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Angel Beats! -Heaven's Door- #2
Angel Beats! -Heaven's Door- 2
ガルデモ誕生秘話＆短編描き下ろしも！
アニメのみならず現実のオリコンチャートまで席巻したバンド 「Girls Dead Monster」。その誕生秘話が、今初めて描かれる!!
アニメのみならず現実のオリコンチャートまで席巻したバンド 「Girls Dead Monster」。その誕生秘話が、今初めて描かれる!!
194 pages, Paperback
First published July 27, 2011
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October 9, 2020
Grup üyelerini tanıma ve yeni üyeleri toplama cildi gibiydi yine, konu henüz pek ilerlemedi. Daha bir aksiyon olduğu da söylenemez, fantastik slice of life tadındaydı. Hafif merak uyandırıcı bitti, ilerleyen bölümlerde neler olacağına bakacağız.
August 23, 2025
*Light Spoiler Warning*
Gunna start this by stating that Iwasawa is one of my favorite anime characters of all time. I suppose she's the closest thing I have to an "anime waifu," but even that doesn't really touch how I feel about her. She's the personification of what it means to be a musician who was herself saved by music. She does get a full episode dedicated to her in the anime, which is a lot more than most characters get. But like the rest of the show, it's not nearly enough. I was so happy to see her appearance so early in the manga, given her early disappearance from the anime. A lot of things that were vaguely hinted at in promotional art and material outside the anime are pretty much confirmed here. They do her justice even without being able to hear her music in the show. When it got to the part where she played Crow Song for the first time, I had to stop what I was doing and go listen to it.
It's kind of shitty that the show so many people wanted and knew Jun Maeda wanted to tell was locked away in a manga that doesn't even have a proper official English translation. For some reason, they only translated the first volume? I'm having to bounce between scanlations of varying quality to make any sense of the fan translations. It's making me a bit nostalgic if I'm being honest, because that's basically what we had to do back then. Translator tools weren't nearly as good as they are now. If you wanted to read something popular in Japan that barely moved the needle in the States, then you had to kinda work for it.
I feel that if they dropped some of the genre tropes (namely, the random fan service) and turned this into a full-length prequel or just made it the whole show, I think it actually would have broken out into a mainstream Western audience the way shows like Death Note and Attack on Titan did. As I stated in my review of the first volume, one of the biggest sins of Angel Beats! was that it was way too short, and it came out at the weirdest possible time for anime. I'm not kidding when I say that most people didn't even know what Crunchyroll was, which is probably hard to believe now if you weren't around back then. This aired on TV in Japan and was actually one of the earlier shows to be simulcast on Crunchyroll, but you had to be a very early adopter to even know what that was. In Japan, this show had huge live concerts, hour-long radio shows, and endless promotional material supporting the show. In the US, we didn't get anything close to that.
I'm just happy to have some way of enjoying the manga now, even if it never got an official English release. I'm still seeing people finding the anime for the first time, which makes me feel less alone in my enjoyment of the series. This show has a weird way of making me nostalgic for what I now regard as the shittiest time in my life. Shows like Angel Beats! and Ouran HSHC were the closest thing outside of music that I had to comfort. I remember only having the time to watch an episode a day while eating my daily bowl of after-school ramen. To say I was depressed would be something of a laughable understatement. This show got me through hell. I assume the nostalgia I feel for this and the other Japanese media I consumed at the time (Ouran, Pokémon White and Soulsilver, Wind Waker, etc) is less from the time period and more for the comfort these games and shows gave me. They were the tiny drops of water that kept me alive. I hope other people find this and feel less alone in the world.
