Angel Beats is an after life anime where teenagers who have meet an unfortante end in the real life find their way to a new school. From there they can eventually find their way on to heaven thanks to Angel. However, there are some students who don't want to be forced from their school lives and are fighting against Angel.
The leader of the resistance group is Yurippe a young girl with a brilliant tactical plan to defeat Angel so that the school kids can carry on how they like. They fight with weapons made from dirt and an awesome school band for distraction.
Then a young boy with no memory arrives to a strange place and is killed outright when he questions Angel about who she is and why he's there. Soon enough he's enlisted into the fight against Angel and their world starts to unravel when that young boy gets his memories back and becomes friends with Angel. The entire plot does a flip flop as Angel starts helping the kids and the young boy finds his job is to help the others discover their own paths out of the School yard limbo land.
Some other things happen to keep the action going and soon enough the young boy and his friends have helped those fighting to find their way on to a new life. Even Yurippe finds her way to a new life and it's only the Angel and the young boy left. It's at that time that we find out that it was Angel who was lost and looking for her long lost friend that gave her his heart and it turns out that the young boy was her friend during their life and when he died he gave her his heart so that she could live a normal life. Once this is discovered Angel disappears after thanking the young boy and while the show fades to black at that moment we know that he soon found his way as well.
I loved this series and hope that the powers that be license it here in the states so that more people can enjoy the roller coaster series. It's definitely not your typical series and it reminds you that Anime can be good still.
Here's a preview clip for Angel Beats
