Sunday, June 20, 2010
i would say i'm rather impressed with the latest Angel Beats! episode, it was a short climax but touched on most of the meaning of life which i think is great...with all the shadows on the lose, Kanade who has the "largest" offensive power, take out most of them in the meantime where Otonashi, Hinata and Naoi prepares for their next plan. While moving out, Otonashi sees most of the SSS members outside and the remaining members of GirlsDeMo tells Otonashi that they would accept his proposal of moving on and they themselves know that it is a path they have to take sooner or later. Hisako tells Otonashi that the short time they had to leave a fruitful youth was already enough for them and everyday was fun. After telling Otonashi that they'll form a band in the next life, Hisako and the other members departed from the world. Soon after, Hinata, Otonashi and Naoi were attacked by a shadow and rushes into the school grounds where they could hardly find any NPC at all, all they saw were just shadows everywhere. It turns out that the other members, Noda, Ooyama, TK and the rest were not ready to disappear yet and helped in fending off the shadows, even a miraculously skinny Matsushita joined in after some intense slimming down in the mountains. Shiina approaches Otonashi and tells him to leave this place to them and asks them to move on first. Otonashi then brings Hinata and Naoi with him and leaves the battlefield. Meanwhile in Guild, Yuri encounters more and more shadows as she ventures deeper and knows that with her handgun, she'll not be able to reach her final destination. Luckily enough, she meets Chaa who tells her that the Guild will now disband as the SSS are now ending the whole fight and then disappears after passing Yuri a larger ammo capacity gun. Yuri wasn't given a chance to rest at all and was quickly ambushed by a shadow from behind and somehow Kanade felt something was wrong too in the battlefield. Yuri then awakes to find herself in a normal classroom and that she was just a normal students with her friends too. However, Yuri knows that all this was fake and that it would really be a happy life she would've led if she had lost all her memories and started anew but if she did that, it wouldn't be her real life anymore as everyone only has one chance in life and that is why she chose to fight the life she had. With that, everyone in her class disappears and she's quickly overwhelmed by masses of shadows and had almost drowned until she heard Otonashi calling out to her and manages to pull her out. Hinata, Naoi and Otonashi had reached her in time with Kanade's help, who was also with them, as they somehow sensed her in danger. The gang then slowly approached the final location with a huge number of shadows defending that place. Without hesitation, Kanade leaps into the whole mass and clears all of them in a split second. Otonashi asks Yuri to move on first and will take care of the approaching shadows in the meantime. Yuri then finally reaches her destination and inside the room, it was as what she had expected, stolen computers showing the NPCs being "eaten" away, causing the birth of the shadows. And there, she finds the mastermind behind all this. Yuri deems him as someone who was programmed to do all this and when she asks about what exactly was the Angel Player, the teen merely replied that it was a software which allows someone to create or change anything in this world, just like how the Guild managed to produce weapons from dirt. The teen then reveals that it was love that had caused this to happen as with love manifesting, this world would be an eternal paradise and everyone would not wish to move on which contradicts that this world is trying to do. He continues to say that on a rare occasion, someone who has led a fulfilling life could still venture into this world if they had lost their memories and it would be a bug in this world. That particular person was the creator for the Angel Player. Among the NPCs lies the programmer who because of love, wrote a program to make him into a NPC as he could maintain his mind after somehow whom he loved left the world first. He tells Yuri that she could become the one ruling this world but she would not do so since she wanted to help the others move on and that was her main aim, and the source of the love manifesting was from her as well. With that said, Yuri destroys all the machines in the place and feels that with everyone saved, she felt empty and sees her siblings telling her that it was already enough for her and thanks her for thinking about them for so long. Yuri later awakes to find herself in the resting room with Naoi, Hinata, Kanade and Otonashi beside her.
it did felt rather rushed at the front which MOST of the members disappearing so quickly... like "poof~" and their gone... but with that left aside, it was nice to see how the climax concluded, with that unknown dude (Mr. Athrun Zala from GS, no wonder his voice sounds so familiar) appearing for only a short short while. Well, Yuri's life was indeed terrible for her and with that kept inside for so long, it would finally be time for her to move on. At the last moment with the rest standing beside her, does it mean that the others (TK, Shiina, Noda etc.) have already disappeared? with the climax now being over, the next episode, which is also the last, would be more "gentle" in a sense and would most probably show the remaining few moving on. Kanade's past being shown in the next episode? she's the only one left whose memories are still kept unknown among the remaining duds... am hoping for a nice ending too... one more week to go =X
HIIIYAAAA~ KANADE POWERHOUSE~
