nostalgia is the worst and best feeling at the same time.

This anime made me laugh and cry. I miss good old days

14 years... Somewhere right now, a young boy cheers as his bat swings a home run, only to panic as the ball smashes into the neighbor's window. His first response was to run. Run and hope that the damage he caused wasn't too severe. But the boy had a golden heart. He couldn't forgive himself if he didn't atleast apologize. So he did. He expected the kindly old lady at the door to yell at him, scold him for his reckless behavior. What he didn't expect was to be invited inside to apologize to the lady's daughter, whom he had nearly scared to death when the baseball crashed in her room. Scratching his head, the boy followed the lady up the stairs and into a blank corridor. It felt more akin to a hospital than a home, the rooms sterilized white and nothing like he thought a girl's room would be. It was there that the boy saw her, smiling awkwardly as he bowed his head. She didn't move from her position-- or rather, couldn't. The girl was paralyzed from the neck down, unable to stand, walk or grab his hand. She was helpless. The brightness of her smile barely masked her suffering. But... in that one moment, the two young children shared the same thought. "Have we... met before?"

2023 and I’m crying like a baby all over again. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the way the songs from Angel Beats! made me feel. So happy to have experienced this anime

The beginning of the anime : "Haha what a funny anime" The ending of the anime : " it's the saddest anime ever"

"if I say my feelings, I will disappear, because I'm there to thank you" - Kanade Tachibana - 😭😭😭😭😭

Dear God, it's 2023 and here I am crying at 3AM listening to a masterpiece.

11 years and I'm still crying 😭😭😭😭

The background picture is enough to make me cry...

It's been 11 years since we truly cried

Yui made my cry, being disabled myself I feel for her. I lost many things only to have humanity giving me a reason to fight on. I can only hope for a person to love me like Hinata did for Yui

Still one of the only anime songs that make me cry up to date

Dude, when I first saw this, I thought it would be a normal disappearance with a sad story. BUT the moment this song played with Yui having a dream sequence of what her life would look like if she met Hinata, I teared up.

I'll marry you No matter what kind of sickness you have Even if you can't walk or stand, or even when you can't have kids I'll still marry you No matter where or how I meet you, I'll fall in love with you. If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, _I'll marry you._ - Hideki Hinata

人生辛くて死にたくなってもこの曲に励まされて今を生きてます、感動をありがとう！

I don't understand why they stopped making these types of anime most anime these days don't even compare to this masterpiece

I am 74 and do not understand the language, but what beauty this song has. Wonderful I am so lucky to listen. Thank you.

The moment you realized that the Yui we knew who was loud, cheerful, and full of energy was because she was trying to live the life she never got. She was paralyze so she wasn’t used to move when she was alive. *-It really hits hard-*

12 years, still not over it

This song is my memorial song for my fiance, She passed away at 18 and i was 19. we were together for 5 years since we were 13 and im 25 now and i still miss her so much it hurts more and more everyday that passes and this song just makes me think about her and our memories and as the song name implies those are my most precious treasures.

"I´ll marry you! No matter what kind of sickness you have! Even if you can´t walk or stand, or even when you cant have kids. I´ll still marry you! No matter where or how I meet you, I´ll fall in love with you! If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can´t move, I´ll marry you!" *-Hideki Hinata to Yui* Edit: I think I’ve made a lot of people sad with it. I’m sorry ;.;

everyone gangsta and laughing until this plays

未だに聴いちゃうんよな〜

It's a sin that this isn't on Spotify I'm a huge fan of LiSA but this song has to be her best. It just hits different.

and they say LiSA got popular bc of Gurenge??? Girls Dead Monster will always have a special place in our hearts.

crying when listen to this song

シルシもそうだけどLiSAのバラード曲はほんと心に染みる。 LiSAを教えてくれた、深夜アニメに沼らせてくれたABには感謝でしかないです。

Happy 13th year of Angel Beats. 3rd April 2010, is when the first episode aired.

I just realized that ironically we were crying not because the characters we had come to love so much died, but because they lived.

