With their release of Angel Beats! -1st Beat- now less than two months away from its Japanese launch, visual novel studio KEY have shared their opening sequence for the title. Coming in at three minutes in length, this opening sequence is longer than your typical anime or visual novel opening, however is comparable in length to the ones KEY produced for Little Busters!, CLANNAD and Kanon.
Deciding to not retain the popular anime opening theme, My Soul, Your Beats!, KEY have enlisted Lia to provide a new song entitled Heartily Song.
Overall, ‘Heartily Song’ didn’t have as big an impact as My Soul, Your Beats! did in my opinion. But that being said, it is still a very competent and enjoyable song which complemented the stellar animation very well.
Angel Beats! -1st Beat- is currently slated for release in Japan on May 29th 2015. No international release plans have been confirmed yet. However, with the success Sekai Project had with their crowdfunding campaign for CLANNAD, I think (or at least, would like to think) that it is only a matter of time until a localization announcement is made.
Anything is posible these days!