Was the final scene question [SPOILERS]

Deepak21 said:
Im talking about the scene where kanada is humming the song while otonashi walks past. And then he recognizes something and reaches towards her.

I know many people are saying its after they get reincarnated. But that doesnt make sense imo. Why would they look the exact same? Reincarnation would mean they look different right? And they wouldnt be able to remember anything if they were truly reincarnated. So my theory is that the final scene happens in the afterlife (heaven).
Well this was my theory anyway. What do you guys think?

Deepak21 said:
Im talking about the scene where kanada is humming the song while otonashi walks past. And then he recognizes something and reaches towards her.

I know many people are saying its after they get reincarnated. But that doesnt make sense imo. Why would they look the exact same? Reincarnation would mean they look different right? And they wouldnt be able to remember anything if they were truly reincarnated. So my theory is that the final scene happens in the afterlife (heaven).
Well this was my theory anyway. What do you guys think?

Deepak21 said:
Im talking about the scene where kanada is humming the song while otonashi walks past. And then he recognizes something and reaches towards her.

I know many people are saying its after they get reincarnated. But that doesnt make sense imo. Why would they look the exact same? Reincarnation would mean they look different right? And they wouldnt be able to remember anything if they were truly reincarnated. So my theory is that the final scene happens in the afterlife (heaven).
Well this was my theory anyway. What do you guys think?

Anayan_Kashyap said:
after Reincarnation, you can't tell if someone will look same or different, it's a new life and a Happy Ending

momentie said:


I always thought(mind you it's been a while) the idea was they'd passed each other long before either of them died, sort of like fate bringing them together and adding another reason for why he losely remembered her.

Keeping in mind she would probably of been in an around the hospital considering her heart condition, and his trips to visit his sister.


It could also just be happening in a dream/his head. It's certainly up for interpitation.

XxX_Kirito_XxX said:


IDK how it doesn’t make sense for u but for me it makes sense....

The author during the story clearly hinted that after they leave that place they will be reincarnated so ur theory according to me is wrong...


Yeah it was a happy but a good ending too that many anime out there lack...
yeah ur theory can be correct cause in the end the protagonist decided to be there forever and guide other people that came there and in the 2 min epilogue that was released in 2014 it was shown that the protagonist is still there and is helping other people there.....
So I agree that there is a possibility that he meeting Kanade was going inside his head..
But they got reincarnated and really meet eachother makes more sense to me....

Anayan_Kashyap said:
after Reincarnation, you can't tell if someone will look same or different, it's a new life and a Happy Ending

momentie said:


I always thought(mind you it's been a while) the idea was they'd passed each other long before either of them died, sort of like fate bringing them together and adding another reason for why he losely remembered her.

Keeping in mind she would probably of been in an around the hospital considering her heart condition, and his trips to visit his sister.


It could also just be happening in a dream/his head. It's certainly up for interpitation.

XxX_Kirito_XxX said:


IDK how it doesn’t make sense for u but for me it makes sense....

The author during the story clearly hinted that after they leave that place they will be reincarnated so ur theory according to me is wrong...


Yeah it was a happy but a good ending too that many anime out there lack...
yeah ur theory can be correct cause in the end the protagonist decided to be there forever and guide other people that came there and in the 2 min epilogue that was released in 2014 it was shown that the protagonist is still there and is helping other people there.....
So I agree that there is a possibility that he meeting Kanade was going inside his head..
But they got reincarnated and really meet eachother makes more sense to me....

Deepak21 said:
Why would they look the exact same? Reincarnation would mean they look different right? And they wouldnt be able to remember anything if they were truly reincarnated.

Deepak21 said:

True. I just thought it was too big of a coincidence that both characters look the same. But as momentie said, it could just be for the benefit for the audience. Definitely a happy ending though (Especially since I saw plastic memories and your lie in april right before it lol)


Definitely a possibility. But i'm gonna keep believing that its not a dream so that I dont get depressed when I think about it later lol.



Ah. So my theory was wrong ;~;. Thought so.
I have a question though. is there a version of heaven in the world of angelbeats? I think I remember something like that being mentioned but i'm probably wrong.

momentie said:


I wouldn't nessarcerily say your straigth up wrong or anything, I think part of what makes it a good ending is that you can take what you want/personally belief from it.


