Noda

Noda is a character from the Angel Beats! anime and game.

The supposed rival of Otonashi, Noda wields a massive halberd compared to the guns favoured by the rest of the SSS. However, this is mostly played for laughs rather than taken seriously, as Otonashi doesn't take their 'rivalry' even remotely seriously.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Noda is currently working at the Heroes Coalition and is part of the Team Extreme. He also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

Appearance
Noda is a tall and fit young man with purple hair and eyes and brown skin. In the anime, he is almost always seen in his SSS uniform, except 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 which seems to

Personality
Noda is a self-reliant boy 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 rivalry between Otonashi and himself. He is a complete idiot whose weakness is education. He is not afraid to kill or harm anyone who gets in Yuri's way.

He appears to have a crush on Yuri because he is always trying to impress her, and even has a photograph of her to carry around.

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.

Noda isn't as quick or agile as the other close combat fighters in the group, as he relies more on brute strength. He has however proven himself to be very skilled when it comes to using his Halberd, swinging it and killing his foes with one (or many) quick swipes. Yurippe notes in how low his combat abilities are where she calls Noda a "paper tiger" as he is simply just imitating a game character.

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.
 * During the initial trips to the guild, Noda was constantly the first to die.
 * He mentions during the first battle with Kanade that he hates guns.
 * In the 3rd Angel Beats! Drama CD instead of a giant halberd, he uses a knife, a fork, and a spoon as weapons.
 * Takeyama was able to subdue him by repeating pi to a large number of decimal places, proving how dumb Noda truly is.
 * Hinata was able to use him to enlist in his baseball team simply by telling him that strength alone wouldn't impress Yurippe.
 * Noda's halberd might be from a video game he played whilst he was still alive, which would explain his love towards it.