【メイキング映像】A unique behind-the-scenes documentary of the Angel Beats! anime. Featuring the making of the concert scene, the recording of the OP&ED by Lia and Aoi Tada, interviews with Jun Maeda, director Kishi, P.A. Works' staff, seiyuu, and more.
『Angel Beats! The Making〜創り手たちの肖像〜』
その名のとおり、ＡＢ！の製作現場、その壮絶さや原作麻枝准、岸監督をはじめとする製作側の情熱と作品作りへのこだわりを感じることが出来る内容です！
脚本会議やライブシーンの収録、ガルデモのレコーディングやインタビューなど貴重な映像が満載。
Angel Beats! (エンジェルビーツ!) The Making: How Anime is Made
- P1 -
00:00 Portraits of Creators
7:13 Director Kishi
15:39 "My Song" & "Thousand Enemies"
30:00 Girls Dead Monster's Concert
- P2 -
42:52 OP & ED Recording
1:01:55 P.A. Works Studio
1:13:25 Voice Recording
1:27:35 Maeda's Final Message
— BACKGROUND —
*** The Angel Beats! anime (2010) involves teenage characters who have died in our world and now find themselves at a strange school in the afterlife. The main characters form a battle team and wage a war against Angel, a mysterious girl who apparently controls the school. The series was written by Jun Maeda, and animated by P.A. Works.
*** Yōsuke Toba of Aniplex contacted Jun Maeda around October 2007 regarding the cooperation in production of the original anime series. Aniplex wanted Maeda to write a screenplay that would be very "Key-like, with touching moments of laughter and tears," but initially Maeda found himself at a loss to write a story more amusing than Little Busters!, because he thought that he had reached a limit with Little Busters! in regards to a "Key-like story". One day, however, Maeda was struck by inspiration, where he came up with the initial idea of a story set in the afterlife.
*** Seiji Kishi was asked by a representative director of P.A.Works, Kenji Horikawa, to work on a "school comedy written by a game scenario writer" and was shocked after taking the director's position to discover Maeda was the screenwriter. Kishi commented how, far from just being a comedy, the series contains many different aspects, including flashy action scenes, live musical performances, and drama. Kishi said that normally he would be hard pressed to cover this range of aspects, but was motivated by Maeda's uncompromising attitude in regards to the script.
