Additional Epilogue Summary:
Otonashi has taken over Kanade/Tenshi's role at the afterlife school and encourages a non-NPC male student to do something about his own situation.
The SSS' most ambitious adventure yet: a holy mission to meet God.
Scary face after eating too much sugar/caffeine no. 1.
Scary face after eating too much sugar/caffeine no. 2.
Special Episode Summary:
Taking place somewhere in the middle of the series (after Iwasawa's departure but before Naoi joins the group), Yuri outlines a brand new battle plan to the SSS. Named the "High Tension" plan, the plan calls for group members to act excited and happy all the time. Yuri thinks the plan will confuse Tenshi as all the students are happy but are not disappearing, and Yuri hopes this will lead Tenshi to consult her boss God. Yuri then plans to follow Tenshi and she and her comrades will finally be able to meet God. Yuri cuts herself out of the plan because she has to keep track of Tenshi, but if any other member fails to follow the plan then they are not allowed to eat for a week.
Bystanders should get off the racetrack.
Scary face after eating too much sugar/caffeine no. 3.
No doubt about it: Yuri is evil.
And thus, the other members of SSS except Otonashi spend the whole day doing crazy stuff and acting like they had too much sugar and/or caffeine in order to maintain the "tension". The whole thing culminates into an impromptu sports festival at dusk, and to Yuri's delight Tenshi appears to be somewhat concerned. After overhearing that Tenshi was going to consult someone, Yuri and comrades follow Tenshi into the underground but discovers that Tenshi only went to an underground greenhouse to tend to some vegetables. Displeased by the failure, Yuri bars the other SSS members from eating for a week and they all die of hunger by the end of the week.
Maximum meter reading!!! It's over 9000!!!!
If you need proof about Yuri's evilness, you only need to look at this scene.
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If you were hoping for some extra elements to the main story and answers to some of the burning questions, you certainly won't find any of those in these specials. The additional epilogue shows Otonashi sticking to his word of staying in the world and helping other souls, but it doesn't add anything that we didn't already know. As for the special episode, it was all an attempt at comedy, but it wasn't even that good of a comedic episode when compared to some of the regular episodes in the series. Having all the characters scream at the top of their lungs for the entire episode was more annoying than funny. The only thing that amused me was how evil Yuri was this episode, making her underlings act crazy for a whole day and then starving them to death at the end. As Yusa said, Yuri certainly has the makings of becoming an entertaining villain. She has the evil villainess laugh and also has the crazy schemes.
Anyways, the new extras weren't bad, but I wasn't too impressed either. It seems like we may never find out exactly how the afterlife works in Angel Beats! or the histories of some of the other SSS members... at least not by just watching the anime.
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