The story of the visual novel is to be based on the Angel Beats! anime series. The player takes on the role of Otonashi, a newcomer to the Afterlife who finds himself in the middle of a struggle between a group of students who call themselves the Shinda Sekai Sensen ("Afterlife Battlefront"), or SSS for short, and a mysterious girl who is known under the alias of Tenshi (Angel). The story will undergo changes from the original anime and will include story routes with each of the characters. It also stated that Otonashi will be very different than his original personality in the anime, and will change according to the choices made by the player.
Japanese study overview
Angel Beats! -1st beat- is a Japanese visual novel of 615,549 characters, with 15,027 unique words and 2,055 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 15,027 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 俺I×3,399
- お前you×1,406
- 日向Utsui×1,311
- 言うto say×1,043
- 世界the world×739
- 天使Azumi×677
- 岩沢Iwasawa×659
- 音無Otona×640
- 今now×581
- 思うto think×575
- 戦線(war) front×462
- 野田Nota×446
- 松下Matsushita×242
- ひさ子Hisako×234
- 五段godan (verb, verb conjugation)×210
- ＮＰＣnon-player character×190
- 直井Naoi×156
- 椎名Shiina×151
- 食券meal ticket×149
- 向日葵sunflower (Helianthus annuus)×59