It's already 12 years old since this anime aired Ladies and gentleman, here we are still cry together with manly tear

if i could erase my memory, i would erase all memories about this anime, and once again, i would really have the same feeling as the first time i watched this anime And at the end I will leave a few happy moments to be able to have the same interest as the first time watching this

angel beats本当に神作でした 今まで見なかったことを後悔したくらい。本当に感動したしこの作品に出会えて良かった。 麻枝准さん本当に貴方は素晴らしいです。

*Me before watching angel beats* : Hmm it sound like a sad song *Me after watching angel beats* : KANADEEEEEEE!!!!

The actual pain in Lisa's voice is incredible.. you can feel the stoic heartbreak at the beginning, the struggling waver of her voice as she tries to find a reason to keep going, and the flood gate of emotion at the end upon finding a reason.. Play this at my wedding, my funeral, my birthday, my daughter's graduation, my great grand nephew's second cousin's bar mitzvah, I don't care, this song is a masterpiece.

2024 and still crying TT

I was ready to end my life. The despair that I felt was immeasurable in my own eyes, every memory I had was a painful experience that haunted me when I tried to sleep, and even happy moments were tainted by this sense of anxiety and sadness. The world seemed to be ending in my eyes and anything other than another event to regret was bliss in my mind. I spent months wasting time away avoiding all of my issues and hoping it would all fix itself.. And then I found Angel Beats, I had never watched anime, and in the state I was in I thought I had nothing to lose. But in reality I really thought I had nothing to gain either... However, after watching this episode and hearing this song something changed within me. I began to feel for the first time in years and tears rolled down my face like never before. The raw emotion in this song really changed how I view the world and what I want in life. I never want anyone to feel the same way I did back then. To feel worthless, to feel despised, to feel like you have nothing to offer. You do, and I will say it a thousand times if it is needed. Even if it is only your raw emotion, the world deserves to hear it, it needs to hear it. No feeling in your life was ever pointless, it all serves a purpose, and it needs to be heard. Jun Maeda's work and his music has been an inspiration for me. I will never forget the way I felt listening to his music. I want to spread this message in my own way, I will write, I will draw, I will compose whatever is needed to make my emotions heard. Even if I cannot do anything of these things, I will not give in. And so, I will leave you with the wisdom that I have learned from this experience of hardship. I hope that you never will feel the same way as I did. A life exclusive of hardship will not make you feel complete, to know what happiness is you must feel sadness. To know what bliss is you must feel despair. To know what love truly is you must know what it is to be truely alone.

I'm not crying... you're crying... Okay... We're all crying...

This anime teaches you how to be thankful for your life. You weren't held at gunpoint and told to find money or someone will shoot your siblings every 10 minutes. You weren't hit with a bottle in the head by your dad and ended up dying in a kitchen. You weren't born a burden for your mother, since you couldn't move or walk. You didn't die in a tunnel from dehydration right before help came. Be thankful T^T

I watched this anime when I was 9, it's been 10 years. Now I am 19, and living in japan Alone.this song is only one thing that saves me loneliness.

It's soon going to be 2024 and I will always cherish these feelings when I am hearing this song ❤ i will never,ever forget this anime ... Promise

So I can remember myself crying after the Yui episode, truly obssesin with this song, even crying for days, not truly understanding the whole meaning of the song and my mom laughing at me because she thinks it's just a phase, but now, 10 years later, I'm crying while I watch her sleep and listening to this song thanking God for another day that he has allow me to be with her, she has cancer, she doesn't have to much, every day I wake up with the horror that it may be her last.

No one: Literally no one: My brain: Go search Ichiban no Takaramono and then cry.

