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-1st beat- is an all ages Japanese visual novel developed by Key and the first in a series of six volumes. The game is based on the 2010 anime television series Angel Beats! and also adapts scenes featured in the anime. The gameplay in Angel Beats! follows an interactive branching plot line with multiple scenarios. The story takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront—an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.