Angel Beats Episode 12

Actually that is confusion...but close enough XD

Err….yeah people. Exactly. Go episode 12 of Angel Beats!

X_X What did I just watch? What is going on?! How can an episode have so much dialogue and leave me so confused? Clearly Angel Beats! is talented in that department.

So…yeah. Spoilers. If you can understand them.

Stop ruining the dramatic moments with random weirdness! XO

Episode Summary: Otonashi, Naoi, and Hinata are having a strategy meeting in the old headquarters. Outside in the hallway are all the nonimportant SSS members and the DGM group. They tell the boys they are done and are going to move on and other lovely stuff. Then they disappear. Naoi and Hinata fight over who loves Otonashi more when the smoke monsters come to attack them. They run outside and help Tenshi take out the scary baddies. One by one all of the important SSS members arrive on the scene, showing that they decided not to move on and have stayed to fight. Everyone is in character except for Matsushita who lost like a million pounds. Yuri has made it to the deep parts of Old Guild but is having some problems due to the increase of smoke monsters. Chaa (leader of Guild) appears and gives Yuri a better weapon. He moves on (although it is unclear if his men moved on or went above to help with the fight) and Yuri progresses through the tunnels.

Yuri is overtaken by the smoke monsters and it appears she turns into an NPC. She has a hard time adjusting as she keeps remembering the battle and eventually she breaks through the spell. Well that and Tenshi sensed something was wrong and they (Hinata, Otonashi, Tenshi, and Naoi) went down into Guild to save her. There is a slightly cute reunion but they press on. Tenshi blasts most of the smoke monsters away but everyone but Yuri stays behind to handle the leftovers. Yuri finally makes it to the room where all the stolen computers are being held. A young man is there acting weird. Confusing conversation takes place about a man who made the Angel Player program and his reasoning behind this world. The boy implies that Otonashi existence in the world brought an imbalance thus a wipe had to be taken. The boy says that Yuri has the power to become god in this world and she almost takes that gift. But then she goes postal and blows up all the computers and the boy disappears. Yuri starts to feel as if she is going to move on and attempts to fight it. Her dead siblings appear and tell her it’s okay, she’s done enough. After a really fast ending song/scene (with everyone still present) Yuri wakes up in the clinic with Otonashi, Hinata, Tenshi, and Naoi looking at her. THE END!

I think we are getting a happy ending. Or at least we better.

X_X Seriously people.

Biggest Loser wilderness edition!

I will start with the “boring” stuff and work my way to the complicated and WTF. First on this list is Matsushita and his apparent diet success. X_X WTF was all that stuff? I thought he looked fine before. Not everyone is a string bean. Some people are bigger and healthy at the same time. But now Matsushita lost a few pounds and is hot? I guess someone had to replace Takamatsu with the rockin body.

We are here to say goodbye even though you don't know us.

The remaining members of the Girls Dead Monster and the non important members of SSS go poof. How amazingly predictable. Of course the other nonimportant members didn’t get to say anything but…at least they were in the background for a few minutes before they poofed. I do like that the GDM said goodbye and said their peace to Otonashi. I am confused on how all these people just POOFED as I thought you needed to move on from you past regrets. I didn’t think they could just go POOF because smoke monsters were trying to make them NPCs. I can see them not wanting to fight anymore and moving forward eventually but instantly? I am having a hard time following that.

We are men! Behold our power to look special while holding shiny objects!

So as amazingly unpredictable as the nonimportant SSS members all poofing the important SSS members have stuck around. We are going to ignore my last paragraph as I go…WUT?! What exactly is everyone trying to protect? If everyone was about to be killed by smoke monsters I would get out of dodge. I mean, they stay and fight. They win against the smoke monsters. Then what? Tenshi is not their enemy. They know moving on is what they are supposed to do. So are they going to stay in this world after the danger passes? I AM GUESSING NOT JUDGING BY THE NEXT EPISODE! So why bother staying and putting yourself in danger when you could go (when you are going to GO anyway) and be safe? DOES NOT COMPUTE!

I'm sensing we are not getting an explanation about TK and his...TKness.

So putting aside that their reasoning behind staying and fighting when fleeing would make more sense….it was kinda nice. Due to how the episode ended I think that might be the last time we see everyone together. Or maybe not. Maybe everyone will graduate together. But that was the last battle, the last chance for everyone to fight for and with each other. The next episode everyone will disappear and HOPEFULLY be reborn together. So it was nice. And random. Totally knockin’ on heaven’s door.

I am sensing the happy. Really I am.

Yuri nearly gave me a heart attack with her nearly NPC moment. A small part of me was hoping that maybe she would run into Takamatsu and he would be saved BUT I GUESS NOT! I thought her speech was a little dramatic but Yuri is a dramatic person so it fit.

I LOVE HIM MORE!

Hinata and Naoi following Otonashi around is still super cute. It wasn’t AS cute as last week but still AW. Wait for me Otonashi. Let me have your back Otonashi. Let’s fight together one last time Otonashi. I love it even if neither relationship is possible. XD

I was expecting more of a fight I think...

Moving on to the WTF moments. Who was Yuri talking to?! X_X I am so confused. Like seriously wtf is going on confused. I get WHY most of the stuff is going on in regards to the Love system…thingy. I get that someone made these programs to protect himself and the world because it’s the rules. His name is probably Ben or Jacob. But who is this random guy telling Yuri all this crap? Surely he is someone who wanted to move on right? He poofed so I am guessing he moved on. Did Ben/Jacob make him stay there until the world ended or something? Was he really Ben/Jacob?
WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?!

I swear if Yuri is somehow connected to this love, waiting too long thing I will lose my mind X_X

I am so confused. I would have liked it better had the person who MADE this world was the one explaining things. If Yuri could have asked more specific questions. If it made sense. But I do get that Otonashi is the one who “ruined” the world. That I understood so I get a cookie right? I am not understanding this program stuff and why the person who created the program couldn’t move on if he wanted to BE with this person. X_X Such confusion. But yay for Otonashi bringing love.

When Yuri had that crazy moment I almost had another WTF face. But then she smiled and showed her true character. No matter how angry she is she understands that she can’t be a god and that running this world isn’t her purpose in life. She was able to move on with the help of her dead siblings and she shot down all the love computers. Poor dead NPCS.

I would have a hard time moving on from this too.

I think that there could have been more build up to Yuri coming to terms with her sibling’s death. I think it would have been more moving had everyone but Otonashi disappeared from the world and they left together, to be with everyone else. But Yuri has been in a bad place for a long time so maybe this was a big moment for her. She didn’t need something THAT dramatic to bring her back from the edge. Or maybe Yuri realized that it was episode 12 and episode 13 needs to include scenes of the kids being reborn. Yuri was like CRAP I need to get my sad story done right now or it will never happen.

So…we aren’t going to see how any of the SSS members really died. We aren’t going to see most of their back stories. And at this point I don’t think this world is really going to be explained. X_X But I am still hoping for a cute ending with everyone meeting up on Earth again. Hopefully. At least no more explodey confusing stuff.