Mou Nani mo Kowakunai (Angel Beats EP 2)
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I love the way she moves
Her hands, her calm closed eyes
I love the way she sways the time
Without a hint of lies
She plays the cast to liveliness
Her fingers feel the tune
The background takes my breath away
My mind is all but strewn
I can’t believe I feel this way
It’s only the OP
Doth Tenshi take my breath away?
What’s this? It’s Angel Beats!
You might just think me rash
For not typing formal prose
These couplets reek of silliness
But couplets I compose
A mission brief a leader calls
To Guild they must descend
Hang in their Otonashi-Kun
Your will must never bend
Ten soldiers fight the wrath of god
Ten soldiers climb below
Ten soldiers full of brotherhood
Just two of them will go
Noda-kun seems so brave and strong
But Baka Noda Be
He wields his axe with certainty
Till hammer squash the flea
This slowmo shot’s hilarious
On the floor I dothest roll
But Angel Traps are not a joke
Thank God? They’re only souls
A rolling ball for tunnels seems
If anything cliché
Thou make me thinkest Indie Jones
Be in this anime
But sadly souls from SSS
Aren’t all as smart as Yuri
Rolling stones don’t gather moss
Takamatusu’s they prefery
Ten soldiers started out this trip
But only eight remain
Hinata liketh Otonashi
But not in a gay way
Oyama forgets many things
But clearly he should not
When dangers lurk in every room
With traps their path is fraught
Matsushita bears the brunt of this
Unfortunate for him
His massive bulk impressive be
But just when he has limbs
Ten soldiers started out this trip
But now just seven stand
Otonashi smiles the smile of terror
What awaits our merry band?
“A cozy room is sometimes nice”
TK would disagree
“His sacrifice won’t be in vain”
“Let’s go” proclaims Yuri
Ten soldiers started out this trip
But just six carry on
Wait, make that five: Oyama falls
His death that of a pawn
The five remain in deaths cold grasp
Above Abyss they hang
Poor Yuri sways in pain she holds
Like bell recently rang
Otonashi ciimbs the ladder slow
For humans it’s comprised of
And Yuri he must soon feel up
Could this be blooming love?
Hinata falls a sacrafice
For placing lustful hands
Ten soldiers started out this trip
But just four meet demands
Fujimaki’s clearly nervous now
“You did well” he concedes
“But, newby you’re the next to go”
The funny farm he seeds
Ten soldiers started off this trip
The water trap leaves three
Cute ninja please don’t leave those two
A chaperone they need
Alas she does not heed this wit
For cuteness she does see
Her safety is her last concern
For doggy she dost leave
Shiina we’ll miss your awesomeness
But somehow we’ll proceed
Ten soldiers started out this trip
Plot exposits we need
And what of Yuri Bright and Dark?
Her past is morbid dreams
If memories like that I had
I’d fight, and kick, and scream
Brave Yuri you are not alone
An SSS you’ve built
Rebel you did against the world
To bury unjust guilt
The guild before me blows my mind
P.A. woks is the best
I want to watch it all again
But now’s the action fest
The Angel cometh through the traps
They do not but deface
Her stoic mouth is hauntingly
Of Schwarzenegger grace
Behold the final battle scene
As Yuri ducks and weaves
Two principals can’t coexist
When neither side will leave
Badassery is what I say
When Canon rocks the floor
But facepalm is all they receive
When their asses end up sore
So blow up Guild with all they’ve got
Those SSS they do
And Tenshi falls down to the fire
She must be awfully blue
But Guild is not a place at all
It’s the people that they are
With memories the end won’t come
Their guild will be on par
Otonashi sums the whole thing up
Our moral compass lead
He shows us Yuri’s firm resolve
She smiles, utsukushi
And stricken I am once again
The ED starts to glow
How can her haunting voice be strong
Sweet Lord I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don’t think I can handle how good Angel Beats! is…
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man you make me cry :cry:
Wait, I don’t understand… Is this crying a good or bad thing?
I think its just the beauty of your poetry lol, I’ll be back to appreciate it more later but I’ve been busy and I need to get working on some of my writing first here, love the screencaps.
Great job Dustin, I loved reading this creative review. Man I felt the same way, it was like every other scene had me telling myself “its can’t be this good, oh yes it is!”.
I cannot believe how dark Yuri’s past is. Its hard to fathom how anyone could even devise a event so cruel. It was obvious that Otonashi sees her and the SSS in a new light after that was revealed. I
m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to keep going, not in that life or the next.
Guild itself and more importantly its destruction was definitely a high point. Watching a textbook demolition was fun. Tenshi falling started with a few badly drawn frames but looked pretty cool once she randomly started to twinkle while falling into the burning put.
Some people around have been saying the traps part was a little cliche and dumb but honestly with 13-eps and a cast this large it gave us a 10 minute sequence that let us learn a bit more about the characters while having a pretty good time. They even threw relationship development in there, props to them. Hinanta’s precious sacrifice was the best.
This is going to be an amazing ride, keep it coming!
Haha great verses! :D
While this show doubtlessly stays on my watchlist like glue, I’m a lot more mixed about what I feel about it. The one major thing I disagree with you about is P.A. Works. I think.. they are doing a somewhat sub-par job, with shockingly bad production values in the first ep (thank heavens it’s better this ep) and overall lack of interesting directing. It also feels like we’re not milking some of the going-ons enough, like we’re walking through everything somewhat linearly without deliberating on or lingering with some of the more interesting elements. I do admit that I’m pinning them up against KyoAni and Shaft right from the get-go but that’s only natural given the nature of the show no? :P
The OP and ED are surprisingly good though as you noted. The material itself is definitely intriguing stuff. I just cannot shake the feeling that it could all have been a lot better with a solid budget and a really strong animator behind the show.
@descent
Those are exactly the kind of people I addressed my post “To all the Mayoi Neko Overrun Haters”. Basically they’re dumb if they want original content all the time. Saying this show is 90% original is pretty amazing if they actually stopped and thought about it, but they didn’t. They want to find fault in it because they can’t stand to see people praise it, or something along those lines.
This isn’t all of the people who have problems with angel beats, just the ones who would point out something like that.
@Jason
I replied to your comment in the post “The Angel’s Beat” today.
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