Rebirth of the Father of Anime

Tachibana Kanade has long been called an angel by Yuri and others. She is considered a messenger of God in the afterlife, and she is constantly facing battles provoked by Yuri and others.

It is said that Tachibana Kanade is "emotionless, expressionless, and basically silent". Tachibana Kanade's cold personality is not only due to the influence of her personality during life, but also due to the gradual transformation in the afterlife.

She mistakenly entered the afterlife in order to thank Otonashi Yuzuru, who transplanted a heart to her and gave her life and youth. During the long wait in the afterlife, she used her gratitude and longing for life to help many friends in the afterlife successfully escape reincarnation.

The sense of belonging of friendship is extremely unstable for Tachibana Kanade. She often experiences the loneliness after her friends disappear. In loneliness, she gradually loses the ability to communicate with others normally and becomes clumsy. She only relies on her own ideas to "make her life miserable." "People are freed", trying again and again to get Yuri and others who caused the riots to return to the right path and enjoy the youthful campus life that they were unable to enjoy during their lifetime.

Because of Tachibana Kanade's disordered social needs, that is, the instability caused by the disappearance of friends one by one, resulting in a cold personality and clumsy behavior (Yuri and others created weapons and put them into battle, she only relatively used software to develop defense capabilities), Tachibana Kanade Psychological factors contribute to all the twists and turns in the afterlife.

From the various characters in the story, we can completely see the theme of "angel-beats"-"living is a beautiful thing."

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Iwasawa desperately pursues his music dream, Yuri turns his self-blame for failing to protect his younger siblings into practical actions to protect every partner; Hinata said, "Even a guy like me who was a scumbag before his death can survive in this world." "Give others an answer"; Naoi received recognition from Otonashi "for regaining people's hearts"; Yui "Even if you can't hit a home run, your body has been fully exercised. So it's enough"; Kanade is forever grateful for a word. Working tirelessly for "those who had a sad fate in life" in the afterlife. Even if isolated. Being hit by bullets again and again and being injured and bleeding (the injuries will heal automatically, but the pain of injury and death cannot be avoided). After being understood and accepted by everyone, Kanade fought against the emotionless and cold-blooded clone to save his friends...

The actions of these main characters make "angel-beats" exude a deeper concept: life is not just about living, but also living a wonderful and valuable life. If you have something to pursue or need to protect, you can risk your life for them, just to live a meaningful life.

Put this way, the truth may be pessimistically close to contradictory. Every character in "angel-beats" is trying their best to pursue a valuable life, but they all encountered tragedies during their lifetimes, and their lives ended in a hurry. Their so-called pursuits were ruthlessly shattered by various unexpected natural disasters, and death became their A common destination. It was because they could not tolerate the unreasonable life in life that they embarked on the path of fighting against the gods and messengers of gods in the afterlife.

"angel-beats" gives each character a sad fate,

To some extent, it is an exaggerated interpretation of real life based on truth - art comes from life and is higher than life. Life is bound to go through hardships, fatal or non-fatal, which is normal in real life. The sad fate of the characters in "angel-beats" not only metaphors reality, but is also a natural manifestation of a "material sadness" worldview.

"Wu Ai" is a view of life and death. It pursues "instant beauty", just like every character in "angel-beats" is in their prime of youth. In the pursuit of dreams, life fades away in an instant.

The characters in "angel-beats" are freed from the sad fate of their lives, which actually corroborates the ideas of Zen Buddhism. The core idea of ​​Zen is "directly pointing to the human heart, seeing one's nature and becoming a Buddha." Zen Buddhism believes that everyone has Buddha nature. The reason why people cannot become a Buddha and be reborn in bliss is because the Buddha nature is obscured by human nature filled with lust, and they cannot truly see themselves and the world they live in. Becoming a Buddha requires enlightenment. Zen Buddhism believes that enlightenment only occurs in one thought, that is, becoming a Buddha requires sudden enlightenment. But enlightenment is not water without a source. It cannot appear without reason. It requires a series of actions to pave the way. At a certain stage, the dusty mind will regain its clarity and become a Buddha (liberation) immediately.

The liberation and reincarnation of the people in the story is due to their understanding of their original minds. In short, they have reached reconciliation with their previous lives and their lives after death.

Of course, reaching reconciliation is not a temporary success. For example, Iwasawa was relieved because he sang the song he had always wanted to sing; Yuri's external satisfaction (protecting his partners) gradually turned to internal satisfaction (Yuri could never let go of his failure to protect him during his lifetime). (brothers and sisters) were transformed and solved the knot in their hearts; Yui completed the sports that she could not perform when she was paralyzed, and got Hinata's answer to get married to make up for the regrets she had left during her lifetime...

Although some external forces were used in the process, the spiritual satisfaction of all people relies more on the power of "self-understanding and self-enlightenment". From the clear mind and one's nature, one realizes that he died with regrets during his lifetime, but that he made up for his regrets after his death. There is no need for sorrow, the soul can be harmonious and transparent, and everyone can truly accept that "living is a real life, not a false life", get rid of the entanglement of the sad fate in life, see one's nature, become a Buddha, and reincarnate calmly.

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"Didn't Kosana survive because of Otonashi's heart transplant? Then she should have died after Otonashi, right? But why did Otonashi come to the afterlife after her?"

Mamiko was confused by this complicated relationship.

"I came here to fulfill my regrets during my lifetime. You can think of it this way. Although Otonashi died first, Tachibana's regret was to say thank you to Otonashi, so there was no regret when he died, and there was no regret at all. Otonashi, who should appear here, came here." He Chen said to Mamiko.

"Is he here for Xiao Kanade..." Mamiko said.

"The relationship between the two has actually been foreshadowed from the beginning, right?" Yi Jingshuo said, "One is called Tachibana Kanade, and the other is Otonashi Yuzuru. The two are playing together - Otonashi's own life Having reached the end, he donated his organs, and Tachibana Kanade's life, which had come to an end, was once again extended because of Otonashi's heart. He used his own heart to renew Tachibana's life string. , Tachibana played a song of life with Otonashi’s heart.”

Mamiko was moved to tears again.

Standing in the glitzy world, playing the sound of nature. (To be continued...) i1292