Angel Beats! 4 didnt really continue with the character-disappearance-per-episode thingy but had went on with the character-development-per-episode scenario. would've hoped that the series would be more special and had a more unique plot... but episode 4 was still nonetheless entertaining.

with Iwasawa gone, Girls Dead Monster would need a new vocalist and Yui came to "audition" with the OP, which changed the OP scenes as well. After her performance, she accidentally strangled herself with the wire while the rest look on and thinks that she doesnt have the charisma that Iwasawa had but had the passion to sing. Yuri then decides to leave the decision to the other members of the band. She then announces the next mission which was to participate illegally into the baseball tournament held in the school and win or the teams would suffer a punishment even worse then death by Yuri. Hinata went to pull Otonashi into his team first (still LOL-ed with Hinata-being-gay comments) and goes off looking for more members which he believed, as a good friend, would wait for him. Much to his dismay, the others whom he had placed his trust in had already joined the other teams. Yui sees that they are lacking members and tries to get into Hinata's team. Hinata sees her as a tool to get sent out from the field after getting hit by the ball and accepts her in with that reasoning but was kicked in the face for that. Yui then asks Hinata again to let her join the team with a nyan~ coming out from her mouth. Hinata seems pissed as asks her to say it again, Yui doesnt hesitate and performs her "nyan~" again (seen in the PVs) and get pretty much armlocked by Hinata afterwards since that was what pissed him off the most. Hinata and the others then managed to get Shiina in the team, with her balancing a broomstick to improve her concentration after losing to Otonashi in the Guild Descent Operation. They got Noda as well, with Hinata luring him in to fight with Otonashi in the baseball match. The other members that got pulled in were just normal classmates Yui knows. The matches begin and everyone was doing pretty well, except for the fact that Otonashi and Noda continues to play with each other, returning the baseball to and fro each other and gets a out from it. Tenshi and her team, which were made up of baseball regulars, confronts the teams that were illegally participating and thrashes everyone until Hinata's team is left. Everyone struggled through and when Hinata's team entered the one point difference round, Otonashi realises that Hinata had started shaking. The score seems to have triggered the memories of Hinata when he was alive, where he had missed catching the ball in the exact scenario when he was in the baseball team, while he was alive. Otonashi affirms his position once more, while thinking if Hinata would disappear if they had won the match. The ball is pitched and was hit towards Hinata's direction and it was the exact same position where he had missed the ball when he was alive. Otonashi sees that the situation could go wrong and rushes to Hinata, prompting him not to catch the ball as it would most likely lead to his disappearance. Otonashi didnt manage to reach Hinata in time but he had barely missed the ball with Yui tackling into him. Tenshi's team won the match and Hinata remains with the rest.

i had almost thought that Hinata would be disappearing in this episode with the slow-motion scenes at the back and the BGM playing but the atmosphere immediately disappeared with Yui's tackle. not much details were given about Hinata's life but i was purely entertained by the searching of the players for the team. would hope to see a unique climax to the series...

Say that AGAIN?



Yui-nyan~~~



PWNED ._.