yeah, was also a little confused...
guess we will find out in the upcoming episodes

The real world sucks, no one would be as physically healthy as they were in Purgatory. Hell some wouldn't even be able to talk.

I think when they refer to "the real world" they're referring to when the reincarnate after they disappear.

The world with Hinata visiting Yui in bed was all just a dream.

posting more evidence.

>>35822383
What's to say the entire afterlife in their current world isn't just a dream as well?

Yui in this episode was fucking adorable. Pure HNNNNNG. Why couldn't she have been like this the entire show instead of her usual annoying self? I understand she was her usual annoying self because she was bedridden while alive and trying to live this second life to the fullest, but this Yui destroyed my nutbladder, and I want more of that.

I hope reincarnated Yui is still cute ;_;

"real world" just means not the purgatory that they are in, or even the world that they were in before they got there

>>35822668
If you find paralyzed cute, then yes. I sure as fuck do.

>>35822700
Then how do you explain >>35822526 and
>>35822402 ?

She was talking as if those things were still going on, as if she was still paralyzed and her mother was still taking care of her. She never did explain how she died.

I hate this theory with a raging passion. If they're still alive and not dead, it just means that they just get brought back to a fucking shit life. Chaa would still be unable to get back with his waifu, Yui would still be fucking paralyzed after experiencing that wonderful dream of hyperactivity, Yuri would have no siblings still, Iwasawa still can't sing and still suffers brain trauma which will probably get worse, etc. It's just a fucking cruel idea. Only person who would get off for the better is Otonashi.

>>35822171
None of them had a 100% guaranteed death either. They all merely passed out or something.
Hinata did drugs and OD'd, but could still be alive.
Otonoshi was unconscious, but presumed dead from starvation/dehydration, but he still coulda been alive.
Yui and Yuri never revealed their deaths when they told their stories. Nor did any other character.
My money is on this being a coma world of some sort.

>>35822779
I'm not disagreeing with you at all, cause if this happened it would be ALL OF MY RAGE, but it does seem plausible. I would be fucking furious if it did, and write a series of angry letters to the AB staff.

I just watched the episode, and I'm fucking crying my eyes out.

That dream of happiness...of a life filled with love and friendship...never to be experienced by that poor little girl. Oh what could have been ;_;

>>35823099
U SAD?

>>35822996
It is plausible which is why I hate it with all my passion. I love happy endings. This sort of ending would just be one of the biggest slaps in the face to both me, the viewers and the characters themselves.

Which are the names of the songs used in this episode?

>>35823099
That was like what I wanted Key to be, but boiled down into an OVA. It was so fucking pure man. I got choked up too ;_;

LOST ending

>>35823099
She just wanted someone who would love and take care of her not just out of her mom's unconditional love and sense of duty. Under that layer of hyper activeness, she was still that frail and unprotected girl who is paralyzed.

>>35822922
>>35822922
implying a person can live beyond 7 days of dehydration with mashed up organs. If so, those are god-tier organs.

>>35823162
As do I my friend. As do I. When I was younger I remember always thinking that every anime had a horribly sad ending, and that they always ended on a depressing note just to fuck with the viewer. I might have been too young to understand what the director was going for, or any implied underlying themes or messages from the story, but I will always associate older series with sad or fucked up endings. Lately I haven't seen much of that, as most recent shows have relatively happy endings, but this could be one to break the curve.

This is like the time in Lost where Locke got his legs back and could do everything he couldn't before he was paralyzed. Fact: Angel Beats is the anime version of Lost

>>35823325
hey, stranger things have happened. I'm not saying that's the case, but it is a possibility. all the deaths were implied, but none were definite.

>>35822922
>Hinata did drugs and OD'd, but could still be alive.
I don't remember seeing Hinata's backstory. Which episode was that in?

They had better make an OVA showing what happens to them after they got out.
I'VE PUT TOO MUCH EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT INTO THIS TO GET NOTHING IN THE END

>>35822922

What's strange is assuming the world they're in is something man made like a program that they're all connected to, it's likely that their physical bodies are at the same location, like a hospital. If that's true, then those who vanished or woke up first would be able to see their comatose companions and know that they're all still alive, but would have no way to tell them the truth.

