I don't usually hang out in these threads because I'm not caught up with the game. I haven't had as much time as I'd like. But it's been over a week and I just want to talk about the Angel Beats event.

I loved Angel Beats and a lot of other of Maeda's work but to be honest it's been years for me and I've forgotten all but the most important plotpoints so I came in fresh.

Most of Irie's was pretty heavy and nearly brought me to tears, but I had to take a break for life stuff after the student council celebrates in the cosmos field and I was almost crying (maybe a tear or two) but I felt fine. I thought they did such a good job portraying the unfairness of death. Of what the living do int he name of the death, all the wishes and thoughts they assign to them and all the turns we make our lives take in their name even if it's completely opposite to what they would have wanted. I really felt they recaptured the magic of Angel Beats again.

But then I came back hours later to the last scene and I was just expecting a small conversation witht he main cast. And then they take us back to Irie's grave and she talks about how she can barely recognise Shinnosuke as the boy she went to school and I just started to feel my heart break. He tells her that he's been living with another woman for 10 years and that he has to move on from loving her because it's what the living do and it's not letting him live right. And then Irie asks herself if this even makes any sense, "Can human beings really love so desperately?" she asks and I couldn't.

I cried, and I cried, and I cried then. And I'm going to cry againw riting this. You just feel so much pain for Shinnosuke the boy that lover her so desperately he did all that he did for the student council in her name. You feel so much pain for Irie and the live she didn't live. You feel so much pain for the shel of a man, in his 40s, barely able to love someone shares a house with because he's still holding on.

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Ena would do this