Takehiko Matsumoto (松本 剛彦, Matsumoto Takehiko, February 9, 1973) is a Japanese animator, animation director and director. He was born in Shizuoka prefecture.
The students of Class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?
High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best — and most egoistic — striker in the world.
Angel Beats 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.