Angel Beats! Another Epilogue

A much needed piece of Angel Beats to really leave with a satisfying conclusion. On par with the show and its clear that this was meant to be included in the show itself. Nevertheless, after watching this years after the show, I was much more satisfied with what this offered as a conclusion than the show, and I'm pretty sure you will be too. It feels like damage control to the actual very last bit of the show where they almost backtrack some of the themes they had set up throughout the show. This is a very genuine and honestly necessary piece to get full ... closure.

I liked it; but I'm not sure why or how this has picked up a theme of being an alternate ending an all. Without dropping spoilers for Angel Beats; this is clearly just what happened after the season finale; and before the credits. No one has any idea how long a time span went from the end of the show and the ending credits, so it seems pretty obvious this is just a glimpse of what happened in between the two points.

Seems like it could be a preview to a season two that at least at this time never came out. That's about it. ... A two minute short. I enjoyed it, but there was nothing big about it. I liked it for what it was.

Trying to be everything poorly instead of just being one thing as best as you can be really kills media for me. It's true for this franchise more than most.

The original Angel Beats series, told a story, that had an ending. What's more the ending was easily the best part of the series, as the first half was littered with throw away distractions that were tangential to the story line and often undercut it. Matter of fact the creators weren't above needling the audience about that.

"The operations that Yurippe comes up with are always messed up"
----Hinata, Hideki, Angel Beats Hells Kitchen

That said, the ... second half of the series told a damn good story.

Now this comes along and you have that story made meaningless. This is on top of the fact that there are now two separate manga series that redefine what the the story was , effectively turning the show into a MAD LIB of a story and robbing it of the power it should have.

Do yourself a favor and stay away.