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If you're expecting any fan services, harem, cliche joke or mainstream presentation from this series, You won't find any of these in this series. Not so many Action, Sci-Fi anime can be good without using those things but this anime just made it possible. However, this anime is too underrated than it actually is.

Story: 8/10
Story of the world in 2039 where all the sea transportation has been blocked out by a group of mysterious warships called "Fleet of Fog" which has more advanced technology than mankind's and ended mankind's long last history of involvement with the seas.
The story seems a bit too much of fantasy ... and too unreasonable. However, there is only a few flaws other than this one. The way the story takes it's pace is very good. And Filled with warm-heart scenes which presents moral.

Art: 10/10
The first thing that impressed me when I first watched this anime is it's art. Superb graphic and animations. New-generation graphic of rendering character's animations was used in this anime which still imperfect but it's really shows the contrast of how better it is between old-generation and the new one. The background and the effects also very good, as well as how they adjust the light and flares effects. And I'm impressed by the camera angle and composition adjusting of this anime which be able to show the meanings and stories out of it. Not just the sound and the context shows the story but the camera angle and scenes compositioning as well.

Sound: 10/10
Yes, this anime got music composer from the DMC series. Made out perfect soundtracks. Made almost all the scenes more emotional. As well as the opening theme, ending theme and inserted songs by Nano which absolutely perfect. I really love the song "Silver Sky", the violin sounds really nice.

Character: 9/10
Very good characters design and planning. All of them looks nice and implementing with the new-generation graphics, it's perfect. Characters' personality and acting is good. Each characters has quiet a unique personality and decision which makes them unique as an individual.

Enjoyment: 9/10
This series way of presenting is really enjoyable. Filled with Action, conducted by Fantasy which based on Sci-Fi, a bit taste of Romance and presented in Seinen way. Nice combination. Moreover, this series presented lots of naval tactics which really made me enjoyed it.

Overall: 9/10
This is a great series. I pretty much understand why it is underrated by the community. Different of individual taste and enjoyment made it hard for this kind of best-of-nothing-but-good-at-everything anime for getting high scores. But for me, I really recommend this anime. I really enjoyed it and I hope you can enjoy it as well. :)

After anime adaptation of 3 Key Visual Arts Series, Angel Beats!, the fourth series was aired in 2010. Which this series is almost completely different from previous three.

Story: 9/10
Story of people in the world after death, fighting for their only ideal, to rebel against god. This series has a great story which contains various feeling and mood in one story. Those were nicely sorted and presented through the events which move the story forward scene by scene and perfectly faded out at the end. This kind of unique story was made of the real imagination of the original creator. It's not easy to create a ... story like this and make it well balanced. So the score should be 9.

Art: 10/10
Created by P.A. Works, the art is very good. Nice drawing, nice character animating, beautiful background and nice special effects. What seems to be very outstanding is the way they use light and reflects of light which makes arts looks perfect. That's the reason I gave this series' arts 10 points.

Sound: 10/10
All the music and original soundtrack is excellent. Original Soundtracks has their own unique mood because of unique composing style of the OST composer who completely understand the mood of the story, Jun Maeda. Makes all the songs in this series excellent. And again, full 10 points was given away to sound.

Character: 10/10
Various character with each own unique style and personality. Which those personality is reasonable if you looks into each character's past and experience, you can understand why they got such a personality. Each character has their own style which all of them play an important role in the story. This way of character creating is perfect.

Enjoyment: 10/10
The way Angel Beats! present it's story, makes watchers feel like they do really participate in all the event in the story. This makes watchers really enjoy and go along with the story. Lulled by nice soundtrack and musics really makes more enjoyment for watchers. 10, that is.

Summary:
This series is a real excellent work which all the staff really put all their effort into making this. The strong will of the original creator and his perfect story makes all the staff really put all they effort into making this series as good as possible. And they success doing so. Strongly recommended for you who is reading this review and haven't watched this yet. Watch it, and you won't regrets doing so.

Thanks for reading, beg your pardon for any mistakes.
- FTaira -

After finished first season I went to second season straight ahead. Carried lots of hope and expectations from how good first season was. And I was a bit turned down by this season.

Story: 8/10
Actually, this season's story is pretty good since it's developed from the first season. Changed some point of view and deepened the story details from first season. It can make a perfect season but that's not what creator seems to present it to us.

Production/Directing: 6/10
From the first season, the director did a very nice job on directing. Great presenting, scene picturing and give us the perfect mood he want to present from ... the story. Technique he used to present was very good and can makes watchers really enjoy the series. BUT in this season, it's totally different. Director try to put everything into watchers head to make them excited but he puts too much. That's makes watchers get bored, this arc still not continue, why begin new arc? And then he leave the second arc unfinished like that and present another arc. And what's the most important is how he present the story. His presenting technique was dull, no tactic at all. He try to make a mystery and try to hint it to watchers but he hinted too much. And he did this with the whole story. But in the good side, the story seems to be able to understand easily. Softcore watchers can enjoy it as well. So it'll be 6 for producing.

Art: 7/10
Everything is better in second season about graphics. Especially, Drawings. All characters drawings is very good. But animation and character's action is too unnatural and feels wrong. In some action scenes, It's really annoying me about how they move around so careless in enemy territory or how they hold their gun. Sometimes when they needs accurate shot, they hold the gun using only one hand, in the same time those who only shoot suppressing shots hold the gun and aim nicely but only hit trees and rocks. But overall graphics seems good to me so 7 is a proper score.

Sound: 10/10
Now quit depressing and gets some praise. Every musics and original soundtrack in this season is PERFECT. Actually, I start watching this series because of ending song of second season that composed by legendary song composer and story writer, Maeda Jun, sang by legendary singer, Lia. After listened to it first time, only understand 60-70% of lyrics(I didn't looked at Eng lyrics) but I loved this song already. One of my favorite anime song ever. Original Soundtrack is SUPERB. Every songs filled with feelings from composer. Especially, I like "Main Theme" the most. I like how it's develops mood from zero to highest, step by step. 10 is not too much for sound of this season.

Character: 8/10
Yeah, character design and planning is perfect. Everything was planned by the story writer which all ruined by the director of the second season. The things that most important of a character in a story is his/her personality which based on his/her past and experience. Personality is not easily changed. Personality will slowly changed from character's environment that makes them change or a very important incident that changed his/her way of thinking. Enough technical matter, let's continue. The director made the personality of second season's character changed too often without reason. He just did it because it'll fit to the story he want to present. That's why I give it 7 but the original character was perfect so I lifted the score to 8.

Enjoyment: 8/10
Enjoyment is really a personal opinion. For me I enjoyed it's story so much. I feel moved by this series story. And I enjoy every music in this second season. But yeah, back to blame the director. I feels a bit down because of how the director present the story. Makes it less enjoyable. So 8 must be a proper score.

Overall: 8/10
This series is enjoyable. You can watch it and enjoy this series. If you're not expect much about directing that is. For me, I wrote short film story before and I made lots of short films so I knows lots of technical things that needs to be done in making a film. When I saw someone did it wrong, it's definitely makes me feels annoyed by natural. But I really enjoy this anime so I'll give it 8.

English is not my first language so there may be some grammatically mistakes, sorry for that. Writing this helps improving my English. xD
Hope you enjoy my review. If there is any opinion that conflict with yours, I beg your pardon. It's my first review after all.
- FTaira -