Noda

Noda
Personal Information
Gender	Male
Status	No
Affiliation(s)	Afterlife War Front
Debut Appearances
Light Novel	Track Zero Chapter 05

Noda (野田, Noda) is a self-reliant young man who executes the strategies formed by the SSS and fights with a halberd. He does not listen to anyone other than Yuri, whom he has adoration for, and is antagonistic to almost everyone else. He has a one-sided rivalry between Otonashi and himself, which started when Otonashi refused to enlist to the SSS. He is a complete idiot whose weakness is education. Takeyama was able to subdue him by repeating pi to a large number of decimal places and Hinata is able to use him to enlist in his baseball team. He is not afraid to kill or harm anyone who gets in Yuri's way. Although a complete idiot, he was able to show his full combat skills with his halberd. He defeated Otonashi in the first episode. He carries a picture of Yuri in a side view thinking pose which is shown in the ending in the 11th episode, showcasing his love for her, despite her disregard of it. 

Appearance

Noda is a young man with purple hair, eyes, and tan skin. He also has a muscular body. In the anime, he is almost always seen in his SSS uniform, save for the scene in Episode 4 where he was shown shirtless. In the manga he wore the normal NPC school uniform. He carries around a huge halberd axe which seems to always be in his hand. In the Manga they added a fang to Noda's appearence, It's not always noticable, though.

Background

Not much is known about Noda that even the Manga or Track Zero fail to explain. In the drama CDs, Noda's past was referenced when he recollected on being "a person who burdens his mother as a hikkikomori". This means that he was socially withdrawn from society by staying inside his house, angry at society or himself; a possible clue to what his regret was to cause him to end up in the Afterlife when he died.

It stills remains a mystery on how Noda died and when he ended up in the Afterlife or what his regret was.

Plot

He is discovered by Yuri, Hinata, Ooyama and Chaa upon their descent in an underground network of passageways in the mountains (which would become Guild's headquarters). According to him, he is the main protagonist and his mission is to defeat the "final boss" located further down the underground cave (who turns out to be Shiina). Yuri tells him that he is not the protagonist, however, and flees in disbelief. 

Abilities

• Though his halberd remains his favored weapon, Noda falls back on a Stechkin APS pistol for ranged combat. Despite the fact that he prefers not to use it due to the fact that it tends to jam a lot.

• In the initial trips to Guild, Noda was consistently the first to die but showed his full combat ability during the episodes when combating Shadows.

Trivia

• He was pumelled twice by a pendulum hammer trap in the Anti-Angel Headquarters (which was designed and built by himself) and in the Guild.
• He mentions during the first battle with Kanade that he hates guns.
• Although one of Yuri's combat members, he was the first to die when descending to Guild.
• In the 3rd Angel Beats! Drama CD instead of a giant halberd, he uses a knife, a fork, and a spoon as weapons.
• It maybe possible that his regrets are from Yuri due to the fact he only listens to her and has photos of her, although its unknown.