

However, when he woke up, he had no memory of his past, so it's possible that he was brought into limbo for the sole purpose of fulfilling Kanade's regret.

Signing to be an organ donor and encouraging others to do so, he brought hope to his fellow passengers and passed right before they were rescued, meaning he shouldn't have been stuck in limbo. So why was Kanade already there when Otonashi died? When he remembers the circumstances of his passing - starving to death after being trapped in an underground train tunnel - he remembers that he died with no regrets. Since Kanade had Otonashi's heart, Otonashi must have passed away long before Kanade. Many fans also bring up the point that Kanade was in the afterlife before Otonashi was. Many people believe this to be the true ending since it's the most recently released one, but others believe it's merely a cutscene that occurs before Otonashi is reincarnated. Yet in Angel Beats!: Another Epilogue, Otonashi is shown to have assumed the position of student council president and is helping students pass on, while the other students speculate he is waiting for someone, who audiences can presume is Kanade. Many people believe that the story ends here, but the final cut scene shows a reincarnated Otonashi recognizing a reincarnated Kanade in the living world and tapping her shoulder. This is where the ending gets a little hazy. Thanking him, she leaves the afterlife, leaving Otonashi heartbroken. Sadly, she reveals that her main regret is not being able to thank her heart donor for helping extend her life, whom she reveals is actually Otonashi. Eventually, when it's just those two who remain, Otonashi confesses that he has fallen in love with Kanade and wants to stay with her and help others pass on. Realizing this, Otonashi and Angel, whose real name is Kanade, help the other members of the Afterlife Battlefront pass on. When one of the members of the Afterlife Battlefront moves on after fulfilling her wish to perform music and Otonashi regains his memories with the help of hypnosis, he decides to befriend Angel and learns the purpose of the afterlife is for residents to overcome their regrets from when they were alive. She serves as the student council president in the high school-like setting they are trapped in, and she's a supposed associate to the unseen God who apparently runs it.

They fight against Angel, a silver-haired girl with supernatural powers. A rifle-wielding girl named Yuri invites him to join an organization she founded called the Afterlife Battlefront - a group of high schoolers who rebel against the unfairness of their circumstances toward an unseen God. This supernatural isekai starts when protagonist Otonashi awakens to realize that he is dead and doesn't remember anything except his own name.

Originally airing in 2010, Angel Beats is notoriously known to have one of the saddest anime endings.