Amazing how almost ten years after finding this show it still brings me to tears hearing the music. Even after watching so many times it still makes me sob seeing Iwasawa move on, hearing Hinata tell Yui he would marry her regardless of her handicap, seeing Yuri cry as she hugs Kanade, Otonashi pleading for Kanade to stay with him, seeing the huge group photo of Triple S one by one fading. To this day it is the only anime that I have ever seen to move me to tears and that I can still classify as perfect in every way.

even after so long it still hits hard

I lost my sister a year ago and this song was her favorite back then. After my sister passed away, i never want to listen to this song. But somehow i read people's comment that when we lost someone, we have to remember them as our precious treasure just like this song. So here i found courage listening to this song while remember her as my precious treasure

Mom: I wonder why he’s taking so long in his room with the tissue box Me: *being depressed from Yui disapearing*

and cry the hell out of my eyes, I watch this anime when it first came out, and now when I'm finally becoming an adult, the story hits me more than it already was

I have never bawled in my life other than the few Anime like Angel Beats. Hearing this song have given me a good scar, not a bad one, just a memory that I have it in was so strong that it hurts.

Let's be honest... This track, alongside with her final scene are the most emotional scene than the ending scene...

In loving memory of Irie Sekine Takamatsu Matsushita the fifth TK Naoi Otonashi Yuri Kanade Noda Hinata Yui Ōyama Fujimaki Iwasawa Hisako Takeyama Shiina Yusa And the members of class SSS *there is no god buta or angel*

I haven’t heard this song in so long but it still makes me feel so so sad. I love this song so much.

This has got to be one of the greatest songs ever written.

This anime has so much sentimental value to me. The first girl I ever fell in love with introduced this show to me because she knew that I loved anime and she wanted to show me that she was willing to try new things like watching anime for my sake. I always enjoyed the show for years and even after an awful breakup due to my parents forcing us to break up even though we still wanted to be together. We hid our relationship for four years and were off and on the whole time due to the fear of my family finding out since they planned on moving me across the state just to get me away from her. By senior year of high school, she was in a relationship with another guy and I started dating my now girlfriend of three years. I still loved her as much as I did when we first started dating, but I knew it was for the best to try and move on... a year later, I got news on Christmas Day that she committed suicide.. it was a devastating shock to me and I didn’t know how to respond to it and ended up internalizing the feeling of grief and pain for two years. Every time I hear this song from Angel Beats, it reminds me of her as well as fond memories of watching this anime with her. I miss her dearly and I wish I could have told her how I still felt about her before she took her life. But I didn’t, and that’s a regret that I’ll carry with me to my grave. Despite all this, I still love this anime from beginning to end. Edit: I know that it’s been a while since I made this comment and I’m incredibly thankful for everyone’s support. Since she’s passed, I’ve grown and learned to turn my pain and turn something out of it. Recently, I actually was able to give a TEDx talk over pain and pleasure and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who wished me well and stood up for me when some people came and wanted to spew hatred towards my situation. You all deserve the most in this life and I hope that you never have to feel the kind of pain that I and I’m sure many others have gone through as well. ❤️ Edit #2: Jeez…it’s been a year since I wrote this and things have gotten a little better with moving on. As it’s almost the anniversary of her death I did what I could to gain closure and move forward. From the love and support from my girlfriend of five years now, and the support from you all, I’ve still been going strong. Now, a video of me dancing in a Yakuza cosplay has gone viral and the overwhelming response of smiles and people telling me that I’ve made their days just a little better means the world to me. Knowing that I could make some people happy and feel better from that video along with the TEDx talk, feels like I’m doing right by Mayriah, my first love who passed away. She was always doing her best to make people laugh and smile. So to carry on that torch is the least I can do to carry on her memory. Thank you. All of you.

yui and hinata made me cry more than kanade and otanashi's goodbye

This song is just so beautiful lyrically and the singing as well as the instrumental

I can't believe 13 years has already passed

I just lost my 12 weeks old son today. I cant bear the pain and this makes me cry more. I hope my angel son will watch over us. I love you always! 06/10/20

Fun fact: In this version you can hear her say (4:23) "i can hear *someones* laughing voice" and in the "ending" version you can hear her say "I can hear *everyones* laughter"

歳を重ねるとこの曲の良さが増してくる

I was 15 and 3rd yr highschool when I start listening this kind of music and now I'm 20 still my favorite and the feeling doesn't fade away

It's been 10 years... I miss this anime so bad.

