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2010-05-02, 02:41 | Link #65 |
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Haha, just be grateful Angel isn't a Zerg player. (Because I can imagine Angel burrowing...)
Another theory is that she is still in this "Purgatory" because she still needs to fulfill one of her desires (I think) which is to make friends. That was why she asked Otonashi if he was okay (or something like that). This would also explain why she seemed a little concerned when Yui was yelling and so open about herself when Otonashi asked for her name. But lets go back to my Starcraft theory...because Starcraft II is released in the Summer and the 13 episodes of Angel Beats! should end right in the middle of summer... |
2010-05-02, 10:07 | Link #66 |
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My crazy theory is that they're all in acoma. The reason why they dissapear is they finally realise they have a reason to live, so they're ejected from the "dream" world and sent back into the real world.
It could end up with everyone dissapearing bar Yuri and Otonashi and in the end they all find each other in the real world? I'm not sure but it's a strange idea. |
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It's kinda of suck when they have to return to real life through. A habit of playing friendly joke would turn them all into murderers
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2010-05-02, 12:08 | Link #68 | |
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2010-05-02, 21:31 | Link #69 | |
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When they're disappearing, it means that they've finally given up on life and are finally and ultimately *dying* Take Iwasawa in ep.3 - in her recollection we see her lying in a hospital with a heavily bandaged head. A coma wouldn't be far off there. Iwasawa's singing and guitar playing kept her will to live going. However, when they were taking that away from her and even wanted to take away her guitar, her most precious possession, that made her finally give up her will to live. After a last song showing her hopelessness, she gave up and disappeared, because she *died* Yuri probably got to know this, that you need to keep fighting to keep living, because if you stop fighting and give up, you'll die - *really* die. Angel is helping the people die - perhaps she views this as a form of euthanasia. This makes Angel a very specific angel, the Angel of Death.
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2010-05-02, 21:53 | Link #70 | |
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2010-05-03, 03:00 | Link #71 |
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It is indeed a coma. Watch the opening for the show. Notice the streaking thing that crosses the screen? It looks exactly like what you see on a life support monitor for a coma patient.
Also, Yuri mentioned that nobody who committed suicide came there. Why? Cause they'd really die. |
2010-05-03, 15:50 | Link #72 | |
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But then that wouldn't explain how they don't age. cause sooner or later they would disappear in droves at the 40 year mark when the bops at the hospital sever the life support.
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2010-05-03, 19:15 | Link #73 |
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The main reason I mentioned the fact them dissapearing is them living, for the main reason of something Iwasawa? said in that very episode. She said something like I realise what I want to do, I want to save people with my music like I was saved by others.
That was what got me thinking, perhaps Yuri knows why she's there and doesn't want to live or die as something bad happened to her in life and she's scared of death? |
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Apparently there's a lot of people in Japan that are all just randomly in a Coma. There must have been some hundred people in The Guild just sitting around making weapons. Being in a coma wouldn't entirely make sense for any character but Otonashi, because they all remembered and recited the situations that brought about their demise. They don't plainly say what killed them, but they clearly know that they're dead. I think that at least somebody in the "afterlife" would remember that their injury wasn't enough to cause death by any means. After all, comas don't always have to be caused by something just short of deadly. Although I'll admit that there's a slight bit of possibility in the comas theory, I think if that were the case they might as well be trapped inside an MMORPG while they're at it.
Besides, I prefer them ascending past the afterlife to a new beginning or something, rather than going back to their lives in which they were just horribly abused or something at some point in time.
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Having take away anything from you, even your most precious possession, certainly *doesn't* result in ultimate fulfillment, it only results in hopelessness and giving up. Besides, if she really would have found which she had been looking for (which she clearly hasn't), she would've certainly sung a happier song. Quote:
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If they'd commited suicide, they'd be really dead and not in that world.
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This does seem to make more and more sense. Although the question is, do they wake up from their coma, or "pass on" to the actual afterlife? Are they just all coincidently in coma's that have them in the same place or are they in some sort of experiment that would drive their consciousness' to the same place (ie are they being hooked up in some sort of lab together)? There is always the possibility of it being a bunch of trolling and red herrings too heh. This series is pretty fun so far, I'm pretty excited to see where this goes but speculation is fun =) |
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The only thing that gave he the will to live and to go on was her singing. This was taken away from her, which hit her pretty hard. When they then even wanted to take away her most precious possession, her guitar, she loses the last bit of her will to live and gives up, and after one last sad song she disappeared because she died. I don't see the slightest bit of fulfillment in this hopelessness. Quote:
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I wouldn't include the workers from the guild there, I'd say they're just some sort of special Npcs which Yuri somehow convinced to work for her. That with the lab experiment sounds rather unlikely imo... I seriously doubt they would use coma patients for experiments.
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