Angel Beats!
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40 free Angel Beats! trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Angel Beats! packs a great deal into thirteen episodes. Teenagers who died with unfinished business wake up at a high school in the afterlife, form a rebel army, start a rock band and pick a fight with a quiet girl they are sure is an angel. It is funny for long stretches and then, without much warning, it is not. This quiz follows the whole run: Otonashi's arrival, the Battlefront's operations, the pasts the characters carry with them, the concerts, and the last episode that viewers still argue about. It also goes behind the scenes, with questions on the writer, the studio, the voice cast and the music. It suits anyone who has watched the series once, and rewards those who went back for the bonus episodes, the manga and the soundtrack. The opening questions are the ones most viewers will get, with the deeper cuts saved for later rounds.
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Q 01In the Angel Beats! finale, Kanade Tachibana reveals she stayed behind to thank Otonashi for which donated organ?
His heart
His heart, transplanted after Otonashi died, had extended Kanade's life. Once she thanks him she passes on, leaving him alone in the afterlife.
Q 02Which spicy dish is Kanade Tachibana's favorite food in Angel Beats!, as Otonashi discovers in episode five?
Mapo tofu
Mapo tofu ends up with Otonashi when Kanade's order is blown away during an SSS operation. Eating it, he starts to sympathize with her.
Q 03Which singer, later famous for Demon Slayer theme songs, made her major debut as Yui's singing voice in Angel Beats!?
LiSA
LiSA sang as one of two vocalists for the fictional band Girls Dead Monster in 2010, a year before her solo debut. She sang for Yui, while the singer Marina sang for Iwasawa.
Q 04Which gaming term does Yuri use in Angel Beats! for the fabricated students and teachers who fill the school?
NPCs
NPCs, short for non-player characters, are fabricated rather than human. Late in the series, shadow creatures begin turning SSS members into them.
Q 05Which animation studio, based in Toyama Prefecture rather than Tokyo, animated Angel Beats!?
P.A. Works
P.A. Works won the job after the first three episodes of its 2008 series True Tears stunned the producer, who went straight to the studio to meet its staff.
Q 06What has Yuzuru Otonashi lost when he wakes in the afterlife in the first episode of Angel Beats!?
His memories
His memories of his life are gone when he arrives. They come back in two stages, the last while he waits beside a sleeping Kanade.
Q 07Which last wish does Hinata grant Yui in episode ten of Angel Beats!, allowing her to pass on?
Getting married
Getting married seemed impossible to Yui until Hinata declared he would marry her whatever her handicap. She had already given up on the home run.
Q 08Hideki Hinata's regret in Angel Beats! is a missed catch that cost his team an important game in which sport?
Baseball
Baseball returns in episode four, when the SSS enters a school tournament and Yui tackles Hinata before he can make the same catch and vanish.
Q 09Which unseen figure does the Battlefront in Angel Beats! blame for its members' unfair lives and rebel against?
God
God never appears on screen. The SSS assume the girl they call Angel is his associate, which is why they fight her.
Q 10Which writer and composer behind the visual novels Air and Clannad conceived Angel Beats! and wrote its screenplay?
Jun Maeda
Jun Maeda also composed the music, including about 15 songs for the in-story band Girls Dead Monster. He had never written an entire script alone before.
Q 11Which ceremony, Kanade's idea, do the last five students hold in the final episode of Angel Beats!?
A graduation
A graduation ceremony, complete with an anthem, diplomas and a speech, lets Naoi, Yuri and Hinata say goodbye and pass on one by one.
Q 12Which power does Ayato Naoi gain after death in Angel Beats!, letting him bend ordinary students to his will?
Hypnosis
Hypnosis lets Naoi turn ordinary students into shields against the SSS in episode six. Once Otonashi acknowledges him, he ends up joining them.
Q 13What is the underground base in Angel Beats! called, where the Battlefront's allies make its weapons?
The Guild
Q 21Which weapon does Noda, Yuri's fiercely loyal follower in Angel Beats!, prefer to the guns he hates?
A halberd
A halberd suits a fighter who carries out Yuri's plans without question. Noda listens to nobody else and keeps up a one-sided rivalry with Otonashi.
