Episodes: 13
How: Netflix
Grade: B-
Summary: {From MAL}Otonashi awakens only to learn he is dead. A rifle-toting girl named Yuri explains that they are in the afterlife, and Otonashi realizes the only thing he can remember about himself is his name. Yuri tells him that she leads the Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront) and wages war against a girl named Tenshi. Unable to believe Yuri's claims that Tenshi is evil, Otonashi attempts to speak with her, but the encounter doesn't go as he intended.
Otonashi decides to join the SSS and battle Tenshi, but he finds himself oddly drawn to her. While trying to regain his memories and understand Tenshi, he gradually unravels the mysteries of the afterlife.
Thoughts: This was different, It certainly kept my interest which was a bit surprising... It had it's corny moments but then... It also had me on the verge of tears. That sound ridiculous I know, Maybe even a little embarrassing if I hadn't been watching the show alone.
The idea of there being a place where people who had terrible lives go when they die, To sort of "relive" the dreams they couldn't have while they were alive... That really touched me. Since my school years were full of suckage....
Who or what we have....
The Afterlife Battlefront - A group of students in the Afterlife School who battle with "God" and his "Angel" which takes the form of the Student Council President. They are a group of students who refuse to move onto heaven or their next life, It all depends on how you think about it.
The group goes through their days doing crazy, relatively fun and sometimes deadly things. They die, A lot. Though it doesn't really matter since they are all ready dead and just come back again.
The Guild - Housed deep underground with many traps and a high tech security system to ward off/warn them of Angel. They make the Battlefronts weapons, Somehow they can make ammunition and such out of dirt.
The Battlefront ventures down to the Guild early on and most the traps are somehow still armed, Leading to most of the group to be "killed" in rather amusing ways. Of course, Angel infiltrates and the guild has to move.
Girls Dead Monster - An all female band that's pretty famous at the school, Their main purpose however is to act as a distraction for the Battlefronts missions. One which involves stealing the "NPCs" food coupons...
NPCs - Most the Students in the school, If their not a member of the Battlefront or Angel they are pretty much an NPC, At first it's thought that if one of the dead follow the NPCs behavior that they'd disappear, Later on it's shown that the NPCs can be manipulated and turned into "monsters".
These Shadow Monsters eat the Battlefront Humans students and turn them into NPCs.
Yuzuru Otonashi - The main male character of the show, When he arrives at the Afterlife School he has no memories of his past. He first meets Yuri while she is trying to "kill" Angel with an assault rifle, A little confused by the situation he stupidly tries to talk to Angel who then "kills" him.
Further into the series it's found that while he was alive he took care of his little sister, She was his only reason for being and after she died he decided to become a doctor to help sick people. After endless studying he's on his way for an exam and the train he is on crashes.
The crash didn't kill him, at least not right away. He knows he's injured but he takes care of all the other passengers during the 7 days trapped, On the last day he signs his organ donor card and encourages everyone else in the group to do the same. He dies mere minutes before the rescue team arrives.
Yuri Nakamura - She's the leader of the Afterlife Battlefront, Her main rival is Angel for most the series and she's quite the bossy little thing.
I never quite figured out how she died, The story is told that she was the Eldest of Four and that one day while her parents were out of the house and she was babysitting her three younger siblings that robbers broke into their house. These robbers couldn't find where the family had hidden their valuables so they turned to Yuri for help...
Demented help, They wanted her to bring them the valuables and for every 10 minutes they'd kill one of her siblings. Yuri didn't know where their parents kept the valuables so after 30 Minutes, Her sisters and brother were all dead.
Her defiance to die and to attack "God" came from this it seems, Not being able to accept the fact that her innocent little sisters/brother were slaughtered and "God" let it happen.
Anyways, In the Afterlife School she leads the Battlefront into most of their strange adventures and battles. She's the one who shoots the
Kanade Tachibana - "Angel", For a good portion of the show she's the Enemy. She's a bit frigid, showing very little emotion even when attacked or while attacking the Battlefront. She has strange abilities as well, Being able to form blades on her hands, a shield to block bullets and an assortment of other powers.
Otonashi slowly befriends Kanade which causes a whole new set of problems since a dopple Kanade shows up to wreck havoc.
At the end of the show, After everyone but she and Otonashi have "moved on" she finally reveals the reason why she came to the Afterlife School. She was looking for the person who donated their heart to her while she was alive, That person was Otonashi. She had known for basically all the series, From the moment she stabbed him in the chest in the first episode that he was the one.
Of course, She and Otonashi hug and she disappears. I'm not entirely sure if she was even dead... maybe she wasn't dead,dead and was just in a coma and then woke up or something. Who knows...
Yui - The only non main character I will touch on, I loved this girl. She was hyper, cute and extremely annoying! A huge fan of Girls Dead Monster and after the original lead singer realizes her dream and passes on she becomes the new lead singer of the group!
She's just freaking adorable.
Her Living World Story is just sad, When she was two years old she was hit by a car and became completely paralyzed from there on out. It's not really said how she died but.... it was not a happy life for the poor little girl.
She is the first person that Otonashi decides to help move on, She has a long list of things she wanted to accomplish before moving on... some a little insane. Baseball, Soccer, Wrestling Moves.... Getting Married. The last being the most difficult since she felt that no one would ever want to marry a paralyzed girl... Hinata proves her wrong though.
He up and admits that he'd marry her, Paralyzed or not and after that she is able to move on. ;.;
The End: A lot of weird stuff starts to happen a little over half way through the show, Apparently the "love" levels of the Afterlife School had gotten too high and that set some crazy reset events into motion. All of the NPCs start turning into Shadow Monsters and start eating the stubborn humans that wouldn't just move on.
There's a main baddie at the end too but it just gets all clusterfuckish and bank... Yuri kills him. I'm not really sure why I enjoyed the show save for the fact that it was entertaining and just plain silly.
In the End, Everyone accepts their deaths, lives their dreams and move on. A rather disappointing ending really.....
There is a short clip taking place in the world of the living of a guy walking down the street, passing a girl who looks like Kanade who is humming a song that one of the girls from the afterlife sang. This catches his attention and he stops. Meh. Happy Ending sort of?
Favorite Character{s}: Yui, Gotta love the Hyper Ones.
Least Favorite Character{s}: None, No one really gave me the UHG feel.
