Yes.

THE HEART

No.

inb4Otonashiwasthecreator

>>36491196
The programmer was a bug, realized that he was, and didn't want people to stay in that place forever, so he made the shadows. His love, the bug, manifested in the form of his love for some girl who found peace and left before him, but because he changed while waiting for her return (or for some other unknown reason) he turned himself into an NPC and let the guy in your pic handle the shadows.

Otonashi is the programmer, Kanade is the girl he loved

>>36491270
How would that work, exactly?

Kanade is Otonashi's sister!

>>36491406
KEY

>>36491406
it shouldn't
but it will

>>36491406
he found peace was reincarnated then died a tragic death again ended up back there again.

This show gets more and more retarded as the show goes on. I can't believe that they used the power of love bullshit to explain everything.

Not to mention why are a bunch of Japanese people stuck in a CHRISTIAN IDEOLOGY THAT ORIGINATED FROM EUROPE!? Last I check the vast majority of Japan are not christfags.

>>36491575
> Last I check the vast majority of Japan are not christfags.
But they like the symbolism and stuff. They find it interesting.

>>36491575
Too deep for you?

>>36491575
They didn't use the power of love, in the typical shounen sense you are implying, to explain anything. Love manifesting itself means that someone had attained peace and thus would live on forever in that world. This was viewed as a bug by the programmer, hence why the shadows were created, so that people would graduate from the afterlife by achieving true peace after having lived a terrible/unfortunate life.

>>36491575
>they used the power of love
Yeah, no. Enduring love is seen as a cancer to that world, not something positive.

>>36491196
Is Evil NPC-kun, dead?

>>36491575
>CHRISTIAN IDEOLOGY THAT ORIGINATED FROM EUROPE
nice try, 1/10

Bracing for Reset End next episode

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
KEYSHIT AT FULL FORCE IS KICKING IN
EXPECT DRAGON BALLS AND LOVE POWER

LADIES AND CHILDREN FIRST
NOW ESCAPE

>>36491823
Reset to what?

>>36491850
Reset to the start of the first episode.

>>36491850
First episode

Zegapain End

>>36491889
>>36491892
Yeah, no

>>36491905
:3

>>36492025
Then who is the moon-people?

>>36491196
The world is restarting like a computer, Yuippe just deleted system 32 to that operation system though

sorta in normal terms..

>>36492169

A.I.

>>36491390
>Otonashi is the programmer, Kanade is the girl he loved
WELL SHIIIIIIT
You best be wrong.

Ah~
The power of love~
I will make you happy this time, Otonashi-kun...

>>36492393
>Naoi-kun
Fixed

>>36492379
could be, but seeing you dont remember any lives before your last one and you would look different each time you enter the AB world, theyd have no way of knowing

>>36492455
With the power of love, they will know.

>>36492455
Otonashi can't be the Programmer, since the Programmer never moved on. He NPCitized himself to escape from his madness, and now he's stuck as an NPC in the afterlife high school.

Ok yeah, I get all of this, but if the shadows turn you into a NPC you will never disappear. You'll just be a NPC. So the bug isn't fixed, the people (like the SSS) won't move on.

TK is the creator.

>>36492393
He can make me happy any time.

>>36491390
but kanade didn't leave...

>>36492520
there was a theory someone came up with, if i can find it, i think it was in either one of these two threads
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/36473967
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/36481247

which could make some sense, probably equally as likely as any other speculation

I thought this episode was awesome. It made me like Yuri a shitton more.

>>36492520
here we go ->> http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/36481247#p36484160

What was this dude's name anyway?

>>36492756
Kaworu

>>36492779

Knew there had to be a reason that voice was making me uncomfortably aroused.

>>36492714
>Otonashi was the NPC programmer. Kanade returned and found him, but realized what he became. She tried long and hard to return him to normal which was also the reason why is so long around and working with the Angel Player.

>After a long time, she was finally successful and returned Otonashi to normal. However, he got amnesia in the process (which he couldn't normally get he way he died) and can't remember her anymore.

It fails to take into account how Otonashi just appeared out of nowhere in ep 1 though. It could be that Kanade was chasing him beforehand and he managed to escape, jumped off a roof and lost consciousness, but the SSS acted in such a way that implied he had just materialized in that world. It also doesn't help that he had almost the same pose as his death in the tunnel.

