ANGEL BEATS "PLOT Holes" REALLY!
Good day to all the good people out there hope you guys are well, today I am going to start the first part of my series on the so called "angel beats plot holes".
first of all I would like to thank Jun Meada for this amazing piece of anime. I am impressed by his writing skills and the amount of research he undertakes before releasing such fine works of anime including Clannad, Air, Kanon, Angel Beats and most recently Little Busters!. he is an excellent Wrighter, producer, composer and manga/anime author. In fact he is one of the best writers of our time and i rank him right up there with the likes of Frank Darabont,
Aaron Sorkin, James Cameron, Cristopher Nolan, Mac Walters (Mass Effect2 the video game), Hayao Miyazaki and ofcause Katshiro Otomo.
My article will be based on an answer from yahoo answers where i asked people to name "Plot holes" in the angle beats storyline and I got this response. . .
"The most commonly brought up ones are:
-Otonashi's lack of memory. Although an explanation for memory loss being common as a result of head trauma in provided in the first episode, Otonashi's death was caused by internal bleeding and he did not suffer memory loss prior to death.
-Death and arrival in purgatory being out of sequence. If we accept that Kanade really does have Otonashi's heart (which you kind of have to) then Otonashi should have arrived in Purgatory first (though, he wasn't supposed to come there in the first place) . However, his arrival occurs a considerable time after Kanade and, presumably, the events of Track Zero.
These are the only two which are actually plot holes, though I like to think they where put there intentionally to alude to the idea that 'somebody' (God? The guy who designed Angel Player?) was pulling strings behind the scene and wanted Otonashi to be the savior of that world since it would have otherwise been eternally stuck at 'SSS vs Student Council' or ended in a re-set. A common theory for point 2 is that death order is reversed or that the flow of time is somehow altered, but this seems arbitrary and not like Maeda who, though find of his supernatural dues ex machina's, usually still justifies their existence.
The others mostly come from people who think that anything that wasn't explained was a plot hole even if it had nothing to do with the plot, like:
-Not every character got a back story
-The identity of the person who created Angel Player is never explored
-It's never directly confirmed that its Kanade (or, rather, her reincarnation) in the end sequence (who the hell else would it be...).
In conclusion, my opinion is that the plot holes in Angel Beats are the result of people not using their brains, and Jun Maeda putting to much faith in the intelligence of his audience and their ability to look beyond what they are being told and work it out for themselves. The only fair criticism of AB! is that the the Otonashi x Kanade romance kinda comes outta left field (though, if the grapevine chatter is true, the show is only half the length it was intended to be).
Email me if you want more of my thoughts on the subject. See also my thoughts on SAO (posted to "your site)."
link: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131211233110AA8sEgn
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-Otonashi's lack of memory.
Okay to better understand Otonashi's memory loss ( and most of these questions that are asked) one needs to first look at the main theme of angel beats. Angel beats is an afterlife animation that means the plot could be anything really because no one really has evidence of the afterlife besides religious scripts of cause and in this story there are many religious as well as scientific aspects on the depiction of afterlife, so to better understand angel beats you need to have an open minded approach and for once just gather some information on other religious beliefs, cultures and stop being stubborn . Paul Coelho once said " its one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but its another to think that yours is the only path."
We know that Otonashi's died from internal bleeding and not head trauma, so that explanation is ruled out. but we have to except the fact that there could be countless reasons to his memory loss due to the fact that anything is possible in the afterlife, but one thing people should or have forgotten to factor into this story is that the afterlife is timeless and not bound by the rules of this world, I know it hurts the mind doesn't it so anything could've happen whilst Otonashi's soul was floating around lost, (wondering) we know he said he actually wondered into that world but here's a bombshell everybody missed the part where Otonashi's hints that he choose to forget about that life, he choose to forget because he couldn't come to terms with the fact that he couldn't achieve what he wanted, that his life was a waste and though most people would disagree his story is by far the saddest .
-Death and arrival in purgatory being out of sequence
The answer to this question lies mainly in the last episode where Kannade says to Otonashi that she has been WAITING FOR HIM IN THAT WORLD. . . i can already tell some of your brains are already working. So she knew he was going to be there. . . how did she know. and she knew his soul was lost. why his soul was lost remains to be answered but its beautiful and i hope you all saw it.
"These are the only two which are actually plot holes, though I like to think they where put there intentionally to allude to the idea that 'somebody' (God? The guy who designed Angel Player?) was pulling strings behind the scene and wanted Otonashi to be the savior of that world since it would have otherwise been eternally stuck at 'SSS vs Student Council' or ended in a re-set. A common theory for point 2 is that death order is reversed or that the flow of time is somehow altered, but this seems arbitrary and not like Maeda who, though find of his supernatural dues ex machine's, usually still justifies their existence."
Couldn't have said it better i really like this explanation.
"In conclusion, my opinion is that the plot holes in Angel Beats are the result of people not using their brains, and Jun Maeda putting to much faith in the intelligence of his audience and their ability to look beyond what they are being told and work it out for themselves. The only fair criticism of AB! is that the the Otonashi x Kanade romance kinda comes outta left field (though, if the grapevine chatter is true, the show is only half the length it was intended to be)"
well said.@Jesse Blackley .
There really is some dumb people out there who really do make me wonder about the future of the human race. and to be honest I really don't know whats wrong with you if you hate this anime.
