Kanade Tachibana

Kanade Tachibana, also known as Tenshi and Angel, is one of the main characters from the Angel Beats! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kanade, initially known as "Angel", is the Student Council President and the enemy of the SSS. The kids in the Battlefront presume she is an angel assigned to oversee their purgatory because she appears to be making people disappear.
Kanade does not appear to be any less foolish than a typical human being in physical form, but this is contrasted by her lack of detectable emotion, even in skirmishes with the SSS which usually end up with her being injured. It is difficult to understand what she is thinking due to her rarely showing any outward emotion. Her lack of expression also makes it difficult to determine whether or not she has any consciousness, but she is revealed to be rather intelligent, as she was able to make use of the Angel Player program, creating weapons and giving herself monstrous defense mechanisms, even leading the Afterlife War Front to believe she is an angel from God. In later events, she is shown to have abandoned being friendly because of the rules of the world she is in, as her newly-found friends inevitably leave her when they disappear. As the series progresses, she shows a little of her emotions, mostly to Otonashi. In Episode 13, Kanade goes as far as to give a small pout.
She is fond of eating Mapo Tofu, even going so far as to ignore school rules to eat it, she also includes it in her self-made school anthem at the close of the series. She spends portions of her free time gardening. She is actually part of the disbanded gardening club. She recently became friends with Otonashi, even though she didn't realize this until Otonashi said so. Although this did not alter her personality much, she allows him to call her by her first name, Kanade, and seems to exclusively talk to and hang around him. Kanade helped him fight Naoi and saved Otonashi and the SSS from being eaten by the River Monster.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Angel Beats!
* Angel Beats! Specials
* Kaginado Season 2
=== Light Novels ===
* Angel Beats!: Track Zero
=== Manga ===
* Angel Beats! The 4-koma: Our War Front March Song
* Angel Beats!: Heaven's Door
* Angel Beats!: The Last Operation
=== Video Games ===
* Angel Beats! 1st Beat
== Trivia ==
* In the 3rd drama CD, Kanade tells Yuzuru Otonashi that she loves him.
* In the opening credits, Kanade is shown playing the piano, but it is unknown if she actually plays the instrument.
* In the 3rd drama CD, Kanade had a later version of Hand Sonic called Hand Sonic Version 28. She commented that it is made out of fear, sadness, etc.
** She also said that she has already made Hand Sonic Version 6-27.
* During the first broadcast of the anime series, many Japanese fans were admiring Kanade saying "Tenshi-chan, maji Tenshi" ("Tenshi-chan truly is an angel"). Even after it became apparent that she wasn't a real angel, as she had claimed in the very first place, they still kept on hailing her as such (as "_____ is truly an angel" is a fairly common phrase assigned to particularly lovable characters in general).
* In Episode 3, when Yuri Nakamura and the others infiltrate Kanade's computer, a name of someone called "Tachibana Kazunobu" is listed in the school roster. However, because the kanji for the last names differ (Kanade is 立華 while the list shows 立花), the person is likely an NPC with the same romanized last name as Kanade and not related to her.
** Also, Kanade's name is strangely not listed in the school roster.
* In the last scene, Otonashi spotted Kanade outside of a large department store building. This building was the only setting in the show that was modeled after (a) place(s) actually existing in the real world. The name of the original building is Shibuya 109. 109 is located in Shibuya, one of bustling shopping districts in Tokyo. 109 is extremely popular among teenagers in Japan.
* Since the Angel Player program is fully written in English, it could be possible that Kanade knows the language.
** But, it is never implied if she reads it.
* There is a continuity in Kanade's existence; Otonashi's heart was transplanted to her so she would have been alive when he was dead yet Kanade was already in the afterlife before Otonashi (It might be that Otonashi's soul wandered around and eventually ended up in the Afterlife which may explain the time gap).
** Some fans have theorized that Kanade's lingering feeling to thank her heart donor is what brought Otonashi to the world, even though Otonashi had lived a full life prior to his death.
* Interestingly, Kanade shares the same English voice actress (Emily Neves) as Minene Uryu , from the anime Mirai Nikki and Kotomi Ichinose, from the anime Clannad.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kanade Tachibana at Angel Beats! Wiki
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