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Angel Beats! is an emotional, heartfelt anime. Quick to the point, (this is an extensive review but this is the reason it is the 4/5 and not another rating) this anime is beautiful and has the story arc, music (Angel Beats! music is really good, the upbeat ones and the downbeat ones (pun intended)), character design, and voice acting. All the elements fit together so nicely and makes a lot of sense, the only thing is; the 13 episodes isn't enough to make you really sympathetic towards the major SSS characters, even though 13 is enough you get you close to them emotionally and accomplishes that goal, and restless. Everyone is dead in a level of the afterlife, limbo. Limbo is a state where restless souls are put because these souls curse god "a cruel life" and "It isn't fair". Their soul, their literal essence of existence and what makes a person exist, has not completed its goal. When a soul is at peace, they transcend onto their next life. Angel Beats! is about these badass souls that had a life, unlike the "NPCs" that exist because they're lost, soulless, they're not a person, were not a person. These souls, the SSS, fight Angel because they aren't at peace with their lives, and don't accept it. Limbo is where they complete their soul's goal, in the most real way possible (limbo is the afterlife, but it's still "life".) Angel Beats! an awesome Anime that is a MUST WATCH for anyone. Angel Beats! is one of those rare animes that are hard to find, in a good way. Now, some people are confused and ironically, aren't at peace, like the rest of the souls. If you watch the entirety of the final episode, you will understand and finally be at peace and understand. Yuzuru died before Angel, however Yuzuru was at a higher level of the afterlife, waiting to be thanked by Angel, here's why; Angel was given a heart transplant, and that heart was Yuzuru's heart. Angel never thanked him and so she went to limbo because she had a regret, not thanking the donor that had basically, given her life. When she thanked him, and was confessed to by Yuzuru, that he loved her, she would finally be at peace. Now, just like the souls that are at peace and at terms with their death and ready to move on into their next life, we move with them because we are at peace with the resolution with the show, standing with them during their graduation. Angel hums a song for apparently, no reason, HOWEVER, post-credits onto the end scene (watch the entire final episode) this girl that looks a lot like Angel hums the EXACT SAME SONG, with this man that looks bizarrely like Yuzuru, goes and can safely assume, talks with her. Unspoken, the other major SSS characters probably reunite, because after all, their friendship was carved into something greater than a physical "love" but their literal existence, their soul, their friendship. You could say Yuzuru is the bootleg god because later on, he asks the angel (Angel) for help to bring everyone to peace and move on, which she accepts to help. This last part was something that is not cannon in any way shape or form, just something symbolic I picked up during my watch of Angel Beats!

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is a heartwarming Anime, yet sad, happy-sad, a feeling of being proud, and healing. Large amounts of emotional movement that you HAVE to watch to understand. It doesn't seem like a massive tearjerker or a great feeling of emotions everywhere where you can feel, just wait until you watch all of it. It builds the characters and slowly moves into the wish Menma needs to be granted before she goes to Heaven. All the characters are deep and you begin to feel sympathy for all of them. The end is really sad and moving, just take the time to watch it, until the end, if you can don't skip the credits to feel even better. Jintan, Anaru, Yukiatsu, Poppo, Tsuruko, all work together to become friends again after moving away when Menma died. They move to grant Menma's wish to rejoice and to move forward as friends... but never forget about Menma as they move forward. They're all The Super Peace Busters, all 6 of them, forever.

This Anime is really well done! First, I'd like to say that I am not a large Anime fan so I barely even know the terms used in Anime. Anyway, Toradora! is an amazing and heartfelt Anime; I have not watched many Anime up until now, BNA, Beastars, Violet Evergarden, Kill la Kill were a few I watched. Boy, the previous Anime I watched were good but don't come close to Toradora! (in being a Romantic-Comedy combo, yet very heartfelt (emphasize on "Romantic" and "heartfelt")) Toradora did make me cry with lots of tears in happiness and sadness, happy that I got to watch an amazing Anime, and sad that it will never be the same, I already know the whole story, it will never be the same when re-watching it. I rated this 5 of 5 because it's quite easy to binge, and not only that, Toradora! has a beginning that's warm but not the connection you experience later on in the One Season Anime. Toradora! is about these two, simply at odds in the beginning, get closer and closer until the season's final episodes (watch to find out). The episodes in the middle, really create the world and who is what and how things work. The middle and juicy part of Toradora! is what brings it together, you will understand once you watch it. Toradora! is about love, school, friends, helping each other, and connections. Where Taiga lives in a rich apartment because her parents are rich, and Ryuji lives right next to her, in the smaller apartment. I love the way the show slowly connected them, from just being connected because of friends, then going into each other's place of living, and then... love that slowly became apparent to them. IT'S JUST REALLY HARD TO DESCRIBE IT, OKAY? I may be wrong in what I just said so take it with a grain of salt. Watch Toradora!, however, read the rest of this review before you do. The feelings it gives you are so strong and lots of sympathy to each of the main characters in Toradora!. The music is really nice and at times, the music was the extra piece that really moved me to an almost complete sob. If you are the faint of heart, then the music will really make you sad, happy, all the feelings. Even if you are not the faint of heart, the music really compels your feelings to pour out of you. If you want to watch an Anime of a lifetime, watch Toradora!. I am not a major Anime fan but as a person who just barely got into Anime not long ago, this is really good, the story arc, characters, everything... Sad news: I never stated the good news but that's because everything above was the "good news". Anyway, it's been a decade since this Anime was created, and was only recently added to Netflix. I do not think this Anime will get a season 2, the ending isn't 100% clear but still very solid and easy to grasp the ending; however,(SPOILERS) - it doesn't take a genius to figure what the quite visible fibres connecting this story and how it happened. (There's no bad news because the Anime was really good, unless you think "bad news" means no more Toradora.) I am writing this review as I just finished watching it. Be aware, as you go into this, do not expect a second season. Netflix has taken in lots of Animes, and people think another season is coming because Netflix has the licence to show this. However, this Anime was really good... It isn't dead space yet... Who knows, maybe the studio that created Toradora! will create another season wrapping everything up to the ending Toradora! deserves...