>>35823212
>>35823355
I refuse to accept this unless everyone turns into tang on the final episode, NGE style, since I hear thats what happened on lost. I don't watch lost, as it's a shit show IMO, but to each his own I guess.

>>35823379
Some was in episode 4, some was in the prequel.

Forcing them to reincarnate is wrong! WRONG! I hate that guy's guts. Both of them. Angel is kawaii ;3

>>35823379
Don't remember. I think like episode 6 or 7, but it was the one where they had a baseball tournament.

>>35823379
He got run over by a truck.

She's waiting for him...
;_;

>>35823442
0/10

>>35823355
False. LOST copied anime's character-centric story approach and delivered it an story-starved American audience.

>>35823379
don't know about ep number, but it's the baseball tournament episode

>>35823483
HOLY FUCK the drawfags are fast.

>>35823506
JJ Abrams confirmed for weeaboo. I am now waiting on my Death Note-esque episode of Fringe.

>>35823506
So Lost is basically anime for white people?

>>35823520
They've always been fast. Pixiv has currently been swarmed with HinataxYui fanart.

I think it was meant as a hypothetical. "Even if [when we are reborn] I'm paralyzed and bedridden [again] etc..."

Which is what Hinata meant when he talked about overcoming "6 billion to one" odds, the insane unlikelihood of Hinata and Yui hooking up with each other vs. the rest of the world.

you already know that vanishing is a good thing /a/

you have reached the conclusion deep inside your heart like Hinata

stop pretending

You promised.

>>35823405
Rather than tell them the truth, wouldn't they want them to be at peace and move on like they did? They're not gonna go blue pill / red pill on them and try to show them the real world. Also they could all be hooked up to the same machine at the same place, or even various locations all via internet.

>>35823442
I'd rather spend eternity in purgatory than to reincarnate and go another round in this world.

Otonashi knows that he could be sending Yui into existence as an insect, or a herded animal, or a child in Africa. What an incredibly cruel person he is.

This is how Hinata died.

Damn you Pixiv, damn you. ;_;

>>35823703
Ohhhhhh fuck.

>>35823601
This is what I was thinking as well. But it did support the whole Matrix argument all too well. It could also just be that they were implying this, but it got lost in translation.

>>35823703
She can use her arms? It's a fucking miracle!

They're not being reborn. They're going to heaven or the Source.

my god this show is depressing. i like it but i hate it

Otonashi confirmed for Neo and Keanu, then?

>>35823764
It's Yui's mom.

>>35823604

I agree that it's a good thing, and can even agree with Otonashi wanting to help them do so. It's the way he's going about it that's wrong. Trying to make them vanish without telling them isn't much differnt than Naoi's hypnotism method.

If they all (including Kanade) would just sit down and talk they might be able to find a way to honestly help each other or at least reach some sort of understanding instead of fighting or trying to trick each other.

>>35823658
Again, no official death, just "last memory" and fade to black. Coma is still possible, just like in Kimi ga Nozomu Eien.

I've decided that Japan associates trucks with the devil, as they so often use them as tools to kill or destroy the most innocent characters. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Angel Beats, Kurokami, Denpa Teki na Kanojo (though that bitch deserved it), the list goes on.

>>35823824
That would explain why Keanu has been so sadman.jpg lately. Also he's immortal.

>>35823862
Well, I don't blame Hinata. She was pretty hot.

They look so happy ;_;

>>35823870
HONK HONK

>>35823868
But Yurripe would never stand for that and shit would go wrong. Besides, he's just helping them find peace without telling them. He's granting their dreams so that they can move on. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. The only shit part is that they don't get to say goodbye to their comrades.

>>35823941

Otonashi = Keanu

>>35823941
HOLY FUCK. reactionimage.jpg my computer with all my images is dead with no charger.