My personal theory is that Kanade herself is the Programmer, and she has started to break out of her NPC 'prison' or something. This would partly explain why she got hold of the Angel Player software.

>>36492866
I think it's more likely that they'll just forget about the whole shadows thing.

>>36492756
Takamatsu V.2

>>36492866
That would imply that Kanade is lesbian.

>>36492866
im sure they would ignore that if they want to, just like they ignore his lack of head injuries

So, why well they be able to save Takamatsu? Also, did anyone notice that Yuri was disgruntled by Hinata's second comment?

>>36492893
You say that like it's a bad thing.

>>36492901
Not really. Amnesia can be attributed to brain tissue decay. That's not too far fetched.

Couldn't the destruction of the angel player system possibly turn back the NPCs who were originally people possibly saving Glasses Abs and then the programmer who could then explain himself?

So if they find the npc master programmer and kill him, will he regenerate?

>>36492913
But.. but.. she's too pure for that ;_;

>>36492893

There's a reason why Kanade smiled at Yuri and at no one else yet.

I swear when I see people make retarded theories I just want to choke them through the computer screen.

>>36492994

Since lesbianism is the purest form of love, it fits her perfectly right?

>>36493002
Never go to /sci/

>>36492935
that hasnt been mentioned at all


which means its just as likely as anything else

So what was the growing love thing? Was.it love for all the people she met?

>>36493074
It was self-love. Yurippe started masturbating.

what anime is this?

>>36492935

>science
>afterlife

no

>>36493074
Yes.

Christ the hacker kid is the true God of the place.

That bitch JUST DOESN'T FUCKING LISTEN TO HIM.

The programmer = Chaa
The girl = tenshit

>>36493032
;_;

>>36493145
That's totally inconsistent with what we know about Chaa from Track Zero. Besides, Yurippe is the one that looks like his wife, not Tenshi.

What anime is this?

/r/ing gif of TK headspinning through the shadows at the start of the episode

Come on guys. We all know the programmer was Keanu Reeves. It only makes sense after all.

>>36493225
>>36493225
>>36493225
This

>>36493121
>implying Angel Player isn't a product of science

TK and Shiina probably held the bridge as a duo after those faggots went back unground. They let Dan go get himself a nice bowl of udon.

>>36493303
Whoever made that pic did a great job

>>36491575

only kids will deny the power of love

when you've been living on this world for +30 years, with no true meaning, you'll find that the smile of that person that owns your heart is the only force you need to keep on living

power of love > everything

;_;

>>36493384
They used a standard photoshop filter and pasted text over it?

>>36493371

I, for one, is still shipping hard

Hold the fuck up, I thought the guy at the computer was the one who was in love or some shit.

still hoping hard for an Oto X Yuri end

>>36493487

yeah that's the way man

>>36493647
Either Hinata or Noda.

Sorry.

>>36493590
There was a Programmer who fell in love. Then, his beloved disappeared. As time went by (perhaps when he was trying really hard to pass on), he discovered a 'bug' in the system wherein people without any regrets would be mistakenly thrown into that afterlife. This would make them stuck there, unable to move on.

Realizing that he is one of these rare occurrences, he held on to the faint hope that his beloved will return to the afterlife in one way or another and he decided to wait it out. Then, he went mad from the waiting, and he eventually developed a software that would handle this bug if it ever happened again -- the Shadows of Angel Player. Before he converted himself into an NPC, he made a construct who would handle this program.

Whether his NPC self was the construct or not is debatable though.

>>now you realize that they live in the KEY world ,and then even if they reborn again they are destined to a sadness life

>>36493357
More like SCIENCE.

>>36493945
it all makes sense now

>>36493945
And so, Otonashi will be stuck in there as well... if Kanade is the same then they'll have their own paradise, but if she passes on then Otonashi will be the new final boss.

>>36493647
Keep dreaming because it won't happen.

can someone please tell if there will be a season 2 of this?
i want a reset episode for last episode

dammit

>>36493945
>people without any regrets would be mistakenly thrown into that afterlife

Due to amnesia.

You are all now realizing Otonashi was actually saved from the cave-in and had a successful and fulfilling life as a medical doctor afterwards.

>>36495483
>i want a reset episode for last episode

And then what? Angel Beats 2: Endless Eight?

>>36495674
He's dead bro. You don't see merely unconscious people with their eyes wide open (barring any freak eye and eyelid muscle disorders).