Angel Beats! Track Zero

'Angel Beats! Track Zero' is a light novel series written by Jun Maeda and drawn by GotoP. It is serialized between the November 2009 and May 2010 issues of ASCII Media Works's Dengeki G's Magazine. A special extra chapter focusing on Girls Dead Monster was published in the sixth volume of Dengeki G's Festival! Deluxe on March 29, 2010. The short stories were later collected into a bound volume released on June 23, 2010 and included an additional chapter along with the other eight chapters.

Plot
The story of Track Zero focuses on the afterlife before the events in the anime series, before the founding of the Afterlife War Front and before Otonashi's arrival in the afterlife.

A boy named Hideki Hinata finds himself in the afterlife, which comes in the form of a vast school complex, and he meets a girl named Yuri Nakamura, who takes him into her personal mission: to provoke God and take him on personally. During their march to this mission, the two meet new allies and foes alike, and they discover the stories behind each and every one of them. This is the story of the beginnings of the Shinda Sekai Sensen.

Chapter list
The chapter titles for the stories are taken from song titles from various musical artists.