>>35823868

How is that any different than what Otonashi is already doing with Yui? Where in those instances did he put a gun to her head and say. tell me your sob story and let me take care of it, damnit?

>>35823918
That's because they are.

>>35823952
>But Yurripe would never stand for that
What makes you say that? When Otonashi got his memories back she was ready to let him go his own way if he wnted to. She's never tried to tell anyone whether they should disappear or not, she just gives them the means of not disappearing.

As to what's wrong with it, it's that he's potentially doing it against their wishes. If they're willing to be less happy in exchange for staying in that world to fight god or whatever it is they want to do, he should respect that.

>>35823824

So basically, Brotanashi is fated to walk the afterlife forever, helping people along the way? Inevitably losing more than any one person has?

>>3582387
or the narrow road ways makes it common that people get hit by vehicles?

>>35824070
For some reason, whenever I look at Hinata I see only Clannadman. With him and Yui, this is doubled.

It's the prequel to the Little Buster machine. Or sequel.

>>35824120
What I meant was she would never stand for being erased herself, as her existence was too unfair. She should be using this life as an opportunity to makeup for her original tragic childhood, as thats what the world was meant for, but she is too stuck on vengeance and can't move on. There is no god in this afterlife, and she will continue to fight aimlessly forever at this rate. Brotonashi's intentions are pure and I see no flaw in his methods.

>>35823601

Yeah, but...you know he wouldn't find her so when they throw an emotion filled ending at me I just have to say "WTF, that never happened and probably never will"

>>35824046
If they become completely happy they disappear, so in order to avoid disappearing they avoid becoming completely happy - this is indicated in the prequel novels. He's getting their guard down and making them happy by surprise. If they had time to think about it they might not want that, since it means disappearing.

>>35824120

I guess it depends on the person.

Would you let someone you care for join a strange cult? Or would you respect their wishes?

>>35824127
>implying this is a bad thing

>>35824122
He'll still have Kanade. I can't tell if he has romantic feelings for her or more like brotherly feelings for her. I'm leaning towards romantic.

isn't that hilarious if you think about it

otonashi: dude, you should totally liberate your soul and be happy man~
person x: no, fuck you. I'd rather be brooding and emo

>>35824218
Why do you think there's no god in the afterlife? For all we know, there could be one.

Also, it seems that something worse is coming this way.

>>35824260
This is good analogy. This is why I don't think what he's doing is wrong. He knows the truth of the world, so he is using this knowledge to help them.

The smoke monster from Lost is coming

>>35824218
>she should be using this life as an opportunity to makeup for her original tragic childhood
>There is no god in this afterlife, and she will continue to fight aimlessly forever at this rate
That's your personal opinion, but it's not hers. She has all the same knowledge about the world that you do but she has made a different choice than you would. What gives you (or rather Otonashi) the right to take that choice away from her and overrule it with your own?

>>35824046

The difference is she wouldn't have to ask "why are you doing this?" and he wouldn't have to lie about it.

There's certainly a gray area when it comes to helping people who don't want your help. Most people wouldn't agree to involuntarily committing an alcoholic for treatment, but most people would agree that an alcoholic in a drunken depression should be prevented from committing suicide.

Just think how many months or years were wasted fighting Kanade over a misunderstanding that could have been avoided if she and Yuri had simply spoken honestly for 10 minutes. It may be easier to trick them now, but what would happen to Otonashi's plan if Yuri finds out or it creates another misunderstanding. In the long run, it'd simply be better not to try to deceive each other.

Look getting over regrets is fine and all, but Otonashi is fucking shallow. His ways of trying to make Yui happy was just giving her treats, in which he never dealt with the real meat of things. He tried to solve it as quickly as possibly and didn't really put much thought into it. To me, this just shows that Otonashi doesn't really care so much about the person in question as he does his ego.

>>35824341
I mean they haven't had any clue or lead to suggest that there is a God, other than "who created this strange world?" but the same could be asked about the real world in their first lives. If there is a God, they're running out of episodes to introduce him.

