{"id":4938,"date":"2010-06-26T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2010-06-26T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T00:40:19","slug":"angel-beats-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/06\/26\/angel-beats-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Beats Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well THAT was <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.animesuki.com\/showthread.php?t=94844\">controversial<\/a>! Some people like it and some people<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seiha.org\/2010\/06\/angel-beats-13-character-rape\/\"> really hate it<\/a>. (All these links are full of spoilers of course.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t hate it. I still feel this was one of the best shows of the Spring season (but the competition isn&#8217;t fierce.) Still, I was originally hoping for something more, something on the level of the other <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> adaptations of Jun Maeda stories that I have seen: <a href=\"\/fun\/2008\/02\/18\/air-tv-anime-review\/\"><em>Air<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"\/fun\/2008\/01\/07\/kanon-2006-anime-review\/\"><em>Kanon<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"\/fun\/2009\/07\/02\/clannad-season-1-anime-review\/\"><em>Clannad<\/em><\/a>. All of these were better executed and have far more emotional impact.<\/p>\n<p><em>Angel Beats<\/em> seems more like an intriguing first draft that COULD have been truly great with a rewrite and a demanding editor. This is the first time Jun Maeda has actually written an anime series. The other stories were written as <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#visual_novel\">visual novels<\/a>, and adapted into anime by someone else. Writing VNs probably doesn&#8217;t teach you everything that you need to know about pacing and character development in a television series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chizumatic.mee.nu\/angel_beats_--_finish\">Steven<\/a> claims that the ending is totally illogical. I don&#8217;t really see a problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href='javascript:void(null);' onclick=\"s_toggleDisplay(document.getElementById('SID1227247324'), this, 'Show &#9660;', 'Hide &#9650;');\">Show &#9660;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='SID1227247324' style='display:none;'>\n<p>Otonashi says that he &#8220;wandered into this world.&#8221; He might have been wandering for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, many viewers have the impression (which I suspect is correct) that Kanade never really died. &#8220;Even now, your heart is beating in my chest.&#8221; Her desire to thank the donor caused her to drift into this world while under anesthesia. From the standpoint of her physical body, the whole thing has taken place within the space of a few hours. (Also she&#8217;s probably an elementary school student in the real world. That would explain her short stature and her overly-literal, childlike personality.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>All in all, an interesting story, even if the execution is flawed. If Kyoto Animation could remake (and greatly improve) <em>Kanon<\/em> four years after Toei&#8217;s original version, perhaps in another four years&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well THAT was controversial! Some people like it and some people really hate it. (All these links are full of spoilers of course.) I don&#8217;t hate it. I still feel&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/06\/26\/angel-beats-ends\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-angel-beats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}