Jun Maeda shares new details about Angel Beats! -1st beat-

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Recently, the Angel Beats! & Charlotte edition of Dengeki G's Magazine was published, and contained lots of new information which we've covered in previous posts over the last week. Among it, Jun Maeda shares some new details about Angel Beats! -1st beat-. A post on the Key/Leaf board of 2ch has highlighted all of the noteworthy information from the article. Below is a rough translation of the post.

Iwasawa's Route:

"What would happen if love blooms in the afterlife?"

"What would two people who love each other do in this situation?"

This route will stab you in the heart.

Yui's route:

Although Otonashi is the protagonist, only Hinata can support Yui. Watching over Yui and Hinata, what kind of support can you give?

Matsuhita's route:

This route contains a special gimmick. It is the reason why Matsuhita was chosen as a character route in the first game of the six-part series.

Game System:

The story progresses day by day, and is split into morning and afternoon sections. Characters locations are displayed on a map, and by choosing who you want to see and deepen your bond with, the story will branch in different directions accordingly.

"Iwasawa will not graduate from the afterlife at the same time as in the TV anime."

"Guild can be destroyed by Angel."

"Otonashi awakens to his homosexuality (?!)"

Also, there will be other developments based on choices made.

A brief summary, but lots of interesting info contained within. Feel free to speculate about it in the discussion below. We currently don't have access to the full article from the magazine, but if more noteworthy information comes to light, we will bring it to your attention.

Thanks to forum members @Zak89 and @JimRaynor_2001 for bringing the news to my attention, and thanks to @Kaze for helping me translate the post into English.

http://hello.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/anime2/1418875470/462

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://kazamatsuri.org/jun-maeda-shares-new-details-about-angel-beats-1st-beat/
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“Otonashi awakens to his homosexuality (?!)”

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

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So am I the only one who started searching for the places where memorable scenes played out on that image?
So it sounds like there is a structure similar to Persona. You get X amounts of time slots per day and you have to progress by using those resources on certain characters. That should make it easier to add new characters in a smoother fashion than in Little Busters!. This will also make it harder to play the damn thing from square one without guides.

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"Iwasawa’s Route:This route will stab you in the heart."

Oh boy the feels…
Also it’s finally confirmed that HinataxYui will still be a thing in the visual novel (thank god) and I’m curious to see what’s this special gimmick of Matsuhita’s route. I hope it’s not just Otonashi’s newly awoken homosexuality doe…

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SHIINA EVERYDAY ALL DAY!!!

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#6

HinataxYui is fine as long as HinataxYui is developed this time.
If it’s not, then that’s our first route for the trash bin.

#7

Please be some kind of RPG or fighting minigame~

Overall it seems like Maeda is straying away majorly from the standard Key formula with these routes. We already kinda knew this was gonna happen, but its really only now becoming a reality. Only one out of the three routes seems like it will be a usual romance-ish kind of plot line. And we got another CG of that huge, beautiful school grounds. Can’t wait for the pre-orders!

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Seriously, I just want the game now. xD

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AWWWWW YESSSSSS HINATA X YUI FOREVER!!!

That’s all the info i needed ;pl

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Otonashi’s homosexuality ? that could be interesting.
I hope it will have something with TK, it could be very fun

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#11

It hit me when reading reddit that with a roaming characters system they can really remove a person after they graduate. If done not horribly that will be so sad.

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#12

This info is making me kinda sad. Dont get me wrong, I like what Hinata did, but damn it could have been any other guy too. I dont want pairings in my VNs. I want to decide which character is together with me and that’s why I am choosing that specific characters route, not because I want to help some other guy get her.

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It’s fairly standard for Key VNs now though I think. Key routes haven’t really been about pairing a protagonist and a character since AIR.

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#14

You’ll have to break up the pair from the other direction. It is a bit strange that they wouldn’t give you the option at least. Yui is a really popular character so they shouldn’t pull any punches.

[quote=“Takafumi, post:13, topic:766”]
Key routes haven’t really been about pairing a protagonist and a character since AIR.
[/quote] Do you mean in the sense that the pairing isn’t the main focus? Cause you always end up with the girl eventually.

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what’s the chance of this game be released as an international one? i mean, with english and other languages ?

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They haven’t said anything about something like that, and it would be a pretty humongous deal if it was, so I would say 0% chance for now.

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#17

They haven’t even given a PR response to this one, really. They’re open to the idea of previous titles, at the least. The focus is all CLANNAD right now.

#18

They have. It depends on the success of planetarian and Clannad.

#19

with more than half a million only on kickstarter , that would mean success to me , wouldnt it? :slight_smile:

#20

:frowning: thats sad :frowning: