Anime | Manga Angel Beats! Ending Discussion (Spoilers)

[Exlon 165]

So I just finished watching Angel Beats! for the second time. The last time I watched it was three years ago, and I kind of forgot how sad the ending was. It totally killed me. I cried.

 

Anyway, I think what's unsatisfying about the ending of the series is we don't really know what happened after. Or like, what that little clip at the end after the final credits was about. There are three possibilities I've heard:

 

1) It's more of the genuine "afterlife," where Otonashi finally found Kanade again. (What I want to think, but I don't know.)

 

2) It's another universe where people are reborn or reincarnated into. (Personally I'm not sure the point of restarting a life all over again?)

 

3) It's a memory of Otonashi's in which he remembers seeing a girl that might have been Kanade. (But I find this most unlikely, and also it would kill me. )

 

I don't know, what do you guys think about the ending? Do you have your own idea for what might have happend afterwards? Something you wish was the way it was? Or you can just talk about how you feel about it, because that's cool too, hahaha. I was heartbroken when Kanade made peace and moved on, leaving Otonashi behind. I always get really hung up on the tragic moments of a series, like when Xion died in Days.

[KHfan4 106]

I thought it was a relatively sad ending. I cried a bit. I thought it was a good ending though.