"That's when I came across the band, Sad Machine. I heard the vocalist also had a rough home life, and that when things were painful for him, he'd cover his ears with headphones and escape into the world of music. I started trying it too. It was like everything was being blasted away. Like the vocalist was screaming for me. That he was singing for me. Those who put on an act of common sense were wrong. The ones who cried were right. We, the lonely ones, were truly human. The music screamed at the unfairness that existed and destroyed it. It saved me." ~Masami Iwasawa
Gunna start this by stating that Iwasawa is one of my favorite anime characters of all time. I suppose she's the closest thing I have to an "anime waifu," but even that doesn't really touch how I feel about her. She's the personification of what it means to be a musician who was herself saved by music. She does get a full episode dedicated to her in the anime, which is a lot more than most characters get. But like the rest of the show, it's not nearly enough. I was so happy to see her appearance so early in the manga, given her early disappearance from the anime. A lot of things that were vaguely hinted at in promotional art and material outside the anime are pretty much confirmed here. They do her justice even without being able to hear her music in the show. When it got to the part where she played Crow Song for the first time, I had to stop what I was doing and go listen to it.
It's kind of shitty that the show so many people wanted and knew Jun Maeda wanted to tell was locked away in a manga that doesn't even have a proper official English translation. For some reason, they only translated the first volume? I'm having to bounce between scanlations of varying quality to make any sense of the fan translations. It's making me a bit nostalgic if I'm being honest, because that's basically what we had to do back then. Translator tools weren't nearly as good as they are now. If you wanted to read something popular in Japan that barely moved the needle in the States, then you had to kinda work for it.
I feel that if they dropped some of the genre tropes (namely, the random fan service) and turned this into a full-length prequel or just made it the whole show, I think it actually would have broken out into a mainstream Western audience the way shows like Death Note and Attack on Titan did. As I stated in my review of the first volume, one of the biggest sins of Angel Beats! was that it was way too short, and it came out at the weirdest possible time for anime. I'm not kidding when I say that most people didn't even know what Crunchyroll was, which is probably hard to believe now if you weren't around back then. This aired on TV in Japan and was actually one of the earlier shows to be simulcast on Crunchyroll, but you had to be a very early adopter to even know what that was. In Japan, this show had huge live concerts, hour-long radio shows, and endless promotional material supporting the show. In the US, we didn't get anything close to that.
I'm just happy to have some way of enjoying the manga now, even if it never got an official English release. I'm still seeing people finding the anime for the first time, which makes me feel less alone in my enjoyment of the series. This show has a weird way of making me nostalgic for what I now regard as the shittiest time in my life. Shows like Angel Beats! and Ouran HSHC were the closest thing outside of music that I had to comfort. I remember only having the time to watch an episode a day while eating my daily bowl of after-school ramen. To say I was depressed would be something of a laughable understatement. This show got me through hell. I assume the nostalgia I feel for this and the other Japanese media I consumed at the time (Ouran, Pokémon White and Soulsilver, Wind Waker, etc) is less from the time period and more for the comfort these games and shows gave me. They were the tiny drops of water that kept me alive. I hope other people find this and feel less alone in the world.
"That's when I came across the band, Sad Machine. I heard the vocalist also had a rough home life, and that when things were painful for him, he'd cover his ears with headphones and escape into the world of music. I started trying it too. It was like everything was being blasted away. Like the vocalist was screaming for me. That he was singing for me. Those who put on an act of common sense were wrong. The ones who cried were right. We, the lonely ones, were truly human. The music screamed at the unfairness that existed and destroyed it. It saved me." ~Masami Iwasawa
January 3, 2021
4.75 ★
November 12, 2013
I didn't like this volume as much as the first, because I found it rather confusing. We suddenly switched from one set of characters to another, and in this place playing music is considered fighting? *Raises eyebrow* Well I did not expect that...
Again, the images are still to a good standard, I found it hard to tell what was being said/thought and by who.
Overall, I don't know how this compares to other manga since this is the first I've read. I enjoy the bits with Yurippe and stuff but not the 'magic music' stuff.
Again, the images are still to a good standard, I found it hard to tell what was being said/thought and by who.
Overall, I don't know how this compares to other manga since this is the first I've read. I enjoy the bits with Yurippe and stuff but not the 'magic music' stuff.
May 3, 2020
Funny but little bit confusing.
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