It seems to be just a quick gag with advertisement on the side. I wouldn’t complain about Takamatsu in 2nd beat, he was a boss in a certain scene. As long as I get a route for Irie, Sekine or Yusa I’ll be ecstatic.
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Also, I didnt see anyone mention it, but back in July there was a -1st beat- 1.01 update. Seems to just have fixed a bug that sometimes broke the “right click to toggle the text window” feature.
I totally missed that earlier.
From my awful knowledge of anime-Japanese:
Takajou goes zooming past and crashes. Takamatsu stops to ask if he’s okay before noticing who he is talking to. Takajou apologizes for the crash, and then stops once he realizes who he is talking to.
“I am you??” They both say.
Takajou quickly shuts the idea down, introduces himself, then runs away, not before they both namedrop what franchise they come from.
So it’s the running joke.
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Both figuratively and very literally 
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I’m speculating Yui’s route having a Good Ending and a True Ending. The good ending looks like it can be the ending we saw in the anime where Hinata tells her he’ll marry her…whereas the True Ending might possibly be Otonashi doing the proposal. She might not be obliterated when that happens and she’ll probably stay around longer but these are just thoughts.
Also there’s a CG where Iwasawa has a wedding veil on like Makoto’s ending in Kanon :’ ( sob…
The game is out no real need to speculate. I and others can prove or deny your theory if you want. Also, should probably spoiler tag the kanon name.
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Key just announced on Twitter that they’ll be selling a downloadable version of 1st beat on DMM! The DL version costs 6,800 yen (excluding tax) while retail copies of 1st beat normally cost 7,500 yen (excluding tax).
I have personally never purchased anything from DMM before, but since they seem to have English support I’m assuming they accept foreign cards as well? If I’m wrong about this, feel free to correct me.
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Soooo any news about 2nd beat? Its already been 2 years! Please tell me it didn’t get cancelled… 
I don’t think they are going to cancel the whole Angel Beats! project, but with Summer Pockets being their next big VN release right now, expect at least a big delay in the Angel Beats! VNs…
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Such a shame, but as long as they’re going to release it I’m not gonna complain
Well, the main writer did have a heart attack and is still in no condition to write apparently. All we can do is wait. I imagine it’s going to be a long time before we’ll have all six Beats.
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any news on the English translation, or if there is a fan on at all? i haven’t heard anything in forever.
No news yet… VisualArt’s are very secretive about the development of their localisations.
All I can say is, don’t expect it any time soon. I’m gonna take a stab in the dark and say 2018. Late 2017 if we’re especially lucky.
I don’t see it happening until 2019 at least. Weren’t they going to localize Rewrite first?
No guarantee. It’s all pretty vague and mostly based on information that slipped out at that one convention. But there’s no reason they can’t have different groups working on the games at the same time.
Is jun maeda still hospitalized ? I don’t understand how VN companies like key works, but why did they start a new project (summer pockets) while the angel beats VN project is having a hard time?
He’s out of the hospital now. The reason why they couldn’t do that is because AB is totally Maeda’s control, and it’s kind of a bad business decision to have staff in, say, the music or the art department to sit around doing nothing while waiting for the story to be written. So they spread out and got totally different writers for Summer Pockets instead.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, as they say
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Oh, I’m glad to hear that. I was worried!
I do love that (true? made up?) story of how Maeda just threw an idea out there during a group meeting (after fruitless deliberation) and boom! everyone loves it, and you have your Summer Pockets plot.
I don’t remember where I heard this story, so maybe it’s false. But it does fit my all too high expectations for his plot writing capabilities.
The truth is that VisualArts held a competition among it’s staff for anybody to come up with a great concept for a Key game, and well, Maeda won ^^;
Makes me wonder what all the non-maeda submissions would’ve been like…
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could it be possible they’re working on all of the beats right now, so they can release them with a proper schedule, instead of working one at a time.
and on the chance we do actually get a continuation, do you guys think we’d get more additions to the common route?
