Why do people disappear?


Why do people disappear if they become Angel's friend? Also, why did Otonashi
say "we will not disappear, be our friend" (something like that)?

Why did other Angel's "friends" disappear and Otonashi and others didn't?

("Angel" is Kanade)




Haven't watched _Angel Beats!_ for a while but I tried to do the best research
I could.

At the ending of episode 13, it is heavily implied that Otonashi

> did pass on. He reincarnates and meets the reincarnated Kanade.

Regarding people disappearing,

> Yui thoroughly explains that they disappear when they have their wishes
> fulfilled. They are in " _purgatory_ " because they were unable to
> experience a normal youth before dying.

However, _Angel Beats: Another Epilogue_ could falsify this, depending on how
you view it:

> Otonashi has become the new student council president and is helping the
> students pass on. With this (OVA?), two endings are presented: Otonashi
> remains in " _purgatory_ " to wait for Kanade like The Programmer (as the
> reincarnation has not been described to be limited it is possible that he
> could wait for many hundreds of years for her) or is just an add-on to the
> original ending, where Otonashi does move on.




Haven't watched _Angel Beats!_ for a while but I tried to do the best research
I could.

At the ending of episode 13, it is heavily implied that Otonashi

> did pass on. He reincarnates and meets the reincarnated Kanade.

Regarding people disappearing,

> Yui thoroughly explains that they disappear when they have their wishes
> fulfilled. They are in " _purgatory_ " because they were unable to
> experience a normal youth before dying.

However, _Angel Beats: Another Epilogue_ could falsify this, depending on how
you view it:

> Otonashi has become the new student council president and is helping the
> students pass on. With this (OVA?), two endings are presented: Otonashi
> remains in " _purgatory_ " to wait for Kanade like The Programmer (as the
> reincarnation has not been described to be limited it is possible that he
> could wait for many hundreds of years for her) or is just an add-on to the
> original ending, where Otonashi does move on.