Q 22Which ninja of the Angel Beats! Battlefront, armed with twin short swords, has a weakness for cute stuffed animals?
Shiina
Shiina arrived in the afterlife without a name, so Yuri made one up from her callsign, C7, which is read shi-nana in Japanese.
Q 23The writer and the character designer of Angel Beats! both came from which visual novel brand, the makers of Kanon?
Key
Key had just shipped its sixth game when a producer who loved the brand's stories proposed an original anime to its lead writer in 2007.
The Guild lies far below the school behind a gauntlet of booby traps. In episode two its leader blows it up rather than let Angel reach it.
Q 14What does the Battlefront steal from ordinary students during Operation Tornado in Angel Beats!?
Meal tickets
Meal tickets are taken while Girls Dead Monster plays a cafeteria concert as a distraction. The SSS then spend them on dinner in the same cafeteria.
Q 15Which guard skill, Kanade Tachibana's main weapon in Angel Beats!, forms a blade on her forearm?
Hand Sonic
Hand Sonic comes in five forms. Kanade writes guard skills like it herself, using a computer program called Angel Player.
Q 16Which bandanna-wearing Angel Beats! character breaks into dance and speaks in odd English phrases?
TK
TK was named by Noda, and nobody knows his real name or his past. The only brief his designer got was a character who speaks in puzzling English.
Q 17How did Yuzuru Otonashi die in Angel Beats!, before he could take his college entrance exam?
A train accident
A train accident trapped him in a tunnel for a week. He kept the other survivors going and died moments before the rescue team arrived.
Q 18Which tragedy, confided to Otonashi in episode two, drives Yuri Nakamura's rebellion in Angel Beats!?
Her siblings were murdered
Her siblings were murdered by burglars hunting for valuables, all three of them younger than Yuri. She never forgave herself for failing to stop it.
Q 19Which singer of Air's theme Tori no Uta performs My Soul, Your Beats!, the opening of Angel Beats!?
Lia
Lia sings the opening, which reached No. 3 on Japan's Oricon singles chart. A remix sung by the character Yui replaces it in episode four.
Q 20What is the title of the Angel Beats! ending theme, sung by Aoi Tada and written by the series creator?
Brave Song
Brave Song shared a single with the opening theme that sold about 80,000 copies in its first week and earned a Gold disc in Japan.
Q 24Which voice actress, also Nadeko Sengoku in Bakemonogatari, plays Kanade Tachibana in Angel Beats!?
Kana Hanazawa
Kana Hanazawa also co-hosted the weekly SSS Radio web show with the voices of Yuri and Yui, which ran for 51 regular episodes.
Q 25Which voice actor, later Levi Ackerman in Attack on Titan, plays Yuzuru Otonashi in Angel Beats!?
Hiroshi Kamiya
Hiroshi Kamiya is also the voice of Trafalgar Law in One Piece and of Koyomi Araragi in the Monogatari series.
Q 26The program that unleashes the shadows in Angel Beats! was set to activate when it detected which emotion?
Love
Love would have turned the afterlife into a paradise, so the program was written to prevent it. Yuri destroys the computers running it.
Q 27On a food-gathering trip in episode seven of Angel Beats!, what does Kanade bring back that feeds the whole school?
A giant fish
A giant fish known as the Master of the Stream is Kanade's catch, just after she learns how. While serving the leftovers, she and Otonashi promise to stay with the SSS.
Q 28Which 2015 anime about teenagers with superpowers reunited the Angel Beats! writer, character designer and studio?
Charlotte
Charlotte deliberately brought in a different director and staff, so that the new show would not be shaped by the earlier one.
Q 29Which ballad does Masami Iwasawa play in episode three of Angel Beats! just before she vanishes from the afterlife?
My Song
My Song is the ballad Iwasawa wrote herself. She breaks free of the teachers shutting down her concert to play it, and disappears when it ends.
Q 30In the Angel Beats! bonus short Another Epilogue, which role does Otonashi take on while he waits in the afterlife?
Student council president
Student council president is Kanade's old job. In this alternate ending Otonashi stays behind and helps lost souls move on, as she once did.