# Angel Beats Angel Beats! is a Japanese light novel series by Jun Maeda that started in November 2009 and got a 13-episode anime adaptation from P.A.Works in spring 2010. Its story about teenagers stuck in a purgatory-like afterlife built a lasting fandom that spread across DeviantArt, pixiv, and English-language anime forums. ## Overview Angel Beats! (エンジェルビーツ!, Enjeru Bītsu!) is a Japanese multimedia series that started as a light novel by writer Jun Maeda and grew into a 13-episode anime, spin-off manga, and an OVA[3]. The story follows dead teenagers trapped in a school-shaped afterlife where they fight against a mysterious student council president nicknamed Angel. Fans latched onto its mix of comedy, gunfights, and tragic backstories, which set it apart from typical school-life anime of the era[3]. The show is often talked about for two things: its cast of afterlife rebels, and an ending that hit viewers hard enough to become a running reference point in anime discussion threads[1]. On MyAnimeList the anime holds an 8.5 user rating, and IMDb users score it around 8.1[2], numbers that kept it in recommendation lists years after airing. ## How It Spread Once the anime aired, discussion picked up quickly on English-language anime hubs. Threads and posts appeared on 4chan's /a/ board[4], the Anime News Network forums[5], and Crunchyroll's community pages[6], with Tumblr blogs collecting screencaps and gifsets of the show's biggest emotional beats[3]. Fan art scenes made the series stick. On DeviantArt, searches for "Angel Beats" pulled up more than 27,000 results, and Japanese illustration site pixiv indexed over 14,000 tagged works[3]. Written fandom lived mostly on Fanfiction.net, where the series had over 730 fics, with a smaller pocket of 33 works on Archive of Our Own[3]. By April 2015 the official-style Facebook community page had passed 248,000 followers[3]. Anime News Network's user community gave the series a strongly positive vote, and its high MyAnimeList score kept it inside newcomer recommendation lists long after the 2010 broadcast finished[2]. ## How to Use Angel Beats! is not a template meme, so references usually take the shape of screencap reactions, character edits of protagonist Otonashi and student council president Kanade, or fan art posted with the pixiv tag[3]. In anime discussion spaces, the show's title is often invoked as shorthand for a story with a divisive tragic ending, so newer fans typically bring it up when comparing tearjerker anime[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Angel Beats? Angel Beats! is a Japanese light novel and anime series about high school students stuck in an afterlife, created by writer Jun Maeda and adapted by P.A.Works in 2010[3]. ### Where did Angel Beats come from? It started as the light novel Angel Beats! Track Zero in Dengeki G's Magazine in November 2009, then aired as a 13-episode anime beginning April 3, 2010[3]. ### What does Angel Beats mean? The title refers to the in-story nickname "Angel" given to student council president Kanade by the rebel group SSS, inside the purgatory setting the anime takes place in[3]. ### How do you use Angel Beats? Fans typically share screencap reactions, character art on DeviantArt and pixiv (over 27,000 and 14,000 tagged works respectively), or cite the show when discussing tragic anime endings[3]. ### Is Angel Beats still popular? The anime kept an 8.5 rating on MyAnimeList and around 8.1 on IMDb, and its Facebook fan page passed 248,000 followers by April 2015, keeping it a regularly recommended classic[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663759/]() 2. [https://myanimelist.net/anime/6547/Angel_Beats]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/angel-beats]() 4. [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11433]() 5. [https://boards.4channel.org/a/]() 6. [https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/]() 7. [https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Angel%20Beats!/works]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/angel-beats Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library