But yeah, as for that shadow thing, your guess is as good as mine. I guess we'll have to wait till next week to see that one.

The "no god" thing is implying that they're not gonna go full Haruhi on us and reveal that Oto or Yuri was God all along, though if Yuri was, and this was all keikaku, then she would be master troll, but people would just cry that its a Haruhi ripoff.

>>35824413

because the show has established that passing on is a good thing, and lingering is not

why do you think Hinata help Yui disappear despite fully knowing the implications?

maeda might be purposefully making their status as either dead of in a coma ambiguous just to mess with us for the ending, even though they could pull the coma card itd be a shitty end


as to the second, seeing they dont really know what happens after you disappear, i took yuis conversation as a "what if i was paralyzed again when you find me", theres not much worse than the state she was while still being alive so its similar to the "for better or worse" or "in sickness or in health" vows

>>35824413
but Otonashi does have more knowledge about this world than Yuri. Kanade straightup told him that the world was meant to give kids with shit-childhoods a second chance at their childhood. Yuri doesn't know this.

>>35823918
dat ear

cannot unsee

FFFFFF-

>>35824521
For me, the world is just way too strange. The most important reason is that the afterlife for teenagers with shit lives is a school. Why teenagers with shit lives and why put them in a school? Why not all people with shit lives and put them all together? It's just way too organized.

if it's anything like Haibane Renmei, a big manifestation of your regrets will come to destroy you if you linger in purgatory too long

Was the slide show at the end what Yui wanted or what really happened when both of them were alive. It could of totally possible that both Hinata and Yui met in the "Real World" which is why she was so open to him in their world.

>>35824646
I guess we know what the shadow is, then.

>>35824521
>To me, this just shows that Otonashi doesn't really care so much about the person in question as he does his ego.
perfect for a doctor

>>35824260
I would give them my honest opinion and tell them exactly why it was a bad idea. I wouldn't get someone to dress up like a cult member and mug them, or tie them to a chair so they can't leave the house.

>>35824355
>>35824591
Yuri understood this before SSS even existed. It's one of the first things she explained to Hinata, so he knows too. We don't know whether she explained it to everyone else or if they figured it out on their own, but it's a safe bet that at least some of them have put two and two together.

>>35824661
What she wanted, probably.

>>35824413
Shut up. I'm not whatever faggot you were arguing with, but just shut the fuck up. Free will faggotry is rampant in all these threads. But you know what? Sometimes free will is less important than going to heaven or finding happiness. All you're doing is whining that "he took way dere free wills he did", what kind of shitty argument is that? Every day they wake up unfulfilled, knowing that in the afterlife they can never really finish what they wanted to do. By helping them move on, by closing the door on their regrets Otonashi gives them the chance to actually live their lives and make use of their time. So basically it's your "how do you know they want to be saved, even though Otonashi was saved but chose to stay behind because he wanted to durr hurr durr" versus the argument of the show and of people with common sense "help depressed friends achieve fulfillment, give them a chance at a new life"

>>35824631

people over a certain age go to hell

no exceptions

>>35824670

or it could be the smoke monster from Lost

>>35824492

>He tried to solve it as quickly as possibly and didn't really put much thought into it.

Would it have made a difference in her happiness if he'd spent six months training her to take on five men in a soccer match?

/a/ sure loves their disability girls.
The dialogue was if they met in real life.
Well no one knows what happens after they disappear, so Hinata and Yui could really meet someday.

>>35824646
ooyama was there before hinata, who has been there longest second to..... yuri, kanade and charr(sp?) that i know of, that could explain why he was first attacked (as it seems)

>>35824713

So you'd be fine if Naoi just hypnotized them all to the next life?

can paralysed grils get pragnant?

>>35824779
No, he should've at least built a relationship with her. The only reason why Hinata's words had the impact they did was because Yui and him had such a relationship. If Otonashi was the one who said he'd marry her, she probably wouldn't have disappeared.

>>35824818

I don't see why not. The delivery would be c-section, however.

>>35824818
No, Yui even said it herself.