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Angel Beats is Key’s latest anime series. The story revolves around a teenager named Otonashi Yuzuru, who stumbles upon a girl with a sniper rifle. He later learns through this girl that everyone in this world is already dead, and that she’s trying to find a way to fight against the God of this world for her unfair life. Otonashi eventually joins them, and their battle against Tenshi, who is supposedly the key to finding God.

Angel Beats has an excellent plotline. Although the first couple of episodes might seem slow, boring, and more or less just for comedy, the story develops itself into a masterpiece. Also, like many other of Key’s works, Angel Beats has a lot of plot twists that’ll keep viewers on their seats.

The animation and visuals for Angel Beats is first class. From the concerts that GirlDeMo hosts to the backgrounds to the character work, the amount of effort and detail can be clearly seen. Even in non-important scenes, you can see that the background and props were very detailed (such as the floors of the classroom).

Angel Beats possess a very beautiful soundtrack. From the action scenes tot the comedic moments to the tear jerking revelations, the soundtrack wonderfully accompanies and enhances the viewer’s experience. A thumbs up is also given to the GirlsDeMo band songs, which besides giving a sudden change to the mood, sounds very very good.

Overall, Angel Beats is a very entertaining anime series for the Summer 2010 season. If you’re looking for something to watch, this is the show! Unfortunately, you’ll suffer from Angel Beats drawbacks after watching this series, because you’ll want to know what happens after. Don’t worry however. An unreleased episode will be available in the DVD this December, and I bet it’ll cover all the little things that’s been nagging us.

Score: 9/10

Episode six of Angel Beats was finally released over last weekend, which means it’s time for a mid-season review of the series.

During the beginning, I had rated the show an 8/10, saying it has many “great promises”. Don’t bother looking for the post though, as our database had a little hiccup within these six weeks’ time.However, from our current impression, here’s what we’d give it:

7/10

“Why that drop of a point?”, the inquisitive one asks.

“OMG you Key hater! maeda Jun izz da best!!!!111″, screams the Key fans.

But here’s the deal on the score drop. During episode one, the main plot really did progress. The main character woke up in an unknown world, and got recruited by Yuri to try and erase “Tenshi”.

However, as the season progressed on, the plot trickles, and at times, doesn’t progress at all. For the next five episodes or so, the story goes on to explain how people in this world survive, how they can form their weaponry, how “Tenshi” tries to keep public order, and why people get erased. Which is fine for any anime, but considering that Angel Beats! is only 13 episodes long, that’s one really long six episode introduction. And unless they’re planning on throwing out season two really soon, I’m expecting hordes of angry fans wanting more.

Speaking of “more”, how many more characters are yo going to erase/introduce? What is really going to happen if you get erased? Where is God? These questions still remain unanswered.

That’s why I gave this show a score drop to 7.

My favorite character so far would have to be:

Tachibana

What about you?