"Never say goodbye, because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting"

I used to think life was pointless and that I had nothing to live for but after I lost my girlfriend to drugs I promised myself that in another life I’ll find her and we’ll be together again, for now I’m 22 and must move on with my life, I can mourn her and mourn her but I know she wouldn’t want me to cry anymore, she even told me when she was on the hospital bed just before they pulled the plug “I don’t want you to close yourself off from the world, I want you to meet someone that can make you happy and dry those tears” this song reminds me that she’ll always be there in my mind and heart but that I can’t stop living just because she’s gone, I’m thankful that this song allowed me to open up about that I miss you Madison and I love you🫶🏼✨🤎🥹

_"I'll fall in love with you... even if your body can't move, I'll marry you..."_

Yui : I want to to get married. Me: This ain't so bad *EMOTIONAL MUSIC STARTS PLAYING* Me: I take it back, this is really bad.

This song will never fail to make me cry, LiSa did such a wonderful job with the way she conveyed the feelings that we all felt watching what could have been between Yui and Hinata.

This is the part where i died from crying, I love these two characters so much Thanks for reminding me this and now I'm officially depressed

It's 2019, almost 2020 Just checked Still crying

This song is where LiSA start her journey 10 years ago, she is very hardworking and produce a lot of amazing anime songs with her angelic voice. I start to know LiSA during this year 2020 (COVID years). Thank you for LiSA spirit which never disappointed her “international friends”.

As soon as I watched this episode, I cried. Treasure the ones you love and be happy even through hard times! That's what this episode taught me. Very emotional episode towards the end

本気に泣いちゃった

I've just finished watching this episode and I can say I think it's one of the saddest, sweetest, most heart-warming things I've ever seen... That Hinata was willing to marry Yui in the real world, despite her being paralysed. This anime makes you grateful for what you have, even though you may feel like you're living in hell, that these people had some of the worst experiences.....I salute you, SSS.... ❤️

i'm japanese and a high school student. i'm surprised that there are many people in other countries. i'm glad to meet this anime and 「ichibanno takaramono」is my favorite anime song i know. i'm child yet but i'm proud of this anime「angel beats!」as japanese. (sorry my english🙇‍♂️)

Rewatched after 11 years still hits as hard :’)))))

I've never watched angel beats but this song is so powerful. I'll be back once I watch the entire anime.

I'm Japanese. I'm proud to see this moving anime in my native language.

From 2020, anyone ? Don't let me crying lonely here! 😢 Happy new year 2021 guys. It's been such a terrible year, right :(( I hope it gets better on this year !

This is one of those songs where you can just hear all of the emotion put into it

3 years since I last saw Angel Beats and this song still makes me bawl my eyes out

I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying!!! I AM CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Angel beats needs some sort of disclaimer. After watching it I had to rip my shirt off and fight two bears bare handed over a piece of raw salmon just to feel slightly manly again...

Remains one of the best LiSA songs.

This song really brings back lots of memories of me and my big sister rainy that passed away we use to hang out together all the time and this song has me in tears so please everyone be thankful what you have and speen time before they leave thankyou.❤❤

My mother passed away a few days ago, and before this song seemed beautiful to me, but now that I listen to it again I feel very identified and it makes me realize that really remembering her smile is one of my most precious treasures. I really miss her a lot, to all of you who wanted to read please enjoy every moment and every day with your mother and father or a loved one, because when she leaves you will regret and much of not having taken advantage of the precious time with her.

Ah, it looks like it's beginning to rain.