I've also seen plastic memories and boy I agree with you that, that was even sadder😅.

Deepak21 said:



Yeah. Definitely agree. It at least gives some hope. Better than nothing.
For plastic memories, theres a vn with a happier ending so ive just chose to believe that that's the true ending.

momentie said:


I suppose if the reason people think the the reincarnation idea doesn't work is the fact that they look the same, then maybe the implication is they don't actually look the same, they're just protraited as such for the benefit of the audience 🤔

Deepak21 said:

True. I just thought it was too big of a coincidence that both characters look the same. But as momentie said, it could just be for the benefit for the audience. Definitely a happy ending though (Especially since I saw plastic memories and your lie in april right before it lol)


Definitely a possibility. But i'm gonna keep believing that its not a dream so that I dont get depressed when I think about it later lol.



Ah. So my theory was wrong ;~;. Thought so.
I have a question though. is there a version of heaven in the world of angelbeats? I think I remember something like that being mentioned but i'm probably wrong.

XxX_Kirito_XxX said:
yeah i can agree with u but as I said before according to me everything that happened during the anime hints that it was a reincarnation......

cause if I remember correctly when that little girl with pink hair was leaving the world that baseball guy said to her that after he will be reincarnated he will definately meet her even if the chances are like 1/1000000000000000000 and later in the anime we saw that they actually meet after the girl got reincarnated...... i watched it like an year ago so I dont remember correctly that if it was shown in the end or after the girl left but there was definately that scene..

so according to me if this was true then kanade meeting the protagnist after getting reincarnated is also true.....

I mean I can see that they got reincarnated.... it was kind of obvious to me.....

Deepak21 said:
Im talking about the scene where kanada is humming the song while otonashi walks past. And then he recognizes something and reaches towards her.

I know many people are saying its after they get reincarnated. But that doesnt make sense imo. Why would they look the exact same? Reincarnation would mean they look different right? And they wouldnt be able to remember anything if they were truly reincarnated. So my theory is that the final scene happens in the afterlife (heaven).
Well this was my theory anyway. What do you guys think?

XxX_Kirito_XxX said:
yeah i can agree with u but as I said before according to me everything that happened during the anime hints that it was a reincarnation......

cause if I remember correctly when that little girl with pink hair was leaving the world that baseball guy said to her that after he will be reincarnated he will definately meet her even if the chances are like 1/1000000000000000000 and later in the anime we saw that they actually meet after the girl got reincarnated...... i watched it like an year ago so I dont remember correctly that if it was shown in the end or after the girl left but there was definately that scene..

so according to me if this was true then kanade meeting the protagnist after getting reincarnated is also true.....

I mean I can see that they got reincarnated.... it was kind of obvious to me.....

SoulFighter17 said:
well how would the audience even know it was them if they looked different?

Deepak21 said:
Im talking about the scene where kanada is humming the song while otonashi walks past. And then he recognizes something and reaches towards her.

I know many people are saying its after they get reincarnated. But that doesnt make sense imo. Why would they look the exact same? Reincarnation would mean they look different right? And they wouldnt be able to remember anything if they were truly reincarnated. So my theory is that the final scene happens in heaven.
Well this was my theory anyway. What do you guys think?

Shadowblade978 said:
I think that it’s supposed to be reincarnation. I feel like if that was in “heaven” that they would be together. I think that scene is supposed to represent the “I feel like we’ve met before” type of moment. Sometimes memories care over between lives (any isekai). So the slate gaze that he saw of her would be the “remembering”.

Animefandarsh said:
there are many things that made no sense and doesn't explained completely in this show but the one thing that stood up for me is the last 3 episodes and the ost of the show.
I think they were reincarnated but to make the audience understand what is happening they just represented the characters with same hair colour and apperence.

Deepak21 said:


That makes sense! I guess if it really was heaven they would definitely be together from the beginning.



yeah. A longer show wouldve been nice with more explanations and more backstories. And the ost is pretty nice. I really like the opening theme (but then again, i like the opening theme of literally every anime I watch lol)

Animefandarsh said:
true. I gave it a 7/10 but could have been 8-9/10. It had the potential,the backstories were satisfing but again very less backstories (less importance for side characters.
And do u like every op of every anime, but that's not how it works for me. There are some special ost that I remember for a long time.