Seventeen-year-old Yuzuru Otonashi wakes up in a strange dimension between life and death with no memory of his past. This high school-like afterlife shelters those who died untimely deaths and feel wronged by God. The residents form the Afterlife Battlefront, led by Yuri Nakamura, to rebel against the student council president, Kanade "Angel" Tachibana. Otonashi is recruited to fight Angel, but as he questions the morality of the Battlefront’s actions, he begins to understand the opposing side’s perspective. *Angel Beats!* explores the mysteries of the afterlife, life’s purpose, and the nature of fate through Otonashi’s journey.