I still reqatch this anime just to make me feel something to this day. I just hope that future generations will find this anime. 😢

この二人のところが一番泣いた

YUI AND HINATA ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER!!!!!!!! THEYRE SOULMATES 😭😭😭😭😭❤💔

Yui's story was the one that came to me as the most surprising yet depressing. Did not expect a comic relief character like her to have such a depressing history. Kanade obliterating in front of Otonashi was sad but Yui disappearing brought a tear to my eye, the music playing in the background helped as well. I may not want to end up marrying someday like her because I'm not the romantic type, but I can relate to all of her other problems. When she wanted to try all the things she saw on TV on her hospital bed but can't due to her condition, that hit me real hard. I spent most of my high school life stuck in a hospital bed as well due to stomach problems, however the difference between me and her is that my mom already has long passed since that time so it hurts twice as much for me. I just sat there watching TV and wondering what I wanted to do with my life. When she practically gave up hope, that hit me as well because I definitely know what that feels like. To give up on your hopes and dreams due to a condition that you have no power over like that, it makes you feel pathetic and worthless. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go watch some One Punch Man action scenes to recover from all this...

kao o awashitara kenka shite bakari sore mo ii omoide datta If we see each other's faces, we always fight. That's a good memory too. kimi ga oshietekureta nda mou kowaku nai donna fujiyuu demo shiawase wa tsukameru dakara You taught me that; I'm not afraid anymore. No matter what kind of impairment I may have, I can grasp happiness. That's why... hitori demo yuku yo tatoe tsurakute mo kimi to mita yume wa kanarazu motteku yo kimi to ga yokatta hoka no dare demo nai demo mezameta asa kimi wa inai nda ne Even if I'm alone, I'll go, even if it's difficult. I'll definitely bring the dream I had with you. I'm glad it was with you, and nobody else. But when I woke up in the morning, you weren't there. zutto asondereru sonna ki ga shiteta ki ga shiteita dake wakatteru umaretekita koto mou koukai wa shinai matsuri no ato mitai samishii kedo sorosoro ikou I was always playing; that's the feeling I got. That was just a feeling I got, that was it, I know. I don't regret that I was born anymore. Like the end of a festival, it's lonely, but we've got to go pretty soon. doko made mo yuku yo koko de shitta koto shiawase to iu yume o kanaetemiseru yo kimi to hanarete mo donna ni tooku natte mo atarashii asa ni atashi wa ikiru yo I'll go anywhere with the things I learned here. I'll show you that I can make the dream called happiness come true. Even if I'm separated from you, no matter how far away we go. I'm going to live in a new morning. hitori demo yuku yo shinitaku natte mo koe ga kikoeru yo shinde wa ikenai to tatoe tsurakute mo samishisa ni naite mo kokoro no oku ni wa nukumori o kanjiru yo Even if I'm alone, I'll go, even if I want to die. I can hear your voice, saying I shouldn't die. Even if it's difficult, even if I cry from loneliness I can feel warmth from deep inside my heart. megutte nagarete toki wa utsuroi da mou nani ga atta ka omoidasenai kedo me o tojitemireba dareka no waraigoe nazeka sore ga ima ichiban no takaramono Going round-and-round and flowing, time is ever-changing. I can't remember what happened anymore, but If I try and close my eyes, I can hear someone's laughing voice For some reason, now, that is My Most Precious Treasure.

Glad I watched the anime in my teens. As an adult, it's hard to feel genuine emotion now a days

My favorite and saddest part of this anime for me was not the goodbyes of the girls, or the girl with the disability in the image in the video. It was the casual high five MC did with his bro, just the casualness of saying goodbye as if they see each other every day and it's just another casual "see you later"...

the last episode... I cried a lot with this music

this song will never die.

เป็นเพลงที่เปิดฟังเมื่อไหร่ ใจจะหายในทุกๆครั้งที่ได้ฟัง ถึงแม้เวลาจะผ่านไปหลายปีแล้วก็ตาม ❤️

“Yuzuru, please… can you say those words… just once more?”

Imagine this anime comes back in 2022 with one ova of all the members reuniting in the real world

Time sure move so fast... But good anime can't be easily forgotten.

The golden age of anime. Angels beats was one of the first and only anime that legitimately made me my cry like a bitch. Will forever hold on to these wonderful memories of realizing how incredible anime can be.

listening to this at 12am, 1st Jan 2020, still crying