He then lulls the viewers into a false sense of security with a couple of comedic episodes before dropping a tragedy bomb. First, he establishes a cast of one dimensional, but likeable characters, and a zero dimensional main character who is designed to be a self insert for the viewer. For Angel Beats, Maeda twists his tried and true formula by having all the characters dead to begin with, and stuck in some sort of high school purgatory, where a group of kids shoot a little girl in the kneecaps for no good reason.Īs mentioned earlier, Maeda’s stories are very formulaic. His previous hits Air, Kanon, and Clannad have been about a bunch of mentally and/or physically broken high school girls who all fall in love with a guy whose only significant character trait is that he exists, and along the way one of these girls will die of a mysterious illness. You know you want to click it.Īngel Beats has convinced me that Jun Maeda doesn’t know how to write an original story.
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