls around and quickly yells, “What? Why? Why the hell go down there? That doesn’t make any sense! What the hell made you say that? Are you an idiot or what? Go die!” That first scene when he awakens near sniper girl has the following cringe worthy exchange.Īfter seeing no threat from the small silver-haired girl, he says, “Listen, how about I go down there?” Then we have what can only be described as the “anime” dialogue. His dialogue in some scenes will be no more than one question after the other. Half of the script consists of Otonashi asking questions on behalf of the audience (oh, what convenient amnesia), so that others can explain everything.
Moreover, Angel Beats needs a stronger script to pull off the drama. By trying to make everyone matter, no one matters. Have more characters than the core group, by all means, but don’t make them all matter. The writer needed to cut down on characters. Even with such a relatable theme, these scenes extracted nothing from me. The story is a metaphor about moving on from high school and having to say goodbye to friends – possibly for the last time – which is relatable to just about everyone in the audience (if you’re still in high school, you can relate to leaving primary/middle school friends behind). No emotional moment in Angel Beats worked for me. You see the ending coming eight episodes away and yet it’s still ham-fisted.
You don’t care about anyone before they leave. It gets worse when you remember the episode count and calculate that there is no way to accommodate so many characters. They can only pass on once they make up for a regret in life, which means a shoehorned tragic backstory for each person is imminent (sniper girl’s is laughable, even with dead kids involved). The quality falls as you progress further into the story, figuring out the goal is to give each character an emotional send off before they depart limbo.
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