Apparently They Have PTSD [02–04]

A Catch Up Post

Dear Diary,

For­give me for neg­lect­ing you. I’ve had some (un)eventful days. Nev­er­the­less, I shall tell you what I think of what’s going on.

The First Sob Story

We all went to the guild, and what do you know? Ten­shi hap­pens to find out about it. This should have happened a long time ago, but let’s ignore that. So we go Indi­ana Jones/James Bond style when try­ing to reach the guild. Some­how I, the male lead, made it through every obstacle with Yuri, the female lead. Totally unexpected.

Ammy: Yay for shipping.

Then I get to hear her sob story. Once when she was a little girl, dudes came into her house (how the hell did they get in?) and threatened to kill her sib­lings if she didn’t give them some valu­ables. They send her out to go find some­thing around the house, all alone. In this time, she could have called the police. From what she told me, Yuri just ran around the house look­ing for some­thing to give them. All her sib­lings ended up dying, and then the police sud­denly came! (Who called them? These little details…) Of course, I have a new found respect for her and see her as my poten­tial love interest.

We finally go to the guild, which we end up hav­ing them blow up. Yuri tells them to blow the place up to pro­tect it from Ten­shi. She then goes to fight off Ten­shi. I helped-ish.

Music Is Damn Import­ant to Some People

We decided to hack Tenshi’s com­puter (which we should have done long ago). To keep Ten­shi and the NPC away, we had our band dis­tract them with pretty awe­some songs. I also learned a bit about Iwasawa.

Her sob story begins with her par­ents arguing. To escape from it, she turned to music. She devoted the rest of her life to music until she hap­pens to suf­fer from aphasia due to her par­ents fights. Well…that really sucks.

We learned Ten­shi doesn’t get her powers from god, so she isn’t work­ing for him. She devel­ops her powers her­self. This brings up the ques­tion about her past, but to keep the story going, we’ll reveal that much later.

Iwasawa’s per­form­ance is inter­rup­ted by Ten­shi, and she gave one last song before disappearing.

Everyone’s An Idiot, Didn’t You Know?

Base­ball. Some­how, this will bring us closer to defeat­ing Ten­shi (?) and all. Hinata, who I think may have a thing for me, decided to recruit people for our team. Unfor­tu­nately, we were left with all the idi­ots. I’ve seen many sides of idiocy now. There is “Yui-nyan ♥” stu­pid, Shi­ina & Broom stu­pid, and Fuji­maki stupid.

After we dis­played our pretty good base­ball skills, Hinata kept zon­ing out and ended up reliv­ing his trau­matic event that cause him to get into drugs and later die. If Hinata caught that ball, it would be good­bye to him. At that moment, I real­ized that I’d be kinda upset to see him go. Yui stopped him from cur­ing his PTSD though, so it’s all good.

–Otonashi

Over­all Thoughts

Angel Beats really loves to set a “ser­i­ous moment” and then kill it for laughs. They’ll even play the music for it. Not sure what the exact term for this is called though. Want to link me a TVtropes page for this?

Call me heart­less, but I didn’t feel much for Yuri dur­ing her whole sob story. It’s like “look at my past! Isn’t it sad? Feel bad for me” and all to me. Iwasawa’s was bet­ter. Pre­dict­able, but hey, aren’t most char­ac­ters pasts like that? She seemed more real than Yuri. That’s why I didn’t poke fun at her past. For Hinata, I had thought he died because the ball hit in him the face. I was wait­ing for that to hap­pen. Turns out he just missed the ball and got into drugs. Drugs are bad, kid­dies. They can kill you. I do like Hinata though and I’m glad to see he’ll still be around. He reminds me of Sun­o­hara from Clan­nad with a bit of Koi­zumi from his “gay” comments.

Thoughts on Yui? She’s cute, too cute. I don’t blame Hinata for being annoyed with her. I am too. Well, I felt this way about Makoto and Fuko before. Maybe I’ll warm up to her?

No real opin­ion on the new open­ing and end­ing. I do prefer the pre­vi­ous ones, but the way they added it in was pretty nice.

Also, I have decided my favor­ite char­ac­ter is TK. He needs more screen time.

Angel Beats is enter­tain­ing me, but that’s all its doing. Hope­fully it gets better.