Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Anime Review: Angel Beats!

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Supernatural

Opening Theme: "My Soul, Your Beats!" by Lia (1-3 and 5-12) performed by LiSA (4)


Staff: 
Director: Seiji Kishi
Character Design: Katsuzo Hirata
Art Director: Kazuki Higashiji
Chief Animation Director: Katsuzo Hirata

VA staff Sub
Yuri Nakamura voiced by Harumi Sakurai
Yuzuru Otonashi  voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya
Kanade Tachibana voiced by Kana Hanazawa

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I believe anime is a world of its own bringing the viewer into the show and immersing the viewer in what the show has to offer. I felt this anime solidified my confidence in that rule with its Characters, Animation and Sound quality in which I want to share my thoughts in my review of Angel Beats!

The characters were the reason why the show felt unique each of the different characters brought something different to the table. The characters really lacked much development apart from the main characters of Yuri and Yuzuru with a bit of back story given to Yui during episode 10 this I thought was a let down when  looking at the series as a whole. in all the characters were unique and individual and this was to the shows benefit giving an appealing reason to watch to find out what happens to each of the characters.

Katsuzo Hirata out did himself with angel beats having a magnificent display of backgrounds in deep colour and characters that were created to match with intense action scenes animated with perfect quality bringing me to call his work a masterpiece. together the combination made an anime that gave a feel to match the mood that the anime was portraying.


Opening 1: My Soul, Your Beats! by Lia

Opening 2: My Soul, Your Beats! by LiSA


The music was a mix of pop and background that gave a lot of the emotion and set the mood along with music from GDM with LiSA's lead during the majority of the anime with the best moment being the fight scene mixing animation, music and great directing into one scene. Also giving great props to changing openings as it adds a mood to the anime that is unique to every episode to the extent of completely different animation and music for episode 4 for the introduction of Yui

Overall the emotions I felt while watching angel beats will last a life time I would love to give the anime a perfect 10 however the imperfections in characters and the short air time of 13 episodes (while it needed to have 24-25 eps as the ending felt rushed) left me disappointed with the ending so without further ado my judgement of Angel Beats! is as follows

Characters
8.4/10
Animation
9.5/10
Sound
9.2/10
Personal Enjoyment
9.7/10
Final Verdict
9.2/10
Giving a final recommendation to buy it while directing people who liked it to shows like Air and Clannad

As of August 2013 Angel Beats is licensed by the following companies

Australia - Siren Visual
NA - Sentai Filmworks
UK - Manga Entertainment

You can also watch Angel Beats! via crunchyroll's free streaming service here

~Ota~

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