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Angel Beats!: Season 1

13 episodes Premiered Apr 2, 2010 Updated Jul 31, 2026

Angel Beats! is set in a mysterious afterlife high school, where deceased teenagers are sent to come to terms with their regrets and unfulfilled desires from life. The world appears as a typical Japanese school, but it's a liminal space between life and death. The story primarily follows Otonashi Yuzuru, who wakes up in this afterlife with no memory of his life. He soon encounters a group called the Afterlife Battlef

Season overview

Angel Beats! is set in a mysterious afterlife high school, where deceased teenagers are sent to come to terms with their regrets and unfulfilled desires from life. The world appears as a typical Japanese school, but it's a liminal space between life and death. The story primarily follows Otonashi Yuzuru, who wakes up in this afterlife with no memory of his life. He soon encounters a group called the Afterlife Battlefront (SSS), which fights against the student council president, Tenshi, whom they believe represents a cruel system controlling their fates. The series is an animation that combines elements of comedy, drama, science fiction, fantasy, and action-adventure genres.

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Episodes

S1·E1

Departure

Apr 3, 2010 · 26 min

After a mysterious accident, a young high school student wakes up to discover he is caught in some kind of violent afterlife where a strange and avenging Angel is pursuing him. Con

S1·E2

Guild

Apr 10, 2010 · 24 min

Realizing they need more weapons in their battle against Angel, the group descends into the Guild. But once there, they realize that all of the hallways, staircases, and passageway

S1·E3

My Song

Apr 17, 2010 · 24 min

With the aid of a new member, the genius hacker, “Christ”, Yuri and the Battlefront decide to break into Angel’s lair and steal secrets from her hard drive. To distract the NPCs, t

S1·E4

Day Game

Apr 24, 2010 · 24 min

With the lead singer of Gldemo now obliterated, a replacement must be found. The manic, high-strung Yui tries desperately to assume the role. Hinata, meanwhile, seeks to avenge a m

S1·E5

Favorite Flavor

May 1, 2010 · 25 min

To strip Angel of her scholastic power, Yui devises a plan for the Battlefront to replace Angel’s test results with bogus ones. She will be shamed, stripped of her title of Student

S1·E6

Family Affair

May 7, 2010 · 24 min

When Angel is believed to be breaking scholastic code, Naoi uses this infringement to exert his growing power and places both Angel and Otonashi in a prison within the school. They

S1·E7

Alive

May 14, 2010 · 26 min

Now that Naoi has seemingly joined Battlefront, Yui persuades Otonashi to let his powers of hypnosis help him recover his memories. But Otonashi may not be ready to remember such a

S1·E8

Dancer in the Dark

May 21, 2010 · 24 min

With Otonashi's and Angel’s newly formed alliance, dark and powerful clones of Angel have begun attacking the Battlefront with greater aggression. They must return to the trap-rigg

S1·E9

In Your Memory

May 28, 2010 · 26 min

With the Angel clone situation becoming uncontrollable, Naoi proposes that they once again call upon the genius hacker, Christ. Meanwhile, Otonashi begins to remember his past.

S1·E10

Goodbye Days

Jun 4, 2010 · 27 min

Otonashi decides that the high-strung singer, Yui, needs to be pushed into finding peace and “moving on." To do so, he enlists Angel who shows him her new weapon: the dark and evil

S1·E11

Change the World

Jun 11, 2010 · 26 min

As Hinata and Otonashi talk with Naoi, something strange happens: his shadow takes an enormous, evil form and engulf him. Weapons are powerless to stop the creature. Making matters

S1·E12

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Jun 18, 2010 · 27 min

The Shadow monsters show no signs of stopping as more Battlefront members and NPCs fall victim to their strange, marauding power. Yuri takes a dangerous trip into the darkened Guil

S1·E13

Graduation

Jun 25, 2010 · 26 min

When she awakens from her dangerous solo mission, Yuri finds her surviving friends in Battlefront seem to have found peace. In an impromptu “graduation” ceremony, they all take ste